Welcome, welcome. Thanks for tuning in. Thanks for choosing to join us today. This is the NTT20 podcast, a Monday pod breaking down all the action from the opening weekend of the EFL Championship League One and League Two as well. This show is sponsored by Betfair. I'm Ali Maxwell with me, George

Ehrlich and this is what we do, George. This is what we haven't done for 10 weeks or so. So we're

pretty excited, I think it's fair to say. Some of the things we saw this weekend, fans in stands,

limbs, a couple of rockets scored, some red cards, and as always, some

classic opening day, giving the ball away, playing out from the back, some absolute calamities

on that front as the players get back to, well, match sharpness. Overall, brilliant to be back.

George, how did you enjoy the weekend? I loved it.

I loved it.

I loved being at the first game on Friday night.

As you mentioned,

beyond just the first day of the season's always one to be pretty excited about because the terrible couple of months without EFL football comes to an end.

But this one especially,

because just seeing the stadiums full hearing chance that

I've kind of forgotten about like hearing the easy easy from a certain group of supporters

I mentioned in the championship during quite an easy win for them it's just something we

haven't heard of for such a long time and it already feels like us as kind of a football community did incredibly well to put on a brave

face and deal with last season as it was and even the season before that where of course it was

curtailed early in March and now we're getting our rewards with real competitive proper

fans on seats packed away ends I just really hope it's going to continue

because, yeah, the weekend didn't disappoint. We're going to whizz through the leagues here, as we

always do. If you're tuning in for the first time and you found out about us maybe through the

1 to 24s or Friday night Sky Sports segment, welcome. We do our absolute best to get through

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