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Apologies for that. Some absolutely horrific noises as the introduction play,

but it wouldn't be 1874 without some form of technical issue.

Hopefully that's the only one that we have in the show.

I'm your host, Dan Bardell, joined by the Athletics Jacob Tanswell,

as we're going to look at the curious case of Daniel Marlin, who joined Villa in January. Fair to say the move hasn't gone as planned so far.

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Jacob, how are you, international break? Always a good time for you, I feel.

Yeah, really good time. I actually love international breaks now. I know whether I was not as a journalist, I would hate them and how frustrating the art for the fan, but they're wonderful

because you can just take a

breathy, you can have a weekend off, and at the same time, you can get a lot of the pieces

that you've got in the background bubbling away, make really good strides on them.

So, um, been working every day since, but it's been, it's been really good, actually.

It's been good to have some time to meet people, you know, which is not always,

but you have, especially when Vila are playing so many games. Also, you've got, you know,

this international break is probably a little bit more interesting than the last one in November.

The November one's always very, very tedious. But for this one, you know, there's three villa players potentially going to be involved tonight, again the two course first game so that's that's

exciting i've got my england shirt and i'm i'm looking forward to the game this evening yeah exactly

and you know i think or esri cons might play as well i'm not sure um you know Morgan rogers i think

he might be on the bench but um yeah um so but i don't know for sure so it'd be great to see um maybe ratchford as well that's a

big surprise but it was it's been a while since we did a podcast and so i'm glad you've invited

jacob you're a you're a very busy boy i'm a busy boy as well it's sometimes very difficult

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