Hey there! Welcome to Football with Grant Wall. Thanks so much for joining me. Today's interview

guest is Tom Statham, a long time Manchester United Academy coach with US ties. We've

had some great guests lately, including Caroline Graham Hanson, Matthew Hoppy and Alejandro

Yerara Goury, so check those out. But first, let's talk some soccer with my friend Chris

Winningham, who you can hear on Univision, Inter Miami Radio, the damn Levitard show, and

the Chelsea Mike podcast. Chris, thanks for joining me. How are you?

Doing all right, Grant, how are you, sir?

Doing okay! Quite a soccer weekend. Chelsea won Man City Nail, Kai Hoverts with a game

winner. Christian Polizzi becomes the first US men's national team player to play in

and win the Champions League final. And Pep Guardiola missed out on another chance to

win the Champions League. Your thoughts?

Well, there's so many. My kind of prevailing thought was, so obviously there's two kind

of decisions that were analyzed with Pep, not playing a Holy Midfielder. And look, when

the goal is scored because there's a gaping space in the middle of the pitch, it'd be nice

if there was someone who was kind of accustomed to playing there. And then the other was Kevin

DeBroina playing up top and then eventually getting injured and coming off. That was kind

of another talking point. And Pep's decisions were analyzed. But I think that Chelsea might

have handled City even if there was a Holy Midfielder. And even if Kevin DeBroina was

playing somewhere else, they've got a formula. It's work three times now. And we thought

the first two times it was because City made all these changes after playing in Champions

League. And because they weren't taking the games at seriously and look at the lineups

ago, that's not going to reflect what the final is going to be like. And then the final

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