The Athletic.

Hello, I'm Dan Bardell and welcome to the Athletic Football podcast with myself and Flo Lloyd Hughes.

Unlike the Tuesday show with Mark Chapman on Wednesdays,

Flo and myself are going to pick out just one article from The Athletic

and put the writers under the spotlight.

Today, Laurie Whitwell is with us to talk about the secrets of Oligona Solshar's reign at Manchester United and if he now has everything he needs to challenge for the title. We're also going to talk about Roy Keane at 50 and point you in the direction of a few other great pieces up on the site before we're done. We're going to say hello to Laurie in just a minute, but first, Flo, reunited after a summer together in the Euros.

How are you?

I'm all right.

I think I've just about recovered from the grief and the trauma of the Euros.

But I guess for you, Dan, unfortunately, that never ends because you went from Euro's misery to JG10's departure.

So I think it's more important than how are you doing?

You know what?

I'm actually okay.

I took it a lot better than I ever thought I would do.

If you'd have said to me 12 months ago that what's the day going to be like when

Jack Rearlish leaves, Astonville Football Club,

I'd have said, it's going to be catastrophic.

I'm going to be in tears.

But actually the way the club acted and the way they've conducted their business so far in this window, I'm not worried at all, which is really, really weird when you lose your best player. It's a feeling I'm not used to at all. I mean, there's loads going on at the moment. isn't a messy,

cane,

Lecaco

that there's tons

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