🎧 186 | From Champions League Agony to Parade Ecstasy

Budapest, The Final & The Parade — Processing It All

Episode 186 is the first pod after the end of the season - the Champions League final, the parade, the travel chaos, the exhaustion, the pride, the heartbreak, and the emotional comedown after nine months of the most intense Arsenal season of our lives.

Tabs is joined by Ian and Mitch to look back on the full Budapest experience:

• the travel madness (planes, trains, coaches, detours, delays)

• the beauty of the city and how welcoming the locals were

• the fan park, the atmosphere, the joy, the calm before the storm

• the surreal moment of walking into the stadium for a Champions League final

• the emotion, the nostalgia, the family memories

• the game itself — the early goal, the tension, the heartbreak

• the pride in the team and the journey

• the post‑match scenes

• the parade in Islington and what it meant to the fanbase

• the feeling of a season finally ending after months of stress, joy and adrenaline

There’s reflection, laughter, sadness, gratitude — and the shared sense that this season has taken something out of all of us… in the best possible way.

Arsenal didn’t get the ending we dreamed of in Budapest.

But what a journey. What a team. What a season.

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