Sid Lowe

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So I saw this tweet from Sid Lowe, which I thought was very-

Sid Lowe.

The great Sid Lowe.

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the great Sid Lowe, which I thought was very interesting, and he's like, "Been trying to place it...

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Hello, everyone, and welcome to this week's edition of the Spanish Football Podcast with me, Phil Kitramelidis, and Sid Lowe.

I've been away for a couple of weeks, but I'm back, Sidney.

On a scale of 1 to 10, how much did you miss me?

partying and celebrating and just most one thing is just people seeing seeing people unite for something i was passionate about and we had uh against hungary i think against um uh czechia in hamburg we had i think 30 000 people traveling from georgia which is quite a big number um and um yeah the streets were on like georgian flags and people wearing kids and stuff like that so it was a big thing and obviously winning against portugal was the was the cherry on the top so to speak and yeah up until we played spain obviously spain uh i'm unbeatable nowadays i suppose

yeah but it's funny you say that because obviously living here in spain i i absorb quite a lot of spanish people content and i was listening to the spanish football podcast with sid lowe and um the gang this week and they it was after the england game and they were talking about this ridiculous run spain have been on and i know there's a bit of controversy because i think one of the undefeated games is when they lost to portugal on penalties in

yeah

But they did say, like, in that run, can you think of many games where a team has really gone at Spain? And they mentioned, I think they mentioned France a little bit in the World Cup semi-final.

And I think that that probably does feel right now.

The way he's discussing is a brilliant interview in the Guardian with Sid Lowe, where he's basically like, you know, I need to win and win and win and win and win.

And then things will fall for me.

But Kev, to a point, if they were to win the Champions League this season, He'd have won it all before he turned 20.

It's too competitive.

It's too difficult to get through to where you need to get to without having that drive, without having that self-belief.

You mentioned that brilliant interview that Sid Lowe did in The Guardian with him.

He said, it's not just this year I've been at Ballon d'Or winning level, but longer.

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By the way, if you want more Spain, Sid Lowe sat down with Lamine Yamal recently to discuss, uh, uh, his, uh, career so far.

That's Yamal's career so far, not Sid's career so far.

Uh, you can, uh, [laughs] you can, you can find that in the paper or on the website, of course.

Yeah, he's a big, big Revista fan.

Sid Lowe.

Does he read-

No, he wasn't a, he wasn't a big Revista fan, he was just a big fan of Sid Lowe's columns.

I think he was, he was, he was, he was a big Sid Lowe man.

It's, it's-

He did mention he'd seen Sid on TV, didn't he?

I, I mean, if you want to know about Spanish football, there's no better person than, than Sid.

Hi, everybody, and welcome to the Spanish Football Podcast.

It's me, Alex Kirkton, filling in for Kitro today, but Sid Lowe is here.

Hello, Sid.

How are you?

Cheerio.

Uh, Sid Lowe out in Spain there, and that'll do for part one.

Part two, we'll do Italy.

[upbeat music] Welcome to part two of The Guardian Football Weekly.

Uh, thanks everybody.

That'll do.

Uh, thank you in absent- in absentia, Sid Lowe, of course, you lazy bastard.

And thank you to you lot as well.

I'm Phil Kitromilides.

Sid Lowe is with me to talk about what's happened on match day five in La Liga EA Sports.

Lots for us to talk about.

Hello, Sydney.