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This is Manchester United: The Lost Tapes. Stories about United's rich history, told in a way you've never heard before. Written by Wayne Barton, narrated by Patrick Barclay and Paul Ansorge, and produced by Ed Barker of Studio 1878.Episode One: CantonaEric Cantona’s arrival from Leeds United transformed Manchester United after a 25-year title drought, reshaping the club’s fortunes and igniting the Premier League’s imagination. Internal conflict at Leeds and Cantona’s infamous disciplinary issues under Howard Wilkinson, culminated in a startling twist when Leeds approached United about...

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...

Welcome to The Overlap's football history podcast, It Was What It Was.Each week Jonathan Wilson and Rob Draper will be talking about the key episodes in football history that have shaped the footballing world.The show will be discussing the best stories from football's past, giving insights to the personalities involved. the tales from behind the scenes and the impact they left.Join us at Football University!If you enjoy the podcast please hit subscribe to never miss an episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Bloomsbury presents Va-Va-Voom by Tom Williams, read by Luis Soto. ‘Excellent' – Simon Kuper, author of the bestselling FOOTBALL AGAINST THE ENEMY ‘The definitive story of how French football came of age’ – Christian Karembeu THE PLAYERS, THE TEAMS, THE GOALS, THE GAMES, THE SCANDALS...

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 ...

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 ...

Dive into the exhilarating journey of Brazilian football, a sport that transcends fields and unites a nation. From the humble beginnings of kicking a ball on sandy beaches to the roaring stadiums filled with fans singing in unison, this book unravels the rich tapestry of Brazil's football history.

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.

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...

Host Kehlan Kirwan and expert Gary Spain take a journey into the history of Irish football. From great players and famous national teams, to League of Ireland sides and individuals that graced the domestic league – they’ll bring some of the great stories of Irish football to you.

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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...

Hyperfocus FC is a football podcast exploring the World Cups that defined generations of fans.Hosted by Simon Scott, James Hepworth, and Jack Hoban, this four-part series looks back at five iconic FIFA World Cups—not just the football itself, but the eras that surrounded it. From unforgettable goals and legendary players to iconic kits, tournament songs, playground debates, and the changing culture of the game, each episode revisits the moments that made these tournaments impossible to forget.Covering Germany 2006, South Africa 2010, Brazil 2014, Russia 2018, and Qatar 2022, the series ...

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