189 Episodes

  1. ”Snuffing out the danger", pre-match strolling & drinking the opposition's water: The listeners' loves & hates

    Published: 3/27/2025
  2. 90/10 tackles, Danish player ratings & how to board a train like a 30-goal striker

    Published: 3/25/2025
  3. Woke metrics, Erling Haaland's Pro Evo name & our niche England predictions

    Published: 3/20/2025
  4. The Carabao springboard, more musical commentary & the most Richard Keys-sounding tweet of all time

    Published: 3/18/2025
  5. Knowing your way around the Champions League, German woodwork & England's future one-cap wonders

    Published: 3/13/2025
  6. The whole 11.2 yards, DNA-level Lampardian Transitions - and Keys & Gray become one

    Published: 3/11/2025
  7. The Pure Discourse XI

    Published: 3/6/2025
  8. How to time a red card, penalty run-ups & commentator Robyn Cowen voice-controls a stadium

    Published: 3/4/2025
  9. The Football Cliches Quiz XVIII: It Was What It Was

    Published: 2/27/2025
  10. Champions-elect, relegated Rishi Sunak & Premier League managers with Athletic subscriptions

    Published: 2/25/2025
  11. How to celebrate an own goal & ball-boy etiquette: The listeners' loves & hates

    Published: 2/20/2025
  12. Chuckling stadiums, Things-in-Chief and, finally, some actual whispering of it quietly

    Published: 2/18/2025
  13. Crosses from the 1990s, baseball scores & the death of the managerial "war cry”

    Published: 2/13/2025
  14. Nursery rhymes with Fletch, Clark Kent goalkeeping & under-12s away-day cauldrons

    Published: 2/11/2025
  15. The Football Cliches Quiz XVII: The Commentators

    Published: 2/6/2025
  16. The "17th chess piece", the death of the onion bag & coded messages to the board

    Published: 2/4/2025
  17. Referees vs The Limelight, passages of terror & Matt 1 Hernia 0

    Published: 1/30/2025
  18. "Football, bloody football", UK garage Postecoglou & the exact weight of a Premier League point

    Published: 1/28/2025
  19. Cometh the quinquennium, cometh the pod

    Published: 1/23/2025
  20. Has the Premier League hit peak “What a job [Manager X] is doing up/down there?”

    Published: 1/20/2025

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