Sid Lowe of The Guardian & ESPN

Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Grant Wahl

Sports, Soccer

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Grant gets up to speed on Spain with an enlightening conversation with Sid Lowe, who does terrific work for ESPN, The Guardian and the Spanish Football Podcast. Lowe gives his big-picture views on the situation at Barcelona (the podcast was recorded a few hours before manager Ronald Koeman was fired), the status of La Liga after the departures of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, the success of Atlético Madrid and Real Sociedad, why the Super League was a more popular idea in Spain than elsewhere, his own story of coming to live and work in Spain in 2001 and much more. Music: Get full access to Fútbol with Grant Wahl at grantwahl.substack.com/subscribe

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0:00.0	Hey there, welcome to Food Ball with Grant Wall.
0:09.9	Thanks so much for joining me.
0:11.7	Sign up for a free or paid subscription to my newsletter at grantwall.com, which allows
0:16.8	you to receive my posts in your inbox.
0:19.8	Today's interview guest is Sid Lowe, the terrific Madrid-based soccer journalist for the
0:25.1	Guardian, ESPN, and the Spanish Football Podcast.
0:29.2	He's note that we recorded this on Wednesday before Barcelona manager Ronald Kuhman was fired
0:34.5	on Wednesday night.
0:37.6	Our guest now is one of the top voices on soccer in Spain.
0:42.5	Sid Lowe writes for the Guardian.
0:44.1	You can see him on ESPN and he's the co-host of the Spanish Football Podcast.
0:50.0	Sid, it's great to see you.
0:51.8	Thanks so much for coming on the show.
0:53.3	Morning Grant.
0:54.3	How are you doing?
0:55.4	There's always a lot to talk about in Spanish soccer, but we just had a little
1:00.0	classical.
1:01.0	So let's talk about that to start here.
1:03.0	Barcelona won Real Madrid too.
1:05.8	Our Barcelona's issues, long-term issues in your opinion, based on all the stuff we've seen
1:12.9	about the debt, being more than a billion dollars, is this something that's going to go
1:17.4	beyond this season?
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