Podcast Episodes

North Korea's top-secret football league – Plus Wrexham's Hollywood owners in Colombia & The Sweeper's new shirt

In North Korea, even football is shrouded in secrecy.

Fixtures in the DPRK Premier League aren’t published. Fans only find out matches are happening w…

2 days, 2 hours ago

Football at the top of the world – Plus a family feud in El Salvador & a Dutch team banned from playing away

Bodø/Glimt continued their sensational debut UEFA Champions League campaign by beating Italian giants Inter in the Arctic Circle – after 80 tons of s…

1 week, 2 days ago

Brazil’s rainforest rivalry, Myanmar’s unbeatable powerhouse & Bougainville’s push for independence

The most-played match in world football has been contested nearly 1,000 times – yet most fans have never heard of it.

Join us on a journey to a tropic…

2 weeks, 2 days ago

Viktor Orban’s football powerplay, Copa Libertadores expansion & Chinese Super League sanctions

A sleepy town of 22,000 people in southern Slovakia is home to a top-flight football club that is challenging for national titles and boasts an ultra…

3 weeks, 2 days ago

Qarabag’s Champions League heroics, Benfica’s goalkeeper goal & Kazakhstan’s Borat arrests

Qarabağ have made Champions League history this season, becoming the first Azerbaijani club to ever reach the knockout stages of the competition – an…

1 month ago

The Finnish Cup: Round 0, incredible club names & an unusual trophy twin

Christmas has come and gone, but for Santa Claus – the football club that is, not the man with the beard – the other big moment of the year is fast a…

1 month ago

Luxembourg’s stadium-building president, double Dutch cup trophies & Olympic Charleroi’s total chaos

In just three seasons, a small-town club from central Luxembourg have gone from third-tier obscurity to challenging for the top-flight title.

At th…

1 month, 1 week ago

Oceania’s first pro competition, the ex-Bundesliga burger flipper & Mali’s AFCON fetish priest

In Part 1, Lee & Paul preview the inaugural OFC Pro League – the first fully professional football competition in Oceania’s history – which kicks off…

1 month, 3 weeks ago

India’s Super League crisis, the utterly mental Polish Ekstraklasa & Christmas Island’s red crabs

In Part 1, Lee and Paul are joined by Asia correspondent John Duerden to cast a look at some huge stories across the continent – in India, Malaysia a…

2 months, 1 week ago

Quebec's Athletic Bilbao, Guadeloupe's 4-point per win rule & Norway's naked cup winner

In Part 1, Lee and Paul take a deep dive into Canadian football, including the national team's World Cup draw, Vancouver Whitecaps' incredible campai…

2 months, 3 weeks ago