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25/26 Match Week 38 Recap
Hammers Down, Sunderland & BHA Up, & 15 Days
nick lochner
May 26, 2026
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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
| TV History
| More Recent Streaming Streaming is a little different since you can watch it a month later
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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 
| Bubbles in the Championship 
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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 
| Bee’s Fall Short 
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Black Cats Take Advantage 
| Still In But Trounced 
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Finished 6th, Good for Europa League 
| Seems About Right 
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Not Playing for Europe
Championship Party 
| Injury Free 
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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.
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Final Season Standings
Current Table (Arrows represent a team that moved up or down 2+ spots or into/out of Europe/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)
| Clean Sheets 4 Match Week 38 5.1 25/26 Season Average (G/MW)
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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
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