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Former Olympic Stadiums: Blessing or Curse?

We often hear Olympic committees talk about ‘legacy’ and how a venue will be used after the competitors and spectators have gone

Our guests are Ricardo and Eupremio from Vintage Football City Tours, a group of football historians who run tours of Lisbon’s historic

Our guest is Nick Green, who’s completed the equivalent of the ‘92 Club‘ but in Japan. He covered 72 grounds in less

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

Our guest is archivist Petra Tabarelli, who researches and blogs about the history and evolution of football rules. Join us as we

Our guest is Mark Wilson, who in 2009 refounded Wanderers, the original winners of the FA Cup. We talk to him about

There’s a lot of snobbery – particularly in England – around the use of the word ‘soccer’. But I want to put

We welcome football writer Onur Bilgic back onto the podcast to discuss football in the former Eastern Bloc, the countries ‘behind the

Join us as we explore the football clubs of Sicily with Anthony Barbagallo, who writes about Sicilian football in English. We look

In the very first season of the Football League, 1888-89, Preston North End went the league season unbeaten plus won the FA

Our guest is Austrian groundhopper, Richard Turkowitsch. Join us as we travel around the football grounds in Austria and get to know

The 1990s was a pivotal decade in football. The Italia ’90 World Cup kicked off a decade which would see countries disappear,

Football fans are often quick to accuse the ref of being biased when decisions go against their team. But what if there

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

Our guest is the Hungarian sports writer Gergely Marosi. Join us as we discuss the famous football clubs of Budapest, including with