And the Hello everybody and welcome back to the football vision podcast. I'm your host Phil Costa and I would like to start this episode off with a big thank you.

As many of you will know, we spoke with Julian Liron for the first episode about all things

PSG, including Neymar, Messy, and what life might look like beyond Killian and Bape, who looks

set to join Real Madrid this summer.

Obviously I was really excited to launch this episode, but never did I expect us to peak at number two in the US

and at number three in the UK across all football podcasts. That's absolutely mad and

it wouldn't have happened without your support so genuinely a big thank you to

everyone who listened left reviews and sent in messages it really is appreciated

one more thing before we start I would like to apologize to the people of Wales

for some of my pronunciations in this podcast. I have now been corrected and will never

say Kim Roo again. It should be pronounced

Cumri and that's how it will remain. Please forgive me and enjoy the show.

For this week's episode we've got journalist and author Christopher Evans in the

hot seat who has written for Nation dot Kim Roo, Back Pass magazine,

NME and others but more importantly has just released a book titled Los Leonis,

the unique story of Athletic Club Bilbao

which charts the historical, political and social context of this special club.

Christopher, welcome to the show, how's it going?

Yeah, good, thanks.

Thanks for having me on.

It's a pleasure to come on.

I'm really excited about this.

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