Few others. Hello again. Welcome along to sportsday this evening. With the new Champions League Formatjust bedding in, tonights match at Villa Park is one that conjures up memories of what europes top Club Competition used to be. Its aston villas first Home Game since it was just called the European Cup, and villa had just won it. How fitting then that the team theyre up against tonight was the one they beat to lift the trophy in 1982 Bayern Munich. Players like captain dennis mortimer, nigel spink, and Goalscorer Peter Withe became heroes that night in rotterdam but now their modern counterparts take on a team that have had a blistering start to the season under new manager Vincent Kompany, and scored nine goals in theirfirst Champions League Match. So, lets head to Villa Park and speak to our correspondent nesta mcgregor. It could barely be a more significant set of circumstances tonight. Yes, sport is a funny way of throwing up these incredible narratives, doesnt it . More than four
i wonderfor the flying i wonder for the flying weather will be like tonight. time for a look at the weather here s darren bett. it isa it is a fine and late spring day. for many parts of the country it stays dry today because we were close to the area of high pressure. more cloud coming in to bring rain to northern scotland tomorrow and that weather front has brought more clout from the north across scotland and this is actually where we have seen most of the showers. northern scotland should improve this afternoon and showers move down into northern ireland, northern england. further south you may squeeze a shower from the cloud but on the whole it is dry and a little bit warmer, not quite as breezy and the temperatures peaking at 17 degrees. some showers this evening and they could affect eastern parts of england before fading away, we are left with cloud across the east and more cloud coming into the north west of scotland. maybe not quite as chilly as last night, temper
but stayed mild, five to 8 degrees. mild but cloudy is how we start. this is how saturday looks. it may be the cloud breaks a little bit across parts of the midlands and southern england as we go through into the afternoon. a little more in the way of sunshine. at the same time, this band of rain pushes in across scotland and into northern ireland. ahead of that rain band, it is very mild again, ten, 11, i2 is very mild again, ten, 11, 12 degrees. behind that rain band, something of a change. it starts to feel a little chilly because this band of rain is associated with a cold front. as that pushes south east, the air turns cold. at the same time, we see this big area of high pressure building on top of the uk for sunday morning, so we start sunday, the second half of the weekend, on a colder know, but a brighter know. a very different feeling, but very different looking day. when you look at the map and you don t see cloud, that is where we expect sunshine. and they should
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