So you can plainly see where I am.

And there shouldn't be any surprise about it because it's written in the contract that

no big you wait for game in Spain can start until bumper arrives.

We're here in the excessively pico posh, snobby, hotel, in which it's my deep privilege to stay.

It's about four and a half minutes, Amble from the Santiago Bernabelle.

You know the importance of this game.

I've been talking to you about endlessly for the last couple of days.

And this is the first of two ties in just less than a week between Madrid and Atletti. The front pages of the sports

papers here were like the Derby of Europe. This is a capital, this is a capital derby. The teams

have been named tonight. There'll be around 80,000 fans in there. 4,000 Aleti fans, noisier

than usual. That's more than La Liga's offering to away fans and therefore it'll be the atmosphere of that but much more fibrile, more hostile is the exact word for it.

Some of the analysis yesterday I agreed with Carlo Anciotti saying this time won't be properly settled until the Metropolitan.

In the past that hasn't been the case, settled until the Metropolitan. In the past, that hasn't

been in the case, Madrid have occasionally, in all the ties that they've won, because in the European

Cup and Champions League, whenever these teams have been paired, finals or knockouts, Madrid have always won.

After the two big finals that I was talking about recently, Madrid nicked one first leg tie three

and wandered through the next one I don't think it's gonna be like that I

think it's gonna be knife edge it's a disadvantage to Madrid to be playing the

second leg away from home or is it anyway thr and Spills are in store.

I'll be there.

For subscribers,

that's it until next time.

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