This is Paul Hawksby

and Andy Jacobs

And this is the H&J Daily

with some of the best bits of this afternoon's show

Well over in France in a couple of weeks

Is a game of football

Sorry, game of rugby

featuring rugby influences

and former rugby players

that sold 42,000 tickets in Bordeaux.

One of the influencers, Archie Curzon, who's been to see us before,

he is quite the character, joined us with Delon Armitage,

former Toulon, London Irish and England player

because they're both going to be involved in the game. Stan Colliemore was understandably quite chipper today. Oh, elated. And it kind of gave you his kind of personal take, not just on the football last night, but what it meant to him as a villa fan to be heading to another European final. So Stan was very good on that. Tom Mackling had some great stories from the world of American sport. Yep. And we had a bit of a chat. We did. We had some good chats. That's right. We talked about the Golden Spurtle, big sporting event. And all manner of other stuff besides. So here it all is. Approaching five minutes past one. Good afternoon, everyone. Good afternoon, Andy. Good afternoon, everybody. and well-played Villa. I'm unlucky to... Well, I think, well-done, the Villa fans as well. Yeah, it was a great atmosphere. I mean, you could really... I don't know if they sort of turned it up on Discovery, on TNT. But it sounded amazing. Or HBO. On HBO. I don't know which one. I don't watch. I can't keep up. Whoever was covering it, no, we know it was. But it was, yeah, it was tremendous. And I thought, I must check out the Gabby and Max Scott YouTube watch-along. Yeah. How it was so good. It was dipping into it, especially with a goal went in and by the end.

So this was on Talk Sports YouTube channel last night.

So Max, of course, our newsreader and residence, Forrest Fan, alongside Gabby.

Who's, of course, a ex-villa play.

And it started off, you know, Max was quite confident, you know, especially it was 1-0 for quite a while.

And then by the end, Gabby's going, Turkish Airlines, let's go, baby. Blow the whistle. I saw Max earlier on. He's looked slightly broken today. At one point he said to him, you still wear Max. Oh, wow. You're a fine one to talk. Let's never forget your classic. In Birch. Sky. Remember these, what was that thing called? Oh, uh, Fanzone. The Sky Fanzone. Andy once did it with our old friend, the former QPR midfielder Mark Bercham. And, uh, yeah, I mean, Andy didn't really cover himself in glory. It was the day that QPR beat Chelsea. Yeah, it was a bit unfortunate really. In the end, Birch was chatting to an empty spinning office chair. Well, it was a bit upsetting. So, you know, how these things go. You're normally such a good loser as well, aren't you? Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, he takes it. Well, so yeah, Stan Colleymore's going to join us later. I said to Gabby, you're going?

He said, oh, yeah, I'll be there.

He said, well, why wouldn't you, Istanbul? A great city of culture. I said, oh, yeah, you're going to be in the blue mosque. You're basically going to be in a, you're going to find the blue post pub somewhere, aren't you? Absolutely. And during the game last night, they were doing the trail for Liverpool, Chelsea, honestly.

Talk about not having the stomach for it.

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