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Reviewed by Jonathan O’Brien
From WSC 427, January 2023
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In this exclusive WSC Supporters’ Club edition of the podcast, magazine deputy editor Tom Hocking, writer Harry Pearson and host Daniel Gray talk hype and anti-climax, from Freddy Adu to Berti Vogts’ Scotland via Lee Trundle. The trio also discuss strange situations in which conversations about football have cropped up, and make a come and get me plea to Henderson’s Relish. Record Breakers takes us to Munich, Frankfurt and Stockholm.
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