The Game of Football

On this week's show we're joined by Patrick Venn, a financial bodyguard for professional footballers to look at Football Index's collapse and the consequences for football's relationship with gambling from the media to the clubs themselves.

In the third part of our series on football and political extremism we look at some of the most politically charged clubs around from the left and the right and from Europe to the Middle East

In the second part of our series looking at how political extremism has influenced and effected football we examine how communist states have consistently struggled to harness the power of football

Listeners questions podcast this week discusses how referees can be humanised, how more than a salary cap is needed for the EFL and Why concussion subs need to go further. Plus there is some salacious stuff.

In the first part of a new series looking at the ways in which political extremism has manipulated and used football throughout its history.

It's time to delve into the mail bag to talk regional leagues, fan engagement and more.

Its our first pod of 2021 as Alan and Paul go into our third quiz episode tied on one win each. Get your mildly obscure football quiz questions here

OK, WE ARE ALL ILL THIS WEEK, SOME WITH COVID. SO HERE IS EPISODE 138 , AGAIN. We discuss what makes a player a hero? How do styles of play, special and temporal as well as individual moment’s effect fans perceptions. We ask are there actually five types of cult hero? Wonder how you can lose your hero status and ask if the heroes of your youth effect how you view the game in the future and ask what that means for the future of football?

The first in our Brits abroad series takes us to Colombia and football El Dorado

its part 2 of our Joy Of series and its those little things from a volley to snow on the pitch, a very deep net and much more.

With the prospect of some fans being allowed back at professional games we discuss the experience of being at a ground and the things, aside from the game itself, that can make that great.

The second part of our quiz series. Join us for rounds on; the Naughties, Euro 96, UCL finals, True or False and Higher or Lower.

Remember when we all did quizes dueing lockdown? 40 minutes of trivia awaits you in episode 169

In episode 168 we discuss footballs great taboos from out players and homophobia to drugs and the diversification of sports media.

After ten days of great incident in football we look at issues around Pickford, Aguero, EFL Bailout and a European Premier League and discuss how football has been reflecting the issues concerning the modern world.

For 75 years football betting in Britain was the pools. In episode 166 we look at the history of the football pools

In episode 166 we ask if there has ever been a higher quality intake of new players to the Premier League?

In episode 165 we preview our podcast schedule for the 2020/21 season and taken a brief look back to a postwar football landscape that parallels the games position today, well sort of. Were back full time from October 7th

in a replay of an episode from earlier this season we look back 100 years ago to the last 19/20 season.

in Episode 164 we look back to football 50 years ago and the triumphs and travails of Leeds, Chelsea, Arsenal and City.