Hello and welcome to Libero. I'm Rory Smith from The Observer and Men in Blazers. I have to point that out as well.

We're going to start as we do at the moment by asking you if you could find it in your heart to help this scrappy little underdog podcast out by offering a review, a rating. Both have to be positive. It really doesn't work if you're negative about us. likes on YouTube, comments on Spotify. If you can tell people that you think what we're doing is

worthwhile, it does really help us. Likes on YouTube, comments on Spotify. If you can tell people that you think what we're doing

is worthwhile, it does really help us in our algorithm-driven world, and we do really appreciate it.

We like talking to each other. We're delighted that so many of you like listening to us,

and we'd like to be able to do it for as long as possible.

I'm joined today by James Horncastle of The Athletic and John Bruin of various places, John.

You're a man with your own empire.

I think that's probably fair to say, isn't it?

It's a guardian mostly, straight times, etc, etc.

We also have a little special excerpt from what I think can be described as our Bill Bow Bureau.

Three of our number, Jonathan Wilson, Miguel Delaney and Jack Pittbrook, were all in the stadium, in San Mames

to watch what I think we'd all described as the greatest European final of all time.

And very kindly, they sent us a little dispatch.

It sounds like pretty soon after the final whistle.

Expect music in the background.

Expect to learn why Jonathan Wilson is not a podcast producer.

And expect insight as we listen to their immediate reflections on that game.

So we're in the stadium in Bilbao, just after start them a beat match tonight, 1-0 to win the

Europa League. The players are on the pitch, where the families with coaching staff.

The fans are one end of the ground are all still there, a huge white bank. The rest of the same is pretty much empty. It's still very

loud. Jack, did you ever think you've seen the day? No, I didn't. I'm actually, I'd be wondering

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