WHEN SKY INVENTED FOOTBALL
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WHEN SKY INVENTED FOOTBALL
Adrian Goldberg founded Britain's first national football fanzine Off The Ball in 1985. Now he's back with a fan's eye view of the modern game. There'll be a film documentary too, so stay tuned.
Recent Episodes
23 episodes
SOUND OF THE CROWD
What's the meaning of football without live spectators? And how much is the experience of being in a crowd part of the joy of the game? Adrian and Jo...
COMING IN FROM THE COLD: FOOTBALL AND RACISM, PAST AND PRESENT
Andrew Spence shares the story of his Talk Sport documentary series and podcast Coming In From The Cold which tells the history of black footballers i...
PPV AND THE RICK PARRY REVOLUTION
Should football fans have to pay £14.95 to watch their team's match on pay per view TV when stadiums are closed because of Coronavirus? And how credi...
BURY AFC: GOALS GALORE; FOOTY ON TV
Adrian and John are joined for this episode by Gareth Castick, one of the directors of Bury AFC, a fan-owned club starting at the base of the football...
A MANIFESTO FOR ENGLISH FOOTBALL
Adrian is preaching nothing short of a football revolution in this episode, with a Manifesto for English Football, and argues for the creation of what...
ENGLISH FOOTBALL'S CHINA CRISIS
As the UK and China drift towards a diplomatic Cold War, what will be the knock-on effect for English football, which has attracted numerous Chinese i...
THE CURIOUS CASE OF WIGAN ATHLETIC; AND FOOTBALL'S HOMEGROWN HEROES
In this episode Adrian and John discuss the plight of Wigan Athletic who have been put into administration without warning after ownership of the club...
AN APPRECIATION OF SCOTTISH FOOTBALL; AND HOMOPHOBIA LIVES
Adrian and John are joined by writer Daniel Gray in an appreciation of Scottish football. Daniel is the editor of the Scottish football periodical Nu...
MARCUS RASHFORD; BLM; AND FOOTY ON TV
For this episode Adrian and John are joined by Alyson Walsh (@fairfloozie) Commercial Director of Fare Share who gives the inside story on Marcus Rash...
FOOTBALL LADS AND SUNDERLAND TILL WE DIE
Adrian Goldberg and John Nicholson are joined by Tom Walsh from the Wise Men Say podcast to discuss the the future of Sunderland Football Club, amid f...
MANCHESTER CITY AND FINANCIAL FAIR PLAY
Adrian Goldberg and John Nicholson discuss Manchester City's appeal against a two year European ban for breaching UEFA's Financial Fair Play regulatio...
SAVING FOOTBALL AS WE KNOW IT: PART TWO
Adrian Goldberg and John Nicholson discuss radical proposals by Conservative MP Damian Collins aimed at saving financially ailing Football League club...
SAVING FOOTBALL AS WE KNOW IT: DAMIAN COLLINS MP
"We may only have a few weeks to save football in this country as we know it” warns Damian Collins MP - who has come up with a radical new plant to sa...
JOHN NICHOLSON: CAN WE HAVE OUR FOOTBALL BACK
Football writer and Middlebrough sufferer John Nicholson talks about his book Can We Have Our Football Back, a stinging polemic against the Premier Le...
SURVIVORS? PORT VALE AND THE ZERO INCOME GAME
Port Vale co-Chair Carol Shanahan explains how her club will move forward following the unanimous decision to immediately end the League Two season (a...
BRADFORD FIRE/F.A."DISRESPECT"
35 years on from the Bradford City fire which killed 56 football fans, Adrian Goldberg discusses the lessons learned and the opportunities missed with...
PROJECT RESTART - AND THE NULL AND VOID DILEMMA
As the Coronavirus lockdown continues the Premier League has launched Project Restart in a desperate attempt to resume playing. Unless the season con...
"NO WAY F.A."
While the Premier League and EFL are looking forward to a resumption of football after the peak of Coronavirus - behind closed doors if necessary - hu...
NEWCASTLE AND CHARLTON: TAKEOVER TRAUMAS
Should there be rigorous testing of who is a fit and proper person to run a football club? The idea was mooted more than 30 years ago in the Off The B...
WORLD CUP FOR SALE?
Did Russia and Qatar buy off officials from football's world governing body FIFA to secure the right to host the World Cup? Both countries deny any wr...
FOOTBALL'S FURLOUGH FOLLIES
Some of the wealthiest owners in English football - including Mike Ashley of Newcastle and Joe Lewis at Spurs - have earned criticism for relying on t...
CORONAVIRUS F.C.
How does English football deal with the aftermath of the Coronovirus Pandemic of 2020? A plan to null and void the season at lower levels of the men'...
INTO THE VALLEY - HOW CHARLTON FANS GOT THEIR CLUB BACK
In the late 80's and 90's Charlton Athletic Fans organised as a political party to save their clubs and return it to its spiritual home The Valley. I...