It's the Premier League's final day, and the title is still on the line. Arsenal have won 15 of their last 17 league games, but it may not be enough to topple mighty Manchester City. The Gunners must win at home to Everton and hope West Ham can get a result at the Etihad Stadium.

The last time City and Arsenal went head-to-head, Robbie Earle joined the show to preview the match and mentioned he might like to come back at the end of the season. He’s on location in London, where NBC will provide wall-to-wall coverage of Championship Sunday. For our American listeners, all 10 matches will stream simultaneously on Peacock with coverage beginning at 9am, and you can also catch Man City-West Ham on NBC and Arsenal-Everton on USA Network. For his part, Robbie will be watching pitchside at the Emirates with Rebecca Lowe and the rest of the NBC crew.

We talked the title race but also the relegation stakes this season, the points deductions for Everton and Nottingham Forest, Wolves’ proposal to scrap VAR, Ange Postecolgou’s Tottenham discontent, how Liverpool’s season has changed since Jürgen Klopp’s midseason announcement that he would depart the club, and the twisting fates of Chelsea and Manchester United.

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Arsenal head to Manchester United on Sunday, and only victory will suffice. Mikel Arteta’s side are locked in a title race with Manchester City, and even a draw here will mean their race is run. Manchester United are in dire straits: they’ve crashed down to 8th in the Premier League table after a 4-0 thumping from Crystal Palace on Monday night, and the calls for manager Erik ten Hag to be sent packing are growing louder. Still, United always seem to show up against the Arsenal: of their last 16 visits to Old Trafford, the Gunners have won just one match.

Here to preview the match is Chris Wittyngham, a play-by-play commentator for CBS and Paramount+ who called both legs of the Champions League semifinal between PSG and Borussia Dortmund over the last couple of weeks. He also calls matches for the MLS on AppleTV+ and features on The Football Show on SiriusXM FC.

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Bayer Leverkusen are six matches from immortality. The German champions have won 39 games of their 47 played. They’ve drawn eight. They’ve lost zero. This young team led by Xabi Alonso has already won the Bundesliga, and they’re in the final of the DFB-Pokal, the German Cup. They’re also locked in a Europa League semifinal with Roma, two matches away from a European crown. In the end, they could go farther than Arsenal’s famous Invincibles of 2004 and play an entire season—53 matches across all competitions—without defeat. It is a phenomenon.

Joining the show to discuss this remarkable run is a man who's borne witness to it firsthand: Derek Rae is the lead commentator for ESPN’s coverage of German football and for the Bundesliga world feed. He’s also the voice of the FIFA video game series, now doing business as EAFC. We spoke Wednesday, ahead of Leverkusen’s first-leg meeting with Roma, about this spectacular season for Xabi Alonso’s side.

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