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This is Roch and you are listening to European nights, the podcast.

The even more than Diego Simioni loves to exalt the virtues of suffering through football.

It's our seventh episode and we've made it to the semi-finals dear listeners.

First Manchester City host Raoul Madrid and then Liverpool welcome Villarreal.

We'll drink it all in, you, me and of course, my always guest, Rory Smith, Chief Soccer correspondent for the New York Times.

And Rory, started off by telling me some real Rory Smith European football problems.

Yeah, there's not going to be a vast amount of sympathy for this, I don't think.

But the slight problem for the role months of Villarreal making it to the semi-finals of the Champions League

is that there is now a reason to get to Villarreal and it's a town of somewhere between 30 and 50,000 people

on the coast of Spain, the Mediterranean coast, Nivellencia kind of Nivellencia, not that Nivellencia.

And it doesn't obviously have its own airport because it's a tiny, tiny place.

And there are a couple of airports that are kind of nearby but not really nearby.

So I know how to work out how to get from where I live in the north of England to Alicante, which actually isn't that hard because Alicante is where lots of English people go on holiday.

But then go from Alicante to Villarreal.

And that should be okay. But then a friend of mine called me today and pointed out that after the game, it'll be like one in the morning.

And there's no hotels in Villarreal and unless all 50,000 people who live there drive taxes.

It's not entirely clear how we get back to Valencia or to Castellan, which is up the coast or just wherever you might be.

I'm not necessarily the best at kind of confronting my issues, Raj.

So I've been putting this off for quite some time.

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