Hull City roar back to Premier League. EFL playoffs special: Football Weekly
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Hello and welcome to the Guardian Football Weekly, an AFL special. The hottest football matches since John Aldridge at USA 94. A lot of cramp and sweat. And in the end, Hull, Bolton and Knox County end up victorious. In Spygate terms, probably a good thing that Hull City won. Ollie McBurney right at the death. They stayed in the championship last year on goal difference and now they're in the Premier League. It was a tight game between Bolton and Stockport for an hour or so, but in the end, the Trotters run away with it. while are sold for destined to be in League 2 forever after Notts County sweep them aside. We'll do a little on the England squad. I roll Baz. We're heading well and truly into wedding season in the correspondence.
All that plus your questions. And that's today's Guardian Football Weekly.
On the panel today, Barry Glendening. Welcome. Hi, Max. It's not the top 20 takeover as we celebrate their Christmas, of course. George Ellick, hello.
What were the highlights of Hull City's playoff victory?
Hi, Max. Hey, LA Maxwell. Morning, guys. Let's begin then with the Championship Playoff Final. Hull won Middlesbrough 0. Hull promoted to the Premier League. I suppose, George, it must have been a very interesting week or two to be the host of the world's premier EFL podcast.
It's been quite good for business, it's fair to say. The Spygate content has done okay for us. Because it felt like it's the first time basically...
How did Hull City manage to return to the Premier League?
ever that EFL news has been the sporting news in the country. You know, as we said on the day that Arsenal won the Premier League title, the lead story on BBC News at 10 was Spygate and Southampton being chucked out of the playoffs, which was pretty incredible. So yeah, it's been really fun. As you say, given the controversy that would have come about had Middlesbrough won this playoff final, you even had the Hull owner, Ashan Ilushali, on Wembley Way being interviewed before the game. which was also then BBC breaking news, that he would be taking legal action if they didn't win the game, which kind of set the whole game up. Great power play before a match, isn't it? I know, I know. I actually then saw him walking up Wembley Way with about a million bodyguards around him shortly afterwards.
There are a couple of things to this. Firstly, it's great that we're not going to have any complaints over who the promoted teams are in any kind of more arbitration panels or anything like that. Secondly, it means that next season we're going to have two games between Middlesbrough and Southampton.
What role did Ollie McBurney play in Hull's success?
And I think we can all agree that it should be the first game of the season live on Friday night because it's going to be incredible.
with that in mind, Ali, to this game. And Hull probably haven't been talked about. I was thinking about this, you know, I did quite a few talk sport shows when Spygate happened and during and afterwards in pods. And I think we probably didn't really, if you're a Hull fan, you're like, we're in the playoff final, for goodness sake. And now they've won the playoff final. We're not even leading with them.
Yeah, I got the sense that there was a lot of Hull City fans and those at the club sort of trying desperately to go like, you know, we're actually in this and we still don't know what time kickoff is three days before the game. And yeah, I think everyone made it. I don't think in the end that, you know, the stories I was reading of people flying over from Australia and potentially going to miss the game through the uncertainty, obviously happened. Thankfully, they were all there and they were treated to a brilliant performance. This whole team have had such a funny season because, as you mentioned, they stayed up on goal difference last season and they had over the summer a transfer limitation, if you like.
It wasn't that they couldn't sign anyone, but they couldn't pay any fees. So it was just frees and loans.
How did the playoff final compare to other matches?
And within that, Olly McBurney, who scores the winner, is one of the free transfers and surely one of the greatest free transfers ever. ever, given the monetary value of promotion to the Premier League as much as the glory as well.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–1:01
2
What were the highlights of Hull City's playoff victory?
1:01–1:26
3
How did Hull City manage to return to the Premier League?
1:26–2:22
4
What role did Ollie McBurney play in Hull's success?
2:22–3:34
5
How did the playoff final compare to other matches?
3:34–4:31
6
What are the implications of Hull's promotion for next season?
4:31–6:05
7
How are teams preparing for the upcoming Championship season?
6:05–7:33
8
What challenges do promoted teams face in the Premier League?
7:33–58:53
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