Hello everyone and welcome to this week's edition of the Spanish Football Podcast.

We're recording on a Tuesday, it is the Monday pod but yesterday was boxing day, a lot

was going on, Christmas wise so we thought that you'd give us a day leeway so thank you

for bearing with us.

But here we are, to look forward to the return of La Liga.

It's been off covering the World Cup for the last seven weeks or so, you're still in

World Cup mode Sid, aren't you?

You're not in La Liga mode yet, it starts in two days.

I know, I'm finding it really quite difficult, not necessarily to kind of get into La Liga

as to shift my mind into something else, I mean this is a much more general point about

how quickly the media moves on and I think the media moves on too fast and I think we're

always looking for the next thing and what's the preview of the next thing and what's coming

up, because of course part of it is about I suppose selling the product that's coming

rather than enjoying the thing that's just happened, but I'm finding myself much more

drawn to kind of reading things about the World Cup and going back and watching games

and I got back from Qatar and watched the final again and watched the build-ups of

final and I recorded the ITV version, for some reason I couldn't get people to see which

is most frustrating and sort of watched the build-ups of final and tried to watch it again

as if I was watching it live and kind of feel, have a feel for it and I'm finding myself

much more drawn to those pieces about how Argentina won it and Messi winning it and Ember

Pay and everything.

And I am to hang on this football around the corner, I think to that yes they might have

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