Guardian Football Weekly Podcast

Guardian Football Weekly Podcast

Somebody asked what podcasts people listened to on the Tottenham thread and I decided to share my favorite one with everyone on here as I'd imagine not everyone has come across it before.

The Guardian (excellent lefty British paper) have a fantastic, funny and sometimes highly irreverent podcast called Football Weekly. It is actually released twice a week, with Football Weekly generally arriving at the beginning of the week (Tuesday mornings our time I think) and having a roundup of action from EPL and also La Liga and Serie A(plus occasionally Ligue 1 and the Bundesliga as well). There is a second pod, Football Weekly Extra, released just before the weekend as well (our Thursdays I think) to preview the upcoming action.

The host is the fantastic James Richardson who used to front Football Italia during the 1990s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_Italia) and is widely regarded as one of the best (and certainly the funniest) TV presenters of football there has ever been. The rest of the pod is generally made up of journalists who write regularly for the Guardian's football section but they occasionally bring in writers from other papers to contribute as well, generally on non-european football.

You can find the preview for last weekend's action here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/audio/2008/aug/15/football.weekly.podcast

And I'd imagine that the pod reviewing the weekend will be up some time in the next few hours, find it here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/football+content/audio

The other fantastic thing about this podcast is the generally excellent (and equally funny) blog comments section that is full of amusing and often quite heated debate and banter. The members of the pod also get involved in the discussion and subsequent Pods will often make reference or highlight interesting discussions from the blogs as well so there is a real feel of audience participation to the show.

In summary, well worth checking out, anybody interested in the EPL or European Football in general should love it.

http://www.yellowfever.co.nz/podcasts.asp

cheers ktbw

Course, we all know and love YF's football podcast. When it comes to EPL/European football (and it hurts to say this) but the YF podcast lads have no idea :(!
KTBW2008-08-19 14:46:45

They have plenty of idea, but when you are the supporters of the Phoenix and NZ football you're podcast kind of focuses on that.

Naturally, but what I mean is when they do the little end section that covers the EPL it strikes me that their knowledge of the current teams and players isn't particularly fantastic. No fault of theirs, of course a bunch of paid, pro journos living in the UK who cover football for a living are going to give you a better insight. Adam Brown (I think?) seemed to know his stuff but the others didn't even know that Nasri was in for Arsenal and Hleb was gone, common knowledge I'd have thought?

I'm a big fan of the Guardian Football Podcast.  It's an essential listen if you love football.  Comparing the YF podcast with the Guardian one is like comparing Bro Town with The Office - homegrown, nice to have, reasonably amusing versus sheer comic genius.  No offence lads but you're A-League beginners up against EPL's finest.  That said, I listen to and enjoy both before anyone jumps down my throat!

If Adam is looking for a completely biased (but knowledgeable) person to discuss EPL on the pod cast, ill give it a crack.

Have come across another Podcast, called 'TheGame', it is done by the Times Paper from the UK.

Basically along the same lines as the Guardian, but seemingly without the humour.

Quite in-depth discussion about various topics. The most recent one reviews the weekends games from the Premiership.

I'm not a Liverpool fan (obviously, see my Avatar), but there is a long chat about the issues they face, regarding their mgmt structure, owners etc... was quite interesting...

Available on itunes

Found another good Podcast recently, ESPN Soccernet.

Now i know the letters 'ESPN' and the word 'soccer' strike fear into most of us, but it is done in London and by 3 of 4 British guys, all of whom know their stuff.

As above you can get it on iTunes too.

Actually had my email read out on the latest ESPN Soccernet (10th Sep), and the three of them discussed it for a bit...right that's my 15 minutes...

It was about minnows in qualifying. for the WC One of the panel thought the likes of the Faroe Islands, San Marino, Malta etc etc should have to earn their right to the main qualifying group and have an initial qualifying round where only 1 or 2 of the 'minnows' make it through to the main qualifying rounds.

I made the point about NZ route to qualifying and the fact we play 6 games v Bahrain's 18, and we'd love the chance to play in the Asia Confederation, even though it would be a harder route. But it would surely improve our football.

What has that cheating theiving c**t Adam got to do with anything?

Piney = Podcast Maestro.