Football Book Club podcast

19/02/2024

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Saipan showdowns, Haaland horror tackles and the sheer chaos of watch shopping with Lee Sharpe⌚️.

We read 'Keane: The Autobiography' with Roy superfan
Gráinne Maguire in...

Mick McCarthy vs Roy Keane: Part 2 🥊

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12/02/2024

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Niall Quinn's £5 penalty challenge, Mick McCarthy's doomed spell at Lyon and is a cameo from Montell Jordan more expensive than one from Trevoh Chalobah?

It's this week's Bonus Chapter - EXCLUSIVELY for club members.

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05/02/2024

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Gary Doherty selection headaches, Kylie and Jason (McAteer), and the ultimate showdown in Saipan 🇮🇪

We read Mick's 2002 World Cup Diary in...

Roy Keane vs Mick McCarthy: Pt. 1 🥊

🎧 APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/football-book-club/id1482972853?i=1000644158280

🎧 SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7Dpo197Pm4sBcLJHbikC5x?si=dc3aedf70a1b44bb

03/02/2024

📚⚽️ COMING MONDAY ⚽️ 📚

We’re heading back to Japan, 2002, for a heavyweight clash which ROCKED the Irish World Cup camp 🇮🇪

But who was right, who was wrong, and most importantly - who has the better book?

Find out in Roy Keane vs Mick McCarthy: Part 1

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27/11/2023

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World Cup disaster, Theo the Underwear Bandit and All Star Mr & Mrs with Robin Gibb ✨

We read Theo Walcott’s 2011 classic ‘Growing Up Fast’ with the brilliant Dane J. Baptiste

🎧 APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/football-book-club/id1482972853?i=1000636594735

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16/11/2023

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Two years after we read Gary's original compilation of football short stories, we've tracked down the sequel. And somehow it's even madder than the first.

Featuring ghost grandpas, Tudor football-orgies and several animal attacks 🐯

Will the book go on to be a favourite of ours as well as Gary? Find out now!

🎧 APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/more-of-gary-linekers-favourite-football-stories/id1482972853?i=1000634576377

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20/10/2023

Thanks so much Amazon Music UK for the lovely big feature! 🥹

Slightly concerned 'from the pitch to paper' is better than our actual tagline, but nonetheless, thank you!

🎧 Subscribe on Amazon Podcasts RIGHT NOW to listen to our brand new series 👇

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16/10/2023

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Run-ins with a baseball bat-wielding Alan Sugar, blatant anti-Michael Owen subtext, and a ‘modest’ bit of clubbing 🕺

The Athletic’s Spurs correspondent and star of Football Clichés Charlie Eccleshare joins us to read Teddy Sheringham’s 1999 classic ‘Teddy’.

🎧 APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/football-book-club/id1482972853?i=1000631415353

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22/09/2023

‘But first, let’s see what Amazon’s saying…’

Thanks Amazon Music UK for selecting us as one of the Best Podcasts of the Week 🤩

Sandwiched between Ed Balls, Sam Quek and a lettuce. An honour!

🎧 Listen to the episode itself on Amazon Podcasts right now 👇

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18/09/2023

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David Brent-isms, seances and getting locked on a yacht by Sir Alan Sugar 🛥️

We read David Ginola’s ‘Le Magnifique’ with the brilliant Rhys James 🇫🇷

🎧 APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/football-book-club/id1482972853?i=1000628199233

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15/09/2023

📚⚽️ COMING MONDAY! ⚽️📚

We’re joined by the brilliant comedian and Spurs superfan Rhys James to read his hero David Ginola’s 2000 masterpiece ‘Le Magnifique’ 🇫🇷

Yes David’s face really takes up that much of the cover.

🎧 Find out what he thinks of it by subscribing here: https://podfollow.com/the-football-book-club

08/09/2023

Thanks Pocket Casts for featuring us in their recommended 'Lit Listens'! 🤩

The words of Jane Austen and Ashley Cole together at last 🤝

Lit-listen to us and all the other lit-listens by clicking the playlist below 👇

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04/09/2023

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Our most requested book ever - as Football Book Club read Asamoah Gyan’s ‘LeGyanDary’ 🇬🇭

Featuring Asamoah on *that* penalty, why he really left Sunderland, and Steve Bruce having a breakdown. Plus Bolo Zenden dancing, several references to Napoleon and Asamoah’s plans to start an airline ✈️

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21/08/2023

⚽️📚SERIES 5 IS HERE! 📚⚽️

Our series opener all about Ashley Cole’s 2006 classic ‘My Defence’ is out NOW on all podcast platforms.

Featuring Cheryl, disputes with David Dein and getting tapped up by José in a London hotel. Plus cheeky Sven in Baden Baden, Ashley’s hatred of Ruud van Nistelrooy fury and David Seaman's gaming addiction 🕹️

The book was received pretty negatively upon release, but how does it hold up 17 years later? And more importantly, are our Book Club in defence of Ashley? Or on... da fence?

Find out now by listening via the links below 👇

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20/06/2022

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It may be the last episode of the series, but it's one of our biggest EVER!

We've FINALLY tracked down a copy of Darius Vassell's 2017 autobiography 'The Road To Persia', and you can hear what we thought of it ⬇️

🎧 APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/darius-vassells-the-road-to-persia/id1482972853?i=1000567075433

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06/06/2022

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Sturrock Vs Mpenza, Albania Vs Iceland, and Steve Ogrizovic Vs an entire country 🥊

It's another edition of Football Book Club: Story Time.

🎧 APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/football-book-club/id1482972853?i=1000565310884

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23/05/2022

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Twitter hero and Newcastle superfan Jonny Sharples loves Rob Lee. So much so he owns *two* copies of his autobiography.

But what will the book club make of it?

Join us for Keegan v Tony Blair head tennis, Rob’s high hopes for Diego Gavilán and Nobby Solano’s llama. Plus why the book is like How I Met Your Mother, and Jonny remembers the time he met Duncan Ferguson 🦙

🎧 APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/football-book-club/id1482972853?i=1000563196688

🎧 SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/episode/01wSG0uIgLYQsBjNN3nINl?si=uBKF9yNCTAK2mDiUt4IwjA

20/05/2022

📚 MONDAY 📚

Football Book Club read Rob Lee's 'Come In Number 37' with twitter hero and Newcastle United superfan, Jonny Sharples ⚫️⚪️

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09/05/2022

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Violent dogs, ghost flashers and Bobby Charlton - we read Gary Lineker’s 90s short-story collection ‘Gary Lineker’s Favourite Football Stories’ ⚽️

Oh, and it’s our big 53rd-Book-Spectacular 🎉 (we hit 50 a few weeks back and didn’t notice)

🎧 APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/football-book-club/id1482972853?i=1000559997882

🎧 SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3Xr3JTwBRxO6JmyCqy9S5c?si=RxMucXiNQx285c_xn7SX7g

06/05/2022

📚 COMING MONDAY 📚

We read 90s classic ‘Gary Lineker’s Favourite Football Stories’ - a collection of fictional, short stories about football (and ghosts & dogs) 👻

Spoiler - we’re not convinced they actually are Gary’s favourite football stories

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25/04/2022

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We’re joined by the brilliant comedian and Price Of Football podcast co-host, Kevin Day, to read the book he’s always wanted to read - Neil Ruddock’s Hell Razor 🪒

Contains a jellied eel feast with Javier Vargas, Steve Sedgley sticking wine gums up his nose, and Alan Sugar doing a Kanye and recording Neil’s phone calls 📞

🎧 APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/football-book-club/id1482972853?i=1000558552162

🎧 SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7mkB8dYU4CmD14Rgo0VeDU?si=l73_fr5aSF2Dq7mqUYMzfw

11/04/2022

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How Frank Is Frank Lampard’s ‘Totally Frank’? 🤔

… Find out now as we read his 2006 autobiography.

Featuring naked conversations with Mourinho, his mortal enemy Adrian Mutu, and his TRUE feelings about West Ham. Plus we find out what’s really written on those little pieces of paper subs bring on the pitch 📃

🎧 Listen now on all podcast platforms or via link in bio

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14/03/2022

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Posh & Becks mania, the TRUTH behind World Cup ‘98, and sarong shopping with Mel B’s husband 🛍

We read David Beckham’s 2001 classic ‘My World’ with the brilliant comedian Steve Bugeja.

🎧 APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/football-book-club/id1482972853?i=1000553894635

🎧 SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3s6vEbBg1N4ujKXVr96MfE?si=rWFgpAAoQhuTIQzt_PHqyA

28/02/2022

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Post-match phone calls, strawberry cream biscuits & book of the year awards. The brilliant Carl Anka returns to talk us through what it was like writing the hugely successful ‘You Are A Champion’ with Marcus Rashford 🏆

Plus unexpected lessons from Memphis Depay’s autobiography, what we can expect from the upcoming sequel and we set Carl his toughest writing challenge yet ✍️

🎧 APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/football-book-club/id1482972853?i=1000552393880

🎧 SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6lm8lyJX97npi89BXjOcA4?si=_xaw_kawRtW3o1o_fHyQEQ

25/02/2022

MONDAY 📚

Friend of the show Carl Anka returns to chat in-depth to us about ‘You Are A Champion’, its upcoming sequel and all things writing with Marcus Rashford 🏆

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14/02/2022

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Cardiff heroics, the art of the goal celebration and Spencer Prior eating a sheep’s testicle. We’re reading Robert Earnshaw’s ‘Earnie’ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

🎧 APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/football-book-club/id1482972853?i=1000550983029

🎧 SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/episode/52mGxmxu1kY1wRkLaypOO1?si=94AV8AYmRZa2UTaoDzliwA

11/02/2022

COMING MONDAY 📚

We read probably the thinnest book ever released - Robert Earnshaw’s ‘Earnie: My Life At Cardiff City’ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Short and sweet? Or 112 pages too long? Find out Monday!

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31/01/2022

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Football Book Club turns Serial for one week only, as we piece together the stories to find out what REALLY happened between Craig Bellamy and John Arne-Riise that night in Vale Do Lobo 🤔

This is ‘Golf Clubs in the Night’ ⛳️

🎧 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/football-book-club/id1482972853?i=1000549471568

🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4GERbggQ7ac8xWKUxFyHNg?si=4JOMvid9QGaESppqpIi8TQ

28/01/2022

🕵️‍♂️ The true crime podcast we’ve all been waiting for…

Golf Clubs in the Night: A Football Book Club Investigation into Vale Do Lobo.

Out Monday ⛳️

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18/01/2022

Back in the Apple Sports podcast charts again! 📈

Thanks to everyone who’s listened so far. If you enjoyed the episode, please do spread the word and leave us a nice review if you’d be so kind 🙏

Please. We’ve read two Andy Gray books for this.