The Phil Hay Show

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I'm Dan Moyland.

With me is Phil Hay.

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And the boys from the Square Ball, Michael Normanton.

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And Moscow White.

Daniel Chapman.

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Final chance to take advantage of the Leeds Pod deal. If you want to get a 90-day free trial

on The Athletic to read everything that Phil does and listen to all the podcasts without ads,

head to theathletic.com forward slash LeedsPod. Just to make you aware that deal is ending at

the end of May. So if you want to get on it, do it right now. Phil, we've seen photos. We have

pictures finally of Leeds United players doing training at Thorpe Arch, and it feels like

football is almost upon us. It does. It does. They have been at Thorpe Arch previously, actually.

It's not too much of a secret that quite a lot of the players have been using the running

track that was installed there on Bielse's insistence.

And I think having initially looked at that running track and wondered how Hardy was going to flog them on it,

they've all been quite grateful for it in the lockdown because it is very easy for the security staff to wave them in individually and for them to run in isolation and get in the cars and go home.

But the EFL have allowed one-on-one training this week, which is let more of them go up there

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