Author & U of Michigan Professor Andy Markovits; Chris Wittyngham on Man United Protests

Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Grant Wahl

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4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2021

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Grant has a fun talk (at 39:30) with his old friend University of Michigan professor Andy Markovits, the author many books including Offside: Soccer and American Exceptionalism. Markovits brings his unique perspective to the Super League failure, the angst around his beloved Manchester United and his upcoming memoir. Before that, Grant and Chris Wittyngham break down the Man United protests, big weeks for Americans Christian Pulisic and Jesse Marsch, the men's and women's Champions League semifinals, Cade Cowell, Caden Clark and MLS teams' situations in the CONCACAF Champions League. This episode of Fútbol with Grant Wahl is brought to you by Fanatiz. Frustrated that you can't get games from Spain's La Liga on your cable or satellite system? Sign up to stream Fanatiz. On Fanatiz, you can watch all the action in La Liga and other international leagues and tournaments live and on-demand from your mobile phone, tablet or directly on your TV with the Fanatiz app. Fanatiz features channels you know, like BeIN Sports in English and Spanish, GolTV and many more. And it costs only $7.99 a month. If you’d like to try Fanatiz for yourself, you can get a free week-long trial by going to fntz.co/Grant-FZ. Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqIhXWUw0H4 Get full access to Fútbol with Grant Wahl at grantwahl.substack.com/subscribe

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0:00.0	Hey there, welcome to Football with Grant Wall.
0:09.8	Thanks so much for joining me.
0:11.6	Today's interview guest is Andy Markovitz, the popular University of Michigan professor
0:17.5	and soccer book author who's also a Manchester United fan, so that'll be interesting.
0:22.8	We've had some great guests lately, including John Champion, Dermot McCory and Rob Harris.
0:29.6	I also encourage you to check out my podcast series, American Prodigy, the Freddie
0:34.6	of Do's story.
0:36.1	You can binge all eight episodes now to your heart's content.
0:40.5	But first, let's break down the soccer weekend with my friend Chris Wittingham, who you
0:46.2	can hear on Univision, Inter Miami radio, the Dan Levitard show, and the Chelsea miced
0:52.1	up podcast.
0:53.4	Chris, thanks for joining me.
0:55.2	How are you?
0:56.2	All right, every soccer weekend brings its own turbulence in this weekend with certainly
1:00.2	no different.
1:02.0	You know, we're going to start off not talking about soccer on the field because the news
1:06.4	of the weekend, Manny and I did Liverpool post-poned due to protests from Manchester United
1:14.5	fans who got into Old Trafford protested on the field, clashed a bit with police and got
1:25.5	a lot of attention, clearly angry at the glazers, the owners of Manchester United for a
1:31.9	number of things over the years.
1:35.3	Most recently, their desire to join the super league.
1:40.5	And I guess the question for you is, is you are watching this unfold on Sunday?
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