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Ep 132 - The Draftman Cucketh (Season Wrap)

·1 hr 38 min·5 clips

West Ham finished ninth, and the hosts tie that to David Moyes, Anthony Kiedis, and a hot seat that never cools.

The show comes back after enough time off that the return itself becomes the joke. People apparently thought the podcast had ended. The hosts lean into that instead of trying to smooth it over. They frame the comeback as a season recap landing months late, on Juneteenth, while the Euros are in full swing. Jordan, Tom Brady, and Tiger Woods all get pulled into the same half-serious comparison about knowing when to step away and come back. The first real football note is Manchester City’s fourth title in a row. One host offers congratulations, and the other refuses to make it too sincere. That keeps the tone exactly where the show likes it, somewhere between fact and eye roll. The conversation then turns to Manchester United’s season and the awkward question of what it added up to. The hosts frame Ten Hag’s future as a split path. Either the FA Cup final saves him, or the next season goes wrong fast enough to end the story in November. Their read is that the season was a disaster. What makes it strange is that it did not collapse in the usual late-season way. They contrast it with the Rangnick stretch, where the campaign simply drifted to the finish and everyone watched the wreckage with nothing ahead. Here, the late win over City complicates the ending. It felt too convincing to be a pure smash-and-grab. That leaves the season in an uncomfortable middle state. There is one big result to point at, but not enough around it to make the year feel good. The hosts then do something oddly useful and try to name the matches that were actually fun. The list is short. Everton away makes it. Garnacho’s bicycle kick makes it. Villa at home, with the comeback and Hoyland’s goal, makes it. Wolves away is almost on the list, but only just. The FA Cup wins against Liverpool and City also get included. That inventory says more than a table position ever could. It measures the season by memory, not by points. The whole exercise turns the year into a test of endurance with a few bright spots scattered through it. Even the jokes about the format have a purpose. The hosts keep interrupting themselves, undercutting their own seriousness, and treating the recap like something they are building as they go. That loose structure is part of the appeal. It lets the conversation move from title talk to club grief to match memories without pretending the season was tidy. By the end, the episode feels like a season-wide reckoning with enough dry nonsense to keep it from turning into a funeral.

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A season wrap that turns Premier League grief into jokes, lists, and a late reckoning.

Prem de la Prem uses Manchester City's fourth title in a row as the backdrop, but it keeps circling back to Manchester United, the Ten Hag fork in the road, and the strange business of deciding which games were actually fun.

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You want a season recap that treats Premier League chaos like a pub argument.

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