Hello everybody, welcome to the Spanish football podcast. It's producer Alex Kirkland here

with Sid Lowe. How are you doing, Sid?

I'm all right. Thank you. How are you?

Yeah, pretty good. We were desperately trying to find a window in which both you and Kichro,

both on your respective holidays could join us for today's podcast. It proved to be

simply impossible. However, do not fear Kichro fans. He will be joining us in just a moment.

Of course, if you're in the UK, you could have seen Kichro on your TV screens this weekend on

La Liga TV. Lots of praise I saw for Kichro and not just for his magnificent hair and beard.

Sid, your holiday is getting more and more theoretical by the second. Of course, you went to not one,

but two La Liga games this weekend, didn't you?

I did, yeah. I did the little bass double to be honest. Under normal circumstances,

if I wasn't on holiday, so this is where the holiday becomes slightly less theoretical.

I would have stayed in the bass country and gone to Ralph Sothiland the following day,

having been an Alavés and Athletic on Saturday. I would have stayed to go to Ralph Sothiland the

following day, or I would have come back to Madrid and gone to Athletic and Madrid last night,

or maybe even gone down to Valencia, but it wasn't to be, so it was just the two

two quite enjoyable games. Actually, Alavés, New Yorker was better than I expected it to be,

certainly in the first half very, really quite open. The Athletic game, I thought was brilliant,

and it was really enjoyable, and more than anything else, and I realised that we've talked about

this a lot, and it feels like maybe we get obsessed about it, and people might be saying,

get on with the actual football, but genuinely, the return of fans this weekend was really

special now. I know fans returned last weekend, but I think that didn't feel like quite the

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