Well hello there big interview dudes and now for something completely different the producers of this podcast back page produce another podcast no I'm not jealous called between the lines the stories behind great sports writing. We believe that if you are listening to

this podcast then you will be interested in intelligent football chat and you're

going to get plenty of that on between the lines.

Now this episode is a conversation between Martin Backpage

and Grant Wall, the Sports Illustrated writer,

and it's about Grant's latest book, Football 2.0, how the world's best play the modern game, and some of the world's best

are genuinely in these pages. You can. Hello and welcome to Between the Lines, a podcast about the stories behind

great sports writing. My name's Neil White. My name's Martin Greg. So in season

one Martin spoke to Grant Wall about a piece that he'd done for Sports Illustrated on

FC Barcelona. Martin how did that conversation go? It went very well I'm a big fan of

Grant Wall's writing we've been reading him for many years and I remember

this piece that he wrote in 2012 at the peak of the Guadiola Barca years.

It's called the World Team, which I thought was a great headline and I thought

would be really interesting to get it, kind of get the story behind that piece because Grant spent

a week in Barcelona and spoke to so many people around the club.

After that recording I just asked him what he was working on and he told me his

latest project was called Masters of Modern Soccer.

It was a book that was due out in the US on May the 1st.

He told me about the premise of the book which is he profiled

someone in every position in a football club so on the field from goalkeeper through to striker and then director of football and manager.

So I thought, that was quite interesting.

We ended the call, didn't really think too much about it.

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