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What does Aston Villa's Europa League victory mean for the club?
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Sensational goal in the Europa League final for Joeri Tielemans! He went into the back of the Freiburg net like a rocket! Freiburg 0, Aston Villa 1, brilliant goal! And here if they can find him, McKean has, time to turn, hit the shot, makes it, oh yes!
It's Brent Gere with a beauty on the bench of the Bosphorus and it's 2-0 to Aston Villa. Watkins and Rodgers in the box, it's driven in, it's skidded! In front of the Aston Villa supporters by Morgan Rodgers. And surely now that's the Europa League for Aston Villa.
In 81 the league, then Europe, no longer on the fringes. To Barcelona an extra time, Villa Park rocking on its hinges. The icons of the 90s, two cups and a nod. Atkinson, Townsend and Stan and a man they call God. John Gregory dared, O'Leary and Angel smiled. Martin O'Neill came close to dragging that giant in from the wild.
How did Unai Emery transform Aston Villa's fortunes?
Bari, Milner and Young, imagine they all stayed. But then countries bought football teams and everything strayed. McLeish and Lambert's fears or interviews were heartaches. Sherwood's fun was like a Jamaican sled, flying downhill with no brakes. Delft declared, this is my club, and he left within an hour. Remy Gard said, pfft. What do you expect me to do with this shower? Lescott's pocket died. Tony Zia's tweets. It can't get much worse than a cabbage at Steve Bruce's feet. Dean Smith and Jack Grealish. Two locals hellbent. Ten wins in a row to begin the ascent. McGinn's drive. Even back then.
What role did Prince William play in the post-match celebrations?
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?
Conan Doherty a wordsmith for our times that was that was epic Joe Maloy picked a bad day to be off I can't believe it I know his birthday no less he's off for his birthday doing some birthday stuff and in his stead we have the great Conan Doherty and what yeah you couldn't pick a more serendipitous time for Joe to be off
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.
Take me into your night last night from like kind of kickoff time. Where were you watching it?
What emotions did fans experience during the Europa League final?
What were your feelings, thoughts, emotions?
Yeah, I went home early because, you know, I got out of work. There's too much happening.
Yeah, you looked stressed yesterday.
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. And he was wearing his Aston Villa jersey. Nice. And they were all excited initially.
And then when the game started, they lost interest and started wanting to play blocks and stuff. That's a bit like me in the first half an hour as well.
How did Villa's players react to their trophy win?
Yeah.
Yeah. Now his mom was a champ and she sort of, you know, said, look, this is a big, big day for your daddy.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What does Aston Villa's Europa League victory mean for the club?
0:01–1:28
2
How did Unai Emery transform Aston Villa's fortunes?
1:28–2:05
3
What role did Prince William play in the post-match celebrations?
2:05–3:38
4
What emotions did fans experience during the Europa League final?
3:38–4:26
5
How did Villa's players react to their trophy win?
4:26–5:43
6
What insights does Guillem Balague provide from Istanbul?
5:43–7:33
7
How has Aston Villa's journey impacted their fanbase?
7:33–8:22
8
What are the future prospects for Aston Villa under Emery?
8:22–1:03:03
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