Hey there, welcome to Football with Grant Wall, thanks so much for joining me.

We've got a three-part show today, I'll start with my thoughts on the Yates Report

on Abuse in the NWSL, then our interview guest today is former U.S. men's national

team star, Germaine Jones, then we'll start a new 10-minute interview called Book Talk

this time with Joshua Cloak, the author of The Boydgers on the Canadian Men's National

Team.

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at GrantWall.com, we're just starting year two, and I've got big plans to cover men's

and women's world cups in the next 12 months, that's GrantWall.com.

This is an audio dispatch from London, England, where I just arrived here on Wednesday morning,

I'm recording this just before noon, and obviously the original reason for me coming

here was to cover the big, friendly between England, the European champion, and the U.S.,

women's national team, the World Cup Champion on Friday, I'm still going to do that, it's

going to have a sold out Wembley Stadium where the 90,000 people, and it's a big game,

big occasion.

And yet, obviously, the most important thing right now, this week, is the Yates Report,

which came out on Monday, and goes into devastating detail on the systematic abuse, emotional

abuse, sexual abuse, sexual coercion, a player in the NWSL, across teams, across the league

over the years.

And I just finished reading the report, and really didn't want to say anything publicly

until now, because I wanted to read the report, and it's entirety first, and I encourage

strongly everyone to read the report, because it communicates in so much detail, and it's

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