Hello everyone and welcome to this week's edition of the Spanish Royal Podcast,

Stonefield Kit from a Lady's Joined as Ever by Dr Sidlow. Hello Sidney.

Good morning Phil, how are you? We're recording on a Monday morning. This is usually your most

stressed, frantic and frazzled time of the week, but you seem remarkably all right and composed

this morning Sid. Well, no lulliga games. You have a couple of

very final Saturday that reduces the tension on the Sunday and removes the fundamental issue

of a Monday morning as well. It does. So you don't have to run a column this morning, which

exactly. Of course, because we've got City Against Man United and Maniac City Against Man United,

what am I talking about? City Against Real Madrid, it means it's obviously plenty to do.

There is plenty to do, but it's freed up this little window of opportunity for us to record this

week's podcast on a Monday morning, speaking primarily about the Copa Del Rey final,

which threw up all sorts of talking points for Real Madrid beating also sooner by two goals to one.

More on that in just a second. I want to tell you what's coming up this week for our patrons

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So let's talk about the Copa Del Rey final. You were in attendance as was Al as well. It looked

it looked pretty good. The atmosphere in Sevilla, despite la cartocca being arguably up there with

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