Hello everyone and welcome to T.S.F.P. The first podcast of the new year.

Happy New Year to you you all thank you very much

for joining us for another year of Spanish football content hello Sydney good

morning Philip happy new year happy new year you are you're back from England, you're back in Spain, you got back last night.

I was a bit worried, I thought you were still in England and I thought you were going to miss some Spanish

football. But no, you're here. You'll be watching and attending and

talking about all the Spanish football coming up in this midweek round of fixtures, right?

Time to perfection, although it is true that I got slightly caught out by and me you and I'll have this when we do the podcast of course by the window being quite small and the window for accreditation requests for Heti against Ryo Bayekana which is actually

at Athletico Madrid was very very small indeed and that window involved Boxing Day at the

day after that's it yeah and I missed it which means that you're not going to take a taffing and

Sturt Ryo played this afternoon but you will be at a realm of

really against me yorka tomorrow oh let me just write you down what's coming

up because we are kicking off the new year with a

full round of midweek fixtures match day 19 begins today Tuesday the second with

Hetafa against Raya which is rather bizarrely being played at

Athletico Madrid's Metropolitano Stadium because Kitaffi were given a

stadium closure for a pitch invasion relating back to 2017.

Just got around to sorting that out now, and so they've closed their stadium, but they were like,

yeah, well, we'll just go to another stadium, and they're just playing in another stadium.

And it's worse than that. There's a lovely Spanish phrase which is

Echalalay, Echalatrampa. So as soon as you make a law you create a trick, a

trap, a loophole. And essentially what this is, the net result of this ban has been that

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