As the English Premier League season winds down, TSN offers a full slate of action this weekend with intrigue at both ends of the table.

On Sunday, the English Premier League trophy could be handed out at Old Trafford to the newly crowned champions, but it won’t be to Manchester United.

Minnows Leicester City can complete their improbable rise to the summit of English football with a victory over the 20-time champions of England at the Theatre of Dreams.

But before that on Saturday, two clubs will continue their push for safety and another year of EPL membership.

At St. James’ Park, Alan Pardew’s current club will try to help doom his former club to relegation when Crystal Palace visits Newcastle United.

You can catch Newcastle/Crystal Palace LIVE on TSN1/4 at 10am et/7am pt.

Rafa Benitez’s Magpies currently sit 19th in the table, one point behind archrivals Sunderland in 17th and safety with one more game played. Thanks to a run that has seen the club unbeaten in their last three with fightbacks for draws in their last two matches with Manchester City and Liverpool, hopes are high among the Toon Army faithful that survival is in the cards.

But don’t count out Pardew’s desire to throw a monkey wrench into those plans.

Pardew, the first ever Toon gaffer to win the Premier League Manager of the Year award, returns to Newcastle for the first time since leaving the team to assume the coaching mantle at Selhurst Park last January. Pardew spent four seasons as a player with the Eagles in the late ‘80s and jumped at the chance to manage to his old club, despite still having a year remaining on his deal with Newcastle. While Palace just wrapped up a berth in the FA Cup final on Sunday with a win over Watford and the team virtually guaranteed safety, it’s highly unlikely that Pardew won’t relish the opportunity to heap misery upon his former club in what’s sure to be a raucous atmosphere at St. James’.

Meanwhile, in the West Midlands, Sam Allardyce’s Black Cats look to maintain momentum as they visit Mark Hughes’s Stoke City.

You can catch Stoke City/Sunderland LIVE on TSN3 at 10am et/7am pt.

Sunderland followed up last week’s 3-0 thrashing of relegation-threatened Norwich City with a 0-0 draw at the Stadium of Light with Arsenal. That draw took them out of the drop zone, level on points with the Canaries, but ahead on better goal differential. Allardyce’s side is hoping a team commitment to defending (Sunderland has only conceded two goals in its last four matches) will be the key to survival, but if there’s a team that the Black Cats would fancy a couple goals against, it might be the Potters.

Fresh off a 4-0 drubbing at the hands of Manchester City, Stoke has now conceded 12 goals in their last three matches, scoring only one in the process. Allardyce will hope to turn top scorer Jermain Defoe loose on a beleaguered Stoke team that is probably pretty fortunate that there are only three matches left in their season.

All eyes will be on Manchester Sunday, where the Foxes, 5000-to-1 underdogs at the season’s outset, can lift the EPL trophy with all three points against a United side with much left to play for.

You can catch Manchester United vs. Leicester City LIVE on TSN4 at 9am et/6am pt.

With three matches remaining, Leicester needs a combination of three points of their own or three dropped points from Spurs to claim the title. If they were to win on Sunday, Claudio Rainieri’s men would become only the second team (other than United) to win the title on the hallowed ground of Old Trafford. Arsenal, on a goal from Sylvain Wiltord in a 1-0 victory, did the deed in May of 2002.

The Foxes will be without leading scorer Jamie Vardy, who will serve the final match of his ban following an FA charge for improper conduct after his sending off in a 2-2 draw with West Ham earlier in the month. Vardy scored the Leicester goal in a 1-1 draw with United at King Power Stadium. Even with United’s second-best defensive record in the league (only Spurs has conceded fewer goals), the likes of Shinji Okazaki and the newly minted PFA Player of the Year Riyad Mahrez will try to add to the EPL’s third-best goal tally (63).

The match will be extra special for Leicester’s Ritchie de Laet, Danny Simpson, Matty James and Danny Drinkwater, all four Manchester United youth players with only six senior team appearances among them. Goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel is the son of legendary United ‘keeper Peter Schmeichel and, if the Foxes do go on and capture the title, the pair would become only the second father and son duo to win the EPL championship after Ian Wright and Shaun Wright-Phillips.

The Foxes have never claimed an English top-flight title and would become the first first-time English champion since Nottingham Forest in 1978. Since its inception in 1992, only United, City, Arsenal, Chelsea and Blackburn Rovers have claimed an EPL title.

For United, a victory on Sunday is essential to maintain its fight for a Champions League place and nobody is more aware of this fact than embattled manager Louis van Gaal. The Red Devils sit in fifth, six points adrift (with a game in hand) of Arsenal with four matches remaining. Though United secured its first FA Cup final appearance since 2007 with a 2-1 win over Everton on Saturday, the Dutchman’s grip on his job remains tenuous at best (with Jose Mourinho or maybe Laurent Blanc waiting in the wings, depending on who you read) and missing out on a top-four place would like seal his fate.

Still, if United were to win out and there is a victor in the May 5 Arsenal/City match, the Red Devils would claim a Champions League space and maybe allow van Gaal to see out the final year of his three-year deal.

In Wales, Liverpool is coming off a disheartening 1-0 loss on Thursday in the Europa League semi-finals first leg to Villarreal on Adrian’s stoppage time strike.

You can catch Swansea City vs. Liverpool LIVE on TSN4 at 6:55am et/3:55am pt.

Jurgen Klopp’s men know that winning the Europa League is their only avenue to a Champions League return and will look to regroup in the return leg, but can’t afford to let their domestic form to slide in the meantime. The Reds blew a 2-0 lead at Anfield against Toon last Sunday and will look to right the ship before the Yellow Submarine heads to the Merseyside next Thursday.

The Swans have already hit the magical 40-point mark, which normally guarantees safety, and sit nine points up on the drop zone, but three points at the Liberty will ensure a sixth straight year in the top flight.

Over on the south coast, Manchester City, fresh off a 0-0 draw with Real Madrid in the Champions League semis, are keen on firmly ensconcing their Champions League credentials for next season ahead of Pep Guardiola’s arrival with a match at Southampton.

You can catch Southampton vs. Manchester City LIVE on TSN4 at 11:30am et/8:30am pt.

Knowing that they still can be caught by United and remain level with Arsenal, the goal is third place to avoid the Champions League play-in in late August. Not looking past a pacy Saints teams to Wednesday’s trip to the Bernabeu will be paramount for City on Sunday.

The departing Manuel Pellegrini will be without the services of David Silva (hamstring) and Yaya Toure (lower-body injury) in his midfield.