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Hello listeners, it is producer Ben here, and you'll be pleased to know that Jimbo and producer Charlie, they are both having some time off after the Euros and they are both getting ready for the new season.

We will be back with our regular twice, indeed, thrice weekly totally football show very soon.

But in the meantime, we've got a very special guest joining us for this very special podcast.

It's Nick Miller and Nick, you've just written a book and it's out unbelievably soon.

Hello, Ben.

Yes, I have, well, I haven't quite written a book.

I've edited a book.

It's the totally football year book, 2021.

And it's out very soon.

It's out on August 5th.

This sounds intriguing, Nick.

What sort of stuff is in this book?

Well, there's lots of stuff.

Of course, obviously it was a pretty kind of extraordinary season that's not long finished with unprecedented times that we all experienced with the pandemic and, of course, the Super League nonsense.

And this book is designed to be a sort of definitive

account of that season. We've got individual season reviews on every Premier League club. We've got

lots of stuff about the Football League. We have stuff about the Women's Super League. We have

stuff about Scotland, some really good writing about the four's Super League. We have stuff about Scotland, some really good writing about

the four big European leagues, Spain, Germany, Italy and France. We have some really good

long-form writing as well on various different topics. And who are some of the people that

have written these individual chapters then? Well, I've written some of it, but more importantly, a lot of your totally football show

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