Podcast Episodes

We're Not Playing for Fun! Organized Workers' Soccer, Utopia (and Sobriety) between the World Wars - and the Message for Today

Season 3 Episode 56

Gabriel Kuhn is an Austrian writer and researcher who works for the Central Organization of Swedish Workers - and sat for an in-person interview (he has been on before when we talked about his wonder…

Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago

Part 2 – The Heart of St. Pauli, or: What Should We Then Sing? Soccer Clubs, Museums, and the Work of Remembering

Season 3 Episode 55

This is the second part of a two-part episode - the first part is here, episode 54, from March 31.

We will start at FC St. Pauli, now in the German Bundesliga, at the club’s museum which has very acti…

Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago

Part 1 – The Heart of St. Pauli, or: What Should We Then Sing? Soccer Clubs, Museums, and the Work of Remembering

Season 3 Episode 55

This is the first part of a two-part episode.

We will start at FC St. Pauli, now in the German Bundesliga, at the club’s museum which has very active researchers, and we’ll end at Real Madrid and Baye…

Published on 7 months, 1 week ago

Back to the Grassroots: The English Non-League Day on March 22nd

Season 3 Episode 54

If you are in England on the nice Spring weekend of March 22nd, I hope you didn’t book the trip to see a Premier League game. Because there are none. It’s a dreaded national team break again. But on …

Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago

Rush Omnibus! Behind the Scenes on the Recent Wins for Fan Activists in the Premier League - and recent Losses in Chicago

Season 3 Episode 54

Note: This is an unusual episode, in reaction to the events unfolding Thursday and Friday, with little time to edit or the usual setup. All sounds fine and is audible, but not as nice as usual. My ap…

Published on 8 months, 1 week ago

In the Way of the Chainsaw: Are Argentina's Famous Clubs to be Privatized?

Season 3 Episode 53

There is a lot to say about Argentina and football that we are not saying today. There is a lot about Argentina and football that we are saying today. We’re even saying things about saying things abo…

Published on 8 months, 3 weeks ago

State of the Unions: In the Heart of the European Union, at Royal Union St. Gilloise in Brussels

Season 3 Episode 52

The EU, Europe's great post-war peace project, can feel beleaguered today. Global and continental uncertainties collide, and things are complicated in Brussels, Belgium, the heart of the European Uni…

Published on 9 months, 1 week ago

Norwegian Cruise: No VAR Spotted Up and Down the Coast

Season 3 Episode 51

Norway is regularly listed among the "happiest countries in the world." It is one of the wealthiest too, and its not a country with revolutionary fervor. It’s not France. It’s not even Germany. Yet t…

Published on 9 months, 3 weeks ago

Deck the Halls and Turn the Tables: TAPoF as the interviewee (AI-translated from German)

Season 3 Episode 50

Thank you for making 50 Episodes of The Assistant professor of Football possible! Whether you celebrate anything this season or not, I hope these days are refreshing for you, hold people and emotions…

Published on 10 months, 2 weeks ago

SC Freiburg at 120: A New History Book, a New Stadium, and Good Old Modesty

Season 3 Episode 49

SC Freiburg, a former yoyo club from a pretty progressive town on the very southwestern edge of Germany is now firmly established in the Bundesliga. The club is 120 years old this year, and just a fe…

Published on 11 months ago