The Athletic FC

Welcome to the Athletic FC podcast with me, Ayo Akim Ullery.

Arsenal are into their first Champions League final in 20 years

after defeating Atlatico Madrid.

Mikhail Arteeta's side are on the brink of making history.

So can they get it over the line?

One more stride of Arsenal's stairway to heaven.

Next stop, Budapest and a crack at the ultimate prize in European football.

Right, in with us in the studio today. We've got James

Horncastle. There's got Art de Roche as well. Okay, an emphatic performance, James, by

Arsenal at the Emirates. I know you were there for sure. Aggregate win, 2-1 against

Athletical Madrid, 1-0 on the night. Talk to me about the atmosphere at the Emirates because

from where I was watching

on TV, it was euphoric. Yeah, I think it was up there, probably surpassed last year's quarterfinal

against Real Madrid. You know, you could see that the club and the fans put a lot into it. Even,

you know, hours before kickoff, you know, it felt to me walking down the

Holloway Road into the Emirates, like the end of Nottingill Carnival. And it was actually a really

good, kind of a moose bush, if you like, for what would happen happen later because outside the media entrance on the

sort of main concourse where there's the roundabout just a mass of people just hoofing a loose

football around which was kind of like the last 10 or 15 minutes of the game.

Everyone's sort of trying to get rid of that nervous tension that they were having by just,

oh, there's a ball, kick it.

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