Hey there, welcome to football with Grant Wall. Thanks so much for joining me and I hope you enjoy the holidays. We'll be keeping you occupied here on this show and if you

haven't checked it out I encourage you to listen to my new podcast series American Prodigy, The Freddie Adieu Story.

Today's interview guest is Melissa Reddy, the author of the terrific new book,

Believe Us, how Jurgenclop transformed Liverpool into title winners.

We've had some great guests lately including Caleb Porter, Brianna Pinto, and Nick Mayhew,

and Ted Lasso's Jason Soudakus and Brendan Hunt.

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recommend us to your friends and take just a little time to rate and review us in Apple Podcasts. Now here's my interview with

Melissa Reddy. Our guest now is one of the rising stars in the soccer media world.

South African native, Melissa Reddy, has made a name for herself covering the sport in the UK.

She's the senior football correspondent for The Independent.

She hosts the terrific podcast Between the Lines.

You've seen her on TV on CBS Sports and Sky Sports, among other places.

She's also the author of the new book,

Believe Us, how Yurgen-Clop transformed Liverpool

into title winners.

I've just read the book, it's fantastic. Congratulations,

Melissa. Thanks for coming on the show. Thank you so much for those kind words.

Yeah, the book nearly killed me. That might be a little bit of an exaggeration but only a little bit I don't

know why you people didn't tell me how difficult it is to pull a book together especially

if you've only got one month to do it in with coronavirus.

It's incredible hearing you tell me how you did this book because like my first book, which came out like in 09, I reported for almost two years, and then I just, I wrote it in three months, and I thought three months was a crazy short amount of time.

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