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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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33:19

Icons: Zinedine Zidane

These Football Times ·

2025/03/13

Following the Icons magazine, lovingly detailing 60 of the game’s greatest names, we decided to delve a little deeper into some of them in this podcast series. Dave Bowler and Rob Fletcher bring a little je ne sais quoi to proceedings by discussing Zinedine Zidane.

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27:24

Icons: Michael Laudrup

These Football Times ·

2025/03/06

Following the Icons magazine, lovingly detailing 60 of the game’s greatest names, we decided to delve a little deeper into some of them in this podcast series. Rob Fletcher talks to Gary Thacker about one of the more unassuming figures among our icons, the great Dane, Michael Laudrup.

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57:17

What goes up must come down

These Football Times ·

2025/03/03

What goes up must come down? More than 350 years since Isaac Newton penned his laws of gravity, it appears to apply to the teams newly promoted to the Premier League as, for the second season running, all three new arrivals are struggling to avoid the immediate drop. Is this just a blip or the emergence of a new trend? Rob Fletcher and Dave Bowler investigate.

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31:48

Icons: Michel Platini

These Football Times ·

2025/03/01

Following the Icons magazine, lovingly detailing 60 of the game’s greatest names, we decided to delve a little deeper into some of them in this podcast series. Aidan Williams delves into the glorious career of Michel Platini the footballer; we’ll worry about the administrator another time.

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27:14

Icons: Andrea Pirlo

These Football Times ·

2025/02/20

Following the Icons magazine, lovingly detailing 60 of the game’s greatest names, we decided to delve a little deeper into some of them in this podcast series. Andrea Pirlo is up next as Dave Bowler discusses the hipster’s choice with Gary Thacker.

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33:57

Icons: Kevin Keegan

These Football Times ·

2025/02/13

Following the Icons magazine, lovingly detailing 60 of the game’s greatest names, we decided to delve a little deeper into some of them in this podcast series. Steven Scragg gives us chapter and verse on the career of Kevin Keegan.

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28:14

Icons: Eric Cantona

These Football Times ·

2025/02/06

Following the Icons magazine, lovingly detailing 60 of the game’s greatest names, we decided to delve a little deeper into some of them in this podcast series. Gary Thacker talks to Rob Fletcher about the man who ignited the Fergie era at Old Trafford, Eric Cantona.

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30:17

Icons: George Best

These Football Times ·

2025/01/30

Following the Icons magazine, lovingly detailing 60 of the game’s greatest names, we decided to delve a little deeper into some of them in this podcast series. Dave Bowler talks about a player who was Best by name and best by nature.

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28:58

Icons: Kenny Dalglish

These Football Times ·

2025/01/23

Following the Icons magazine, lovingly detailing 60 of the game’s greatest names, we decided to delve a little deeper into some of them in this podcast series. Connoisseur of all things Anfield, Steven Scragg, reflects on the career of Kenny Dalglish, on the field and off it.

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48:39

One Love: Chelsea

These Football Times ·

2025/01/20

Turning the tables for the final episode in the series, it’s Gary Thacker’s turn to talk about the team he supports, Chelsea. Why, best and worst moments, favourite players and those they’d like to forget plus the nuclear question: could you ever support anyone else? Blue is the colour as Paul Mc Parlan asks the questions.

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28:56

Icons: Ferenc Puskás

These Football Times ·

2025/01/17

Following the Icons magazine, lovingly detailing 60 of the game’s greatest names, we decided to delve a little deeper into some of them in this podcast series. Hungary’s Galloping Major, Ferenc Puskás, scourge of England, Billy Wright and Eintracht Frankfurt, is next up as Aidan Williams talks Rob Fletcher through a remarkable post-war career.

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44:41

One Love: West Brom

These Football Times ·

2025/01/12

Gary Thacker quizzes another member of the team about who they support. Why, best and worst moments, favourite players and those they’d like to forget plus the nuclear question: could you ever support anyone else? Chris Lepkowski ruminates on a life following West Bromwich Albion.

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30:06

Icons: Gerd Müller

These Football Times ·

2025/01/09

Following the Icons magazine, lovingly detailing 60 of the game’s greatest names, we decided to delve a little deeper into some of them in this podcast series. Der Bomber, Gerd Müller, a goalscorer so natural and so prolific that, in the end, you didn’t count his goals, you just weighed them. Dave Bowler and Rob Fletcher turn the clock back to the 70s and his dominance of the game.

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85:13

The Mount Rushmore Debates: FA Cup

These Football Times ·

2025/01/05

The Football Association’s Challenge Cup, with over 150 years of great names, huge stories and mighty giantkillers to choose from, means this episode of the Mount Rushmore Debates is perhaps our most eclectic. Aidan Williams, Steven Scragg and Dave Bowler try to convince Gary Thacker that their candidates are the most worthy to go up on the mountain.

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27:01

Icons: Ronaldo

These Football Times ·

2025/01/02

Following the Icons magazine, lovingly detailing 60 of the game’s greatest names, we decided to delve a little deeper into some of them in this podcast series. It’s the turn of R9, the real Ronaldo, to come under the microscope as Rob Fletcher explains his enduring admiration for the great Brazilian.

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89:37

A deep dive into all things Newcastle

These Football Times ·

2025/01/01

The latest club magazine from These Football Times delves into all things Newcastle United from the golden days of Hughie Gallacher in the 1920s, onto Jackie Milburn’s FA Cup exploits, Kevin Keegan’s entertainers, and Eddie Howe’s modern day Magpies, along with all points in between. To discuss the magazine, TFT’s resident member of the Toon Army, Aidan Williams, is joined by Steven Scragg and Dave Bowler.

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32:01

Icons: Johan Cruyff

These Football Times ·

2024/12/31

Following the Icons magazine, lovingly detailing 60 of the game’s greatest names, we decided to delve a little deeper into some of them in this podcast series. Kicking things off, Gary Thacker tells Rob Fletcher why Johan Cruyff deserves his legendary status.

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104:08

A decade of 90s football: 1998/99

These Football Times ·

2024/12/19

It’s trebles all round as we come to the final episode in our 1990s odyssey. There’s the usual mix of weird transfers, weirder kits, and in depth look at the Premier League season in particular. But in the end, it all comes down to Manchester United winning the treble. Football. Bloody hell.

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45:18

One Love: Everton

These Football Times ·

2024/12/16

Gary Thacker quizzes another member of the team about the team they support. Why, best and worst moments, favourite players and those they’d like to forget plus the nuclear question: could you ever support anyone else? It’s a grand old podcast with Paul Mc Parlan.

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71:13

The story of Channel 4's Football Italia

These Football Times ·

2024/12/12

In a quick break before our final seasonal episode of the 90s, we are joined by TV producer and author Jonathan Grade to discuss one of the biggest cultural elements of that decade: Channel 4’s Football Italia.

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