Hello everyone and welcome to this week's edition of the Spanish Football Podcast.

I'm Phil Kitt from a ladies' joint, as ever, but my good friend, Dr Sid Lowe, Hello Sidney.

Hi Phil, how are you? I'm okay, how are you? Not too bad, thank you.

Did you enjoy the Madrid Derby? You know what? I did. Quite a lot more than I thought I would.

It felt like a proper derby, it felt like a really good occasion.

It's the noisiest I think I've heard, the the Metropolitano,

except maybe for the Arsenal game in the Europa League, going back what's that?

About four years now, something like that. Obviously that makes sense because

as some of our listeners will know, they've expanded the stadium to 70,000.

It was basically full last night. There were a handful of people who had tickets but didn't go,

but otherwise it was packed and really really good atmosphere and Athletico played.

I thought really well for, brilliantly for the first 35 minutes, then very well again

from the start of the second half sort of on for about 20 minutes or so.

And then I thought they contained around which would be really quite well.

I thought it was a really deserved free one win.

That was a little jive, but me dear listener, because I had a ticket to the Madrid Derby

and I did not go. We weren't going to the details of it, I was not feeling the best.

No, that's a highly justified, but I mean it genuinely was about, I think it's gone up to just

over 70,000. So there were 69,000 and 82 people there, I was not one of them.

I gave my ticket to someone else, so it was put to it. It was put to good news at least.

Oh, someone did go. Yes, I'll go.

All right, I'll go in.

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