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Chelsea and Man City are sent to the great Champions League abattoir with big aggregate defeats, Arsenal, the only club helping to maintain the reputation of the best league in the world, TM. What's Portuguese for Remontada, Bodo Glimpse Run, is over after giving up a 3-0 lead against sporting, proving that we just can't have nice things, can we? To tonight's ties, Newcastle Lane to create history at Camp New, Liverpool needing to shrug off the stench of the performance against Spurs at home to Gallatin. Spurs themselves, just hoping to avoid further embarrassment against Athlete. We ask, is 10 million pounds for eight trophies a fair trade? What is the statutes of limitations on a tournament win? We round up the action from the EFL. Take your questions.

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On the panel today, good morning, Lars Sibbetson.

No, it's not a good morning, Robin. I've lived in the UK long enough to understand how big you guys are on politeness and manners and stuff. So fine, I'll go with it. Hi, Robin. We'll get to that. Yes, Lars is here, thankfully. But yeah, he'll talk us through. The therapy session will begin soon. Nikki Bandini, this is a good morning, surely. It's a good morning. I feel bad because I think Lars is dressed in black like he's in morning. And I think should I also have worn black this morning? Like I've worn the wrong colours. But good morning, Robin. It's true. We should all have the black armbands, really, shouldn't we, in honour of Lars for our fallen soldier. Paul Watson, good morning to you. Just inside, maybe. Paul Watson, good morning to you. Good morning, yeah. By comparison, I can't complain really. Although as an underdog lover, I'm in sort of minor morning, which is why I'm in blue. I'm sort of like selling morning. We'll accept it. We will accept it. Right. Let's start at the Emirates. Arsenal 2 by Leibucon

Nill, an aggregate win for Arsenal 3-1. And yeah, I mean, it was a fairly regulation one,

wasn't it? Arsenal dominated. We had some cracking goals. And actually, Nikki, you were on the

pod last week saying Arsenal looks a little bit tight.

And that was pre-Max Dowman limbs, of course.

How did you feel they were, were they a bit more loose yesterday? I don't know.

Because the start of it, I don't know.

To me, the whole thing almost felt a bit like that movie trope where I suppose you've got this underdog, the heroic underdog who's

surviving all these blows from the Big Bad, which unfortunately in this case is Arsenal,

Arsenal of the Big Bad here. And then at some point the Big Bad just says, all right,

I'm going to try now and smashes your hero against the wall. Because that the shot from

Esay is just so violent. It's so out of thin air and he's on the turn that it's just, it felt like shocking everyone to, to their senses, like, okay, this is only going to end one way. It doesn't matter how good your goalkeeper is, this is only going to end one way. And it was, I mean, it was a magnificent goal, obviously, and I'm painting Arsenal as a bad

because I think in lots of people's eyes they probably are. But I enjoyed it a great deal, and I

enjoy seeing Ebert GSA doing this thing that he does in the springtime where he, as everyone,

everyone seems to have written in their columns this morning. He blossoms in the springtime and scores

all his goals in March, April and May. It almost felt like the game and the tie ended, even though it didn't, because it was only a one goal difference for a long time. It felt like as soon as that goal went in, it was like the point had been made. And at that point, I don't know if Luce is the right word, but it certainly didn't feel like Arsenal, whatever, in danger of letting it go.

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