With less than a week to go before the 2026 World Cup, we’ve unlocked this classic bonus episode on the iconic 1990 tournament. @kmilb.bsky.social joined us to talk about the cultural impact of Italia 90. www.patreon.com/posts/italia...

Excalibur saying this and not quite being able to resist strongly hinting that he’s a Mamdani guy has confirmed that he’s a good egg, but the low-key highlight remains a throwaway “Gender’s just a construct, Tony” during a TV match with no heat like five years ago

That Dynamite was awesome

This is main

Wrote for the London Review of Books (hark at me) about Tuesday’s shocking scenes in the city I love. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...

Lads we’re spoiling you rotten and it’s only going to get better once the World Cup starts. Subscribe!

This is one of my favourite NPPs so far. As with a good few of the episodes, the guest is a friend, but more importantly, it’s almost an instruction manual for a particular type of organising.

PRS 2025/26 season wrap-up show and World Cup thoughts 2025/26 season review www.patreon.com/posts/2025-2...

Glad I was able to do this, please have a listen and do what you can.

Was just listening to a fascinating @prorevsoccer.bsky.social episode about the impending world cup in the face of one of the host nations, and FIFA Peace Prize recipient, bombing one of the participant nations to pieces, and I don't think the reality of a north american world cup had dawned on me

War On Want’s ‘Red Card’ report exposes the complicity of Premier League clubs in genocide. Legacy media haven’t touched the story. www.patreon.com/posts/league...

The final standings in Premier League have been settled, but an alternative league table from @waronwant.bsky.social brings shame upon all twenty clubs. @neilsammonds.bsky.social explains.

I have to say I’m annoyed with myself for taking so long to twig that a part of the moral panic around Spygate is that it was Ze Chermans

You have to say this headline/standfirst from The Times that strongly implies that Tonda’s father was a German spy is magical stuff

🚨Emergency episode🚨 The League Table of Genocide Complicity The final standings in Premier League have been settled, but an alternative league table brings shame upon all twenty clubs. @neilsammonds.bsky.social explains. www.patreon.com/posts/league...

chuffed.org/project/1367... help the ibrahim family in gaza, who are deeply malnourished, ill, and in need of food, water, and medicine! please help this family in need! donate what you can if you can as much as you can, and if you can't donate, share and boost with those who can donate!

Anyway good evening from the most magical place on earth

Pmsl at the thought of the various Labour factions all going door knocking together, in this heat. Will be like Do The Right Thing but with a bunch of humourless white people.

Here’s to a summer free of press conferences with this silly little wanker looking like a senior copper appearing for witnesses after a grisly murder

Wrote this for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social on @waronwant.bsky.social’s league table of complicity in genocide. tribunemag.co.uk/2026/05/the-...

A damning new report has found that every Premier League club is tied to companies implicated in Israel’s war crimes — exposing the beautiful game’s complicity in genocide.

Wrote this for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social on @waronwant.bsky.social’s league table of complicity in genocide. tribunemag.co.uk/2026/05/the-...

Bought this over a year ago and deliberately left it in the cellophane for a special occasion, and I'm so stressed about fucking Saints I decided that today should be the day. Awe-inspiring.

For fuck’s sake. It’s like being on fucking death row. So unfair on fans and also on Hull, who have been very dignified throughout this tawdry saga.

Tom addresses the red and white striped elephant in the room that is ‘Spygate’

Tom looks at football as a cultural form via the work of Raymond Williams www.patreon.com/posts/footba... podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p... open.spotify.com/episode/0dAI... on.soundcloud.com/cCP7Df4xzWxR...

Football pundits trying to get their heads around the permutations of the race for Europe

With exquisite timing, Juliet and Kat return to join Tom for a forensic takedown of the attack on joy that is the Video Assistant Referee. open.spotify.com/episode/5A0B...

Dumb luck that we ended up dropping this today but 🤷‍♂️

Manchester City’s amoral ownership is a blight on football, but why do people ignore the original, real, stated purpose of FFP/PSR/Squad Cost Ratio? Full episode now on Spotify. open.spotify.com/episode/1udh...

No NPP this week due to a family emergency so get your laughing gear round this one for now.

Episode 20: Your Party now Max Shanly and Andrew Hedges were both very active in Your Party ahead of its founding conference, albeit in different factions. We ask both where we might go from here. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Cyril was a god-like lunatic who fouled children, assaulted coaching staff and referees, 'pecked' opposition fans and was hauled before the Football Association of Wales in one of the most bizarre incidents in football history.

We tell the insane story of the Football Association of Wales allowing a fictional swan to attend a disciplinary hearing. Now on Apple Podcasts. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...

The Legend of Cyril the Swan In possibly the greatest episode of any podcast ever, Tom and Swansea City fan Tomos James look back through a cultural studies lens at the extraordinary tale of Swansea mascot Cyril the Swan www.patreon.com/posts/155809...

Capitalism in football, football in capitalism Tom draws on a new piece he wrote for @wsc.co.uk and an older piece he wrote for @newsocialist.bsky.social to explain how capitalism organises football, and how football resists. www.patreon.com/posts/capita...

Did Neville just shout “SLUTS”?

One of the great joys and great tragedies of coaching a kids football team is seeing it all finally click towards the end of the season, then them forgetting it all by the beginning of the next one.

Bloody hell Saints

This was an absolute riot and possibly the most fun I’ve ever had recording a podcast.

This was an absolute riot and possibly the most fun I’ve ever had recording a podcast.

This is very good radio. Recommended wherever you find your listens.

We spoke to academic, author, tractor boy and all round good egg @jacksaundrs.bsky.social about Farage, the ‘keep politics out of football’ brigade and what happens when the left absents itself from the game. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...

New @wsc.co.uk magazine out now, featuring lots of good stuff including @shirleymush.bsky.social on the World Cup and the need for protest, and a silly letter from me about Gavin and Stacey

How do I shoehorn the 1971 Industrial Relations Act into this discussion of politics of football and Ipswich Town? Listen and find out! #itfc

🚨New episode🚨Doing The 92 No Premier League this Easter weekend, so here’s Tom interviewing Juliet about the conclusion of her quest to visit all 92 league grounds. Football, psychogeography, some cultural studies vibes and of course the usual bonhomie. www.patreon.com/posts/154841...

How to beat the World Cup blues In a short solo episode, Tom talks about the prospects for protest at the World Cup, FIFA’s cosy relationship with Trump, boycotts, and fan activism. www.patreon.com/posts/how-to...

Man called it

It was an absolute privilege to essentially just sit in on this conversation between David Goldblatt and @davidwearing.bsky.social

Excellent, as you’d imagine www.patreon.com/posts/153188...