Arsenal Celebrate, The Choker Fallacy, SpyFall

About this episode

The episode discusses Arsenal's Premier League victory, the 'choker' fallacy, and various football events and analyses.

Welcome to winners week on the Second Captains world service! Arsenal are Premier League champions again after 22 long years, and Villa ended a 30 year wait for a trophy with their Europa League win last night. We got in touch with friend of the show Dara O’Briain and Jacob Hawley of the Screen Rot podcast, to reflect on Arsenal's journey these last few years under Arteta and to discuss the whole "choker" fallacy. We also examined the fallout from Southampton's expulsion from the Championship playoffs, we preview the Champions Cup and Challenge Cup finals, we grapple – not entirely successfully – with UEFA’s new format for the Nations League and European Qualifiers, and wonder if Carlo Ancelotti has done the right thing by including Neymar in the Brazil squad? Coming up tomorrow we have hurling and next week its Champions League and FIFA World Cup build up. Its a fiver to join, it takes 30 seconds, you have instant access to every show we’ve ever done, and all the top stuff coming up such as Ken at the World Cup, the Premier League and Champions League deciders, Madrid continuing to be insane, Rory’s majors quest, Leinster in the champions cup final, the munster hurling…

People in this episode

Guests: Dara O’Briain, Jacob Hawley

Topics covered

• Arsenal
• football
• trophy wins
• Nations League
• Champions Cup
• European Qualifiers
• sports analysis

Keywords

• Arsenal
• Premier League
• trophy
• Nations League
• Champions Cup
• Carlo Ancelotti
• Neymar
• football analysis

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Arsenal, Villa, Southampton, UEFA

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