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Ascot United FC: Behind the Goals

Ascot United FC

All things Ascot United FC

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33:07

Welcome, Mr Chairman!

Ascot United FC: Behind the Goals ·

2025/11/25

The Guv'nor, Rob Jones, joins Leon and Dan to talk shop. The three of them manage to cover football tours to the former Soviet Union, train journeys to Beijing plus how Leon and Kevin De Bruyne have more in common than you might expect. Do tune in to get the full lowdown.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

50:51

From Ghana to Ascot via plenty of places in-between....

Ascot United FC: Behind the Goals ·

2025/10/28

Victor Ocansey, Ascot United's men's team's assistant manager, has experienced pretty much all that football can throw at you. Ups and downs, highs and lows, and even a wake taking place on a football pitch! Vic joins Leon and Dan to talk about all things football.....including his weird fascination with Jon Obi-Mikel!Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

37:20

Coaching Corner

Ascot United FC: Behind the Goals ·

2025/09/15

Will Chaisty joins Leon and Dan to talk about all things coaching. Will coaches the youngest and indeed the oldest members of AUFC; he begins with the U5s and ends with walking football. He leads on the club's popular coaching camps and helps the U18 make their transition into senior football. He is, in other words, a busy man who's integral to what Ascot United is trying to achieve. Do have a listen to get more on his view on footballing life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

58:58

New season, new manager, new hopes

Ascot United FC: Behind the Goals ·

2025/08/18

Leon and Dan are back following their summer break. In episode one of 2025-26 they talk to the new Ascot United manager, Gavin Smith. All the cutting edge issues are covered; where it all began for Gavin, how he ended up at Ascot and......who has the worst musical taste in the 1st XI dressing room. Plus plenty more....Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

35:30

Another season draws to an end

Ascot United FC: Behind the Goals ·

2025/05/28

2024-25 has been a season of highs, lows and oddities. Whether it be the highs of cup final wins, the lows of seeing parents of juniors behave badly or simply the Vets' inability to sort their kits out, Leon and Dan come together for one last time in 2024-25 to chew the fat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

37:47

Finals, semi-finals and a managerial change

Ascot United FC: Behind the Goals ·

2025/05/15

The season has all but ended, but Dan and Leon still have plenty to discuss. The V1s and the Supervets have been winning cup finals, the men's senior team have unfortunately been losing semi-finals. Plus, news has broken about Jamie Tompkins moving on. Plenty for the hosts to get their teeth into then.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

35:43

Squeaky bum time (again)

Ascot United FC: Behind the Goals ·

2025/04/28

The men's side have made it to the play offs and now look forward to playing Hanworth Villa. Leon, JK and Dan talk about how they got there and indeed what the next week might bring. Plus, (yet more) kit-related shenanigans and which penalty would you take if you found yourself in a penalty shootout? We've also entered the world of Instagram; do follow us at @behind_the_goals_podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

45:11

Squeaky bum time

Ascot United FC: Behind the Goals ·

2025/04/10

It's squeaky bum time for the men's 1st XI. Will they be able to push on and grab that play off berth? The women's 1st XI have now achieved one of their aims - celebrations incoming. Elsewhere, the AUFC U14 girls welcomed a touring side from Virginia in the USA and Leon, JK and Dan mull over their most embarrassing football-related howlers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

30:19

Business end of the season incoming

Ascot United FC: Behind the Goals ·

2025/03/24

March is drawing to a close and a number of the Ascot sides are heading into very interesting territory. The Men's 1st XI are right in the middle of the play-off shake-up, the Women's 1st XI are not just gunning for promotion they've got a cup final to look forward, too. Two of the Supervets' sides are also cup final bound. Leon and Dan discuss progress on each front. And, heard about the FA's plans for 3v3 football? If not, do listen in.....Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

50:15

George Lock in the house!

Ascot United FC: Behind the Goals ·

2025/02/04

Club institution George Lock joins Dan and Leon to talk shop. Despite battling with injuries in 2024-25, Locky's now fast approaching 300 appearances for the Yellas. He also talks us through playing Sunday league football, making cocktails with Ian Davies and seeing his mates cheering him on at Wembley. And, of course, he has to find his way through the now (in)famous 10 questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

34:29

Senior sides start 2025 with all guns blazing

Ascot United FC: Behind the Goals ·

2025/01/17

Leon and Dan return for the first Ascot United: Behind the Goals podcast of 2025. Poor old Leon's been in the wars, although his most latest spell on the treatment table came on account of a rather usual source. Discussion of the men's first XI's highly successful Christmas is high on the agenda, as is the Women's 1st XI's 100 per cent start to 2025. Plus, Leon checks in with the Warriors and Dan talks us through the world of kick ins in junior football.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

50:41

Christmas Quiz Edition

Ascot United FC: Behind the Goals ·

2024/12/16

Do you know your football trivia? And do you know your Ascot United stats? What about Christmas songs or Bluey? If you want to be the inaugural Christmas quiz champion then you need to touch all these bases. Who of Simon Negus (club chairman), Philippa Holden (women's 1st XI captain) or Jamie Tompkins (men's 1st XI manager) is going to prevail? Tune in to find out.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

34:49

From Sheffield Wednesday via Gillingham to Ascot...

Ascot United FC: Behind the Goals ·

2024/11/29

First XI midfielder Harry Grant joins Leon and Dan to talk about life as we know it. The troika talk through the first team's excellent form of late as well as their further aims and ambitions for the season. Plus, they also cut to the real chase; who takes longest in the shower post-game? Who's the best/worst dresser? Who wouldn't you want to be stuck on a desert island with? Harry spills the beans.....Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

32:25

Snipers, Penalties, Injuries.

Ascot United FC: Behind the Goals ·

2024/11/07

Leon and Dan return to talk all things Ascot United. The big news nonetheless centres around Leon and the strange tale of the penalty, the injury, the sniper and the stretcher. There's also more on the AUFC Women's cup showdown with Brentford and the ones ding dong of a win against Hartley Wintney. Plus, what's the strangest injury you've ever seen on a sports field.....?Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

46:08

Manic weekend for the Ts with cup action wherever you...

Ascot United FC: Behind the Goals ·

2024/09/24

Club stalwart Jon Keough joins Leon and Dan to chew the fat. The club's big weekend of cup action comes under the microscope, as does the Supervets' first league game, the women's team's impressive start to the season and, erm, Leon's new porch. Plus, heard the one about the bus driver's drone stopping play? Have a listen to find out more.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

24:26

Cup runs, red cards and pre-season. 2024-25 is up and...

Ascot United FC: Behind the Goals ·

2024/08/26

The 2024-25 season is up and running and so is the second season of the Ascot United podcast. Leon Palmer-Wilson and Dan Hough talk cups, pre-season and a plethora of red cards. Do get in touch (d.t.hough@sussex.ac.uk) with comments and queries, questions, moans and groans. All feedback welcome!Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

50:29

Club chaplain, coach, ref and all round good egg Tim...

Ascot United FC: Behind the Goals ·

2024/05/16

Tim Rose, the self-proclaimed poor man's Teddy Sheringham, joins Leon and Dan to talk shop. What does a club chaplain do? Does being a referee help you coach and does being a coach help you referee? Plus, the tale of the coach who was so incensed with what he was watching that he booted his team's kitbag....into a nearby river!Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

29:46

Ups, downs and near-misses

Ascot United FC: Behind the Goals ·

2024/04/12

Heard the one about the seven men playing against eleven men? Or even the three man cricket team taking to the field? If not, do tune in to the latest 'Ascot United: Behind the goals'. Plus, promotion for one of the Vets' sides, a near miss for the AUFC Women and the launching of the new 'Shed End' at the Racecourse.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

55:15

From the Cabbage Patch to Wembley and beyond

Ascot United FC: Behind the Goals ·

2024/02/16

Ascot United stalwart Rob Saunders joins Leon and Dan to talk about how the club has changed since he began playing for it way back in the 1980s. From the puddle that acted as a 12th man at one end of the Racecourse, to 3G pitches and Wembley, Rob really has seen it all. Plus, ever heard the one about a side being awarded five (!) penalties in a game? If not, have a listen, it happened to one of the Ascot sides on Saturday.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

36:41

Wembley hero Kai Walters joins Leon and Dan for...

Ascot United FC: Behind the Goals ·

2024/01/24

To wear a shirt or to not wear a shirt, that is the question. Well, it's the question Kai Walters, the man who scored the goal that won Ascot United the FA Vase in May 2023, now finds himself asking every day. Why? As he's swapped Berkshire for the Gold Coast and is enjoying all that life in Australia has to offer. Leon and Dan caught up with him before he went off to the beach for another day and talked all things Wembley. And guinea pigs. They get a hefty mention, too. Learn more about your ad

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