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These Football Times

These Football Times

Traversing the world of football in search of the stories that matter, brought to you by expert journalists and guests. Check out our print magazine.

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73:52

Seasons in the Sun: Manchester United 2007/08

These Football Times ·

2023/10/18

Seasons In The Sun sees a guest bringing one campaign from their supporting life to the dissection table. In this episode, Alex Ireland talks about Manchester United’s epic 2007/08 campaign that culminated in Premier League and Champions League glory. Steven Scragg and Dave Bowler wield the scalpels.

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68:38

Football’s Black Pioneers. Episode 3: Barbados

These Football Times ·

2023/10/14

The contribution of Barbados to English football falls under the spotlight in the third episode of our series marking Black History Month. Steven Scragg and Dave Bowler are again joined by Bill Hern and David Gleave, authors of Football’s Black Pioneers, along with special guest Roland Butcher. Roland might be better known as England’s first black cricketer but he was also Stevenage’s first black footballer and enjoyed a lengthy coaching career in the game, working at clubs such as Arsenal and

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77:25

The Mount Rushmore Debates: the 1970s

These Football Times ·

2023/10/12

Following on from our series on the 1970s, we’ve one final visit to the decade as Steven Scragg, Dr David Turner and Dave Bowler offer their choice of the goalkeeper, defender, midfielder, striker and manager who should be chiselled onto the decade’s Mount Rushmore. Lord Chief Justice Gary Thacker presides over the court.

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77:35

FIFA, VAR, UEFA and other acronyms …

These Football Times ·

2023/10/10

Tackling this week’s thorny topics, Gary Thacker, Aidan Williams and Paul Mc Parlan run the rule over FIFA’s future World Cup plans, the coming of a UK & Ireland Euros, the FA Cup’s final qualifying round and plenty more, including a tribute to international football’s longest serving warrior, Ildefons Lima Solà of Andorra.

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83:13

Football’s Black Pioneers. Episode 2: Jamaica

These Football Times ·

2023/10/08

In the second episode of a special series marking Black History Month, Steven Scragg and Dave Bowler are again joined by Bill Hern and David Gleave, authors of Football’s Black Pioneers, along with special guest Matt Tiller. Matt was the founder of the Jack Leslie campaign and has produced a biography of the great man. As well as talking about Jack, there’s plenty of discussion of Lindy Delaphena, Tony Cunningham, John Barnes and many other footballing giants with their roots on the island of

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100:48

The Eastern European Chronicles

These Football Times ·

2023/10/05

Not one but two new These Football Times magazines are out, both centred on the wonderful, intriguing world of football from Eastern Europe. From the Hungarians of 1954 to the Croatians of ’98, through the romance of Dinamo Tblisi to the majesty and pragmatism of Red Star (and a whole lot more besides), Aidan Williams, Steven Scragg and Dave Bowler take a flick through the magazines’ sumptuous content.

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69:49

VAR (again!), a 13-year-old debutant and Friday...

These Football Times ·

2023/10/03

Another glorious weekend for VAR comes under the microscope but Rob Fletcher, Steven Scragg and Matthew Gibbs also cast the net further afield, taking in 13-year-old debutant, the plight of Sheffield Wednesday, Scunthorpe and Reading, and a Friday morning YouTube addiction for following the twists and turns of the J League.

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74:11

Football’s Black Pioneers, Episode 1: Africa

These Football Times ·

2023/09/30

In the first of a new series for Black History Month, Steven Scragg and Dave Bowler talk to Bill Hern and David Gleave, authors of Football’s Black Pioneers about the role of black footballers in the English and the wider game, their successes and their struggles. In the first episode, we look at players from Africa.

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60:03

The Mount Rushmore Debates: The Euros

These Football Times ·

2023/09/26

The European Championship is the playing field for the Mount Rushmore debate this time around as Aidan Williams, Steven Scragg and Dave Bowler argue for their choices to be immortalised on the rockface. Gary Thacker sits in judgement on the goalkeeper, defender, midfielder, striker and manager that best represents the history of the competition.

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73:34

Questions from around the English game ...

These Football Times ·

2023/09/25

Will Manchester City become the first club to win four top flight titles in a row in English football history? Is Leicester's promotion to the Premier League a foregone conclusion? Will Harry Kane’s Bavarian adventure ignite a run to the European Championship title for England? Why is the League Cup so maligned? These questions and more are answered – possibly incorrectly – by Rob Fletcher, John Dunn and Dave Bowler on this week’s podcast.

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72:33

Ange, McKenna, transformative coaches and more

These Football Times ·

2023/09/18

The power of transformative coaches comes under the spotlight in this week’s podcast as Rob Fletcher, Dr David Turner and Dave Bowler put Ange Postecoglou and Kieran McKenna under the microscope. With the academic year just starting, we compare and contrast Manchester United and Brighton’s approach to team building, ruminate on the state of football politics, look at how Burnley’s Women might bring the Turf Moor club another promotion to celebrate this term and, whatever Garth Crooks says about

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92:56

Wrapping up a decade of 1970s football

These Football Times ·

2023/09/13

Our season-by-season trawl through the greatest decade ever might be over, but we couldn’t resist one last chance to come over all Jerry Springer and reflect on what we’ve learned. Great games, great names and great moments of the 70s are recalled along with a reflection on the decade’s enduring impact on football’s sociology and politics. And there’s one last chance for Karl Marx to win a lounge suite.

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87:15

Home thoughts from abroad ...

These Football Times ·

2023/09/11

An international weekend allows Steven Scragg, Rob Fletcher and Alex Ireland to reflect on life in the Championship and League Two thus far, as well as looking at Euro 2024 qualifying to date. Is Gareth Southgate heading into his final tournament and, if so, should he look to go out in a blaze of glory? Will Luxembourg make it to a major tournament at last? And will Jude Bellingham ever play in the Premier League?

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109:01

A decade of 1970s football: the 1978/79 season

These Football Times ·

2023/09/08

The final season of the 1970s as an epic decade goes out in epic style with a magisterial title win for Liverpool, a European Cup for Nottingham Forest and the sighting of the first of an oncoming foreign invasion through the advance guard of Muhren, Thijssen, Ardiles, Villa, Tarantini et al. Elsewhere, the season is disfigured by the big freeze, we crown Colin Barrett as the most significant player of the campaign, and we fearlessly take you inside the microclimate created at Walsall’s Fellows

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66:00

Bedsheets & Ballyhoo: an incredible summer and...

These Football Times ·

2023/09/04

The new season has started, the transfer window has (mostly) closed, and football fans around the land are either daring to dream or are already looking out the bedsheets on which to scrawl fruity protests about their owners or managers. Steven Scragg and our deadline day signing Rob Fletcher reflect on the Women’s World Cup, the transfer window, the coming of Saudi Arabian football, and look ahead to what might be on the horizon in 2023/24.

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115:17

A decade of 1970s football: the 1977/78 season

These Football Times ·

2023/08/30

Now then, young man, Brian Clough is back. Cloughie takes Nottingham Forest to the top of the First Division, to a League Cup final win and to within a whisker of a first ever domestic treble, but Ron Greenwood beats him to the England job - to the relief of the City Ground faithful. Liverpool retain the European Cup, Ipswich capture a first FA Cup, and West Brom’s John Wile gets a rotten headache.

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113:38

A decade of 1970s football: the 1976/77 season

These Football Times ·

2023/08/23

The 1970s continue to produce moments that echo half a century later. Liverpool are denied the treble by Manchester United but content themselves with a first European Cup and the retention of their league title, as Kevin Keegan heads off into the sunset. Clive Thomas looms large for Evertonians, Don Revie packs his bucket and spade and trades England for the UAE, and there’s skulduggery aplenty at Highfield Road in an end of season relegation battle.

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103:01

A decade of 1970s football: the 1975/76 season

These Football Times ·

2023/08/14

There’s a new name at the top of the First Division as QPR go toe-to-toe with Bob Paisley’s Liverpool for the title, and a new name on the FA Cup with Southampton seeing off Manchester United at Wembley. England start to stutter under Don Revie and a manager who will one day follow him into that job starts to make his reputation at Lincoln City. Steven Scragg and Gary Thacker are joined by Dr David Turner, a senior lecturer in Sports Coaching at Anglia Ruskin University, a member of the Cambridge

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78:14

The Mount Rushmore Debates: FIFA World Cup

These Football Times ·

2023/08/11

Prior to Gary Thacker getting out the chisel for the World Cup version of Mount Rushmore - just where does he find all these untouched mountainscapes incidentally? - Pete Watson, Matthew Gibbs and Dave Bowler offer up varied cases for just which goalkeeper, defender, midfielder, striker and manager has left the greatest impression on the World Cup since 1970. See if you agree with Gary’s selections …

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105:31

A decade of 1970s football: the 1974/75 season

These Football Times ·

2023/08/08

Another tumultuous season beckons as Don Revie struggles to get a tune out of England, Brian Clough finds life at Leeds even tougher, Derby win the title as just seven points separate the top eight, Manchester United go up, Chelsea go down and Billy Bremer and Kevin Keegan get naked for charity.

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