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Hello, I'm Mark Chapman, welcome to the Athletic Football podcast.

Each week I'm joined by a selection of writers from The Athletic

to bring the

unrivaled access and insight into the biggest stories in football. We're joined today by

David Ornstein, Adam Crafton, Jack Pitt Brooke. After an exciting weekend of football, standout

moments of the weekend, Jack, you can go first. Being at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Being? Just being. Simply being is enough for me this weekend. No, being at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium as a fan yesterday afternoon, being amongst, what, 61, 62,000 people, I think. Having, you know, I was lucky enough to be at the Euros for work and that was very special

of course. But yeah, being back at a Premier League game with a huge crowd and having a good game

that was really well contested and which everybody was emotionally invested in. It was, yeah,

it kind of felt like the last 18 months hadn't happened. It was great. David? One of two for me, travelling to the Brentford Arsenal game on Friday night

and the sort of sights and sounds of football and fandom and going to the game,

which had become part of our life for so many of us for so many years,

and we took it for granted, I guess, became a bit complacent.

And I just had sort of flashbacks to being a youngster again

and experiencing it all for the first time.

And it was wonderful aside from some of the language and behaviour.

But honestly, the Brentford fans by and large were amazing and also the

staff around the stadium and that new ground. It was just a really happy moment that none of us

have experienced or very few of us in such a long time since before the outbreak of the pandemic.

But in terms of a single moment, I would have to say Thomas Frank, going up to the supporter whose name

escapes me, please forgive me, the young boy in the stands at Brentford. I think that will be one

of the iconic images of the season, or for many seasons even, and it was a lump in the throat

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