Richard Fitzpatrick
speaker
677 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 14 May
Richard Fitzpatrick’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It did.
It was a bestseller.
Yeah, it was.
Yeah.
Even in Poland, it sold about 7,000 copies there.
I don't think they sold any for Claire Leeds in Warsaw.
No, gosh, no, no.
Yeah, usual story.
I went to Barcelona to follow a woman who's now my wife and we've two kids and that.
So I had been living in Dublin here working as a journalist and moved out.
And then it was just the timing.
It was moved around January or February and Spain, as you know, won the World Cup that summer in 2010.
And it was the team of Guardiola's great, or at the time of Barcelona, Guardiola's great Barca team.
So I got the idea to write the book.
Then I discovered there hadn't been an English language book on the rivalry and the previous one in Spain had been 96.
And it was just hugely fortunate then with the timing because I framed the book around the season, that season 2010, 2011.
Mourinho had just arrived to manage Real Madrid and it concluded that season with the famous four Clásicos in 18 days.
So it was real, it was the best moment to do it, you know, Ronaldo and Messi as well at their peak.
Yeah, yeah, it's like that, just everybody is interested in the rivalry.
It's, yeah, it's especially good if you're living in Spain, in Catalonia, it just dominates the talk, you know.
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