This season, I want to feel it from the start, from the whistle, from the first touch, want to beat the odds, want to take an early leave, want to see why he costs so much money, want to shout PIN before the ref is even called him, want to see the call go our way for once, I want to hear their lot go quiet.

Want to see them leave early, want to drop into the group chat to tell them,

I've seen the future. Want to hear them agree. And if not, I'll say, want to bet. Bet Fred.

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A very good morning indeed to you.

Probably only one story in town today.

I don't think that there will be any surprises about that,

or at least various variations upon one story in town,

which is the local and, of course, in Wales and Scotland national election

results, the latter of which we won't find out until much later today. And there's a slim

chance. We won't find out anything more about the local election results in the course of today's

programme. But we have more than enough to be getting on with. The, I mean, it is a extremely good day for reform for Nigel Farage's outfit, just as 10 years ago.

He had an extremely good day with the Brexit result and indeed was popping champagne corks five years later, three years later when Boris Johnson became Prime Minister.

So it's like Act 3 in many ways of a play that has now

being performed for the, for almost exactly a decade. I don't know what Act 4 and Act 5 will

look like, but Act 3 looks exactly like Act 2 and Act 1. Andrew Mars analysis is pretty close to unchallengeable.

If things continue on this path,

then Nigel Farage will be measuring up the curtains at 10 Downing Street,

or of course calling upon mysterious donors to buy the curtains for him,

as Boris Johnson has done previously.

And I don't think any of that is challengeable, is it?

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