Episodes

  • Behind the curtain of the beautiful game

    Behind the curtain of the beautiful game
    May 6 2024
    We’re joined in the Centre Circle today by Callum McFadden, author of Behind The Curtain Of The Beautiful Game.

    Callum’s first book features a string of fascinating interviews with characters involved in football, from players, coaches and managers through to referees, commentators and TV producers. Interviewees include Roy Hodgson, Martin O’Neill, Norman Whiteside, Matt Le Tissier, Les Ferdinand, Martin Tyler, Jeff Stelling and many more.

    Callum has generously donated the profits from the book to Man On! Inverclyde, a well-being and suicide prevention charity, so you can enjoy a good read and benefit a good cause at the same time.
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    54 mins
  • Seasons in the Sun: West Brom 1930/31

    Seasons in the Sun: West Brom 1930/31
    May 1 2024
    It’s football’s greatest achievement that you’ve probably never heard of. In 1930/31, West Bromwich Albion won promotion from the Second Division and, if that wasn’t enough, they won the FA Cup as well. It was the first time that double had ever been done, it hasn’t been done since, and I think we can safely wager the TFT family silver on it never being done again.

    We’re joined by members of Albion’s extended royal family, Paul and Ben Wood, who are, respectively, grandson and great-grandson of Stan Wood, the Throstles’ left winger who played a huge part in that season, playing 50 games and scoring 17 goals as his side won a unique double.
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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • A Tale of Two Decades: the 1970s and 80s

    A Tale of Two Decades: the 1970s and 80s
    Apr 28 2024
    Our epic trawls through the 1970s and 80s are finally at an end, so in one final effort to keep the franchise going, Steven Scragg and Dave Bowler meet to debate the merits and otherwise of the two decades. Alex Ireland bravely takes on the Jack Taylor/Keith Hackett role. Maggie Thatcher, you took one hell of a beating.
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    1 hr and 15 mins
  • A decade of 80s football: sins and omissions

    A decade of 80s football: sins and omissions
    Apr 24 2024
    In the decade that will never die, the 1980s team reunite one last time (probably) for a bit of whataboutery? Some listeners have pointed out a few of the stones that were left unturned in the course of the series, so everyone has reconvened to debate Aberdeen, Chelsea, the legendary summit between Keith Burkinshaw and César Luis Menotti. Thoughts eventually turn, of course, to Peter Hucker, Gary Bailey and Mirandinha.
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    1 hr and 26 mins
  • FA Cup giant-killers: QPR vs West Brom, 1982

    FA Cup giant-killers: QPR vs West Brom, 1982
    Apr 21 2024
    Second Division played First at Highbury in 1982, and it was the lower tier side who came out on top, Terry Venables piloting a way to the FA Cup final for his side in a game where West Brom simply couldn’t get going. Dave Bowler relives a teenage nightmare in the company of Steven Scragg and Bill Hern.
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    50 mins
  • Euro 84: the greatest tournament you never saw

    Euro 84: the greatest tournament you never saw
    Apr 18 2024
    Join us as we talk to TFT’s very own Aidan Williams about his new book, Euro 1984: The Greatest Tournament You Never Saw. As the title suggests, here in the UK we missed most of the tournament when the TV companies chose to ignore it after none of the home nations qualified. So let us fill you in on just what happened 40 years ago.
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    2 hrs and 12 mins
  • Hillsborough III, with Andrew Knott

    Hillsborough III, with Andrew Knott
    Apr 15 2024
    On the 35th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster, we conclude our conversations by talking to Andrew Knott, the man behind the Anfield crowd mosaics. Andrew takes us through his experiences as one of those who made it onto the pitch from the Leppings Lane terraces, where he would help ferry stricken supporters from the scene on makeshift stretchers, exposed as he was to some of the worst images of the day.
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    46 mins
  • Hillsborough II, with Peter Scarfe

    Hillsborough II, with Peter Scarfe
    Apr 15 2024
    On the 35th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster, we continue our personal reflections as Peter Scarfe speaks about his experiences on the terraces at Leppings Lane on 15 April 1989. Peter, the co-creator and chair of the Hillsborough Survivors Support Alliance (HSA) also talks about the invaluable work that the HSA undertakes, and the lasting effects the disaster wrought on those who were involved in, and witnessed, the day.
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    50 mins