5 Live's World Football Phone-in
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Expert answers to your questions in World Football: The Phone-in from BBC Radio 5 Live's Up All Night programme.
Location:
United Kingdom
Genres:
Sports & Recreation Podcasts
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BBC
Description:
Expert answers to your questions in World Football: The Phone-in from BBC Radio 5 Live's Up All Night programme.
Language:
English
Episodes
Warnock gets back to work
3/3/2026
Dotun, Tim and the team discuss the return of Neil Warnock at the age of 77.
Duration:02:36:54
Do You Know Your Onions?
2/24/2026
Dotun, Tim & Djibril Diop reflect on the World Cup’s woes and ponder all things allium.
Duration:02:35:06
Was Football Better Before VAR?
2/17/2026
Dotun and Tim are joined by football journalist Mark Meadows. Was football better before VAR and who is England's greatest striker?
Duration:02:33:20
Taking it to the Wire
2/10/2026
Dotun and Tim are joined by Jonny Bentley. What’s happening with World Cup tickets?
Duration:02:36:27
Transfer Talk
2/3/2026
The window has closed. Dotun and the team discuss that, and your worst day as a fan.
Duration:02:35:05
Who’d be a football manager?
1/27/2026
Dotun and Tim are joined by University Challenge survivor, Mark Meadows in Berlin.
Duration:02:29:04
Afcon, Glasner and Greenland
1/20/2026
Dotun and Tim discuss world football and everything else under the sun.
Duration:02:34:43
The Crying Game
1/13/2026
When has a football match reduced you to tears?
Duration:02:36:53
The wonder of a World Cup Year
1/6/2026
Maher Mezahi joins the team to discuss Amorim, Celtic, Afcon, the World Cup & much more.
Duration:02:27:44
Farewell 2025
12/30/2025
Dotun and Tim are joined by Djibril Diop who’s in Casablanca for Afcon 2025.
Duration:02:35:14
Driving home for Christmas
12/23/2025
The team discuss world football and everything else under the sun.
Duration:02:25:03
Owning the own goals
12/16/2025
Arsenal win a match against Wolves 2-1 without scoring a goal themselves. We hear your stories of own goals and high scoring matches. As AFCON looms, we ask callers which players their side will miss most when play starts in Morrocco.
Dotun and Tim are joined by North African footballing expert, Maher Mezahi and author Jay Mwamba.
Duration:02:34:00
World Cup plans
12/9/2025
We’re now a few days on from Friday’s World Cup kick-off-times draw — and for fans of England and Scotland, the picture is suddenly very clear. We now know exactly where the groups will be played, and exactly when you’ll need to be in front of a TV — or setting an alarm.
Dotun is joined by Tim Vickery and James Young.
Duration:02:36:33
MiguElvis Comes to London
12/2/2025
Dotun and Tim are joined by Mark Meadows and superfan MiguElvis who’s visiting London and Liverpool for his first Premier League games.
Duration:02:37:15
What made you fall in love with football?
11/25/2025
Not just liking it - but the moment it really clicked, when it became a passion, a real love for the game. Maybe it was a goal, a player, a match, or even the person you watched it with. What was the spark that made football more than just a game for you? Kathryn Stanczyszyn sits in, joined by Tim Vickery and Seth Bennettt.
Duration:02:34:17
World Cup Qualifiers
11/18/2025
As the ’26 qualifications come down to the wire the team are talking about the shape of the competition now that 48 nations are taking part in the tournament. Kathryn Stanczyszyn sits in, joined by Tim Vickery, Mark Machado and superfan, Miguel Espino to talk about all things football.
Duration:02:34:08
Great managers in world football
11/11/2025
Is Pep Guardiola the greatest ever football manager? Dotun and the team celebrate the greats: Jose Mourinho, Johan Cruyff, Brian Clough, Jack Charlton, Jurgen Klopp to name a few.
Duration:02:35:38
Top quotes
11/4/2025
Dotun and Mark Machado are joined by Tim Vickery to talk about departures, biographies and your favourite football quotes.
Duration:01:41:21
Wishful thinking
10/28/2025
If you could change anything about the world of football, what would it be?
Duration:02:30:00
Tickets, please!
10/21/2025
Dotun and Tim are joined by our Salford correspondent and Man United specialist, James Young, The World Cup’s tickets have gone on sale so we ask – what’s the most you’ve paid for a ticket to a game? Turns out some of our listeners have very deep pockets…
Duration:02:37:54