The Athletic Hello, I'm Dan Bardell. And I'm Floyd Hughes. And welcome to the Athletic

Football podcast where every Wednesday, Flo and myself pick out one article from

all the writing available on the athletic and put the authors under the spotlight.

This week senior writer Simon Hughes joins us to discuss his article on the weird

trend of footballers posting public

apology messages on social media after games. Yeah tons of layers to this one

as online abuse footballers growing detachment from the fans social social media PR companies and much more.

But before we introduce Simon Flow, let's talk a little bit about something that just

will not go away. The 39th Premier League game has reared its head again.

Ornstein, like a, like a, like a football,

David Ornstein spoke about this in his Monday column

and he discussed it on yesterday's podcast, He just will not go away, will it?

Yeah, and I saw a really interesting tweet actually this morning. Tim Stillman, who is part of

our blog covers Arsenal men and women. I kind of really agreed with his take on it, which is overseas

fans definitely deserve to see games as well, 100% true.

But the problem is that outside of England is very big. It's a lot of

possibilities. So how do you say just if you stick a game in Tim's example if you stick a game in Miami

you're not helping fans in Asia really see live football.

So it's kind of like well you're you're never quite gonna win

and be able to provide

Premier League football to global fans because there

is so much of the globe to touch to do that.

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