The Athletic. Hello, I'm Dan Bardell and I'm Floy Hughes. And welcome to the Athletic Football

podcast where every Wednesday, Flo and I pick out one article

from all the brilliant writing available on the Athletic and put the authors under the spotlight.

This week, as the Premier League gears up for Chris Schi Ronaldo's second debut at Manchester United,

our United correspondent Lori Whitwell is back on the show to talk about the 3 PM blackout and

how unlike in 189 other countries around the world

fans here in England won't be able to watch the game legally.

Yeah, we're also going to hear from our resident EFL expert,

my Friday co-host George Alex going to drop in

and tell us a little bit about things from an EFL perspective.

Plenty for us to talk about with this flow. It's a really, really interesting story and stuff with a lot of

nuance to it much more than I realized actually before we prepped for this

podcast but let's quickly talk about England let's start with Jude Bellingham

he's quite the player isn't that? Yeah he was brilliant on on night. I've really enjoyed the game. I love Jesse Lingard. I just think he's so fun to watch. I think he looked like he was having such a good time and that's so great to see you know a player doesn't get a

lot of game time just really enjoying every single time he steps on the football pitch and

I know everyone always says it and it's such a cliche with you Bellingham you know he's

only 18 but the composure and the

confidence of a player that young and to just sort of boss the midfield like he did

is just so impressive and I'm so excited to see even more of him over the next few years.

Yeah it's an absolute joke and I know it was against Andorra but I really think that Bellingham can do that against

elite opposition as well so I'm looking forward to seeing him develop in the next few

years we probably won't talk so much about Trent Alexander Arnold in midfield I don't

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