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I'm here in Portland, Oregon with Chris Wittingham.

We both made the trip and segment one of this episode will be us discussing New York City

winning the MLS Cup Final over the Portland Timbers on penalties.

The rest of the podcast will be devoted to interviews about a book and a film on Liverpool

F.C.'s English title winning season of 2019-20, Michael McCambridge and Neil Atkinson

will discuss their book, Red Letters, and James Erskin will talk about his film, The End

of the Storm.

Let's bring in Whitty, how are you, my man?

We came all the way to Portland and I think it was just for that 94th minute equalizer.

The sound that emanated from this stadium, I have to be honest, by the end I was slightly

disappointed that Portland couldn't add to those jubilant scenes, but wow, that one moment

lived up to every bit of billing you could have hoped for.

Honestly, one of the great moments I've ever seen in an MLS Cup Final, I've been lucky

to be to a lot of these, I think this is my 19th, I know this is your first, so that's

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