Belgian and Dutch leagues merger moves closer, Bolton Wanderers Head of Academy Education interview

The Price of Football

Guy Kilty

Sports, Business

4.9 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Kevin and Kieran look at the details behind the recently agreed takeover of Wigan Athletic by a Bahraini-led consortium, why clubs in Belgium have voted to merge their league with the Dutch league, and speak to Lee Wood, Head of Academy Education at Bolton Wanderers. Follow The Price of Football on Twitter - @POF_POD Follow Kevin on Twitter - @kevinhunterday Follow Kieran on Twitter - @KieranMaguire Check out the Price of Football merchandise store here! https://the-price-of-football.backstreetmerch.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Price of Football, the show that looks at the money behind the
0:15.4	beautiful game with me Kevin Day and him Liverpool University's Kirim Aguaya. Happy
0:20.5	day after St Patrick's Day everybody and Kirim, well done on beating Southampton.
0:25.2	Master Club was a pleasant surprise to learn they're giving away three points for a win these days.
0:30.4	Yeah it has been quite some time. I was still convinced up until I think the 90 second minute
0:37.2	that the most we'd get was a draw and at the final whistle yes celebrations were had.
0:44.1	Yeah and the expected goals only 698 behind the way it should have been. Later on and again I always
0:52.3	just sound like I'm telling you this Kirim but you know because we just interviewed him and you
0:55.8	were there. Later on we'd be hearing from Lee Wood who is Head of Academy Education at
1:01.2	Bolton Wonders and a very interesting passionate educator he turns out to be it's a very good
1:07.1	interview but of course it's news day so let's not be controversial let's have some news and let's
1:12.8	have some good news because we're gonna athletic me Abdul Rahman Al-Jazmi and Abdul Rahman Al-Jazmi
1:19.4	we're gonna athletic job done all over Kirim. 99% done the deal has not been finalized in the
1:28.0	sense that we've had EFL formal approval but the administrators did announce that the the
1:36.2	Baranian based consortium has acquired Wigan Athletic or the assets of Wigan Athletic.
1:42.2	The deal is supposed to be through go through by the end of the month a company called Phoenix
1:49.1	2021 will be the the formal owners and what will happen in due course is that Wigan Athletic
1:57.2	AFC or Wigan Athletic Football Club will then go into liquidation the name will disappear
2:01.3	and this company Phoenix 2021 which will be we're able to pick up the name so it's a sense of
2:08.3	relief I would imagine for Wigan fans more than anything else but I'm absolutely delighted for them
2:13.2	yeah we've spoken to to Karah and Mollon you on on a couple of occasions and with regards to this
2:18.7	we've had Andy Burnham show you know his enthusiasm from from coming from other parts of Manchester
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