187 Episodes

  1. Conor Coady's football club, alphabetical top flights & the world's most generic team name

    Published: 8/7/2025
  2. Eastenders' Euro 2025 joy, #AccidentalCantona & "the most 2011 transfer of all time”

    Published: 8/4/2025
  3. The Football Cliches Quiz XX: The View From The Lane

    Published: 7/30/2025
  4. Goalkeepers' headers & elasticos on the deck of the Titanic: The listeners' loves & hates*

    Published: 7/28/2025
  5. The Agyemang Cacophony, the storm-weathering threshold & how clubs “get their man”

    Published: 7/24/2025
  6. Talispersons, textbook Turkish Super Lig & time limits for the commentator's curse

    Published: 7/21/2025
  7. The threshold for being "rudderless" & Tour de France riders as footballers

    Published: 7/16/2025
  8. Pre-season trophies, Iran in the Championship... and what happened to shin splints?

    Published: 7/14/2025
  9. Overage youth team mentors & the quickest repaying of a transfer fee ever

    Published: 7/9/2025
  10. Giving 40,000%, Test Match Andy Townsend & "Can you explore a swoop?”

    Published: 7/7/2025
  11. Wimbledon tennis players as footballers & the floodgates threshold

    Published: 7/2/2025
  12. Stopping Celeste's flame, pre-season lingo & Jhon Duran's reverse-gear career

    Published: 6/30/2025
  13. 5-a-side injury updates & watching TV football from an acute angle: The listeners' loves & hates

    Published: 6/25/2025
  14. ”The most involved-goals man", Swiss Army knives & watching the Roy Keane film trailer

    Published: 6/23/2025
  15. The Pure Bundesliga XI

    Published: 6/18/2025
  16. Count Infantula's Club World Cup, referee kit launches & goal sandwiches

    Published: 6/16/2025
  17. Heavy England shirts, absolute clinics & Club World Cup curiosity levels

    Published: 6/11/2025
  18. Dixon is the new Lawro, Ange's logical next move & "where the dust mites dwell”

    Published: 6/9/2025
  19. Vivaldo, the "end to end" threshold & the authenticity of Lionel Messi's pub crisps

    Published: 6/5/2025
  20. Tom Cruise on short corners, VAR at Tesco and introducing... Dreamland

    Published: 6/2/2025

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