Astead Herndon, New York Times Political Reporter and Spurs Fan

Planet Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Sports Illustrated

Sports, Sports News, News, Soccer

4.6 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Grant has a fun conversation with Astead Herndon, a national political reporter for the New York Times and a diehard Tottenham Hotspur fan. They talk about Herndon's soccer origin story, how he became a Spurs fan, his thoughts on José Mourinho replacing Mauricio Pochettino, how easy it is now to find Premier League games on the campaign trail, which presidential candidates are the biggest soccer fans and why President Trump has embraced soccer more than just about anyone would have expected. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:25.6	Hey there I'm Grant Wall. Welcome to the Planet Football
0:31.3	podcast. This week's interview guest is Ested Herndon, a national political
0:36.6	reporter for the New York Times and a fan of Tottenham Hot Spur. Quick reminder, if you like
0:41.9	the podcast, it would really help us if you go to
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0:49.5	the podcast as someone you know as well. Onward.
0:54.0	Our guest today is Ested Herndon.
0:57.0	He is a terrific national political reporter for the New York Times
1:01.0	and for the purposes of this podcast he is also a gigantic Tottenham
1:05.6	Hot Spur fan he was on the New York Times podcast the daily on November 20th talking
1:10.6	about Kamala Harris's campaign and he is now speaking to a much smaller
1:14.5	audience on this podcast. You can find him tweeting about politics and soccer and
1:20.1	all sorts of other things at Ested Wesley Ested thanks for coming on the show
1:24.8	thank you for having me I appreciate it and happy Thanksgiving by the way since this is
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