Podcasts by 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.
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COMING IN FROM THE COLD: FOOTBALL AND RACISM, PAST AND PRESENT from 2020-10-20T11:00
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 in England. He's joined by Anne-Marie B...
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PPV AND THE RICK PARRY REVOLUTION from 2020-10-12T23:00
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 credible is a proposed bailout package for t...
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BURY AFC: GOALS GALORE; FOOTY ON TV from 2020-10-06T12:00
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 pyramid, after Bury FC were expelled from t...
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ENGLISH FOOTBALL'S CHINA CRISIS from 2020-07-20T21:00
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 investors and owners over recent years. Manc...
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THE CURIOUS CASE OF WIGAN ATHLETIC; AND FOOTBALL'S HOMEGROWN HEROES from 2020-07-07T10:00
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 was passed to a company registered in the C...
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AN APPRECIATION OF SCOTTISH FOOTBALL; AND HOMOPHOBIA LIVES from 2020-06-30T13:00
Adrian and John are joined by writer Daniel Gray in an appreciation of Scottish football. Daniel is the editor of the Scottish football periodical Nutmeg and wrote a book called Stramash, the s...
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MARCUS RASHFORD; BLM; AND FOOTY ON TV from 2020-06-23T17:00
For this episode Adrian and John are joined by Alyson Walsh (@fairfloozie) Commercial Director of Fare Share who gives the inside story on Marcus Rashford's successful social media campaign...
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FOOTBALL LADS AND SUNDERLAND TILL WE DIE from 2020-06-16T01:00
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 fears that a pledge to repay £20million in pa...
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MANCHESTER CITY AND FINANCIAL FAIR PLAY from 2020-06-09T00:00
Adrian Goldberg and John Nicholson discuss Manchester City's appeal against a two year European ban for breaching UEFA's Financial Fair Play regulations. They are joined by David Moon...
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SAVING FOOTBALL AS WE KNOW IT: PART TWO from 2020-06-01T22:00
Adrian Goldberg and John Nicholson discuss radical proposals by Conservative MP Damian Collins aimed at saving financially ailing Football League clubs in the aftermath of Coronavirus.
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SAVING FOOTBALL AS WE KNOW IT: DAMIAN COLLINS MP from 2020-05-29T18:00
"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 save clubs who might go out of business b...
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JOHN NICHOLSON: CAN WE HAVE OUR FOOTBALL BACK from 2020-05-25T23:00
Football writer and Middlebrough sufferer John Nicholson talks about his book Can We Have Our Football Back, a stinging polemic against the Premier League.
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SURVIVORS? PORT VALE AND THE ZERO INCOME GAME from 2020-05-18T22:00
Port Vale co-Chair Carol Shanahan explains how her club will move forward following the unanimous decision to immediately end the League Two season (apart from the play-offs) because of Coronavi...
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BRADFORD FIRE/F.A."DISRESPECT" from 2020-05-11T23:00
35 years on from the Bradford City fire which killed 56 football fans, Adrian Goldberg discusses the lessons learned and the opportunities missed with John Dewhirst, co founder of the Bantams&ap...
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PROJECT RESTART - AND THE NULL AND VOID DILEMMA from 2020-05-04T22:00
As the Coronavirus lockdown continues the Premier League has launched Project Restart in a desperate attempt to resume playing. Unless the season continues, their continued flow of TV revenue i...
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"NO WAY F.A." from 2020-04-27T23:00
While the Premier League and EFL are looking forward to a resumption of football after the peak of Coronavirus - behind closed doors if necessary - hundreds of non-league clubs are coming to ter...
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NEWCASTLE AND CHARLTON: TAKEOVER TRAUMAS from 2020-04-22T23:00
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 Ball fanzine, and in the years since then bot...
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WORLD CUP FOR SALE? from 2020-04-14T09:00
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 wrongdoing, but evidence recently present...
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FOOTBALL'S FURLOUGH FOLLIES from 2020-04-07T08:00
Some of the wealthiest owners in English football - including Mike Ashley of Newcastle and Joe Lewis at Spurs - have earned criticism for relying on taxpayer handouts to help pay the wages of th...
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CORONAVIRUS F.C. from 2020-03-31T08:00
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's and women's games has met with a...
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INTO THE VALLEY - HOW CHARLTON FANS GOT THEIR CLUB BACK from 2020-01-13T20:00
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. In the last five years, they'v...
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INTO THE VALLEY - HOW CHARLTON FANS GOT THEIR CLUB BACK from 2020-01-13T20:00
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. In the last five years, they'v...
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INTO THE VALLEY - HOW CHARLTON FANS GOT THEIR CLUB BACK from 2020-01-13T20:00
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. In the last five years, they'v...
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