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Hello, I'm Ian Stone. This is Hand-Brek-off, the Arsenal podcast, brought to you by The Athletic.

Well, assuming, as you've tuned in, you will know that last night,

Arsenal beat Athletic and Madrid 1-0 to book our place in the Champions League Final.

First time we've been there for 20 years at, I think, we can all agree,

a pulsating Emirates Stadium.

So we'll talk about that, I think. We haven't had a lot of sleep, any of us, I don't think. We've also got a Premier League game, rather big Premier League game against West Ham on Sunday, so I'll have a chat about that. Packed, packed, Handbrake Studio, Adrian Clark, James McIllas, and Amy Lawrence, all with us. Morning. Good morning, mate. Hello. We're all out today, aren't we? I wonder why. Everyone wants to be involved. And why not? And by the way, we've got a voice note from art as well. So the whole family's here. Did you sleep? Anyone have a good eight hours? We're recording pretty early. Adrian, what time did you get to bed? What time do you get to bed?

I got about half one. Yeah, it was a late one. I did a podcast straight after the game.

You did not. Yeah, so I didn't really have time to sort of soak it in that much. So it's a final whistle goes. I'm still on air. So you sort of try and capture the moment. Then I had to dash to dash to the pitch which was brilliant so I was down by the pitch just after the players had left it and did a piece there then I went in the press room and did a podcast sort of instant reaction thing for talk sport and then I made my way home but yeah I was just absolutely flying i just just felt buzzing just

you dance did any of you dance by the way because we saw quite a lot of dancing last night amy

did you dance last night i may have may have jiggled around a little bit you jiggled little jiggie

with it i like it and hang on jiggling around a bit and getting jiggery with it are two entirely different things. They are, yeah. I'd like to put that out by the way. Amy jiggled about a little bit, okay? Even that, it's actually quite hard to unsee that. But James, did you dance last night? because I mean I didn't dance but and I like me, actually, I did actually, when they were playing the music at the end, and all the players were on the pitch. I was dancing the route and the stand. I think most people were. Yeah, I think it was difficult not to get swept up in it. Miquel-Artaire certainly did. There's a good clip of him this morning dancing away. Yeah, not Padu-esque, I wouldn't say,

but it was, you know, but he deserves it for what he's done. So why not? He definitely does.

It was nice to see him cut loose, actually. And yeah, I think that whole stadium was dancing,

really, if you looked around at full time it was pretty special stuff it was pretty

special stuff the night amy we were on here a few days ago and we were talking about the uh the red

action thing greeting the team when they turned up that because they didn't seem to know that

that was going to happen i saw dectland rise interviewed after the game and he said when, because they weren't

sure what was going on and then said it because they thought they usually drive straight in

and so they thought what's the hold up and then they come around the corner and there are thousands

of Arsenal fans and the flares and the noise and he said the goosebumps with the players

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