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Welcome to the West Stand, the first one of 2026.

We're back for the new year.

Happy New Year to you.

Dan and Michael here with our guest who we'll introduce in just a second. First of all year. Happy new year to you. Dan and Michael here with our guest

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Sticks. Not streaming sticks, not just sticks. Yeah. Work on sticks. No. But yeah, anything that connects to the internet, really, for the most part, will tend to work on it, laptops, all those things. Yep. NordvPN.com forward slash TSP link will be in the episode description box as well. Check out the the on screen details there too and that is an additional form once off on top of your discount two year plan once again, NordVPN.com forward slash TSP. It's Berron Croslin. Hello, Baron. Our guest today, welcome. Hello. How you doing? Very, very good. A rather chilly Ellen Road, well, for half of the stadium today, the West Stand where you were, which is why the show is called the West Stand. It's people who notionally sit over there who come and join us. I was in the east. I had sun in my face all day. It felt like a tropical warm day in Beeston, but you're in the shadows in the West End. you've just come out of the press conference. Yeah. I would say, actually, just to go more serious for a second,

we've just,

a few minutes ago,

seen the, in the Westland. You've just come out at the press conference. Yeah. I would say, actually, just to go more serious

for a second,

we've just a few minutes ago

seen the press release by the club as well. Yeah. So we want to send our best wishes and condolences to the family of the fan who died outside the stadium or was it in the Westland area ahead of the game today, which is really, really sad news.

So yeah, you've just come from the press conference.

What was Farka like in that?

What do you have to say?

Pretty happy.

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