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Podcast: Football’s Nearly Teams

I am joined by Rob MacDonald and Adam Bushby from Halcyon Publishing who have a book out, From the Jaws of Victory,

My guest is Dr Pete Watson, an expert in Latin American politics, history and football. Pete describes the relationship between football and

This week’s guest is Jonathan Grade, who worked on Channel 4’s iconic Football Italia show for nearly a decade from beginning to

My guest is Kevin E. Simpson, author of Soccer Under the Swastika: Stories of Survival and Resistance During the Holocaust. He tells

My guest is Llew Walker from Corinthian-Casuals FC, who has a new biography out on the life of Andrew Watson, the world’s

I am joined by Karan Tejwani, whose new book Wings of Change, chronicles the controversial rise of RB Leipzig. We also look

Our guest is Stephen Hurrell, who blogs about the table-top football game Subbuteo at Subbuteo Online. We discuss the game’s roots from

What happened to the 14 clubs of the former DDR-Oberliga, East Germany‘s football league top flight, after the reunification of Germany in

My guest is Belinda Scarlett, curator at the National Football Museum in Manchester. We’re talking ahead of a new exhibition in 2021

Our guest is Natxo Parra, co-author of St Pauli: Another Football is Possible. We discuss the club’s transition from being a small

It’s finally out! Origin Stories: The Pioneers Who Took Football to the World is out via Pitch Publishing now! Listen to the podcast to learn

Bill Shankly is credited by many as creating the platform on which Liverpool FC became the dominant team in England and Europe.

Our guest is Dr. Kevin Moore, former CEO of the National Football Museum. He is also the author of What You Think

Our guest is the journalist Jon Driscoll, author of The Fifty: Football’s Most Influential Players. We look back at players who have

I’d been researching the roots of football for my debut book, Origin Stories: The Pioneers Who Took Football to the World. During