#5 — Archie Rhind-Tutt on interviewing Bundesliga managers, football in Köln and German football fandom

Archie Rhind-Tutt will be well known to avid followers of German football, both for his pitch side reporting for ESPN's Bundesliga coverage, and his regular appearances on the Guardian Football Weekly. 

He joined us on the latest episode of The Bundesletter Podcast to talk on football in his adopted home of Köln, how it felt to be in the Westfalenstadion as Dortmund threw away the title in 2023, and what it's like to interview Pep Guardiola. 

Here’s everything we covered:

• How Archie came to live and work in Germany (1:30)
• Köln as a football city (4:30)
• Archie’s decision to support Fortuna Köln, rather than FC (7:45)
• The highlights of Archie’s career covering the Bundesliga (9:45)
• The experience of watching Dortmund throw away the title in 2023 (12:45)
• What it’s like to interview Pep Guardiola (16:00)
• Working in a second language (19:00)
• Edin Terzic’s critiques of Archie’s jazzy jackets (21:00)
• What makes German football special to Archie (23:30)
• When Archie and I bumped into each other at Glastonbury Festival (31:00)
• Archie’s feelings on Euro 2024 (34:00)
• The differing attitudes to the national team in England and Germany (38:00)
• Archie’s book recommendation (39:30)

About The Bundesletter Podcast

The Bundesletter Podcast is an interview programme featuring the expert insight of observer of German football and its culture.

We'll hear from journalists, historians, analysts and fans of fußball on their experiences of following and learning the game.

This series is a companion to the Bundesletter, a weekly newsletter written, edited and published by Tom Ritchie, a journalist based in Berlin.

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