Outside Write

The World’s Fiercest Football Rivalries

We talk to Lee Colvin, author of Belgrade to Buenos Aires, Football Rivalries on a Very Tight Budget, about football’s fiercest rivalries.

We chat to Martin Westby, author of England’s Oldest Football Clubs into the roots of the game and its pioneer clubs. Is

We’re joined by Nicholas Blincoe, author of More Noble Than War: The Story of Football in Israel and Palestine. He spent years

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

Our guest is Steven Scragg, whose new book A Tournament Frozen in Time looks at the history of the European Cup-Winners’ Cup,

We welcome football writer Benjamin Roberts back onto the podcast to discuss his new book, Bottled: English Football’s Boozy Story, which looks

We pay a trip to Leeds United’s Elland Road ground in the club’s centenary year. With a huge fan base and periods

We talk to football writer Jonathan Wilson about his new book, The Names Heard Long Ago, which chronicles Hungarian football’s golden age.

Our guest is Stefan Legge from the University of St.Gallen in Switzerland to discuss football and finance. Stefan discusses his research into

Our guest today is Glasgow-based groundhopper, Chris Marshall. We discuss the Old Firm – Celtic and Rangers – as well as Scotland’s

Our guest is Mieszko Rajkiewicz from Warsaw, Poland, who presented at the Football History Conference in Manchester this year on the relationship

Our guest is James Brown from the Society for American Soccer History (SASH). James’s grandfather, Jim Brown, played for the US team

We welcome Colin Millar back onto the podcast to discuss his new book, The Frying Pan of Spain, which explores the history

Nestled in the foothills of the Alps is a beautiful city whose football club in recent decades has fielded Baggio, Pirlo, Hagi,

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