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In today's The Observer Sport... 🦊 Paul Hayward on Jamie Vardy's Leicester farewell 🔵JPH on Chelsea's Invincibles and WSL TOTS 🇪🇺Rory Smith on PL's European dominance 🏏Andy Zaltzman on Zak Crawley's England spot 🏉Jessica Hayden on 'pest' Henry Pollock...

Arsenal’s progress under Arteta has been clear and steady. But it does feel like, certainly with the fans, he’s approaching an inflection point. For The Observer on the restless energy around Arsenal now, and what that means observer.co.uk/news/sport/art…

The Premier League sending its 14th and 16th best teams to the Europa League final is quite the flex. So is having six teams in next year’s CL. But it also puts huge pressure on the teams who see themselves as CL clubs but might not make it. The Observer observer.co.uk/news/sport/art…

Would thoroughly recommend this episode of Libero in general, and the second half discussion of football hipsterdom in particular. Not least because it involves Jonathan Wilson telling people they’re reading Inverting the Pyramid wrong pod.fo/e/2d2e7d

Dion Fanning and Rory Smith join us to talk about the weekend's football. Does the treatment of Trent reflect badly on Liverpool? And as Ruben Amorim aims another devastating broadside at his own club, how long do we think this project has left to run?

If you haven't checked out Libero 015 yet, you can watch the whole thing on YouTube. Jonathan Wilson, John Brewin and Miguel Delaney discuss semi-finals and football hipsterism youtu.be/47FFZK9VYVo

For the first time for a long time, sat down with Bradley Wiggins. It was extraordinary…. observer.co.uk/news/sport/art…

A preview of Libero 016 with James Horncastle OMRI, Rory Smith and John Brewin The next episode is out tomorrow and you can find it here 👉 podfollow.com/libero

Can Xabi Alonso make sense of Real Madrid? Is Carlo Ancelotti — an Italian! — taking charge of Brazil the ultimate revenge for the 1970 World Cup final? Will there ever be another Toni Kroos? It’s Libero, with me, James Horncastle OMRI and John Brewin pod.fo/e/2d51b2

That was great. observer.co.uk/news/sport/art…

Two weeks ago, two British Superbikes riders died during a race at Oulton Park. On Friday, their friends and peers did something that I’ve always found it hard to understand: they got back on their bikes, and went racing. I tried to find out how. observer.co.uk/news/sport/art…

Has Ange Postecoglou channeled his inner José Mourinho to get Spurs to the brink of a first trophy since Occupy Wall Street? ⁦And does ⁦Miguel Delaney⁩ mean that as a compliment?

If you, like me, can’t wait for tonight’s Europa League final — the Stoppable Force against the Movable Object — then this edition of Libero might help get you through the day: where next for Man Utd, Spurs, Ange, Amorim, plus ferry travel. pod.fo/e/2d7cfc

Lads. It’s Tottenham.

Have you ever wondered why James Horncastle OMRI first fell in love with Italy? And do you want to discover that thrilling story while also wondering why it's only in the PL that seems bothered about being the best league in the world? pod.fo/e/2d97c7

Having a major final between two teams who wear kits that are essentially indistinguishable is worse than multiclub ownership, this week on Libero

Strikes me as a bit early to be getting on a lamppost, if I’m honest