Really, really enjoyed talking to the fascinating @filipeluis about ... well, about everything really. Chelsea, Atlético, Simeone, Mourinho, Hazard, Salah and Michael Caine. Here's the interview. theguardian.com/football/2021/…
It could have been five times as long. So much cut. I'll try to put some of that up here later.
FIlipe Luis very good indeed on football's relationship with gambling, by the way. "I don’t want footballers involved at all – at all – because it’s an addiction that destroys families."
Filipe Luis’s fascinating discussion of how he defended Messi, against whom he was very successful over the years. 
There is loads more. I'll put some of it up here later. Alas, when you have a brilliant talker, someone who discusses everything in depth and in a nuanced way, there's always stuff left on the cutting room floor.
(It's also depressing how often the pick-ups entirely lack any of that nuance or depth.)
As promised, a few cuts from the Filipe Luis interview...
On meeting Michael Caine... and trying desperately to meet Clint Eastwood
On joining Chelsea
On his best game: the 3-1 against Chelsea
On films....he doesn’t like sports films. Although Simeone showed them Any Given Sunday and he liked that. And on his own potential Netflix documentary.
On living in London
On different defensive methods at Atletico/Chelsea
Learning from Cholo....and his stupid it is to try to denigrate what he does
On John Terry
On this: there *might* have been a giggling mention of Sergio Ramos’s doc... 😂🙊
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