Hello this is Graham, but this is not the big interview.

Today I present you an episode of Between the Lines, a podcast made by Martin and Neil at Backpage.

My producers and the publishers of the two books I wrote on the Barcelona Pequardiola and the Spain team that won three consecutive tournaments.

Yes, we do call them the brains of the operation.

Between the lines tells the stories behind great

sports writing. This particular episode is the story of the latest book that

Backpage brought to market. Welcome to a new series of Between the Lines, the stories behind great sports writing.

My name is Martin Greg and in this first episode we take a deep dive into the publication of our most recent book, My Life, My Football, by Andrei Schoenko. We cover the origin story of how we acquired the title, why it's

taken over three and a half years to get into the world, what it was like working

with Shivchenko himself and his ghostwriter Alessandro Alchiato. We talk about the cover of the book,

the translation process, the publicity and plenty more. For this chat I'm joined by

my backpage business partner Neil White and the translator of the book

Mark Palmer who also translated our books on Andrea Perlo and Arrigo Saki.

And listen out for the dulcet tones of the man himself Andrei Shivchenko. Enjoy.

So let's start by talking about how and why we commissioned books. I think it's really useful to kind of lift the

lid on the different elements that we need to exist before we green light a

project and I think in the case of my life my football

Andrew Schoenko we should start with the subject. Shever, Balandor winner,

incredible footballer, great life story, really strong subjects. In this case, we suspected

that we were going to have access to him for publicity, which is another big tip

for us. But I think first and foremost all of these things

can exist but the project can't exist for us if the book isn't any good and in

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