Hi, I'm Grant Wall, and welcome to the Planet Football Podcast. Today, S.I.'s Brian Strauss joins me to talk about

Liverpool's pulsating victory over Manchester City to end City's hopes of an undefeated Premier League season.

Lands and Donovan surprise unretirement to join Mexico's Leone,

and this week's United Soccer Coaches Convention in Philadelphia, also known as Tracksuit Woodstock.

Onward.

Now as promised, Brian Strauss joins me from Washington, D.C. on this very cold January morning as we record.

Brian, how are you, man?

I'm tired. I was up most of the night with a stomach ache for reasons I can't explain I should probably stop eating cans of beans for dinner

Yeah, you just gave me a stomach gig thinking about it.

And then, uh, and then like exhausted.

Well, I'm nervous because, you know, we'll talk about this later, I presume, but I'm

nervous about, you know, the coaches conventions coming up in Philly, and that, you know, that means

sandwiches, right? I mean, that means, you know, cheese steaks and dinnics and all that kind of stuff,

and I want to be sandwich ready for my time up in Philly.

But then also yesterday, like yesterday was like an insane sports day, wasn't it?

I mean it was incredible.

I mean the Man City Liverpool game and then the two the two NFL playoff games. I mean I

was I was parked in front of my TV for whatever it was you know you know eight nine

hours just riveted and eating beans so yeah well I'm

sorry about the stomach egg but you are totally correct about a great sports

weekend I would actually add Saturday as well I got to watch the Eagles

win an NFL playoff game that went down to the wire against Atlanta and the Arthur

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