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5/8/202652 min

What a day for the Kingdom. Three English sides in the European finals, David Attenborough celebrating his 100th birthday, and Reform UK domina... Oh, right. Forget it then.

Luke and David are here to give their flowers to Aston Villa and Crystal Palace, topped off with a horrifying moan from Joe Cole. Plus, the Kylian Mbappé petition reaching 50 million signatures, and Millwall eye up the Premier League.

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Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Luke Moore· Host0:00

    Aston Villa are off to Istanbul, and Real Madrid are off to a desert island to reenact Lord of the Flies. Welcome to the Football Ramble preview show. It's Friday the 8th of May. I'm Luke Moore.

  2. David Cartlidge· Guest0:10

    And I'm David Cartlidge.

  3. Luke Moore· Host0:11

    [upbeat music] Yes, indeed. Welcome to this Friday episode of the Football Ramble. I'm Luke, and that's David. We are Bill with us today, David. Just the two of us.

  4. David Cartlidge· Guest0:32

    Indeed. It's Lord of the Flies here, isn't it?

  5. Luke Moore· Host0:33

    It is a little bit actually.

  6. David Cartlidge· Guest0:34

    We, we've killed the rest of them off. Vish- Yeah ... Marcus' carcass is over there on the floor.

  7. Luke Moore· Host0:38

    [laughs] And then Bones just buried in the sand, bleaching in the sun. But, you know, like Bill with us said, we can make it if we try.

  8. David Cartlidge· Guest0:43

    We can. We can.

  9. Luke Moore· Host0:43

    You and I.

  10. David Cartlidge· Guest0:44

    And we will.

  11. Luke Moore· Host0:44

    So, um, so let's do it. Let's do it. Um, without further ado, let's go straight into what happened last night at Villa Park. Aston Villa four, Nottingham Forest nil. Villa win four-one on ag, uh, to take their place in their first European final for forty-four years since, of course, they won the European Cup in 1982, beating Bayern Munich one-nil. Um, and it was a pretty comprehensive performance from Villa in front of the future king of this nation.

  12. David Cartlidge· Guest1:11

    Indeed.

  13. Luke Moore· Host1:11

    So it was technically... Like, by its very nature, it was a beautiful evening in the kingdom because we've got three, uh, teams in the three European finals. We'll come onto the others in a minute. Uh, and we had the future King of England in the stands pumping his fist, um, when Villa's goals were hit in the back of the net. What'd you make of it?

  14. David Cartlidge· Guest1:28

    We've got the future king of,

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