This is one of the best interviews they have had since I started listening to World Soccer Daily. Yeah, it's an ad for his book,
Seeing Red, but it's also a great chat. The book is not available in the states. I'm glad to know that it's going to be in my stocking for x-mas.
Not a lot of insights, but a good number of stories, opinions and lessons that are worth while to listen to. It's a rare insight into the world of being a top level referee in a really popular league, and how you can hand out three yellow cards to a player in a World Cup match and not have anybody notice. Personally I liked the part where Graham Poll celebrated a goal while being the referee. Yes, you can enjoy a special play and still be impartial.
I wish I could host a clipped version of the show but my bandwidth doesn't match what they have. It will be faster to download the complete, original show from the World Soccer Daily web site. They've also changed their format of the podcast and stopped giving Sirius radio free advertising, so no commercials during the interview.
It took 5 minutes with cable to get at my house with an insane amount of file sharing going on.
Right click the following link and "Save Link As" or "Save Target As" and enjoy. It's the first hour of the show.
http://www.worldsoccerweekly.com/WSD110207.mp3Kenny Hassan replaces Howard during the show. Kenny is now the standard stand-in and he's a brilliant Scotsman. Kenny and Howard host the show on Tuesdays with Steven giving more time to the FFF TV show. I guess I'm starting to sound a lot like a fanboi. Anybody know of any other good footy podcasts? I already get several, but this is the one I always seem to get into. ...along with the 606. That's the best when Liverpool loses. Their fans are like Clemson fans, they turn on their own in a second. Filthy scousers!
-EO
Edit: Tim hasn't been on WSD for a while. Too bad. WSD put a dig on SC not too long ago. Hope I didn't run him off.
