Hello and welcome. It's the Not the Top 20 podcast. Thank you to New Carnival for playing us in as ever. Check them out on all your online music platforms. They've got some great stuff out. I remembered my charger this time. We had this down for Monday night, only to get to studio, and I'd left my charger at home.

So I'm an idiot, I'm Ali Maxwell next to me, George Ehrlich, but we're here to give you a little

bit of NTT20 Pod Insight and analysis ahead of this weekend's playoff finals.

A reminder for those tuning in that across the EFL leagues, we have Fulham versus Aston Villa, championship playoff finals. A reminder for those tuning in that across the EFL leagues we have

Fulham versus Aston Villa championship playoff final on Saturday at 5pm, Shrewsbury v. Rotherham

on Sunday at 3pm and Exeter versus Coventry on Monday also at 3pm and those are the

games that we're going to go through today. Some fairly lively semi-finals, I think it's fair to say, although nothing quite matching last

year's offerings, no penalty shootouts, no 6-5 aggregate scores, but certainly plenty to get

into.

And George, starting in the championship where you yourself were at the second leg,

Fulham Derby, and I was at the second leg, Aston Villa Middlesbrough,

so hopefully can give a bit of insight into how those games went

and how those teams are looking, heading into the playoff final on Saturday.

So starting with Fulham Derby, Fulham the favourites going in to the playoffs,

but a real setback in that first leg.

Lost 1-0, a bit of hand-wringing.

You were pretty vocal.

You weren't too worried about it.

You felt strongly that they would come back in the second leg.

At Craven Cottage, was it...

What was that game like?

How did it play out? I mean, it followed a pretty similar pattern to the first leg, really, where Darby set up to defend as you'd expect them to, defending a lead. But I was really impressed with the way that Fulham didn't panic. They went in at halftime at nil-0. They sucked their guns. There were times where I thought they set up, they set up with too many men behind

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