The UCL Final Hurt… BUT The Parade Was INCREDIBLE ❤️🏆| Fourever Arsenal Podcast

But before we do that, um, what a weekend it's been.

We had the Champions League final.

Arsenal losing out heartbreakingly on penalties.

Um, it was really, really sad.

We, we discussed that experience there.

Um, and then yesterday, the parade, one point five million people turning out for that.

That is from, that estimate there is from the Metropolitan Police.

That's not like people say, "Oh, I reckon there was a million here," or that.

That's the police, right? More people at that Arsenal parade than any single day you have at the Notting Hill Carnival.

And everybody knows Notting Hill Carnival pulls about a million people.

Yeah.

It was ridiculous the amount of people that we saw there.

We came straight back from Budapest, all three of us, me, Jack, and Lee, straight back from Budapest.

When we got to the airport, first of all, we were stunned by the amount of people who were like, come from different countries.

"Oh, Robbie, I'm from Saudi.

I've come for the parade." "Oh, we're from America.

We've come for the parade." Every country you can think of in Europe.

"Oh, we're from Singapore.

We've come for the pa-" I'm like, "Wow, this parade might be, you know, despite the fact we haven't won the Champions League, it's still gonna be big, right?" Um, there was a doom and gloom merchant the night before who said, "I reckon it'll be half of that what it was expected now." You know what I mean?

[laughs]

I'm, I'm not gonna say who that person was.

Work it out for yourselves, right? Um, and I said, "No, I still think there's gonna be a lot of people." No, it was way more than we even expected.

You could barely even get on a train.

It was absolute mayhem.

They had to close off tube stations and everything.