If you’re currently in the U.S. and excited about the return of the Champions League to your football schedule, then chances are you’re glad to have CBS Sports’ coverage back too.
Well, our brilliant journalist Adam Crafton took in things behind the scenes at the channel, including this little nugget from Pete Radovich — their coordinating producer of UEFA Champions League coverage:
💬 “Thierry Henry says he gets asked more about CBS now than Arsenal. He will tell you that straight up. That to me is wild.
“This summer, I was in a taxi in Croatia. The driver asked me where I’m from. I told him New York. He’s like, ‘Oh, you’re into sports?…My favourite sports show is in the U.S.’. A taxi driver in f****** Croatia!
“He’s saying ‘I don’t know if you’ve ever seen it; Thierry Henry, Kate Abdo, Micah Richards. It’s hilarious. I love that show. Have you ever seen it?’.
“Four years ago, if you told me people outside of America would know our show, that is truly bigger than we could have ever dreamt. That’s the fun part. The hard part is staying relevant and getting better.”
There’s much more where that came from too — you can give Adam’s superb piece a read in full below.
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Inside CBS’s Champions League coverage: ‘Thierry Henry gets asked about it more than Arsenal’
