To go with the latest By Far The Greatest Team #football #podcast here is a piece about Mike Walker's Norwich City, who having been cruelly denied the chance of European football three times, made up for it when they finally got there byfarthegreatestteam.substack.com/p/norwich-jo...

@couchpundito.bsky.social and myself are back from our winter break, this week we are joined on By Far The Greatest Team by @guskras.bsky.social to look at Mike Walker's Norwich City - who made their mark when they finally got to actually play in Europe open.spotify.com/show/7erZQ9q...

One more week until me and @couchpundito.bsky.social are back with the By Far The Greatest Podcast. In the meantime, I've revisited one of my favourite stories from an earlier podcast, Oldham Athletic's pinch me season from 1989-90 byfarthegreatestteam.substack.com/p/this-is-ho...

I've done a piece referencing a few teams we've covered on the By Far The Greatest Team #football #podcast who have all curiously ended up either not trying to score, or trying to score an own goal, or repeatedly scoring own goals byfarthegreatestteam.substack.com/p/when-shoot...

In the last of the B Far The Greatest Team #football #podcast Festive Shorts/New Year Treats/January Pick-me-ups, @couchpundito.bsky.social @philip-craig.bsky.social and myself take a look the NASL era Vancouver Whitecaps who won the 1979 Soccerbowl open.spotify.com/episode/6yF5...

Everyone talking about what isvtge biggest cup shock after Macclesfield-Palace - here’s a few runners and riders for you from our cup shock special pod @couchpundito.bsky.social @pompeygnr.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/3Ufp...

Here's a piece to go with @couchpundito.bsky.social @philip-craig.bsky.social recent By Far The Greatest Team podcast on North Korea 1966, the biggest shock - both football and culturally - in World Cup history byfarthegreatestteam.substack.com/p/our-enemie...

@philip-craig.bsky.social Join us for the latest By Far The Greatest Team podcast Festive Shorts (editor's note: these are neither festive or short) to look at North Korea coming out of the cold to shock Italy at the 1966 World Cup @couchpundito.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/7wfJ...

Our next By Far Greatest Team festive shorts (which are neither festive or short) - @jamierooney.bsky.social @philip-craig.bsky.social and Declan Clark take a look at the Man City side which won the league title in 68 and League Cup/Cup Winners' Cup in 70 open.spotify.com/episode/36XV...

To go with the first of our Christmas (not-so) shorts, here is a blog about the cruellest goal line decision ever which denied Chesterfield their place in the FA Cup final and a Sean Dyche penalty spot the ball (clue - it's exactly where you expect) byfarthegreatestteam.substack.com/p/by-far-the...

By Far The Greatest Team is on its winter break but @jamierooney.bsky.social and I have done a few festive specials to tide things over until we are back - these are meant to be short and sweet, though are probably neither given we have done 45m on Chesterfield open.spotify.com/episode/0C8V...

#oufc sacking Rowett is real roll of the dice stuff. Probably our best chance of staying up as was starting to look inevitable we were going to fall short. So it could work. But also the most likely way we turn pretty uninspiring one goal away defeats into four or five goal hammerings

To go with this week's Kaiserslautern episode of By Far The Greatest Team #football #podcast here is a piece including my wholly original take that there were a lot of similarities - on and off the pitch - between Otto Rehhagel and Brian Clough byfarthegreatestteam.substack.com/p/rehhagels-...

This week @jamierooney.bsky.social and myself are joined by @beneosl.bsky.social on By Far The Greatest Team #football #podcast to look at Rehhagel's revenge - when Kaiserslautern stunned German football and Bayern Munich to win the Bundesliga a year after promotion open.spotify.com/episode/4uVv...

Me last night: That #OUFC game v Blackburn game was one of the worst games I've ever watched; Me this morning: Two tickets for Portman Road please! Note to self: Must stop doing this

To go with the latest By Far The Greatest Team #football #podcast here's a piece on Dave Bassett and the rise of Wimbledon from non-league to the top flight and FA Cup glory. Don't worry, the piece isn't as tortuous as the pun in the headline byfarthegreatestteam.substack.com/p/bassetts-w...

Myself and @jamierooney.bsky.social were joined by Stu Burgess on the latest By Far The Greatest Team #football #podcast to take a look at the incredible rise of Wimbledon, from the non-league to FA Cup winners open.spotify.com/episode/6udd...

OMG - they just switched to the pre-flight safety briefing - and we’ve lost one already. Long flight home😮 #ashes25 #mysport24

Amid all the, admittedly short-lived Ashes excitement, I am only now publishing a piece about Alex Ferguson's amazing triple title-winning Aberdeen @afc.co.uk which @jamierooney.bsky.social covered on the By Far The Greatest Team #football #podcast byfarthegreatestteam.substack.com/p/ferguson-f...

Here is a blog to with latest By Far The Greatest Team podcast about the time Harry Redknapp first made a name for himself as a manager, leading third tier Bournemouth to FA Cup victory over Ron Atkinson's mighty #MUFC - a result that doesn't look that odd any more open.substack.com/pub/byfarthe...

It's FA Cup third round day in about 5 weeks - what better time for @jamierooney.bsky.social @pompeygnr.bsky.social to go back to 1984 on By Far The Greatest Team #football #podcast to look back at Harry Redknapp's Bournemouth beating #MUFC and other cup shockers open.spotify.com/episode/3Ufp...

Here's a slightly off-topic piece I've written on why following England in the #Ashes25 is a bit a like watching pretty ropey #EFL teams playing away from home and why roaming around Perth on day 3 of the test was like a scene from Day of the Dead byfarthegreatestteam.substack.com/p/things-to-...

A little distracted by the cricket, but a reminder this week @jamierooney.bsky.social and myself were joined by Stefan Shaw to look at Alex Ferguson’s Aberdeen on the latest By Far The Greatest Team podcast open.spotify.com/episode/2VH0...

That is a burning question … which decade produced the greatest teams ? I think there’s more variety, or maybe it was just because I was 10 🤷‍♂️ and obsessed with it , that I too love everything 80’s ❤️

Following on from this week's By Far The Greatest Team #football #podcast here's a piece I wrote about Ron Atkinson's time at #MUFC - particularly their incredible 10-game winning start to the 1985-86 season byfarthegreatestteam.substack.com/p/big-rons-m...

@jamierooney.bsky.social and myself can't get out of the 1980s as this week we are joined by Manchester United fan Richard Evans on By Far The Greatest Team #football #podcast to look at Ron Atkinson's #MUFC entertainers, FA Cup winners and great starters to seasons open.spotify.com/episode/6jRZ...

#oufc www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWHx... We discuss recents defeats, unrealistic signing expectations... and we compare the non-scoring achievements of Jake Wright, Gary Smart and Pat Quartermain with @saidanddunn.bsky.social

Here's piece on Brian Clough's incredible Nottingham Forest @NFFC off the back of the latest By Far The Greatest Team podcast and why it can't be coincidence that they go 42 games unbeaten byfarthegreatestteam.substack.com/p/brian-clou...

This week on By Far The Greatest Team podcast @jamierooney.bsky.social and me are joined by @philip-craig.bsky.social to look at one of the greats - Brian Clough's Nottingham Forest - the only team to have won more European Cups than top-tier domestic titles open.spotify.com/episode/1RzT...

Rossi awakens Italian renaissance Here's a piece to go with the latest By Far The Greatest Team podcast about Italy's 1982 World Cup winning side, which went from the most forgettable teams to the most memorable @jamierooney.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/byfarthe...

Hot on the heels of our Brazil 1982 episode, myself and @jamierooney.bsky.social this week on By Far The Greatest Team football podcast take a look at the winners - Italy. From scraping through the group o winning with arguably the most iconic goal celebration ever open.spotify.com/episode/20Zc...

Here's a blog about the 1982 Brazil side with an overlong, contrived reference to Don McLean's American Pie. As I mention on the pod, Sliding Doors is probably a more accurate cultural reference for what becomes of Brazil/Italy - but even less people would get that one😀 substack.com/inbox/post/1...

A week later than planned - apologies, we've had few tech gremlins - @jamierooney.bsky.social and myself this week on By Far The Greatest team football podcast continue our 1982 #WorldCup odyssey by looking at Brazil - Zico, Socrates and co. Great, but how great? open.spotify.com/episode/1Aai...

Wow. Motorist just stopped me and asked me for directions and he couldn’t have been over 30 (years not mph before you ask😄) I don’t think that’s happened to me since 1997

While 1970s era Peru don't have much claim to greatness in the bigger picture of our By Far The Greatest Team podcast, players like Chumpitaz, Cubillas and Sotil definitely do - and that's before we start talking about the kit! Peru 1978 - By Far The Greatest Sash? open.substack.com/pub/byfarthe...

@jamierooney.bsky.social and myself had a lot of fun with the latest By Far The Greatest Team #football #podcast looking at Peru - mostly the 1978 version, but pretty much everything Peruvian apart from Nolberto Solano (as probably the only time we will do them) open.spotify.com/episode/68Y4...

Seeing as everyone is talking about Taylor, so am I. Here's a blog about Graham Taylor - sort of about his time at #AstonVilla but mostly about the incredibly different way he was perceived in English football during the mid-90s open.substack.com/pub/byfarthe...

This week @jamierooney.bsky.social and myself are joined by Aston Villa fan @stumuz.bsky.social on By Far The Greatest Team podcast to look at Graham Taylor's #AVFC team - a rescue mission which not only set Villa back on their feet but got Taylor the England job open.spotify.com/episode/58w3...

@philip-craig.bsky.social joins @jamierooney.bsky.social and myself for the hell part of our #DerbyCounty Heaven & Hell By Far The Greatest Team two-parter - this time looking at Paul Jewell's 11 pointers open.spotify.com/episode/5hlN...

@philip-craig.bsky.social joined myself and @jamierooney.bsky.social for a special By Far The Greatest Team #podcast two-parter. It's a #DerbyCounty Heaven and Hell. First up the Heaven - the Brian Clough & Peter Taylor inspired 1971-72 title winners open.spotify.com/episode/3C4F...

Read my piece on Castel di Sangro - the side that came from almost literally nowhere to shock Italian football (as discussed with @jamierooney.bsky.social @guskras.bsky.social on latest By Far The Greatest Team podcast) open.substack.com/pub/byfarthe...

This week @jamierooney.bsky.social and myself are joined by @guskras.bsky.social (who's becoming By Far The Greatest Team podcast's underdog correspondent😀) for a look at the rise of Castel di Sangro, from the Italian football and geographic hinterland to Serie B open.spotify.com/episode/2tGg...

While it's still quiet on the #OUFC front, here's a piece I wrote recently for the excellent @oxblogger.bsky.social newsletter about the heady days when defenders didn't score goals oxblogger.co.uk/defending-th...

This week @jamierooney.bsky.social and I joined by Stu Burgess to look at Steve Coppell's #CrystalPalace side which came within minutes of winning the 1990 FA Cup and finished third in the top flight the following season, and launched Ian Wright's career open.spotify.com/episode/6Mv2...

To go with the By Far The Greatest Team podcast with @jamierooney.bsky.social here is a blog about how Jurgen Klinsmann achieved the seemingly impossible in 2006 and made the world fall in love with the German national football team byfarthegreatestteam.substack.com/p/germany-2006

@jamierooney.bsky.social and myself are back with the #ByFarTheGreatestTeam podcast looking at Jurgen Klinsmann's unlikely entertainers, Germany, at #WorldCup2006 - a glorious renewal which changed both perceptions and the fortunes of Germany's national team open.spotify.com/episode/5SSL...

I was weirdly upbeat about #oufc Yes super-frustrating to lose a game when the oppo haven’t done anymore than you to win it, but that’s basically how we win most of our games- live by the sword/die by the sword - and that’s how a big chunk of games in the Championship are going to play out this year

What was by far the greatest Oxford United #oufc team? @saidanddunn.bsky.social makes a strong case for the 1986 Milk Cup glory boys. You are my Oxford podcast, available here open.spotify.com/episode/2TTs... or wherever you get your podcasts.

Last By Far The Greatest Team podcast of the current season as @jamierooney.bsky.social and me are joined by @philip-craig.bsky.social and Declan Clark to look back at the 40 odd teams we have covered and each get to promote or relegate a side open.spotify.com/episode/4CmW...

For our penultimate By Far The Greatest Team podcast of this season, @jamierooney.bsky.social and me are joined by Steve Double for a classic: England at Italia 90. Iconic for sure, but were they great? open.spotify.com/episode/3a92...