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This is a podcast from The Times. Go to The Times. Go to the Times.co. UK. Thanks for another game podcast bonus and we haven't quite put these out as regularly as we would have, but given your overwhelming response,

we're going to do another one.

And it's a bit of a melancholy one though, because Ben Smith, who's been our colleague here,

who's worked with us is leaving the times.

Ben just to go some context, you'll be joining the BBC. Is that right?

I will. I'm joining the BBC after Easter mainly writing about football and

you may hear me on the odd bit of radio or even maybe a bit of TV in the future.

Wow thanks to those wonderful broadcasting skills you picked up here at the game.

Now, Ben, I wanted to ask you because we've always talked about how we're sort of a privileged category in the sense that, you know, we always talked about how we were sort of a privileged category in the sense that

We get paid to watch football and report on it

Is this what you wanted to do when you were a kid?

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