Max Rushden and co tackle one-sided games, decide which league is actually ‘the best league in the world’, footballing brothers and a Tony Pulis connection

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Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Paolo Bandini and Paul MacInnes to run the rule over the weekend’s football action.

Before we look at the Premier League, Paolo lends some context to the tragic story of Davide Astori, the 31-year-old Fiorentina captain who passed away in his sleep on Sunday morning.

In part one, we take a look at the teams duking it out for the top six slots in the Premier League - two faced each other at the Etihad, two achieved regulation wins against lesser opposition and the other one was Arsenal who, following a 2-1 defeat at Brighton, now find themselves just five points ahead of Burnley, who have won just once since November.

Moving onto the relegation battle, we point out the interesting connection between the bottom three sides in the league, while working our way up, stopping to discuss Swansea’s nascent form, West Brom’s lack of fight and the goalless draw between Southampton and Stoke.

We take a look at Martin Glenn’s most recent foot-in-mouth incident, Barry runs us through the fitba news before we hear from Sid Lowe in Spain, Archie Rhind-Tutt in Germany and round up the rest of the major European action.

Back on Thursday!

PS: Football Weekly Live is going to Belfast! We’ll be at the Queens University Students Union on 17 April. Tickets and more information available here.

PPS: we’re going to be live in Copenhagen on Thursday 10 May! With Max, Barry, Jonathan, Barney. It’s the same day as the Danish Cup final, so get your tickets for all of the Fredericia analysis you can handle here.

