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2/2 England's State of Emergency - and Football's: Book Talk with the venerable David Goldblatt

Season 4 Episode 66

This is PART 2 of a two-part episode. The 1st part aired two weeks ago, and is the most recent on on the Assistant Professor of Football. Please add a like, a comment, a star rating or spread the wor…

Published on 3 hours ago

1/2 England's State of Emergency - and Football's: Book Talk with the venerable David Goldblatt

Season 4 Episode 65

I was a little starstruck when David Goldblatt showed up on my screen today. His books have done very well for very good reason. You may have read The Game of Our Lives: The Meaning and Making of Eng…

Published on 2 weeks ago

No More BS: It's Boycotts this time, at West Ham

Season 4 Episode 64

It's a fall of unrest in East London again. Hammers United, the largest organized fan group at West Ham United, has so far refrained from calling on members of the board or the CEO to resign. Until n…

Published on 4 weeks ago

Behind the Scenes on a UEFA Conference League gameday, at Slovenian upstarts NK Celje

Season 4 Episode 63

Before the Conference League anthem came on in Celje Slovenia, one warm August night this year, today’s guest had a lot of work behind him already while I was was on my way via train, uber and rental…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Ivica Osim, Open Wounds (2/2): Live from Sarajevo, and from my own Story

Season 4 Episode 62

This is Part 2 of an unusual episode, on the move through countries, memories, wounds, war, peace and the beautiful game.

Sturm Graz is and was a workers club when I came to the club in the 90s, one y…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Ivica Osim, Open Wounds (1/2): A Roadcast through Bosnia, and through my own Story

Season 4 Episode 61

Sturm Graz is and was a workers club when I came to the club in the 90s, one year before Ivica Osim arrived. We knew he was a mathematician, soccer player and coach, and he knew workers clubs, from Ž…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

Berlin, Berlin! Hertha, Union, Babelsberg, TeBe, Tasmania, Türkyiemspor, Maccabi (+ an update from Freiburg and a bonus song on Viennese workers' football)

Season 4 Episode 60

Damiano Benzoni, Italian journalist and seasoned groundhopper, has written a wonderful book - an "emotive map of football in Berlin," a rich portrait of a city through the eyes of football. And when …

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Why Everyone from Söder Watches Women's Sports: The European Journey of Hammarby IF's Women

Season 3 Episode 59

Daniel and Romina are dear, longtime listeners of the podcast. Back in April, I sat down with them at their kitchen table in Stockholm to work out the story behind the many images that circulated onl…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

Summer Round-Up: Union St. Gill, Arminia Bielefeld, West Ham, Rayo Vallecano, Leeds United, Argentina

Season 3 Episode 58

With Ana Ascencao e Silva, Eva Lotta Bohle, Andy Payne, Alex Kirby, Paul Reidy, Wayne Gamble, Christopher Hylland - on their club's or cause's season, what happened since we talked, and what the outl…

Published on 5 months ago

A 98 Year-Old, Member-Run Soccer Club in America? Meet Fort Wayne S.C. Plus: Eurovision!

Season 3 Episode 57

Fort Wayne is a city of around 260,00 in the very east of the northern half of Indiana. Like many mid-sized midwestern cities, it has been shaped by the industrialization of the late 19th century,  i…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago