And the Hello everybody and welcome back to the football vision podcast. I'm your

host Phil Costa and congratulations are in order. We made it through the last

international break of this season but that also means non-stop football for what feels

like every three days so with that in mind make sure you've got us into your

weekly routines as there are some great guests and episodes planned as we head towards the business end of the campaign.

Thanks for being here and enjoy the show.

For this week's episode, we've got journalist Matt Ford in the hot seat who you can

find writing for El Freinder, Guardian Sport, The Eye Paper and United We Stand, among others,

but more importantly has a sharp focus on the Bundesliga which will be extremely useful for today's episode as we take a deep dive into Bia Laveocousin.

Matt, welcome to the show, how's it going?

Good evening, yeah, thanks for having me.

All good here, thanks.

It's nice to have you. I mean, I've been in Germany for six years now out here in Berlin,

but my Bunders League and knowledge has maybe waned in the last

couple of years so even when I was researching this topic I was like right I need somebody

in here who's going to know their stuff and yeah it's really good to have you here. I must admit this was a topic I've been

flirting with for some weeks now, but was always hesitant to push the red button basically

because of how strongly Jabi Alonzo was being linked with an exit.

I didn't know whether he was going to be announcing that now or at the end of the season.

So it was almost like a halfway house, but now seems as good a time as any to give this manager

and this team the spotlight.

And you've been following them quite closely this season.

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