Hello and welcome to Libero, the podcast about the most important of the least important things, as Jorge Valdano once said. My name is Jack Pitbrook from The Athletic. I'm joined today by John Bruin and by Tarant Pange of the New York Times. Now, it's a really big weekend this weekend. Sadly, I'm going to Jonathan Wilson's wedding, which is a shame because I really wish that I was going to Glastonbury. But maybe you're lucky enough to be going to Glastonbury this weekend. Maybe you're listening to this podcast on the M3 right now or on the train from Paddington Station. Maybe you're already there. And if you are enjoying it and if you really want to help us spread the word, why don't you tell some people at Glastonbury about us? Maybe when you're standing around with the other 40-year-old dads waiting to see Weezer on the other stage, or maybe when you're trying to squeeze into Woodsies for Fortet, or maybe when you're stood around waiting for yet another Billy Bragg-led panel at left field. Or maybe when you're reluctantly heading down to the southeast corner at midnight. You might be wondering at that point, am I too old for this? Am I too old to be trapped in a crowd of tens of thousands

of people in the middle of nowhere just to listen to some obscure electronic music and then wake

up in a hot tent after two hours sleep? And maybe you are, but you're not too old to listen to

the Libro podcast or to leave us a nice review. Now, we're starting off today by talking about one of the men of the summer so far.

John Texter, who seems to be connected to so many big stories in football at the moment.

And Tarrick, I think a lot of people don't really know who this guy is.

Can you explain who John Texter is and why he's always in the news?

John Texter, skateboard champion.

That was his claim to fame as a youth.

He claims to skateboard at an extremely high level.

He hasn't made the Tony Hawk video game, so I'm quite dubious about how good he actually is.

Anyway, he is a businessman involved in all sorts of things,

including something called Fubo TV. That seems to be where, if he has made any money,

that seems to be where he would have made it. And this is a kind of a streaming platform,

minor streaming platform that has grown. I think it's grown after he left, where you can

watch, among other things, a lot of international football. Having looked at John Texter for

last couple of years, I've still no idea if he's got any money. What he does have is a collection

of a load of football club. And this is what we're talking about. We've talked about multi-club ownership,

and this is where John Texter,

through this company, Eagle Football Holdings, emerges.

So what does he have?

He will get him to what's happening with Palace,

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