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It's an absolutely huge week for Aston Villa Football Club.

Of course, Nottingham Forest on Thursday away at the city ground in the Europa League,

followed by Spurs in the Premier League, which is a huge game in Premier League terms on Sunday.

And then Nottingham Forest again at Villa Park on the following Thursday.

I wanted to get a guest in to talk about this huge week for Aston Villa and I've been listening

to his pod quite a lot recently so I just chanced a message to Henry Winter. Everyone will

know who he is absolutely no introduction needed at all. But Henry, before we get into the villa stuff,

one, how are you? And two,

really, really enjoying your podcast with Christian Peres, a man who villa fans all remember well.

Yeah, I mean, I used to go and see Christian at Villa Park and always stop off and a nod at

William McGregor because I think a lot of away fans when they go there, they might walk past

this statue and go, who is he? But he was like one of the

founding fathers of the game, obviously. I don't need to tell you that. And I'd always talk to

Persler about that. And I always say to him, you understand what this club is about. And he always said,

yeah, he did, even though he was at Liverpool and obviously had the Chelsea connection, but because

of McGregor. And it's just one of those grounds you go to. And obviously it's people that make

grounds. You know that better than anyone, Dan. But you just go in there and you just feel the

history. And some of it, you know, you go backstage and you see some of the sort, you know,

the tinted glass and you see the pictures and you just think, you know, you think of the European

Cup and you see that, you know, the great commentary line. And it's, it's one of the cathedrals

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