Episodes

  • Icons: Gerd Müller

    Icons: Gerd Müller
    Jan 9 2025
    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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    30 mins
  • The Mount Rushmore Debates: FA Cup

    The Mount Rushmore Debates: FA Cup
    Jan 5 2025
    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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    1 hr and 25 mins
  • Icons: Ronaldo

    Icons: Ronaldo
    Jan 2 2025
    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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    27 mins
  • A deep dive into all things Newcastle

    A deep dive into all things Newcastle
    Jan 1 2025
    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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    1 hr and 30 mins
  • Icons: Johan Cruyff

    Icons: Johan Cruyff
    Dec 31 2024
    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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    32 mins
  • A decade of 90s football: 1998/99

    A decade of 90s football: 1998/99
    Dec 19 2024
    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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    1 hr and 44 mins
  • One Love: Everton

    One Love: Everton
    Dec 16 2024
    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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    45 mins
  • The story of Channel 4's Football Italia

    The story of Channel 4's Football Italia
    Dec 12 2024
    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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    1 hr and 11 mins