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  • 102. Why Don’t the Top Six Just Bugger Off?

    102. Why Don’t the Top Six Just Bugger Off?
    2025/08/15
    We all know that that’s what the foreign owners want. Omid Djalili, Jon Holmes and Colin Shindler discuss the reasons why we shouldn’t just wave bye bye to the top six elite clubs in the Premier League and let them all just bugger off and join what nearly every football supporter fears will be the inevitable European Super League. For them there would then be no fear of relegation but instead there would be trips to Milan, Madrid, Rome, Munich, Paris and Barcelona every other week instead of down the M3 and the M27 to Southampton or up the M1 to Sheffield and Leeds… or even worse up the M65 to Burnley. We don’t suppose in the boardrooms of New York and Paris they look forward to being asked “Hello Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, how did you find the meat pies at Turf Moor last week?” But if they did leave, as they clearly want to, where would that leave the rest of English football? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    42 分
  • 101. Do We Give Too Much Credit to the Game of our Youth?

    101. Do We Give Too Much Credit to the Game of our Youth?
    2025/08/08
    This is a particularly emotive topic. Do we on this podcast give too much credit to the football of our youth and not enough to the Modern Game? We probably do – some might even argue it’s not the football of our youth we want back but our youth itself. And they could be right. Who wouldn’t want to be 20 years old again with a body that actually worked properly? But one reason Colin Shindler, Jim White and Jon Holmes are always happy to talk endlessly about football in the 1960s and 1970s in particular is that there’s a distressing tendency of modern football journalists and pundits to ignore the history of those years in favour of what appears to be an obsession with this week’s football or last week’s football. Football talk in the media only confirms the misguided prejudice that the game began in 1992. We beg to differ. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    47 分
  • 100. Postbag

    100. Postbag
    2025/08/01
    We can imagine no better way of celebrating our century of podcasts than by dipping into the postbag containing your emails. Every week we encourage you to write to us and you do so in comforting numbers. Once again, the tone is largely positive with people wanting to contribute their own memories to the topic they’ve just listened to or correcting our very fallible memories. We look forward to these occasional episodes because it enables us to connect with our audience and we’re very grateful that you take the time and trouble to write - if only because it reassures us that we’re talking about the topics which you think and talk about. Also, it’s a comfort to know that at least we’re not just talking to ourselves. With a rare appearance of producer, Paul Kobrak, Jon Holmes and Colin Shindler begin of course with your generous tributes to our late friend and colleague Patrick Barclay. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    46 分
  • 99. Leaving Grounds

    99. Leaving Grounds
    2025/07/25
    Prompted by reports of the last men’s game to be played by Everton at Goodison Park, the panel discuss the emotions that fans feel when they leave their traditional home for pastures new – the nostalgia for times past and the excitement mixed with some trepidation at what lies ahead. Jon and Colin have experienced this sensation as Filbert Street and Maine Road closed their doors for the last time and now the Old Evertonian Jimmy Mulville joins them to discuss this particular phenomenon. As football grounds modernise it is an emotion likely to be shared by the majority of football supporters across the land. Football is a game heavily influenced by tradition. How does a new ground manage the emotional response of supporters to a new stadium? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    50 分
  • 98. 1985

    98. 1985
    2025/07/18
    Was 1985 English football’s darkest year? There could be a number of nominations for this much coveted title but 1985 contained the tragedies of Heysel Stadium and the Bradford City fire. Weeks before these events the sixth round FA Cup replay between Luton Town and Millwall degenerated into a shocking riot. The average attendance at a Division One match in 1972 had been over 30,000. By 1985 that had slumped to just 18,374. No British team had qualified for the Euros in France in 1984 so no British television channel bothered to cover it, so low was the interest in the game. Football in 1985 said the Sunday Times was a slum sport played in slum stadiums and increasingly watched by slum people. Jim White, Colin Shindler and Jon Holmes discuss whether or not that withering verdict was justified. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    47 分
  • 97. The One With David Pleat

    97. The One With David Pleat
    2025/07/11
    David Pleat has been in football so long that most supporters have forgotten that he started out as a player for Nottingham Forest, Luton and Shrewsbury Towns, Exeter City and Peterborough United. He has been a sensible pundit on radio and television for many years following a successful managerial career at Luton Town, Tottenham Hotspur, Leicester City, Sheffield Wednesday and Nuneaton Borough. David has now published his very interesting autobiography Just One More Goal which reveals just how dramatically the game has changed since he began his life in football when Harold Macmillan was still the Prime Minister. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    43 分
  • 96. Pundits

    96. Pundits
    2025/07/04
    Andy Hamilton returns to join Colin Shindler and Jon Holmes as they discuss the contentious subject of football pundits. By pundits, they mean those know-it-alls who are either very wise after the event, are outstanding at stating the bleeding obvious or are as clueless as the rest of us when it comes to predicting the future. Yet somehow, they have become increasingly important in the broadcasting of football on radio and particularly television. Indeed the BBC Director General, guided by the new BBC Head of Sport, recently told us that audiences would prefer to listen to the pundits rather than watch the highlights of the match. Contentious? We should say so. In the days of Kenneth Wolstenholme and David Coleman, John Motson and Barry Davies there were very few pundits besides Jimmy Hill and we related largely to those commentators unless there was a World Cup panel. Why have the pundits become so important in recent years? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    44 分
  • 95. Is English football still recognisably English?

    95. Is English football still recognisably English?
    2025/06/27
    This week Jon Holmes and Colin Shindler are joined by Omid Djalili to ask the question, “How English is the English football pyramid?” Of course, football reflects society and since we all began watching football, British society has changed out of all recognition. If you look at old football matches on The Big Match Revisited on ITV4 on Saturday mornings and other archive film programs you can see how different it was 40 years also ago and how widely British society has changed since then - not just off the field but also on the field. There is no question that many of the imports into the game from the rest of the world have been a blessing, not least skilful players who have added to the pleasure of the crowds who went to watch them. However, the sheer number of players playing in the English football game who are not English, Welsh, Scottish or Irish might be to some a cause of concern. The idea of the one club man who spent his entire career with his local club has passed into History. Is the globalisation of the game something to celebrate or regret? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    37 分