It's the Champions League final on Saturday at Wembley Stadium, where REAL MADRID will seek a preposterous 15th title and BORUSSIA DORTMUND will play the David to Madrid's Goliath.

CLIVE TYLDESLEY will call his 30th final in this competition for CBS and Paramount+ in the United States, but first he joins the show to run through some of the biggest moments to which he's borne witness—from Manchester United's last-gasp treble win over Bayern Munich in 1999 to Zinedine Zidane's wondervolley to defeat Bayer Leverkusen in 2002 to Barcelona's tiki-taka destruction of United in 2011—as well as some of his inspirations as a commentator, drinking champagne out of the European Cup at a Parisian nightclub with the victorious Liverpool team in 1981, parallels between the two Manchester trebles he called, and the mystical power of football heritage in this competition.

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MANCHESTER UNITED and MANCHESTER CITY will contest the FA Cup final on Saturday at 10am Eastern, and Jon Champion will be calling the game for U.S. audiences on ESPN. He also graciously joined the show this week to preview the match, look back on the Premier League season just passed, and offer his favorite stadiums to commentate from—including Goodison Park, where you've got to navigate multiple ladders to get to the commentary position.

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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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