#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...

Last few By Far The Greatest Team podcasts of the current season for me and @jamierooney.bsky.social Last we took a look at the weird period of calm of #CharltonAthletic under 15 years of Alan Curbishley open.spotify.com/episode/2Wkr...

The day job has temporarily caught up with me - so By Far The Greatest Team podcasts with @jamierooney.bsky.social coming at you every other Thursday in May instead of weekly - so you have to wait til next week for the next one - which we recorded last night - and covers Gianluca Vialli's Chelsea

What better way to mark Milk Cup day than to relive #OUFC finest hour and their incredible relationship with the cup over the Milk years with our By Far The Greatest Team podcast where me and @jamierooney.bsky.social are joined by @oxblogger.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/2YnSLS…

Some holiday reading - I was in Hamburg recently and went to visit and then wrote about every Guardian-reading, liberal-minded, football fan's cult team of choice - St Pauli (as covered by me and @jamierooney.bsky.social on the By Far The Greatest Team podcast) open.substack.com/pub/byfarthe...

This week @jamierooney.bsky.social and myself are joined by @beneosl.bsky.social to look back at the Austria 'Wunderteam' of the 1930s, one of the first 'great' international teams and the forerunners of Total Football open.spotify.com/episode/6oqU...

@jamierooney.bsky.social and myself were joined by @philip-craig.bsky.social to look at the incredible #Sampdoria winners of their one and only Seria A title in 1991, European Cup finalists in 1992, and one of the most stylish looking team of all-time open.spotify.com/episode/0Xa2...

This week we go for a 60th anniversary dive into the time @kilmarnockfc.co.uk were Scottish champions @jamierooney.bsky.social and me are joined by David Sneddon on this week's By Far The Greatest Team podcast to talk about by far the greatest finish to a season open.spotify.com/episode/17FS...

Wow - Garth Crooks has just introduced Altered Images on #TOTP @jamierooney.bsky.social Anything Steve Archibald can do…

After covering almost 100 teams with @jamierooney.bsky.social on the By Far The Greatest Team #football #podcast we finally do the greatest team of all as the brilliant Glory Years author @oxblogger.bsky.social joins us to talk the 1980s rise of Oxford United #OUFC open.spotify.com/episode/2YnS...

"From the bring out year dead-style bell that tolls at the start to the slow guitar build-up that follows, it is all pretty foreboding. Indeed it has more resemblance to a funeral march than an up-tempo, whip the crowd into a pre-match frenzy" - Hells Bells by AC/DC, St Pauli's walk-on music

WH Smiths now regressing back to 1981 in a bid to revive their fortunes😀

@jamierooney.bsky.social and me were joined by Stefan Shaw on this week's By Far The Greatest Team #football #podcast to talk through Jim McLean's incredible reign at Dundee United, which won the Scottish League in 1983 and reached the European Cup semi in 1984 open.spotify.com/episode/0PQZ...

We've covered a lot of football-related songs on the By Far The Greatest Team #football #podcast so I've done a top 10 of the best (or maybe worst). These aren't just made up of terrible Cup Final/World Cup squad songs - despite Coventry City at 10😀 byfarthegreatestteam.substack.com/p/by-far-the...

This week on the By Far The Greatest #football #podcast @jamierooney.bsky.social @pompeygnr.bsky.social look at #barcelonafc and the incredible El Tel years - a period in which he won them their first La Liga for 11 years but his legacy was again lost on penalties open.spotify.com/episode/2L2B...

This week on the By Far The Greatest Team #football #podcast myself and @jamierooney.bsky.social are talking #DuklaPrague and why an away shirt is for life, not just for Christmas podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...

ICYMI, myself and @jamierooney.bsky.social were joined by the brilliant @coatesieboy.bsky.social from the @gloverscast.bsky.social podcast on By Far The Greatest Team this week to look back at #YTFC and their journey from non-league giantkillers to the second tier open.spotify.com/episode/3cwK...

A piece from the By Far The Greatest Team podcast archives on a team me and @jamierooney.bsky.social did in October, the Argentina team that won the World Cup against a colourful ticker-tape but altogether grimmer military junta backdrop in 1978 byfarthegreatestteam.substack.com/p/argentina-...

This week on By Far The Greatest team #football #podcasts mysef and @jamierooney.bsky.social are joined by David Coates from @gloverscast.bsky.social podcast to look back at the incredible journey #YTFC went on when they went from non-league to the Championship podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/y...

"Surprisingly, taking a group of amateur footballers on a six-month tour around the world turns out not to be ideal preparation for the season to come" - I had a lot of fun writing this on the #DallasTornado crazy tour ahead of the debut NASL season in 1967-68 open.substack.com/pub/byfarthe...

What makes a successful football tour? A few games to bed in new signings? Time away together to lift flagging team spirit during a tough season? Increasing shirt sales in core overseas markets? Maybe it’s just about coming back from La Manga without any arrests. open.substack.com/pub/byfarthe...

The tour to top all football tours? In 1967 Dallas Tornadoes, backed by US sports entrepreneur Lamar Hunt, prepared for the inaugural #USsoccer #nasl season by embarking on a seven month world tour @jamierooney.bsky.social @philip-craig.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...

Here's a piece to go with our latest By Far The Great team podcast on #QPR 1976 nearly title winners - it's a great story and if only they had won that year there would have been 20 consecutive years when the title changed hands QPR 1975-76 - the 10 day dream open.substack.com/pub/byfarthe...

This week By Far The Greatest team podcast @jamierooney.bsky.social and me are joined by Stuart Burgess to look at the amazing #QPR side that for 10 days looked like they might win the title in 1976. Bowles, Francis, Thomas etc - it's a great side and a great story podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...

My Facebook feed seems to have uncovered the truth about the Mitchell brothers - there was only one of them😂

Here’s a piece on Greek and Green football teams, and most gloriously both, in the shape of #Panathinaikos and the part-timers that the European Cup final in 1971 open.substack.com/pub/byfarthe...

Great story this week the #podcast as myself and @jamierooney.bsky.social are joined by #panathinakos fan Gus Krasonis to look back at when the Greek part-timers reached the European Cup final in 1971 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...