6 JUN 2022 · Our farewell tour countdown of Mexico 86 goals continues Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

24 MAR 2022 · Lee, Mike and Gary are here to chat through the next five goals in the Mexico 86 Top 20 rundown. This episode is part of our farewell tour and was originally content for patrons of the pod, hence some of the confusing references to such things at times. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

17 FEB 2022 · In the first gig of our farewell tour, Rob and Gary get detailed with Des as they cast their eye over the BBC's Top 20 Goals at Mexico 86. With just an hour at their disposal, they bravely manage to cover the first five on the list (well, they do go a little off-piste at times), with their favourite no surprise - who doesn't love an unemployed Brazilian right back?  Here's a link to the goals - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPtCxH7tuKo - we'll cover the remaining 15 over the next few pods. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

29 AUG 2021 · Gary Naylor chats to Tom Whitworth about his book, When the Seagulls Follow the Trawler: Football in the 90s. They get into the thrills and spills of the tumultuous decade that saw the founding of the Premier League, the transformation of stadiums and Gareth Southgate disappoint us in a penalty shoot-out. Tom spoke to plenty of those who were there to witness and, indeed, to instigate the changes that reverberate down the years to today.https://www.pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/when-seagulls-follow-trawler See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

9 JUN 2021 · We're back for another Extra Time and with the rescheduled Euro 2020 on the way, Mike has a chat with the author of the definitive history of the tournament. Jonathan O'Brien is an editor and writer for the Business Post in Ireland, and has written the recently published Euro Summits: The Story of the UEFA European Championship 1960 to 2016. Mike and Jonathan chew the fat over the writing of the book, the origins of the tournament, the buried treasure in its history, its most famous moments and its place in the international football calendar.Covering 60 years of competition, almost 300 matches and some of the greatest stories in the history of football, it's a momentous work and one that we highly recommend you purchase. It was published by Pitch Publishing and is available here:Euro Summits: The Story of the Uefa European Championships 1960 to 2016 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

4 JUN 2021 · Our Gary talks to the much loved Pat Nevin about his new memoir, The Accidental Footballer, already a bestseller. En route, we hear about Tommy Tuchel and the alchemy of football management, why it really was better growing up on cinder pitches in the 70s and what it was like on the other side of the whitewash when Everton played Liverpool in the 1989 FA Cup Final.And why Gary thought Pat was lying next to him in bed. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

19 MAY 2021 · It’s a shift in focus in this episode as Nessun Dorma takes a look at the bottom half of the Premier League table, and the extraordinary denouement of the 1993-94 season.Gary, Mike and special guest Scott Murray pick over the bones of a dramatic final day scrap, with five teams fighting to avoid the two remaining passes through the trap door and into Division 1.Gary reflects on a remarkable comeback by Everton and his memories from the Gwladys Street End that day, as one of England’s grand old clubs sailed perilously close to the wind. Elsewhere we’ll lament the demise of Oldham, celebrate the most significant patch of Matt Le Tissier’s storied career and look at the shocking fall of Sheffield United, who were safe all day until the very last seconds at Stamford Bridge.There’s a lovely montage of the goals and changes in the table from that day here, with doors sliding all over the place: Premier League 1994 Last Day - Sheffield United relegatedOur Player of the Pod is Eric Gates, Ipswich Town’s man-in-the-hole before we really knew what the hole was. Paul Howarth joins us for a quick chat about the Tractor Boys' other beloved Geordie. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

10 MAY 2021 · We’re back with another Extra Time, our little offshoot that takes a broader look around the world of football culture. This week our guest is David Hartrick – publisher, podcaster and author of a fantastic new book, Silver Linings: Bobby Robson’s England.Mike sits down with David for an extended chat about the writing of the book, and an overview of Robson’s time in charge of the national side during the most turbulent decade in the history of English football. It’s a tenure that starts in disappointment and culminates with the cathartic rush of Italia ’90, with a whole lot more in between.We can’t recommend the book enough, and it’s available here: https://www.pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/silver-linings See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

11 APR 2021 · 25 years after that night at Anfield; Lee, Mike and special guest Scott Murray consider Keegan, Evans, Collymore closing in and all the other kamikaze football that formed perhaps the greatest match of our lifetimes. We reflect on the match's impact on the title race as well as our personal remembrances alongside an almost minute by minute admiration of the sheer quality on show.As usual we also select a Player of the Pod,with Brazilian icon of uber-cool Socrates our pick for this episode. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

12 MAR 2021 · Having looked at the Villa players individually, Lee, Gary and Mike return to discuss what they achieved collectively. The hors d’oeuvre is Villa’s first league title in 71 years, achieved after a Homeric tussle through the 1980-81 season with Bobby Robson’s Ipswich and using just 14(!) players.Follow that, as they say, and oh boy, did they. Villa then won the European Cup at the first time of asking in 1981-82, despite Tony Barton taking over from Ron Saunders halfway through the campaign, and then topped it off by beating Barcelona to win a comically violent European Super Cup final. We reflect on the legacy of these achievements and ask why this team seems to be so underappreciated in English football. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.