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Ep 132 - The Draftman Cucketh (Season Wrap)

·1 hr 38 min·5 clips

Sheffield United are compared to Chumbawamba: “They showed up, they confused people, and they fucked off.”

Prem De La Prem returns after acting like it had already finished several times. The hosts frame the comeback as a season recap landing four months later, on Juneteenth, with the Euros in full swing. They treat the delay as part of the joke, not something to explain. Manchester City get their due for a fourth straight league title. The praise is given reluctantly enough to keep the bit alive. The real focus is Manchester United's season. The hosts sketch two paths for the Ten Hag story. Either the FA Cup final saves the job or the whole thing ends in disaster by November. Their view is that the season was already a disaster. What complicates that view is how the season finished. The win over City did not feel like a classic smash-and-grab. It felt like United went toe to toe and beat them convincingly. That ending makes the year feel odd instead of settled. To make sense of it, one host goes back through the fixture list. He asks a simple question about the whole season: which games were fun. The answer is painfully short. Everton away gets a mention. Garnaccio's bicycle kick gets a mention. Villa at home gets a mention. Hoyland scoring gets a mention. Wolves away barely hangs on. Liverpool and City in the FA Cup round out the list. By the time the count is done, the season has been reduced to five fun games. The segment works because it is funny and bleak at the same time. The final note points to the old boys returning later, whenever that happens, with the usual joke about postage money and letters in the mail.

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A sharp late-season autopsy that keeps Manchester United under the microscope.

Prem de la Prem turns its Premier League season recap into a fairly sharp roast. The hosts give Manchester City a grudging nod, then spend most of the time on Manchester United, circling the question of whether the FA Cup finish was rescue or just a false alarm.

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For when you want the season recap that starts five months late.

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