Hi, I'm Grant Wall, and welcome to the Planet Football Podcast, where I go in depth with the most

intriguing people in the world of soccer.

In this episode, I'm joined by the Wall Street Journal's Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg to talk about their

new book, The Club, How the English Premier League became the wildest, richest, most disruptive

force in sports.

I think you'll really enjoy it.

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It helps people find us. On word. Our guest today are Joshua

Robinson and Jonathan Clegg, both of the Wall Street Journal, they have co-written a terrific new book called The Club,

How the English Premier League became the wildest, richest, most disruptive force in sports. The book is on sale December 4th. Guys, thanks for joining me and

congratulations on a very fun read. Thanks for having us. Thank you very much.

So thanks for being in studio here as well appreciate that and it's it's really cool

a cool feeling when you have a book that's about to come out. I really enjoyed it.

I follow soccer closely and I learned a lot in this book. For starters how did the idea come together and to put a finer point on it

What is this book and what is it not?

I mean, I think the, it's one of those things where the idea for the book was kind of bubbling on for a while.

We worked closely together at the journal on the journal soccer coverage.

I was Josh's editor for a while.

And so we had kind of batted back and forth some ideas about doing a book

on the Premier League and when it turned 25 it seemed like that was the kind of

right moment to sort of write what is a kind of snapshot of you know that the league at that period

and sort of look back on the kind of remarkable changes and stuff that had

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