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Wow. Whoever thought that we would be sat here doing a podcast with Villa Live Champions League, George Jacob, absolutely unbelievable. I know you, since you joined the Villa team, to be fair, it's been pretty rosy, but, you know, a lot of people who will be watching this now have sat through some rubbish on my channel, me talking about losing to Barnsley 3-1 at Villa Park

me standing outside Villa Park in the rain talking nonsense with people to think to think where

we are now the Champions League draw this is absolutely incredible stuff for me anyway

it probably is for you as well Jack but as a Villa fan this is this is majestic yeah it's so exciting isn't it in

terms of just who Villa could play the place you could go just a general sense that obviously

villa in the Chavez League I found it really exciting the conference league last year with

you know the European anthems but this is obviously the top tier this is the blue chip

competition and yeah I'm just excited now to see who really get.

Yeah, I'm just trying to let people know on social media that we're actually on. And surprisingly, I mean, this is typical. I can't believe it's working, but I've literally just found out that Jacob and I are 15 minutes away from each other. So with some better planning between us, we could have probably done this in person at Sky or something, which would have looked a lot more aesthetically pleasing than what we're cobbling together now, Jacob. Yeah, and also I would have been this cricket jumper and you would have your bed in the background, right? Yeah, I mean, I was going to question the attire for those listening. I mean, this will go out on audio as well, but I can't imagine that many people are going to go back and listen to us talk for probably what's going to be an hour and a half to listen to us to talk through a Champions League. But if you're watching live, I imagine this is, you know, it's the best way to watch. Anyway, people aren't going to go back and listen to this because they'd know exactly who we have.

I'm still trying to, by the way, tweet out that we're live, try out the live feed that's going on to Twitter. There we are. I'm there. I'm reposting. I've done my stuff I needed to do now, Jacob. It's great to see some people in the chat as well, just to run you through what we're doing here.

So I'm where I am, Jacob's where he is.

We've both got the Champions League drawer up. One of my football heroes on my feed is just making his way to the stage, Jan Luigi Buffon. Jacob's got it on as well. We imagine there's probably a little bit of a delay. I'm watching on my phone. The hotel

Wi-Fi, the speeds I was getting looked pathetic, yet for some reason it seems to be better

than when I get do podcast in my house, where I pay for expensive Wi-Fi. So if there is

any technical issues at any point, do let us know in the chat, but we have got to produce a

sat in for the first 45 minutes

or so jacob in my previous experience of watching these drawers that they take a long time

that they could be a lot quicker couldn't know but i always like to see both fun on the stage yeah

he's still in decent nickers and he only retired last year but yeah there's plenty of back slapping

isn't there in these type of

competition not just among the crowd and the and the delegates but just talking in cliches and how

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