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Final Match Day
It’s not just the Final Match Day of the season this week, it was also the end of The Late Show. Not sad to see the current host who drove the bus off the cliff go, but sad to see the show itself crash out. Got CS thinking about some great Final shows.
David Letterman on Johnny Carson Show
Final show audience numbers. Keep in mind, streaming is different since you can watch it over time, so while the streaming numbers look low, people watch streaming over time and also shows like Ozark drop the entire season all at once.
Late Night Comedy
Late Show - Stephen Colbert - 6.7M viewers
Late Show - David Letterman - 13.8M
Tonight Show - Jay Leno - 15M
Tonight Show - Johnny Carson - 55M
TV History
MASH (1983) - 105M
Cheers (1993) - 93M
The Fugitive (1967) - 78M
Seinfeld (1998) - 76M
Friends (2004) 52M
Magnum PI (1988) - 51M
More Recent Streaming
Streaming is a little different since you can watch it a month later
Game of Thrones - 19M
Big Bang Theory - 18M
Yellowstone - 13M
The Sopranos - 12M
Breaking Back - 10M
The Office - 6M
The GTM bets that shouldn't have worked, and did
One grew revenue 50x after half his team quit over the strategy. One brought in 50K signups in a single day with no paid budget. One generated 100M+ views from a stunt that took 50 hours to conceive. One asked every prospect to demo the product themselves instead of demoing it for them.
None of them followed the safe playbook. They treated GTM like an experiment, moved before they had proof, and made bets most founders would never get approved.
HubSpot for Startups documented all 6 stories in the free Bold Bets Playbook. The risks they took, why it was risky, and what it returned.
In Today’s CleanSheet:
Results 🏟️
Current Situation📈📉
Quick Kicks ⚽
Hot Topic 🔥🔥🔥- Welcome
Off Island 🏝️ - Finals Coming Up
World Cup Corner 🌎🍵🏪
Best Bets 💰
Results 🏟️
Hammered
Both Spurs and West Ham win - so down go the Hammers.
Oh, When the Spurs Go Marching In
Spurs take the lead just before half and mostly control the match
Bubbles in the Championship
Tool little too late. A dominating performance is not enough.
Europe Deciders
Because Villa won that meant top 5 in table make the Champions League.
While still making Europe BHA was most disappointing getting hammered at home and falling to UEFA Conference.
Promoted this season Sunerland took it to Chelsea with a Europe spot on the line. In goes Sunderland and Chelsea will on focus on PL next season.
Momentum Keeps Going for Villa
Villa hold of Liverpool for 4th and that means top 5 teams to CL next season.
City sat a lot of players yet took a 1-0 lead to HT but it was Ollie Watkins with 2 goals in the 2H for Villa to take all three points.
Bee’s Fall Short
Bee’s had chances to take all three points and that would’ve meant Europa League, but they couldn’t fully overcome a 1-0 deficit at HT.
Black Cats Take Advantage
In control and jumped over the Blues right into the Europa League.
They got the help they needed from BHA and Brentford.
Still In But Trounced
Disappointing for the seagulls, even point would’ve meant Europa League.
It was all United early and often.
Finished 6th, Good for Europa League
Forest took the early lead, Bournemouth scored right out of the half and that is how a pretty even match finished.
Seems About Right
Fulham finish right around 10th again.
Newcastle will be disappointed finishing at 12 and out of Europe.
Not Playing for Europe
Championship Party
Wolves scored the first goal of all 10 matches on the day, but Burnley got it back in the 2H and secure 19th place.
Injury Free
Both sides have big Europe finals coming up and got through the match unscathed.
Gunners scored one in each half and Palace scored at 89’ but the score was not the priority on the day.
Last Current Situation for 25/26 📈📉
Next seasons teams playing in Europe.
Palace can play their way into the Europa League by winning the UEFA Conference League on May 27.
Arsenal
Man City
Man United
Aston Villa
Liverpool
Bournemouth
Sunderland
Palace IF they win the EUFA Conference Final
BHA
Final Season Standings
Current Table
(Arrows represent a team that moved up or down 2+ spots or into/out of Europe/Relegation)
Purple - Champions League
Green - Europa League
Yellow - UEFA Conference League
Red - Relegation
Season Clean Sheets by Team
Goals & Clean Sheets
Goals down for the season, clean sheets slightly up.
Goals
24 Match Week 38
27.4 25/26 Season Average (G/MW)
Season High 37 (MW35)
Season Low 16 (MW22 & MW30)
Most since 1992 - 32.8 - 2024/25
Fewest since 1992 - 24.5 - 2006/07
Clean Sheets
4 Match Week 38
5.1 25/26 Season Average (G/MW)
Season High 10 (MW4)
Season Low 1 (MW6)
Most since 1992 - 6.44 - 2004/05
Fewest since 1992 - 4.13 - 2023/24
Quick Kicks ⚽
Some Notable Moments
Pep, Bernado Silva & John Stones says goodbye to Man City fans The Etihad.
Mo Salah says goodbye to Liverpool fans at Anfield.
Bournemouth manager, Andoni Iraola, leads the Cherries to Europe but will not coach them as he is heading out.
Man United’s Bruno Fernandes gets his 21st assist, a new PL record for a season.
Unique stat - In 138 years of English top flight soccer there has always been a team name that starts with “W”, until next season.
Hot Topic 🔥🔥🔥
Welcome
Your 2026/27 Promoted PL Teams
With all the drama of Spygate 2.0 and Southampton losing their spot in the promotion playoff final Hull City took care of business and beat Middlesbrough 1-0.
The goal came at 90+4’ for Hull, on a keeper error. (Watch)
Coventry City and their manager Frank Lampard, the former Chelsea star, come storming in.
Ipswich town and their famous co-owner, Ed Sheeran, bounce right back to the EPL.
Hull City, who finished 6th in the championship,
Adios
Down go Wolves, Burnley and West Ham. Should be a fun watch in The Championship next season.
Off Island 🏝️
Finals
Champions League - Final on Saturday, May 30 11am CBS & Paramount+
Arsenal +204 v PSG +124
By winning the PL last week that allows Arsenal to rest and prepare for the final. PSG’s title has already been secured and they have been resting and preparing. Should be a great final!
UEFA Conference League - Final on Wednesday, May 27 2pm Paramount+
Palace v Rayo Vallecano
Winner to the Europa League next season. Since Palace are outside the top 10 in the PL table this would add another team to Europe for the PL next season.
Notable Nation League Winners
German Bundesliga - Bayern Munich
Italian Serie A - Inter Milan
Spanish La Liga - Barcelona
French Ligue 1 - PSG
🌎🍵🏪CS World Cup Corner 🌎🍵🏪
World Cup Countdown 15 Days
FIFA World Rankings - Interesting View - and yes, you need to learn what flag is who ;)
COMING SOON To Your INBOX- Clean Sheet - a Group-by-Group Simple WC Guide.
Best Bets 💰
Looking for some Big Cat mojo
MW 32 UP $87
MW 33 ($6)
MW 34 ($20)
MW 35 UP $23
MW 36 ($50)
MW 37 ($37)
MW 38 ($54)
Match Week 38 Results
MW 38 Down $54
L ($22) - BHA to WIN v Man United -111. $22
L ($28) - Burley v Wolves over 2.5 goals -140. $28
W ($23) - Palace v Arsenal Under 2.5 goals +115. $20
W ($28) - Fulham v Newcastle not Both Teams to Score +138. $20
L ($25) - Liverpool to Win v Brentford -123. $25
L ($20) - Man City to Win by 3+ goals v Villa +143. $20
L ($20) - Bournemouth to Win at Forest +109. $20
L ($20) - Sunderland v Chelsea under 2.5 goals +105. $20
W ($20) - Tottenham to score first v Everton -149. $30
W ($20) - West Ham to Win v Leeds -118. $23
L ($10) - Liverpool, Man City, Spurs, Bournemouth & West Ham to Win +1521. $10
