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The Price of Football

Interview: Jon Attenborough, author of 'Following Sam', the story of his journey to all 42 Scottish football league clubs with his assistance dog

The Price of Football

Guy Kilty

Business, Sports

4.92.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Kevin and Kieran speak to Jon Attenborough about his new book, 'Following Sam', the story of his journey to all 42 Scottish football league clubs with his assistance dog. Follow Kevin on X - @kevinhunterday Follow Kieran on X - @KieranMaguire Follow Producer Guy on X - @guykilty Follow The Price of Football on X - @pof_pod Send in a question: [email protected] Join The Price of Football CLUB: https://priceoffootball.supportingcast.fm/ Check out the Price of Football merchandise store: https://the-price-of-football.backstreetmerch.com/ Visit the website: https://priceoffootball.com/ For sponsorship email - [email protected] The Price of Football is a Dap Dip production: https://dapdip.co.uk/ [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:28.6

hello and welcome to The Price of Football, the show that looks at the money behind the beautiful game with me, Kevin Day and Liverpool University's Keira McGuire.

0:48.9

Kevin, it's only Monday morning and already the timey-wimmy stuff is kicking in because I did just see you a minute ago because we recorded the interview and I'm going to see you in another minute because we're recording the pod but both of which are going out at different time so I'm just going to say hello and say anything happened in the last two minutes.

1:09.0

Finley's at a stretch as far as it's gone.

1:11.8

Well, Finley would have been interested

1:13.6

in the interview we just done,

1:15.3

Kieran.

1:16.1

I was going to say featuring

1:17.3

actually guest stars a guide dog

1:19.5

because we spoke to

1:21.5

John Attenborough,

1:23.1

whose book following Sam

1:24.6

is out on the 1st of May

1:26.0

and John Attenborough undertook to visit every

1:29.9

ground in the in Scotland basically with his with his dog Sam recorded his adventures and

1:38.1

we spoke to him partly of course to plug the book because we're nice like that but also

1:42.3

because we wanted to get some insight

1:44.6

into accessibility for fans like John to the Scottish game.

1:53.6

John, thank you so much for joining us. Before we start talking about your odyssey across

1:58.9

every football league ground in Scotland. Tell us a little bit

2:01.9

about yourself and most importantly, who you support. Yeah, so yeah, I'm a big Dundee United

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