Episodes

  • One Love: Manchester United

    One Love: Manchester United
    Oct 29 2024
    Gary Thacker quizzes another member of the team about the club they support. Why, best and worst moments, favourite players and those they’d like to forget plus the nuclear question: could you ever support anyone else? Alex Ireland talks about Manchester United. Don’t worry, he’s a local.
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    33 mins
  • Is social media changing the way fans view the game?

    Is social media changing the way fans view the game?
    Oct 27 2024
    Is social media changing the way fans view the game and their club? With the never-ending torrent of material passing into and out of our clubs, how are we handling an era of changed access to our favourite clubs and players? Rob Fletcher and Chris Lepkowski are glued to their phones.
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    51 mins
  • A decade of 90s football: 1991/92

    A decade of 90s football: 1991/92
    Oct 25 2024
    It’s the end of history as the Football League as we knew it entered its final season before some of its biggest cubs would gallop off over the horizon and into the warm embrace of the Premier League. What a season it turned out to be too, a War of the Roses raging between Leeds and Manchester United at the top of the First Division. Liverpool have one last hurrah in the FA Cup but the seeds of gloom are sown in some transfer market misadventures. Elsewhere, it’s a glorious season for domestic leagues across Europe, but big money will soon put a stop to that.
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    1 hr and 47 mins
  • Is English football all starting to look the same?

    Is English football all starting to look the same?
    Oct 20 2024
    Has Pep Guardiola’s incredible success imposed a tactical orthodoxy on the English game that sees too many teams trying to play the same way? Do we need a bit more originality, a little more of Jurgen Klopp’s chaos theory? Rob Fletcher and Dave Bowler look into the state of the game.
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    58 mins
  • A decade of 90s football: 1990/91

    A decade of 90s football: 1990/91
    Oct 17 2024
    1990/91: where we went from Gazzamania after the World Cup to manic Gazza in the FA Cup final; where Arsenal’s near invincibles sent Liverpool to unravel; where a Mark Hughes strike set Manchester United on the way to Cup Winners’ Cup glory. For all this and more, join Rob Fletcher as he guides Steven Scragg and Alex Ireland through the season.
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    1 hr and 34 mins
  • One Love: Middlesbrough

    One Love: Middlesbrough
    Oct 15 2024
    Gary Thacker continues to talk to the team about who they support. Why, best and worst moments, favourite players and those they’d like to forget plus the nuclear question: could you ever support anyone else? Rob Fletcher talks about life as a Middlesbrough fan in exile.
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    37 mins
  • The future of international football

    The future of international football
    Oct 13 2024
    Is the expansion and commercialisation of club football harming the spirit of the international game? Rob Fletcher, Aidan Williams and Gary Thacker look at the future for international football, ask where it lies within our affections, and ask the eternal question: why does the national stadium have to be in London?
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    49 mins
  • A decade of 90s football: 1989/90

    A decade of 90s football: 1989/90
    Oct 11 2024
    A final hurrah for Liverpool, a surprising challenge from Villa Park that earns Graham Taylor the England job, Rangers march on under Graeme Souness while stealing the signature of Mo Johnston from under Celtic’s nose, the outcome of the Taylor Report: the 1990s splutters into life, trying to create its own atmosphere.
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    1 hr and 57 mins