Hello everybody and welcome back to the Football Vision podcast.

We are burning the microphone at both ends this week.

This is our third episode in six days, but special games call for special circumstances,

and the Champions League final is certainly that.

In hope of avoiding any cease and desist letters from my guest tonight,

the format formally knows as an instant

reaction will instead be called an immediate response, but concepts will apply all the same.

Speaking of guests, I am joined by Elliot Smith, who you can find and block on Twitter at

Yankee Gunner. Hello, Elliot. I am removing my fandom hat. I have no club allegiance. I am here

to Football Vision. That is my role. I am a football vision pundit today. I will neither host nor have

club allegiance, which I'm sure will go great for me. Absolutely. We just spoke before about how it's

usually you're the one hosting these,

but we're switching it up, keeping it fresh. And I think an interesting game with a few

talking points that are, you know, worthy of getting stuck into a bit later on. A question

for you before we start, what deal have Real Madrid signed with the devil?

And where can we get in on that?

Yeah, it is really weird, right?

Because Real Madrid seemed to prove all the things I don't believe about football, right?

The soft factor, the stuff, the been there before, the, you know, having confidence in the key moment.

I like to be data driven.

I like to be evidence based.

I like to think the team with the greater talent will do this or do that.

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