Troy’s Spanish Sensei, Katie Week, Ken Is Back, Transfer Trauma

It’s been a hell of a week on the World Service – Ken is back – Katie build-up has been emotional – And on top of all that, we’ve made friends within Hector Bellerin!

Plus there was transfer window fake sincerity, the footballer butterfly effect and today one of Germany’s most respected football writers, Christoph Biermann, joined us to talk about his new book: Game Theory: How Luck and Analytics shape football.

Next week we have Champions League, we will review Troy V Jose and Katie’s fight, plus there’s Trump’s trip to Doonbeg and a few big GAA and rugby stories coming to the boil.

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