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Hello, welcome back to 1874. How are your nerves? I hope they're as frayed as mine.

I've got to be honest, as soon as I started setting this show up and the countdown just came

up on the screen to go live, the nerves have just hit me like a ton of bricks on Dambardell

live just before midday to do a little bit of a temperature check to see how the Villa fans

are feeling ahead of the biggest game in 40 plus years.

Aston Villa, of course, taking on Freiburg in the Europa League final this evening.

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with us. We've got Sean Franklin who's here saying, a bit like me, can't handle the way,

scared, what Villa turns up. I believe that, 2-1 Villa. I throw my prediction out there early.

I think 2-0 to Villa and I think Emmy Buendaya is going to score a very important goal. That's the feeling that I've had for about a week or so. Sam Keely says, is it time for a drink yet? I think he's approaching that time. Sam is definitely coming up soon for me. Peter Sherry, literally can't concentrate at work today. I'm going to finish at lunch. No point me being here. I mean, is there any point any of us trying to do anything today? There's barely any point in me trying to do this street in all honesty, because I'm not sure I'm going to make any coherence sense, but I'm going to give it a good go. Michael Huggins, good afternoon, keeping it simple. Michael Huggins obviously called, calm and composed heading into this evening's game.

Mr Lange saying, confident, but bricking it. I'm not sure that works. I think you can either be one or the other. I'm not sure you can be both Mr. Langey, but good to see you. Andy Brogan, hi-you-dan, day off for me, up the villa. Michael Gillespie, where are you watching it?

I will go through that very shortly, Michael. Adam says, I'm feeling sick and confident all at the same time. I feel extremely sick, although I did have a PT session in the early hours this morning, so it might be something to do with that. That's the first one back. Maybe that's why I'm feeling sick. Harry Butler says, I thought the nerves for Forrest wouldn't be topped. How wrong was I? He said, I wasn't nervous for Forrest at all, but I am for this, really, really anxious. Mark Brannigan, I'm that nervous. I have had a bit of the anxious bum. I think, yeah, again, don't want to go into too much graphic data, but that was me this morning as well.

I'm not even going to entertain Adam.

Adams just said there, no positive vibes only, Adam.

Johnny Jay says, I'm so glad I put two days off work for this.

I can't function properly.

Baraball says one of the Emmys to assist.

And Jay Castan Villa says not working today, literally immersing myself in all villa content all day, building up to tonight and I can't step away. I mean, I'll go live a couple of times today and I'll go live after the game, of course, as well. Andrew Murphy 4-0 Watkins McGin Brace Hage in an ideal world anyway. So yeah, good to see so many of you coming on and are joining me live at this point in the day. Like, I'm not sure how many people are at work,

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