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Hello there listener, it's me, James Richardson.

I'm going to be back with you soon with the regular crew doing our nightly,

totally shows for the upcoming Euros, for which there are actually a couple of preview

podcasts coming away next week.

For all of that though, why don't you have a bang on this? Our interview with our good

pal, Pat Nevin, whose new autobiography, the accidental footballer, is rather coincidentally,

literally out right now. And it's a very entertaining read as well as well asking the questions here is my very good friend

Matt Davis Adams

and in the words

of one warrior poet

he goes deep so deep

on Pat's career

and his life on and off the pitch

that well probably

it'll keep you from your sleep

anyway enough of my yakin

over to you Matt Davis Adams

with the very lovely

Pat and Evan. Pat, many thanks for joining us today. We'll get to the book momentarily,

but first tell us a bit about the process of writing this and getting it out during a pandemic

because that was quite a challenge. It was, but the way I did it was very unusual, I think, certainly for people that play football. Somebody just annoyed me one day and I sat down in front of a, and if you've read the prologue, you'll understand. And I just sat down and started writing and it flowed out. I hadn't really looked back. But I didn't go to a publisher. I didn't

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