Eastern Europe

Podcast: The State of Football in Ukraine

Valeryi Lobanovskyi Stadium, Kiev [Credit: Bradley Stafford] Our guest is Vadim Furmanov, originally from Ukraine, to discuss the current state…

4 years ago

‘Holy War’: The Krakow Derby

Cracovia fans conduct a tifo at the 'Holy War' derby, 2020. Our guest is Krakow-based Denys Nachornyy, whose Gigs and…

5 years ago

Podcast: Yugoslavia’s Fractious Football History

Our guest is Richard Mills, author of The Politics of Football in Yugoslavia: Sport, Nationalism and the State. We look…

5 years ago

Podcast: Football in the Eastern Bloc

Valeriy Lobanovskyi Stadium, Home of Dynamo Kyiv [Credit: Bradley Stafford] We welcome football writer Onur Bilgic back onto the podcast…

5 years ago

Podcast: Football in the Former East Germany

[This post contains affiliate links. For more information, read our Disclosure page] Our guest is Alan McDougall, author of The…

5 years ago

Podcast: Groundhopping in Hungary

The new Puskas Ferenc Stadion, Budapest, opened in November 2019 [Credit: Judit Lokodi] Our guest is the Hungarian sports writer…

5 years ago

Podcast: A History of Polish Football

Our guest is Ryan Hubbard, who's written a book on the first 100 years of Polish football. Following on from…

5 years ago

Podcast: Hungary’s Golden Age with Jonathan Wilson

We talk to football writer Jonathan Wilson about his new book, The Names Heard Long Ago, which chronicles Hungarian football's…

5 years ago

Podcast: Football and Politics in Poland

Gornik Zabrze fans in Poland [Credit: Mieszko Rajkiewicz] Our guest is Mieszko Rajkiewicz from Warsaw, Poland, who presented at the…

5 years ago

Podcast: Yugoslavia – What Might Have Been

We talk to football writer Onur Bilgic about the Yugoslavia team of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Thrown out…

5 years ago