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welcome to the multi welcome to the multi-award winning Spurds podcast from The Athletic.

It is The View from the Lane.

I'm Kate Mason.

Joining me today are James Moore and Elias Burke.

Elias, great to have you with us.

This is a real sweet spot that you've joined the podcast for today

because, of course, we've had a game,

we've moved on from the game.

We want to hear what you thought about the game

because you're actually there on Sunday.

But now we've actually got this prolonged open vista

until the next game on Monday where we can just relish in

these two straight wins. So perfect timing. Tell us how it was being at Aston Filler on the

weekend. Yeah, so I actually came into the game with like a fair bit of kind of like

encouragement, excitement. I went to Deserby's press conference a few days before

and you know how he's got that effect on the players and in kind of raising everybody's i suppose

belief and confidence i think he probably has the same kind of effect on the journalist i think we're all

feeling pretty good and they're turned up at villa park Park and naturally, well, I've got a lot of

villa fans in my life anyway. My dad's a Villa fan. A lot of my best mates are Villa fans. So I'm

speaking to them a lot about Villa beforehand. And they were saying about, obviously, they'd had the

Europa League semifinal first like a couple of days before. You're saying, you know, Villa haven't

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