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In Inverting the Pyramid, Jonathan Wilson pulls apart the finer details of the world's game, tracing the global history of tactics, from modern pioneers right back to the beginning when chaos reigned. Along the way, he looks at the lives of great players and thinkers who shaped the sport and probes why the English, in particular, have 'proved themselves unwilling to grapple with the abstract'.

'ABSORBING' Guardian 'ENTHRALLING' New Statesman 'EPIC' Evening Standard 'INESCAPABLE' The Sunday Times 'MAGISTERIAL' Irish Examiner Fully revised and updated, the definitive history of Argentinian football from the award-winning author of Inverting the Pyramid Alfredo Di Stefano, Diego Maradona...

Crystal Palace Football Club have been in existence for 120 years. For most of them, nothing much happened. Then, in May 2025, they won the FA Cup for the first time in their history.Eagles Through the Ages tells the full story — from the club's founding in 1905 in the grounds of the original Crystal Palace building, through the wilderness years in the Fourth Division, the Malcolm Allison rebrand that turned the Glaziers into Eagles, the Venables era, the FA Cup final of 1990, two administrations, the fans who saved the club, the Wilfried Zaha decade, and the May afternoon at Wembley when ...

Spurs Through the Ages is a ten-episode narrative podcast series telling the complete history of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club — from schoolboys on Tottenham Marshes in 1882 to the Europa League triumph in Bilbao in 2025. Each episode is thirty minutes, built around six segments: an introduction, historical context, the main narrative, a Player of the Era portrait, a Fan's Eye View, and an outro.The series is structured to give each of Spurs' great eras its own episode. The golden age of the 1960s — the Double, the Cup Winners' Cup, the Greaves years — receives special attention, as ...

17th September 2020 marks the centenary of the National Football League. It reaches that landmark as a behemoth, an all-encompassing conglomerate that is the most lucrative sports league in the world - and also the dominant pop culture entity in the United States. The NFL is also making considerable gains worldwide. The International Series has been heading to London since 2007 with incredible sell-outs at the four games in 2019 at Wembley and the Tottenham Hotspur Stadiums. 

There is a case to be made — and this podcast will make it — that no club in England has a richer, stranger, or more consequential history than Arsenal Football Club. Not the most successful, though they have been among the most decorated. Not the most supported, though they are among the most watched. But the most historically dense, the most institutionally interesting, the most revealing about what English football actually is and how it came to be the thing it is.They began as workers. They moved across a city. They produced the first great football manager of the modern era. They won ...

Irons Through the Ages is a ten-episode history of West Ham United, told from the very beginning.From a shipyard on the Thames in 1895 to Prague in 2023. Bobby Moore and the 1966 World Cup. Clyde Best. The 1980 FA Cup. Paolo Di Canio. The farewell to Upton Park. And Jarrod Bowen's ninetieth-minute winner that ended a fifty-eight-year wait for a European trophy.128 years. One club. Come on you Irons.

This wide-ranging history synthesizes scholarship and media sources to give the listener an inside view of the television contracts, labor issues, and other off-the-field forces that shaped the National Football League. Historian Richard Crepeau shows how Commissioner Pete Rozelle's steady leadership guided the league's explosive growth during the era of Monday Night Football and the Super Bowl's transformation into a mid-winter spectacle.

There is a ground in Shepherd's Bush, pressed so tightly against the surrounding terraced houses that on matchdays the roar from inside it reverberates off bedroom windows. It seats just over seventeen thousand people. It is called Loftus Road. And the club that plays there — Queens Park Rangers — has one of the most extraordinary, improbable, and quietly heroic histories in English football.QPR Through the Ages is a ten-episode series covering the full arc of that history, from the club's peculiar founding in 1882 — the product not of one moment but of twelve separate clubs merging over...

From its early amateur days played in the Corinthian Spirit, Preston North End's "Invincibles" of 1888 and great players like Stanley Matthews and Pelé, to the Premier League glory days of Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsène Wenger, A History of Football is the story of the dominant teams, memorable occasions, and larger-than-life characters that shaped the game throughout its development. For all lovers of the beautiful game, this is an essential reference to its 150-year history.

When John Houlding lost an argument about rent with the Everton committee in the spring of 1892, he did the only logical thing: he founded his own football club on the ground they vacated. He called it Liverpool. It would go on to win twenty league championships and six European Cups — and yet the road from that petty Victorian dispute to the summit of world football runs through places no supporter would have chosen to visit.Reds Through the Ages tells that story across ten episodes, each covering a coherent chapter in the club's history. It begins with the founding and the early titles, ...

There is a statue outside Old Trafford of three men: George Best, Denis Law, and Bobby Charlton. The Holy Trinity, as Manchester supporters call them. It is a good statue. But it does not tell you about the railway workers who founded the club in 1878 and played in green and gold on a patch of ground near the depot. It does not tell you about Major, the St Bernard dog who wandered from a fundraising bazaar into the home of a Manchester brewer — and whose journey saved the club from bankruptcy and set in motion the chain of events that produced the name Manchester United. It does not tell you...

Boro Through the Ages is a ten-part podcast history of Middlesbrough Football Club, tracing one hundred and forty-nine years of football on Teesside — from the winter kick-about in Albert Park in 1876 that accidentally started it all, to the Riverside Stadium in 2025 and the cautious optimism of the Michael Carrick era.Each thirty-minute episode follows the same format: historical context, main narrative, a Player of the Era portrait, and a fan voice from the terraces — placing the club's story not just in footballing terms but in the life of the town that made it. Middlesbrough is ...

Most football clubs are founded by people who want to play football. Chelsea Football Club was founded by a man who wanted somewhere to put a stadium.In 1904, Gus Mears — businessman, entrepreneur, West London millionaire — acquired the Stamford Bridge athletics ground in Fulham with a simple ambition: to turn it into a football ground and lease it to an existing club. The existing club he had in mind was Fulham FC, already established just a short walk away at Craven Cottage. Fulham said no. And so, in March 1905, in an upstairs room of The Rising Sun pub on the Fulham Road, Mears and his...

Leyton Orient were founded in 1881 by a cricket club in East London. They named themselves after a shipping company. They have spent most of their existence in the lower reaches of the Football League, winning nothing that anybody outside of E10 would consider significant.They have also survived two world wars, a string of financial disasters, an Italian owner who appointed eleven managers in three years, and relegation from the Football League after 112 consecutive years of membership.Orient Through the Ages is a ten-episode series — roughly thirty minutes each — covering the full history...

🎙️ Welcome to The History of the FIFA World Cup (FWC) podcast, 🌍⚽ where we bring you an in-depth exploration of the most prestigious football tournament on the planet. Each episode, we’ll transport you back in time, from the inaugural World Cup in 1930 🏆 to the modern-day global spectacle, unraveling the rich history, unforgettable matches, and legendary players 👑 that have left their mark on football history.Since football is truly the world’s sport, 🌎 we bring this podcast to you in 7 different languages: 🇬🇧 English, 🇨🇳 Mandarin, 🇮🇳 Hindi, 🇪🇸 ...

The first fifty years of America's most popular spectator sport have been strangely neglected by historians claiming to tell the "complete story" of pro football. Well, here are the early stories that "complete story" has left out. What about the awful secret carried around by Sid Luckman, the Bears' Hall of Fame quarterback whose father was a mobster and a murderer? Or Steve Hamas, who briefly played in the NFL then turned to boxing and beat Max Schmeling, conqueror of Joe Louis?

We look at the most monumental trade in NFL History and everything that brought us to it in this exploration of Secret Football History. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This show traces the history of the Dayton Triangles from the formation of its nucleus at what is now the University of Dayton through its 25th anniversary in 1941. Along the way, we’ll meet colorful characters and unsung heroes. I hope to give you a sense of what life and football were like 100 years ago.

The Football History Dude is a show dedicated to teaching fans about the rich history of the NFL and other professional football leagues. Each episode your host, Arnie Chapman, asks you to him and a guest in his Delorean and go back in time with him to explore the yesteryear of the gridiron.