An in-depth discussion with on how Liverpool produced a domestic season of such quality that it remains one of the greatest in English history
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The Lob is a podcast by These Football Times looping through the ages of football, discussing the best names, games, teams and eras in the sport’s elongated history, with a bit of current affairs and coaching thrown in for good measure.
My Side: how Howard Kendall’s Everton broke Liverpool’s stranglehold on the domestic game in 1984/85
Senior writer Paul Mc Parlan, who watched Everton all season, discusses how Howard Kendall built one of the Toffees’ greatest sides in 1984/85
Academy Award-winning director and the man behind Senna and Amy discusses his new film Maradona, and insight into the Argentine’s turbulent time in Napoli
Author and journalist David Díaz Bejarano returns to discuss the interaction of football and politics before, during and after World War Two
The 1982 World Cup was a tournament of legendary highs, great games, wonderful goals and endless controversy, as author Gary Jordan explains
The FA Cup final, once the centrepiece of the football season and the game kids dreamed of scoring the winning goal in, is now largely an afterthought
Author and journalist David Díaz Bejarano focuses on the interaction of football and politics before, during and after World War One
Journalist and author Euan McTear recalls Spain’s greatest vintage – their 2010 World Cup winners who defied the weight of history – for My Side
An in-depth discussion on Ajax’s third successive European Cup-winning campaign for My Side, a celebration of the best teams we’ve ever seen
Political Football launches into series three with a look at contemporary Spain and, in particular, the issue of potential independence for Catalunya
Welcome to a new series – My Side – discussing writers’ and fans’ greatest teams over the years. First up is Newcastle’s 1995/96 vintage
Thomas Gravesen was loved by the supporters of the teams he served, and underappreciated by the wider breadth of football
Author Daniel Gray returns to the Centre Circle to discuss another of his wonderfully evocative books, Saturday, 3pm, and 50 delights of the modern game
With Euro 2020 qualifiers about to begin – six months later than usual due to the advent of the Nation League – what’s better for the continental game?
In an era of African academies popping up all over the continent, selling talent to Europe, is it detrimental to the domestic game and national teams?
He founded a club in Latvia, a successful women’s team, seen the fallout of Robert Mugabe’s crumbling regime and been to six World Cups. Meet Justin Walley
Join guest Peter Galindo as he guides us through the murky waters of Peruvian football and reveals the bribery, corruption and seething political intrigue
Join our hosts as they talk to Jeff Goulding, author of Stanley Park Story, the modern benchmark and successor to the football “faction” greats