Hi everybody, producer Al here, it's time for another TSFP Presents,

re-release here on the Monday podcast feed.

And this time, we talk about a club and an era that we have a lot of affection for.

It's the severe side of the mid-2000s that did so well in Europe and came so, so close

to winning La Liga as well.

Remember, for lots more of this kind of thing, you can join us as a patron over at patreon.com,

forward slash TSFP.

Hello and welcome to another edition of TSFP Presents Classic Teams.

Today, we're talking about a pretty special team.

And I have to say, I have to make a sort of confession here.

Everybody knows, I think most people who listen to the podcast know,

I work for our Madrid TV, you know, Vamos, Hallamadrid, etc.

But the first team that really sort of captivated me and got me in love with Spanish football.

Was Raya love you, though?

Was Sevilla.

And it was particularly the severe side that we're going to talk about in this episode,

the one from more or less 2005, 2006, 2007, maybe 2008, as well.

I was living in Granada at the time, I did my year abroad, 2004, 2005.

And at that time, Granada were in the Ted Feira division.

They weren't, it wasn't even so good to be, and they were basically playing in a park.

And I'm not insane like you, so I wasn't interested in going and watching them.

So I started sort of following Sevilla and seeing how they were doing,

...