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Football Ruined My Life
When Football Ruined My Life started back at the beginning of 2023 it was the new podcast about old football. In it, distinguished football journalist Patrick Barclay joined with Colin Shindler, author of the best selling Manchester United Ruined My Life, and the Super Agent Jon Holmes (think Gary Lineker, Peter Shilton, Tony Woodcock etc.) to talk about football as it used to be in the days before the invention of the Premier League. For over 80 weekly episodes, the podcast viewed those days…
Episodes
- Football Ruined My Life
37. Has Football Become Too Big For Its Boots? (And Remembering Franz Beckenbauer)
It’s everywhere. There’s at least one match on television every day, up to half a dozen over the weekend. The newspapers that used to devote a page to football…
- Football Ruined My Life
36. The One With Andy Hamilton (Chelsea)
Colin Shindler, Jon Holmes and Patrick Barclay are joined by a long-standing Chelsea fan – the writer and broadcaster Andy Hamilton – to discuss his lifetime…
- Football Ruined My Life
35 The Postbag
As the first year of Football Ruined My Life draws to a close, the panel read out a selection of their favourite emails which have been received from listeners…
- Football Ruined My Life
34. 1963
It was a most remarkable year. It started with the Big Freeze, ended with the assassination of President Kennedy and included the emergence of the Beatles and…
- Football Ruined My Life
33. Administering The Game
The former Chairman of the FA, David Bernstein, joins Colin, Paddy and Jon for an honest discussion on the failings of governance in football. He tells of how…
- Football Ruined My Life
32. Retirement
It is the moment every footballer dreads – the day when he finally accepts that his career on the field is over. Jon tells Patrick and Colin that even those…
- Football Ruined My Life
31. The Second Tier
All three panellists are fans of clubs that have suffered the indignity of relegation from the Premier League in the 21st century. There is a fear that the…
- Football Ruined My Life
30. The One With Ian McShane (on Manchester United)
Any devoted watcher of the BBC Television series Lovejoy would have noticed the East Anglian antiques dealer’s ubiquitous Manchester United coffee mug and…
- Football Ruined My Life
29. It's A Rich Man's World
We all know what it’s like to have too little of it and though it’s probably not anything that most of us have experienced we can understand that having too…
- Football Ruined My Life
28. Goalscorers
When we watch football as youngsters it is the goals that catch our eye, not the vital defensive midfielders or the manager’s clever/stupid substitutions. A…
- Football Ruined My Life
26. Scotland (& a brief tribute to Sir Bobby Charlton)
Time was when there was scarcely an English top flight team without a few influential Scotsmen in it. Can you imagine Liverpool in the 1980s without Hansen…
- Football Ruined My Life
25. Fiction and Football
If you’re an actor or a writer and you love football, you may think that being involved in a movie or television series about football would be, in the…
- Football Ruined My Life
24. British Clubs in Europe
Is the Champions League better or worse than the old European Cup? Do we all support British teams in Europe the way we did before the Bosman ruling altered…
- Football Ruined My Life
23. Bill Shankly
The Spirit of Shankly seems to stand for everything that is good about football. He is still revered at Liverpool and respected throughout the world of…
- Football Ruined My Life
22. Grounds - Old & New
Simon Inglis, author of books on the football grounds of Great Britain and the football grounds of Europe, joins the team to give his expert knowledge of the…
- Football Ruined My Life
21. League Domination
Between 1959 and 1972 ten different clubs won the English First Division. What has happened to that competitiveness? Is the much-lauded Premier League a better…
- Football Ruined My Life
20. Second Favourite Teams
The panel are forbidden from praising their own teams and have to confess their admiration for other domestic and international teams. There are a few…
- Football Ruined My Life
19. Sir Alf
He remains the only England manager to have won the men's World Cup. The FA sacked him when he was 54 and apart from a brief caretaker stint at Birmingham City…
- Football Ruined My Life
18. Carlisle
Feedback presenter Roger Bolton joins Colin and Paddy to talk about his home town team, their one season in the First Division and how to deal with what…
- Football Ruined My Life
17. Derby Games
The one fixture in a season that everyone is desperate to win. Is the religious origins of the Glasgow rivalry apparent elsewhere? Does the Merseyside derby…
- Football Ruined My Life
16. Passion on the Sidelines
Who can forget Jurgen Klopp stretched out full length on his stomach as he protested a refereeing decision in the manner of an enraged toddler? Followed of…
- Football Ruined My Life
15. Brian Clough
He was the one manager to whom nobody was indifferent. Love him or loathe him Brian Clough was a titan amongst English managers. Martin O’Neill joins the team…
- Football Ruined My Life
14. We're back! (Series 2 trailer)
The new podcast about old football returns next week on Friday 11th August - just as the new football season kicks off. If you've not already done so…
Football Ruined My Life13. Postbag and Holding Episode
Football Ruined My Life is taking a break for a few weeks so we can build up a new reserve of programmes for series 2. In the meantime, many listeners have…
Football Ruined My Life12. England's Postwar Football Captains
From Billy Wright to Harry Kane, the team discusses each captain and asks the overall question, "Has there ever been a captain to rival Bobby Moore? (Spoiler…
Football Ruined My Life11. Dirty Leeds?
Don Revie's Leeds United were one of the greatest club sides of the postwar era. The skills possessed by Giles, Bremner, Gray etc. were considerable - so is…
Football Ruined My Life10. Have Football Crowds Changed Since the 1960s?
We all lived through the gradual exacerbation of crowd violence. Why was it so bad in the 1970s and 1980s? Why did it become mixed up in Thatcherite politics?…
Football Ruined My Life9. Great Goalies
From Lev Yashin to Bert Trautmann, from Pat Jennings to Peter Shilton the game has been adorned by great goalies. What makes them special? Are they all crazy?…
Football Ruined My Life8. Tottenham Hotspur's Double Winning Team 1960-1
Julie Welch, journalist and screenwriter of the Channel 4 film Those Glory Glory Days joins us to talk about Danny Blanchflower and the golden team that won…
Football Ruined My Life7. Manchester United's Decline
The team compares the club's decline in the early 1970s after the retirement of Matt Busby with its decline after 2013 with the retirement of Alex Ferguson…
Football Ruined My Life6. The Influence of 'Sports Report'
It's been going longer than we have. That familiar Out of the Blue signature tune unites every football supporter in the land. But does it still have the same…
Football Ruined My Life5. The Influence of Foreign Owners
They money's better for the players, the grounds are more comfortable for the spectators but has the English game lost something of its uniqueness with so many…
Football Ruined My Life4. Great Players of the 1960s in the Premier League of the 2020s
The team examine the careers of Stanley Matthews, Tom Finney, John Charles, George Best, Bobby Moore and Bobby Charlton and wonder how they would fare in the…
Football Ruined My Life3. Politics & Football: Burnley FC with Alastair Campbell
Tony Blair's spin doctor confesses to his love for unfashionable Burnley, defends the notorious Burnley Chairman Bob Lord and surprises us with stories of…
Football Ruined My Life2. England's World Cup Teams: 1966 v 1970
Was the England team that defended the 1970 World Cup in Mexico better than the team that won it in 1966? (Spoiler Alert: yes!) Hosted on Acast. See…
Football Ruined My Life1. Our Childhood Heroes
Bert Trautmann, Alan Gilzean, Davie Gibson, and Colin Bell. Welcome to the first ever episode of Football Ruined My Life with Jon Holmes, Patrick Barclay, and…
Football Ruined My LifeTrailer
Football Ruined My Life is the new podcast about old football. Colin Shindler, author of the best selling Manchester United Ruined My Life, joins with the…