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Hello and welcome to the Price of Football, the show that looks at the money behind the

beautiful game and what's a strong word with the government about the timing of its big

announcements.

I'm Kevin Day, he's Liverpool University's Kiran Maguire, full disclosure here Kiran. We

are recording at a different end of the day. We normally record 10 o'clock in Sunday morning.

It's now close to 8 o'clock on Sunday evening because I had lunch with an old friend today.

It was a long lunch here and he's a sort of friend who insists on a different wine for

each course and a digestive at the end. So let's launch into the potency how far we get

before Baton's side that a half drug host is definitely not going to win the award. It's

questions day Kiran. Obviously there's one huge news story to discuss. We've roamed a

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