{"id":5837,"date":"2026-05-08T10:32:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T10:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=5837"},"modified":"2026-05-08T10:32:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T10:32:02","slug":"the-dispatch-ucl-final-bound-and-gyokeres-podcast-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=5837","title":{"rendered":"The Dispatch: UCL final bound and Gyokeres | Podcast | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Frimmy and Josh are back in the Emirates Stadium studio after one of the biggest nights in Arsenal\u2019s modern history as the Gunners are through to the UEFA Champions League final after beating Atl\u00e9tico Madrid in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p>Frimmy reflects on his trip to Madrid for the first leg, from the incredible atmosphere inside the Metropolitano to Atl\u00e9tico fans launching toilet rolls across the stands before kick-off. Working pitchside behind the goal, he relives Viktor Gy\u00f6keres\u2019 thunderous penalty and the noise from the travelling Arsenal support.<\/p>\n<p>Back in north London, the pair discuss the unforgettable scenes at the Emirates for the second leg, with thousands of supporters lining the streets to welcome the team bus before kick-off. Josh shares Declan Rice\u2019s reaction to the atmosphere, while Frimmy admits the emotion that the full-time celebrations reduced him to.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s also discussion around Viktor Gy\u00f6keres reaching 20 goals in all competitions in his debut season and the conversation also turns to the Fulham win, Per Mertesacker\u2019s Emirates farewell tribute and Frimmy\u2019s latest failed attempt to say hello to Thierry Henry.<\/p>\n<p>Another historic week. Another huge episode. Make sure you\u2019re subscribed wherever you get your podcasts, and head to YouTube, Arsenal.com or The Arsenal app to watch the full show.<\/p>\n<article data-entity-type=\"block_content\" data-entity-uuid=\"e1339945-1b58-4cb4-a04f-fb944779d38a\" data-embed-button=\"javascript_embed\" data-entity-embed-display=\"view_mode:block_content.full\" data-langcode=\"en\" data-entity-embed-display-settings=\"()\" class=\"embedded-entity u-spacing-down--xxl\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm?e=COMG6949861773\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Arsenal Football Club Limited. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frimmy and Josh are back in the Emirates Stadium studio after one of the biggest&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}