Hello and welcome to the TFO Football Podcast. I am John McKenzie and I'm joined as I always

am by my good pal and producer Mike Zimmerman. Mike how are you doing? Doing good John, how are you?

Yeah I'm doing really well and I'm doing really well because we've just had a conversation with

a really fascinating guy, a fitness conditioning expert, a guy called Callum Walsh. He's told us

a lot about what goes on behind the scenes in medical departments at football clubs around the

world and you have just listened to that conversation. So what did you make of it? I really enjoyed

the conversation about the physical expectation that's kind of placed on these players now.

How much football is too much football? Is this really hurting players, futures and careers?

Where do managers come in? Do they have a say with forcing these players on the pitch if they're

just really not 100%. So different perspectives within the club and I think Callum did a great

job of kind of talking about who has what say. Yeah absolutely and again rather than I was talking

about what he said. The best thing for us to do is just move on and listen to what Callum had to

say to us. So this is Callum Walsh. Back in August, Jürgen Klopp was asked a question about player

welfare and his answer was pretty telling because he said, when I speak about player welfare,

I speak about in general, we have too many competitions, we have too many games in general now.

And the question about physical expectation that is placed on football is now at the forefront

of the media coverage of the game. How much football is too much football? Will the long term

impacts of this as many games, whatever the cost approach start to ruin the spectacle of football

and can anything be done about it? Well fortunately we're drawn by someone who can help us walk through

the problems associated with player fitness. Callum Walsh is a performance manager who's worked

in the Premier League, the championship and at international level as well as in Brazil, Turkey

and Qatar. Callum, thank you so much for coming on today. No worries, thank you very much for having

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