Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. I'm Joe Devine and I'm joined now by Alex Stewart.

Hello.

How are you? I'm fine. Thank you. How are you?

I'm good. Wasn't today's episode interesting?

I really, really enjoyed that. Yeah, there was an awful lot of detail in there.

Yeah. We spoke to James Clarkson, who is the head coach of the Houston Dash.

That's in America.

Imagine America.

The land, the golden land of corn.

Yeah, you said free.

I said corn.

I don't know.

I mean, it's sort of the same thing.

Anyway, James was a fascinating person to talk to.

We love speaking to head coaches and managers just to try and get a little insight on what's

actually happening behind the scenes with the football team, particularly at the moment,

because obviously there's a global lockdown.

Well, it's pretty much global, and it is definitely happening in Houston.

So we started by asking

James, how do you be the head coach of a football team when you can't have a football team?

And how do you do it from home? His answers about the Zoom stuff was really, really interesting,

wasn't it? Yeah. And then going on to talk about, you know, how he helps players structure what they're doing in terms of physical training, nutrition, that kind of stuff, the complexities of doing that at the moment where, you know, everybody's in lockdown, but also then how that's going to segue into the new season and building a sense of kind of team spirit and collaboration and how that

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