Conan Doherty

The Hurrahan Wand and Jed Steer's eyes.

El Ghazi running riot.

And Wembley.

The big prize.

Last day's survival.

Don't mention goal line technology.

Now they belong to the game.

In spite of Stevie G.

Emery lift off with United he said he'd be demanding no time to waste so he found a European landing Champions League followed first time in four decades Bayern and PSG wins among the rest of the accolades 11 on the bounce a brief flirtation with the top as the squad got weaker and I would not stop a first title in 30 years a European final no fuss as the great Ron Saunders once said do you want to bet against us?

So it's just myself and Will, we have Graham Baligi coming up from the Istanbul airport.

That was Aston Villa at its best, dancing on the streets, former players, current players, fans partying together.

A club starved of success, a fan base, you have to say we've been traumatised into expecting the worst all down through the years and it's all undone by Unai Emery at his best.

Yeah, I went home early because, you know, I got out of work.

There's too much happening.

Yeah, and I came back home this morning and I was sort of giving out to people and I was like, why are you sending me messages after five o'clock?

You know, because I came in and saw their messages then unread and I was like, God, I have to respond to these now after what happened last night.

And it was a drag then once I got home from six to eight, even though I have two young children and they're running around mad and they were going to be staying up late because they have to stay up late now for the villa match.

It's actually lovely.

My son thinks TV is football.

So if he sees me going to the TV, he starts going, football, football, football.