The Athletic.

Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast.

I am John McKenzie and I'm joined as I always am by my good friend and producer Mike Zimmerman.

Mike, how are you doing today?

I'm doing well, John.

Just enjoying the last few weeks of summer.

And the last few weeks of the transfer window,

but the less said about that, the better for you in particular as a Liverpool fan.

But we have much more exciting things to talk about this week,

because this week we are joined by Jay Harris,

who is the Athletics Brentford Reporter,

to talk all about his podcast series that has recently gone out called

Access All Areas Brentford which is four episodes long and is available on the Athletics Go Deeper podcast platform

and so what we're talking about is all about Brentford particularly focusing on the recruitment side of things and might you've just listened into that conversation what did you make of it

yeah John for me it was just it was the all access that that jay got we're not used to seeing

clubs open up their doors to to journalists and people in the media to kind of give an inside look

and and i think jay kind of really he he showed exactly what brentford all about. They don't have the money to compete

with the big six clubs, but what they do have is kind of the knowledge and the ability to

take these players who aren't necessarily excelling at other clubs and bring them into their

system and really get the best out of them. And I think we've seen that under Thomas Frank. Yeah, and like you say, there's not a huge amount of option for people to listen to that kind of access at a Premier League side. So I do recommend that people go across and listen to those podcasts. They're really, really good entertainment and really, really insightful as well. But I think, again, the best thing for us to do now is to just jump into that conversation

with Jay Harris, I think all about Brentford.

In the Premier League, there are always teams outside the big sides who attract attention.

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