Dan Bardell

And when he's not there, my God, you notice.

It looks like someone will still have to be sold in the summer, but the Champions League qualification gives...

more flexibility than they would have had and Villa are quite an old squad I think the average age is the highest in the Premier League this group of players many of them have been there since around 2020-2021 like there's not been much term when Villa have spent money they haven't spent it brilliantly at times there will need to be a little bit of a refresh in the summer but in all honesty now those players that group have won a trophy.

kind of want to keep them together and see if they've got a taste for it.

Because quite often the first one is the hardest one to win, isn't it?

And, you know, they've done that now.

So you wouldn't want to lose too many from that group now they've got that experience of winning the trophy.

Just that I'm absolutely alighted.

Well done to that group of players.

Well done to Unai Emery and well done to the Villa fans as well, who looked like they behaved impeccably the whole time they were out there.

So, yeah, absolutely brilliant.

Well, you know what?

In 1994, when Villa won the Coca-Cola Cup, he didn't take me because he decided it was my mum's birthday.

So I wasn't allowed to go because it was my mum's birthday.

But he went.

So I think I resent him more for that rather than... Well, at least he enjoyed it.