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Fozcast - The Ben Foster Podcast

Arsenal Have Fully BOTTLED It...

20 Apr 2026

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Chapter 1: How significant is Manchester City's win over Arsenal?

30.355 - 35.886 Watto

Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Football Filling. What game should we start with today, lads?

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36.687 - 40.094 Ben Foster

Hmm, what do you reckon? I think there's only been one game this weekend, hasn't there?

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40.114 - 45.564 Watto

The big one. The biggie. The biggie. Arsenal, oh no. Let me ask you this, right.

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46.045 - 55.543 Tom

Before the kick-off, was there any other result than a Man City win? No. No question of a doubt. Did everyone in the country know?

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55.563 - 57.607 Watto

I know it was a close game, but... It was a good game.

Chapter 2: What are the implications of Arsenal's performance in the title race?

57.807 - 65.761 Watto

Really good game. Really enjoyed it. But I just... I think everybody knew that Man City were going to win that game. It's as simple as that, wasn't it, Walter?

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65.781 - 75.578 Ben Foster

I thought the game itself was very, very good. I mean, the high standard. I mean, both teams probably could have had a couple more, couldn't they? I mean, the shot that beat Donnarumma off the post.

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75.598 - 76.099 Unknown

Oh, wow.

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76.119 - 84.814 Ben Foster

And then, like, when it comes back that way, you're thinking, that's very, very unlucky. But I thought City was slightly better and ultimately deserved to win.

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84.794 - 98.255 Watto

I thought they dominated the game and I thought Arsenal's chances probably came from counter-attacks more than anything. They did have that period of about five or ten minutes, didn't they, in the second half where they had the counter-attack and then just sustained it, sustained it. And they could have scored and they probably should have scored as well and they were quite unlucky.

98.996 - 103.343 Watto

But I just felt Man City dominated the game better.

Chapter 3: How is the relegation battle shaping up in the Premier League?

103.323 - 118.659 Ben Foster

Yeah. And were in Arsenal's head better. I think the game suited them. They looked in control. But it looked... Arsenal played well. There's no denying that. And you look at the running they've got, I'd expect them to win all the matches. I disagree. This is where I disagree. I think they're winning all of them.

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118.679 - 129.75 Watto

Do you know what I think people are discounting? Is the fact that they've got three London games. Arsenal have, right? They've got three London games. Fulham, Palace on the final day, and who else?

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Chapter 4: What are the latest updates on Tottenham's relegation fight?

129.77 - 150.515 Watto

West Ham. West Ham. And... And listen, I understand what you're saying. But they're London derbies. They are at the end of the day. And those fans from those teams will not want Arsenal to win the league. And so when they come, they'll make it an absolute furnace. I promise you. And I think that, at the minute, is Arsenal's biggest obstacle. Is fans and teams getting in their head.

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150.535 - 156.803 Ben Foster

Well, look, a massive game yesterday and they couldn't afford to lose it. I believe that the five fixtures that they've got...

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156.783 - 179.179 Ben Foster

probably like at the start of the season if somebody said they're your last five London yeah I think it's pretty perfect and if they don't win them five then they deserve not to win the league that would be my tech on it but that game yesterday has just given City so much belief I mean obviously they're at Burnley on Wednesday night no disrespect to Burnley

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179.564 - 182.068 Ben Foster

They'll be top of the league because of goal difference.

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Chapter 5: How did Liverpool perform in the Merseyside Derby?

182.088 - 191.522 Ben Foster

And it's then whole role reversal. Can Arsenal win them five games? Because they have to, to put City under any kind of pressure.

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191.702 - 204.881 Watto

Have you seen Man City's April stats over the last five years? Yes. Unbelievable. I think that's now 30 wins out of 33 games in April. Which is just... You can't compete with that. Do you know what I mean?

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204.901 - 215.263 Tom

If that's going to happen every April, what's the point? How much of... City coming back like they have done, do you put down to Pep a lot, an awful lot?

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215.463 - 227.302 Watto

If they win the league this year and if they win the FA Cup, they've already won the league cup, so the domestic treble, I would think Pep might even just go, you know what, that'll do now. That'll do. I could go here.

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Chapter 6: What are the latest developments in the Championship?

227.503 - 235.255 Watto

But if you're losing Pep Guardiola and Bernardo Silva at the end of the season, that's a completely different scenario. City will not be City next season. Well,

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236.011 - 252.248 Tom

No, no, God, not if Pep goes. You're into that kind of Klopp rebuild type thing with Liverpool. Even Bernardo Silva going, I think, is a massive problem. You see that stat about him? In the nine seasons he's been there, he's played a minimum of 45 games in every season. Oh, mate.

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252.228 - 269.572 Ben Foster

But that's what you can't calculate by what you lose there, irrespective of whether Pep decides to stay, go or whatever. You lose a player who's so robust, and he's not just an average, he's a phenomenal footballer, but he can turn out 40-odd games a season for you, and that's gone. That is very tough.

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269.592 - 273.537 Watto

Some of the ratting he did yesterday, and it was ratting. It was. It was ratting, right?

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Chapter 7: What predictions can be made for upcoming matches?

273.998 - 288.002 Watto

I don't even know what position he played yesterday because he was getting back. Some of the ratting was world-class, and I'm thinking... A player of your ability as well, having that string to your bow as well is just... You can't buy players like that.

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288.022 - 307.972 Ben Foster

The bit that I really like... We know Haaland and Saliba and Gabriel. They were always going to have that battle, weren't they? And the goal, the fighting, the scrapping and whatever. But I thought Haaland... got on top of them too. Yeah, I agree. And, like, just the physicality were too much in the end, but he should have been sent off. He should have been sent off.

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307.992 - 313.537 Ben Foster

There's no other way around it. And I think that would have had a bearing on the five games coming up.

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313.638 - 324.228 Tom

What I actually quite like with Haaland is, one, he didn't go down, and two, he was quite honest post-match and said, listen, if I had had to have gone down, he'd have got a red card. Yeah, he would have gone down and it would have been a red card.

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Chapter 8: What was the outcome of the quiz segment?

324.248 - 340.766 Watto

And I think if the roles were reversed, I think Gabriel goes down there. And I think he's holding his mouth. And I think he's rolling around. And Haaland gets the red card for it. So I was delighted. I was delighted that it played out the way that it did. That's why I love Haaland. I just think he's just such a stand-up, solid man.

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340.786 - 343.789 Ben Foster

Well, did you see him singing when the camera were up next to him? Incredible.

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344.129 - 347.913 Watto

What did he say? What was it? I gotta feel it.

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347.993 - 351.577 Ben Foster

Was it? That's what I thought he was saying. It was something like that, wasn't it?

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351.597 - 358.612 Watto

A little side-eye. Yeah, did you see his interview at full-time as well? Swearing and that. And they were like, Erling, calm down. He don't care. He didn't care.

358.652 - 381.726 Tom

Do you know what I think? Is Arteta as... Unfortunately, I think there's... Although he is experienced, he's not. And I think some of the nonsense, the noise, the TikTok stuff, the training ground, I just think they've just knuckled down and cancelled out the noise. I think they've just been affected and got a little bit daft with it all.

381.746 - 403.059 Ben Foster

If you're in the Arsenal hierarchy or you're an Arsenal fan, and this Peters are how we think that City are going to win the league, and you're going to probably get in the Champions League final. I'm not saying you're going to win it, but say you get to the final and you lose the final. You lose the league on the last day or two days before the end. You got beat at Southampton in the FA Cup.

403.079 - 408.628 Ben Foster

Lost in the League Cup final. Lost in the League Cup final. Are you thinking that we have to change? No.

409.84 - 434.042 Watto

I think it would be ridiculous to change Mikel Arteta. If they got rid of Mikel Arteta or if he left, there would be so many teams around the world that would just go, please come and sign for us. Because if you can build that for Arsenal, you can build that for us. That's what we want. Build somebody that's competing. Build second-place teams. But mate, everybody would take that.

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