Hey there, welcome to Football with Grant Wall. Thanks so much for joining me. We are fully

functioning now in our partnership with Metal Arc Media, and we're going to have three

segments to the podcast. In the first segment, Chris Wittingham and I will talk about world

soccer headlines, including Americans Abroad. The second segment will be an interview, and

we've got a great one this episode with Nick Mahama, who plays Nate on Ted Lasso. And

in the third segment, we'll talk about domestic soccer headlines. Let's bring in Chris Wittingham.

How are you, my friend? All advice to the audience. We talked to Nate

from Ted Lasso already, and it's unnerving how much I liked him, because I was prepared

to tell him to go bleep himself or what he did to Ted. I was prepared to not like him,

and he's one of the nicest men that I've ever met in my life. And so I think if you are

a Ted Lasso fan, you are going to love this interview with Nick Mahama, because he kind

of takes you behind how the plot twists go throughout the year. Spoilers, by the way,

if you've not finished Ted Lasso season two, maybe this interview isn't for you, but either

way, tremendous stuff. And I find Nate to be an incredibly nice man, which I wasn't

hoping he would be. He just called him Nate. He's going to be Nate for me. I am very

impressed with with his acting, especially for a guy who, as he says in the interview,

didn't have any formal acting training. He's a comedian. He's a magician. You'll learn

all about this stuff. But yeah, really enjoyable interview. So everyone stick around for that.

But we do want to talk some soccer. And it was a busy weekend club soccer starting again

after the FIFA window. Let's start in England. Lester City in a truly wild game, Beats

Manchester United, 4-2, some terrific goals in this game. And suddenly, it seems like

Ole Gunnar's little shire might be on the hot seat, my friend. Yeah, Ole out has begun

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