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The Dynamo Football BookclubEpisode 55: Once in a Lifetime - The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos by Gavin Newsham🗽⚽️🔥 In Episode 55, join us for the story of the New York Cosmos, as told by Gavin Newsham in his book Once In a Lifetime 📖🎙️
The Cosmopolitans, to give them their full name, burned fast and bright ✨🔥 from 1971 to 1985, lighting up the North American Soccer League ⚽️🌍. They were — to borrow a line from the book — the best thing and the worst thing to happen to the NASL 📈📉.
They had Pelé ⭐️. They had Beckenbauer 👑. So how on earth could they be the worst? 🤔
Please do join us to find out 🎧✨
Available wherever you get your pods 🎙️
2026-02-0547 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubInjury Time 24: Sean Dyche look-a-likey 5-a-sideIn Injury Time 24, we take Sean Dyche’s advice and play the lookalikey game 👀⚽️ — the game he once said makes the world go round.
It may not be that integral to the earth’s orbit, but it sure is fun
Thanks Sean Dyche / Mick Hucknall / Chris Evans 🙏
Please do listen and like (in that order 😉)
Available wherever you get your pods 🎧
2026-01-2935 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubEpisode 54: Keith Gillespie - How Not to be a Football Millionaire🚀📉⚽️💷🎙️
In Episode 54, we review Keith Gillespie’s How Not to be a Football Millionaire.
A Class of ’92 graduate alongside Becks and co., Gillespie enjoyed a solid career at Newcastle, Blackburn, and a handful of other lower-league clubs. The book charts his rocket-propelled rise 🚀 and his lamentable fall 📉.
Capped 86 times for Northern Ireland ⚽️, Gillespie reckons he blew somewhere in the region of £7 million through gambling and slippery financial advisors 💷. I know, its amazing to believe Keith Gillespie earned £7 million...
🎙️📖 Please do give us a nice chunky rating ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.
2026-01-2254 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubInjury Time 23: Right v. Left - The Ideology DraftIn our increasingly polarized world, what a tonic it is to think about where the footballers we so admire fall on the political spectrum. We can even go one further and consider who wins when the footballer conservatives take on the game's SJWs?
Tune in to Injury Time 23 of the Dynamo Football Bookclub and find out which ideology was best all along. Or at least best at football...
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2026-01-1541 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubEpisode 53: The Damned United by David PeaceIn our first episode this year, we review our first football novel, David Peace’s The Damned United 📖⚽
Having already reviewed both Clough and Taylor’s autobiographies, this was Alistair’s way of cramming in more Clough 😄
The book has been described as the best novel about football 🏆📚 — a fictionalised account of what happened during the 44-day reign of Clough (and don’t forget Taylor) at Leeds United ⏳⚽
It’s also been made into a film 🎬, which we discuss too.
🚨 Spoiler alert: the 44 days didn’t go well…
Happy New Ye
2026-01-0851 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubInjury Time 22: 'Tis the season for a Christmas 5-a-side draftTo mark the festive season 🎄, we discuss some of the weightier religious and historical topics 📜✝️ such as the cause of Herod’s death ☠️ and the schism between the Catholic and Protestant churches ⛪️⚔️⛪️. Yes indeed, it’s a Christmas 5-a-side ⚽️🎅.
Join us as we find ever more tenuous and tangential ways 🧵🤔 to connect top footballers to the 25 December 🎁🎂 and find out if Al can get a nice early present for himself 🎁😬 with a long-overdue win in the ongoing Injury Time draft series 🏆.
And as it’s the season of goodwill to all men 🤝✨, please do give us a nice rating ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.
2025-12-1733 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubEpisode 52: Sam Allardyce - Big Sam, My AutobiographyPour yourself a very very large glass of wine 🍷, sit back 🛋️, and enjoy Episode 52 of the Dynamo Football Bookclub.
This week, we are taking a lesson in humility from Big Sam Allardyce. 📘
The Premier League’s original innovator turned reactionary, Big Sam elbowed his way up and down England as a player before becoming one of the most noteworthy managers of the Premier League era. His Bolton team really were something back in the day ⚪️⚽ with flair, grit 💪, and no shortage of long punts up the field despite what Sam might say.
I...
2025-12-1154 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubInjury Time 21: Skin on Skin - Tattoo 5-a-sideWe are skin deep in Episode 21 of the Dynamo Football Bookclub’s Injury Time looking at footballers’ tattoos. 🏉🖋️
From numerology with Sergio Ramos 🔢 to Richarlison’s tattoo tribute to team mate and all-around good guy Neymar 🇧🇷✨, there is quite a lot to talk about.
Will Johnny take up Al’s offer of a five-figure sum to get a tattoo of Al’s face? 🤔💰😬
And more importantly, can Al finally win one of these damn drafts? 🏆🤞
More important questions answered in Episode 21 of Injury Time. 🎙️
Please do likey and subscribe. 👍🔔
2025-12-0440 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubEpisode 51: Marco Van Basten - BastaIn Episode 51, we’re back with the Oranje 🇳🇱 as we dive into Basta, the autobiography of the one and only Marco van Basten.
The rather oddly nicknamed “Swan of Utrecht” 🦢 rattled in 242 goals and swept up everything in sight:
three Eredivisie titles 🏆, four Scudetti 🇮🇹, two European Cups 🏆🏆, and not one, not two, but three Ballons d’Or 🥇🥇🥇
And he did all this before the age of 28. Amazing, football’s Alexander the Great ⚔️
Tune in to discover:
Who slammed the door 🚪 in Van Basten’s face for treachery
How deep his love ❤️ for Silvio Berl...
2025-11-2654 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubInjury Time 20: Ouch - The Injury Time injury specialIt’s injury time on Injury Time ⏱️⚽️
In Episode 20, we pay homage to all those fine fellows whose careers were brought to a premature end due to injury 🤕💔
From the most famous (David Busst) 😬 to some of the more obscure and unlikely — including the goalkeeper who ended his career up a tree while rescuing a cat 🧤🐈🌳
There is also the harrowing tale of the end of a Sprite-drenched Alistair’s fledgling career 🥤😵💫 Oh, what could have been…
Please do tune in 🎧, like 👍, subscribe 🔔, and tell your friends all about The Dynamo Football Bookcl
2025-11-1937 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubEpisode 50: Dennis Wise - The Autobiography🎉 EPISODE 50! 🎉
We’re celebrating our half-century in style — that’s right, it’s Denis Wise’s autobiography 😏📖⚽️
Wise is one of the three musketeers of English football books. Along with Glenn Hoddle and Steve McMahon, he somehow appears in everyone else’s autobiography — and almost no one ever has anything nice to say about him 😬😂
But rather than just blindly swallowing whatever’s served up by untrustworthy footballers, we decided to go straight to the source. 🎯
Denis’ 2012 autobiography is a suitably short book 🪶 — written while he was still playing, and includes:
📖 The g...
2025-11-1353 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubInjury Time 19: Scott Gemill nepo baby special - father and son 5-a-side🎶 “It’s not time to make a change…” 🎶
It's time to sit back, relax, and enjoy our Father & Son 5-a-side Draft!
Welcome to Injury Time 19 — the Scott Gemini Nepo Baby Special 👨👦⚽️😂
This week, we’re drafting the sons of footballing legends to face off on the pitch. It's rich pickings indeed 🤌💎
Turns out a lot of footballers are, well… footballers’ kids. Who knew?! 😏
Tune in for:
👨👦 Football father-son trivia
📚 The lively chatter you've come to expect from DFB
👀 A couple of controversial or perhaps ill-advised picks
2025-11-0646 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubEpisode 49: Michael Owen - Reboot
⚽️ “Episode 49: Reboot – The Michael Owen Story”
Is Michael Owen football’s oddest ball of all? 🧐
From the helicopter highs of that goal against Argentina 🚁⚽️ to the hamstring horrors that followed (quite a lot of them 😬), Owen’s career was a tale of glory, pain, and lots of grudges.
In this week’s episode, we dive into Reboot, Owen’s attempt to set the record straight — revisiting his electric early years, his complicated later life, and his, er… unique way of remembering it all.
For reasons we didn’t quite expect, this...
2025-10-3056 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubInjury Time 18: Frank Ilett hair shirt derby - United players versus United rejects☁️ The clouds have lifted over Old Trafford since the weekend with United’s smash-and-grab win down at Anfield — but has the storm truly passed? ⚡️
United’s failures on the pitch in recent years have only been compounded by the uncanny ability of their former flops to reach new heights away from the stifling drag around the Theatre of Dreams 🏟️.
In this episode of Injury Time, we see if United fan Johnny can put together a 5-a-side team ⚽️ of current United players that can beat United-hater Alistair’s team of cast-offs and rejects 🚷. Is Šeško better...
2025-10-2242 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubEpisode 48: A Season With Verona by Tim Parks⚽️ Episode 48: A Season with Verona — Tim Parks and the Tifosi 🇮🇹
After the drama of our last episode, we’re staying in Italy with another unfashionable football club. This time it’s Hellas Verona, a club known as much for its tifosi as for its football 🔵🟡
Back in 2000, British author and horny English teacher Tim Parks embarked on a wild year with the Verona faithful, traveling the length and breadth of Italy as the club battled its way through 34 games to see if they could say in Serie A 🚆🔥
The result, A Season with Ve...
2025-10-1658 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubInjury Time 17: Pig's Head Derby - The real snake draft🎙️ Episode Drop: Injury Time 17 – The Pig’s Head Derby: The Real Snake Draft
It’s 23 November 2002. Luis Figo trots over to take a corner for Real Madrid against Barcelona. Moments later, a severed pig’s head sails onto the pitch — lobbed by a fan of the club that claims to be “more than a football team.”
Once adored, now despised, Figo had become public enemy number one for the Blaugrana, and the Camp Nou was baying for blood (and ham).
Inspired by this gloriously grotesque episode in football history, Johnny and Alistair host a snake...
2025-10-0847 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubEpisode 47: The Miracle of Castel Di Sangro by Joe McGinness🚨 Episode Drop! 🚨
Almost two years in, and on our 46th book, we think we’ve found the best one yet. Hold on to your hats, because Joe McGinniss’s The Miracle of Castel di Sangro is coming your way.
Alistair had never even heard of it (he blames the title). But have you? 🤔
Back in 1996, tiny Castel di Sangro — a town of just 5,000 souls tucked away in Abruzzo — pulled off the impossible. Against all odds, their Serie C1 side won promotion to Serie B, making them the smallest club ever t...
2025-10-0152 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubInjury Time 16: Dreams of Alistair - TV lineup draft⚽ Injury Time 16 is here! 📺🎙️
In this episode, we choose our greatest television lineups. There may be some personal and national biases at play as we pick the best presenters 🎤, pundits 💬, and commentators 🎧. Thankfully, 🤖 AI is on hand to settle the debate and decide whose lineup comes out on top.
Heated arguments 🔥, nostalgia 🕰️, and a few questionable selections 🤔 ahoy.
🎧 Listen now and let us know which lineup you think deserves the crown 👑!
2025-09-2555 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubEpisode 46: Stuart Pearce - Psycho🎧 Episode 46 is out now — and it’s the most Alistair-esque episode yet.
That’s right, we’re doing our best to distract poor Al from events at the City Ground by diving into Psycho — the autobiography of his all-time hero, Stuart Pearce. ❤️🌳
The all-tackling, all-scoring, punk-loving left-back spent 12 loyal years at Nottingham Forest, sticking around even after relegation. Fierce, frugal, and forever Forest — Pearce is the kind of player they just don’t make anymore.
In this episode, expect:
Some serious Forest fanboying 🌲
Tales of punk rock and penalty misses 🎸😬
A b...
2025-09-1858 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubInjury Time 15: The Mayor of Barnet Fair - Clash of the terrible haircuts🎧 Injury Time 15: The Mayor of Barnet Fair – Football’s Worst Haircuts 💈⚽
It’s a question as old as the combover: who had football’s worst-ever haircut? From tragic trims to peroxide crimes, we’ve gathered the very worst in a draft showdown that pits one smorgasbord of shockers against another.
There are two routes to hair hell:
Trying too hard 💇♂️
Not trying at all 🪮
In this episode, we explore both — and find out which is the fastest path to follicular failure.
🎙️ Tune in for:
✂️ Alistair’s own haircutting tips for the budget-conscious
🎤 Some unexpected hair...
2025-09-1144 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubEpisode 45: Kevin Keegan - My Life in Football🎧 Episode 45 is OUT NOW! ⚽🐭
He’s King Kev in England, Mäuserich (Mighty Mouse) in Germany — and everywhere he goes, he’s a two-time Ballon d’Or winner, European Cup champ, and all-round lovely fella. We are talking of course about Kevin Keegan.
Sure, he’s a bit hapless at times but in the words of Bill Shankly, Keegan is “everything a man should be.”
In this episode, we dive into Kevin Keegan’s 2019 autobiography My Life in Football, ghostwritten by known Forest supporter Daniel Taylor. From humble beginnings to European superstardom, it’s the sto...
2025-09-0459 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubInjury Time 14: The Last Shall Be First – The Premier League’s Worst Ever PlayersMatthew Jarvis 20:16 – “So the last shall be first, and the first last.”
In this episode, we turn things on their head 🙃. We’re picking the worst players to notch up at least 100 Premier League appearances – that’s right, the aim of this draft is to lose. 🫣
Sure, if you’ve played 100 times in the EPL, you’re probably half-decent… but some of these lads were still pretty damn rubbish. 🗑️⚽
🎧 Tune in to find out who out of Alistair and Johnny assembled the em… rubbish-est.
2025-08-2828 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubEpisode 44: The Soccer War by Ryszard Kapuściński📚 Episode 44 is here!
This week, we’re diving into The Soccer War by Ryszard Kapuściński 🇵🇱 — the legendary Polish reporter, a writer who happened to be a journalist (in his own words) and a man who played fast and loose with the truth, it seems.
⚔️ The book centres on the 1969 war between Central American neighbours El Salvador 🇸🇻 and Honduras 🇭🇳 — a conflict that lasted just four days, but claimed thousands of lives, with most of the victims being civilians.
There may be a bit more war than soccer in this— and not just in Central Ameri...
2025-08-2035 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubEpisode 29: Messi - The Definitive Biography by Guillem BalagueHow do you follow a 5-time Ballon D’or winner? Well, with an 8-time Ballon D’or Winner of course. That’s right, its Part II of the Guillem Balague GOAT saga and our review of his biography of one Lionel Messi.
Originally published in 2013 but updated for the Argentina World Cup win in 2022, the book is a long one, covering the descent from heaven of the baby Messi to the unassuming city of Rosario, tucked away on the Rio Paraná, a few hundred miles inland from Buenos Aires.
With interviews from vari...
2025-08-1958 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubEpisode 28: Cristiano Ronaldo - The Biography by Guillem BalagueIt’s our 28th episode and we are starting the new year with the first part of the Balague GOAT saga. First up is his award-winning biography of Cristiano Ronaldo.
This player certainly needs no introduction but if you insist then 5 Champions League wins, 5 Ballons D’or, and seven straight calendar years in which he scored more than 50 goals will surely suffice.
We had initially planned to read Balague’s Messi biography first, but when we learned we had 7 days to get through its 796 pages, we pivoted and decided instead to read the...
2025-08-1959 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubInjury Time 13: The Steve McMahon Windscreens Shield – a Wrong ’Uns 5-a-side draft
⚽ Injury Time 13: The Steve McMahon Windscreens Shield – a Wrong ’Uns draft ⚽
OUT NOW! 🎧
What makes a wrong ’un?
Cheating on your wife? ❌ Not necessarily.
Cheating on your wife for eight years… with your sister-in-law? ✅ That probably qualifies.
It’s hard to define, but you know one when you see one.
In Injury Time 13, we each draft our Top 5 Wrong ’Uns to go head-to-head — elbow-to-face — with Artificial Intelligence running the match simulation and delivering an unimpeachable result.
🏆 Is Joey Barton – the crème...
2025-08-0647 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubEpisode 43: It's Only the Ray Parlour Autobiography - The Romford Pelé🎙️ Episode 43 of the Dynamo Football Bookclub is out!
💆♂️ Massage parlour, 💅 beauty parlour… Ray Parlour.
That’s right — it’s only Ray Parlour’s autobiography, The Romford Pelé! 📖⚽
Fun fact: Parlour has played in the Premier League for Arsenal more times than any other player 🔴⚪ He’s also a cheeky chappie who stole potted plants 🪴, terrorised poor old Martin Keown, and torpedoed his own England career 🌪️ by failing to understand the importance of faith healing.
It’s Episode 43 of the 🎧 Dynamo Football Bookclub, and we’re diving into the book of the Parlour who brought the...
2025-07-3159 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubInjury Time 12: African EPL Draft - Danny Invincible 11s v. Orlando Pirates
🎧 Episode 12 of Injury Time is here! 🎙️
It’s the Great African Draft Showdown — Johnny’s Danny Invincible 11s take on Alistair’s Orlando Pirates in a five-a-side battle to determine who really knows their African football EPL legends. 🇿🇦⚽🇪🇬🇨🇲
Our hosts pick their best five-a-side teams of African Premier League players and AI tells us who’d win.
With 33 of Africa’s 54 nations represented in the Premier League to date, the talent pool is deep… but that doesn’t mean it was easy, some positions are stacked (hello, strikers 😅), others… not so much (goalkeeper, a...
2025-07-2344 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubEpisode 42: The Feet of the Chameleon - The Story of African Football by Ian Hawkey🎙️ Episode 42 is LIVE!
📘 The Feet of the Chameleon – The Story of African Football by Ian Hawkey
⚽️🌍 An epic journey through the past, present & power of African football.
In this episode of the Dynamo Football Bookclub, we explore the rich, complex and utterly compelling story of football across Africa’s 54 nations 🇿🇲🇪🇬🇸🇳🇨🇲.
🦁 From apartheid-era pitches in South Africa…
🎯 To Cameroon’s unlikely rise as a footballing powerhouse 🇨🇲
🛑 And that unforgettable moment when a Zaire defender booted the ball away before Brazil’s free-kick in ‘74 🤯
Hawkey's book covers it all and more again.
...
2025-07-1747 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubInjury Time 11: The Battle of Brobdingnag - Giant Player DraftHaving passed out Crouchie in the podcast charts a couple of weeks ago, we've decided to tackle more giants of the game 🤖
In Injury Time 11 🎙️ we tackle a question that’s baffled football fans for years: who are the greatest players standing at 6′5″ and above? 🏰
⚽ Have there been any genuinely decent towering strikers beyond the aforementioned Peter Crouch ?
🛡️ Is Per Mertesacker really the best colossal centre-back we’ve ever seen?
🤔 And why on earth are there almost no giant midfielders?
Tune in and find out whether Al can make up...
2025-07-0930 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubEpisode 41: Do You Speak Football by Tom WilliamsIn Episode 41, we move beyond biographies and autobiographies for the first time and into the wonderful world of the language of football with Do You Speak Football by Tom Williams.
In his book, Williams takes us, Palinesque, on a tour of the world explaining how football is spoken about by fans everywhere.
If you would like to find out where a defensive midfielder is known as a faecal plug, what To Zlatan means in French, or what sunshine and piano football means in South Africa, this is the episode for you.
Please do li...
2025-07-0252 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubInjury Time 10: Kanye's boots - more football music🎧 Once more into the football-musical breach… 🎤⚽
We’re back with one final (for now) dive into the weird and wonderful world of footballers who made music. 🎶👟
Footballing genius doesn’t always translate to musical talent (spoiler: some of these are rough) 😬🎵 — but there are surprises. And its all good fun anyway...
💫 The players featured in this episode have won six Ballons d’Or between them. And one legend — whose music is probably the best of this particular lot — won zero, but only because the award wasn't open to non-Europeans throughout his career...
2025-06-2443 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubEpisode 40: Flight to Bogota - England's Football Rebel Neil Franklin by John Leonard
This week, we dive into Flight to Bogotá by John Leonard — the true story of Neil Franklin, the England defender hailed by Tom Finney as the finest defender of his generation… until he threw it all away.
In the years after WWII, Franklin played 27 times for England and had a ticket to the 1950 World Cup in the bag 🏆. But instead of heading to Brazil, he shocked the football world by signing for Santa Fe in Colombia’s rebel pirate Dimayor league — sacrificing his career for freedom, dollars 💰, and a new life beyond the FA’s reach.
2025-06-1847 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubInjury Time 9 - The Grace Jones World Series - North American Soccer League DraftIn this episode of Injury Time, Al and John dive into the chaotic, colourful world of the North American Soccer League (NASL) — the wild 1970s and 80s league that brought Pelé, Cruyff, Beckenbauer, and Best to America.
Each host drafts a 5-a-side dream team of NASL stars. We use this as a vehicle to tell the story - or at least some of the story - of a league where:
Clubs wore cowboy kits 🤠
No game ever ended in a draw (thats right, game rather than match)
And half-time shows f...
2025-06-1038 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubEpisode 39: Di Stefano by Ian Hawkey⚽ The Dynamo Football Book Club Podcast — Episode 39: Di Stéfano
We kick off our rebrand as The Dynamo Football Book Club with a book about a real legend Di Stéfano by Ian Hawkey.
Alfredo Di Stéfano — the Blonde Arrow 🏹 — won the first five European Cups 🏆 with Real Madrid, played for three national teams 🌍, and lived a life packed with drama: a Venezuelan kidnapping 🕵️, 514 career goals ⚽, and a near-marriage to a woman 50 years his junior 💍.
This episode blends football history with Cold War intrigue, featuring cameos from a young García Márquez ✍️, Che Gue...
2025-06-0558 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubInjury Time 8 - Rappers' HighlightsIt is our 8th edition of Injury Time, and we return to the football musical canon. This time round, we are listening to football’s greatest rappers. No Ballon D’or winners this time, but one World Cup winner and lots of hits on YouTube and a lady somehow singing with a Liverpool winger’s voice. It’s not John Barnes; he has been banned.
Please do like and subscribe.
2025-05-2932 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubEpisode 38: The Three Lives of the Kaiser - the Franz Beckenbauer Biography by Uli HesseIn Episode 38, we discuss the life – or rather The Three Lives – of the Kaiser Franz Beckenbauer by Uli Hesse.
Another of the faces on football’s Mount Rushmore, Beckenbauer is one of only three men to win the World Cup as a player and a manager and he is the only one of those three guys who also won three European Cups on the bounce with his club and who saw Grace Jones naked on a white horse in Studio 54.
Tune in to hear about a remarkable series of lives.
...
2025-05-2157 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubInjury Time 7 - The Lance Armstrong Cup - Party boys and Drug Cheat draftFor the 7th edition of Injury Time, we are picking the best and most interesting players who have received drug bans. From party boys like Diego to your boring performance enhancing types like Stam, we take a tour through the players who were caught with their hands in their wife’s medicine cabinet. This is also our first episode to feature an alleged war criminal.
Grab your methylephedrine and tune in to find out whether Alistair can narrow that growing lead of Johnny’s…
2025-05-1330 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubEpisode 37: Gazza in Italy by Daniel StoreyIn Episode 37, we visit the captivating story of Gazza in Italy.
This rather short book by Daniel Storey really packs a punch. Having read so many of these books by now, this one highlights the most important element of all - an interesting protagonist. Gazza is one of the most interesting of all - gifted, haunted and poor entertainment gold.
Have a listen to hear about him slapping an elderly Agnelli on his bald pate, faking motorbike accidents, and sending poor old Jimmy Five Bellies to Rome via Cambodia. Good man Gaz...
2025-05-0752 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubInjury Time 6 - Top of the Football PopsIn our sixth edition of Injury Time, we take times in a different direction, with something of a Football Top of the Pops.
Do you know which players have had songs in the UK charts? We give you a blast of the Top 5 and this is not according to our own tastes but on the basis of where they charted in the British charts.
Check it out, with songs from a Ballon D’or Winner, two European Cup winners, and of course Hoddle and Waddle…
But who is Top...
2025-04-2927 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubEpisode 36: Francesco Totti - GladiatorIn Episode 36, we discuss Gladiator, the autobiography of Francesco Totti. With nicknames such as The Eight King of Rome, Totti had other much better possible names for this book. And yet he went for Gladiator…
But what a career the man had, 251 goals in 619 appearances for his hometown team, Roma. He played his first game for the Giallorossi when he was only 17 years old. After becoming captain at the age of 22, he kept hold of the armband for 18 years.
With a World Cup Winners medal in his pocket to go with one eternal Scudetto for Ro...
2025-04-2256 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubInjury Time 5 - the Greatest Players Never to Win the Premier League, 5-a-side draftIt’s the 5th episode of Ademola Bookmen Injury Time and this week we are choosing 5-a-side teams of the best players never to win the Premier League. To keep the golf theme of the week going, it's the Colin Montgomerie Derby.
With Johnny having won the previous three encounters of these 5-a-sides (as well as the Forest-United one), Al’s pride is really what is at stake most in this particular encounter, him never having won one of these drafts. Oh the irony...
With thanks to listener Barry for the suggest...
2025-04-1727 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubEpisode 35: Matt Le Tisser - Taking Le TissIn continuation of God month on the Ademola Bookmen Podcast, we travel to the south coast to check on in folk legend Matt Le Tissier and his autobiography Taking Le Tiss
The famous one-club Le Tissier scored some cracking goals in his 16 years with Southampton. This book was written in 2009 so before Matt went off the deep end a bit with conspiracy theories and the likes.
Please do check it out and be sure to like and subscribe.
2025-04-0950 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubInjury Time 4 - Matchday Special - all-time Forest versus all-time Manchester UnitedLet’s see what our cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence machine has to say – can a team of legendary Forest players beat the mighty United?
Ahead of the Nottingham v. Manchester United game tomorrow night, Al and Johnny are picking draft 5-a-side teams for either club. It’s Al’s all-time Forest team versus Johhny’s all-time United.
This one is personal. We bought it out a day early, such is our excitement.
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2025-03-3130 min
The Last Word with Matt CooperThe Week Trending: 72-Hour Emergency Kit, Ireland Advised To Join The Commonwealth & Spicebag Added To The DictionaryThe European Union urges every household to put together a 72-hour emergency kit, a Conservative MP calls on Ireland to join the Commonwealth and spicebag and morto are added to the Oxford English Dictionary.Journalist Lise Hand and Dion Fanning, co-host of the Free State podcast, join The Last Word to discuss the week's trending stories. Catch the full chat by pressing the 'Play' button page!
2025-03-2824 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubEpisode 34: Eric Cantona – The Rebel Who Would Be King by Philippe AuclairIn Episode 34, we review Philippe Auclair’s book about arguably the greatest of all Premier League players and certainly the coolest – Eric Cantona.
French football’s enfant terrible washed up on the shores of British football seeking refuge from the tyranny of the French FA’s capricious officials. Driven from his home country due to his uncontrollable temper, Cantona left behind Marseilles, Auxerre, Nimes, and the various other clubs he played for in France, arriving in Sheffield a desolate but still proud figure. A trial there and a brief (league winning) stint at Leeds later, he found...
2025-03-2559 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubInjury Time 3: Ginger Spice - The Red Hair 5-a-side draftIn our third instalment of Ademola Bookmen Injury Time, we are doing a 5-a-side draft of red hair footballers. Yes folks, its Ginger Spice, the Red Hair Draft. Tune in to find out if Al can save some blushes and finally get a win.
2025-03-1822 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubEpisode 33: In Search of Duncan Ferguson by Alan PatulloIn Episode 33, we review In Search of Duncan Ferguson – The Life and Crimes of a Footballing Enigma by Alan Patullo.
The highest scoring Scot in the Premier League, Ferguson is a folk hero on the blue half of Merseyside. As well as Everton, Ferguson had stints of varying degrees of success and failure with Dundee United, Rangers, and Newcastle United. But he is perhaps best known for his brushes with the law and with home intruders. Famously, he went to jail for headbutting Josh McStay of Raith Rovers and consigned a series of burglars to a si...
2025-03-1257 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubInjury Time 2 - Prison 5-a-side draft (the Joey Barton Cup)Join us for our second installment of Injury Time, a prison 5-a-side draft.
The quality of players who have been to prison is really quite something, rich pickings indeed. Please do tune in to find out if Al can salvage some pride after his devastating loss in the previous draft.
Music by Darragh Fenlon.
2025-03-0424 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubEpisode 32: Béla Guttman - The Greatest Comeback by David BolchoverIn Episode 32, we take a history lesson with David Bolchover’s book about Béla Guttman, The Greatest Comeback – From Genocide to Football Glory. This is a remarkable and very tragic story, one that is as much about the treatment of Jews in Europe as about Guttman himself.
Béla Guttman played football for mostly Jewish teams in his native Hungary and then in Austria and the US. But it’s as a coach that he found global fame, winning the European Cup two years in a row with Benfica in the early ‘60s. Beyond the football pitch, Gut...
2025-02-2557 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubInjury Time 1 - Irish Premier League 5-a-side smackdownWelcome to our first bonus episode - it's the Ademola Bookmen Podcast Injury Time [insert whistle sound here].
Today, Al and John are competing against each other to pick the best 5-a-side team of historic Irish Premier League players. Much less an idle barstool conversation, this discussion has an outcome. Yes, courtesy of cutting edge Artificial Intelligence technology, we can tell you whose team would have won.
Music by that dastardly handsome Darragh Fenlon.
Please do tune in to find out whether John knows more than Al about...
2025-02-1819 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubEpisode 31: Martin Keown - On The EdgeIn Episode 31, we tackle the autobiography of famous Ruud Van Nistelrooy botherer Martin Keown. A member of The Invincibles, a double-double winner, and the owner of the most elbowed face in Premier League history, Keown played more than 300 times for Arsenal and 43 times for England.
In his 2024 book, Keown takes us through a career which brought him to Arsenal, Brighton, Villa, Everton, Arsenal again, Leicester and Reading. For whatever reason, in the audiobook version of the book – which Martin reads – he does the voices of the various people he encounters along the way. A bold choic...
2025-02-1156 min
https://tortoiseshack.ie/feed/podcast/[PREVIEW] Patron Exclusive: ‘Same Old Shit’ - Adam SpiceBag DoyleFirst of all, activist artist Adam SpiceBag Doyle has done some amazing things over the last few years and he will continue to do so. But in this podcast he talks Gaza, Trump, the new-yet-ever-present government and the state of the opposition. You’ll enjoy this.Get your jersey order in now:https://spicebagmerch.bigcartel.com/product/ireland-palestine-solidarity-jersey?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaZfVWQL3yo7JO2Ay1m5gfN9_FJLpIhRGMj9bMvn_Qv03WXGc988gJLbkmk_aem_wW5Bo8_iH2VdHYt8m4-PxA
2025-02-0602 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubEpisode 30: Doctor Socrates - Footballer, Philosopher, Legend by Andrew DownieWas Sócrates the coolest footballer ever?
Not only did he complete a medical degree while playing as a professional footballer, captain the Brazil national team, and found Corinthians Democracy, a movement which is credited with inspiring the people of Brazil to overthrow a military dictatorship, he did it all while looking like a stone cold cool motherfucker.
In Episode 30 of the Ademola Bookmen Podcast, we review Doctor Sócrates: Footballer, Philosopher, Legend, the 2017 biography of the great man by Brazil-based journalist Andrew Downie.
Do check it out a...
2025-01-2958 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubEpisode 27: Eamon Dunphy - Only a Game?In Episode 27, we take a stroll down memory lane with Ireland’s arch controversialist Eamon Dunphy. Before he became a fixture on Irish television attacking the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo and Rod Liddle, Dunphy was once a footballer.
He is remembered more for his work as a journalist and television malcontent than for his performances for Ireland, Millwall, Reading and Charlton. But it was his 1976 diary Only a Game? that launched Dunphy’s media career, starting him out on a road that led him to becoming a fixture on Irish television channels for around 30 years.
2024-12-1849 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubEpisode 26: Ferenc Puskás - Captain of HungaryHungary’s ‘Galloping Major’, Ferenc Puskás was a three time European Cup winner and the winner of ten domestic titles, split evenly with five in his home country and five in Spain.
His 1956 autobiography, Captain of Hungary, was written after he led Hungary to the 1954 World Cup final but before his exploits in Spain playing with Real Madrid and a management career that saw him lead teams in ten different countries. The book was also written before the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 with much of the focus on Puskás’ travels on either side of the Iron Cu...
2024-12-0459 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubEpisode 25: Andrea Pirlo - I Think Therefore I PlayGrab your rollies, your loganberry IPA, and your panini sticker book folks, it's Episode 25 of the Ademola Bookmen Podcast, the hipster's choice, Andrea Pirlo.
Tune in to hear Al compare the Italian great's lips to those of James Milner and to find out whether Al and Johnny were cool enough to understand the Italian's cerebral game. Pirlo's 2015 book, I Think Therefore I Play, is another that is not really an autobiography as such but more a series of musings on various topics.
Would you like to know how it feels to wal...
2024-11-1952 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubEpisode 24: Sven Goran Eriksson - A Beautiful GameIn Episode 24, we discuss A Beautiful Game by Sven-Göran Eriksson. The book was published on 17 October, less than two months after Sven died from pancreatic cancer at the age of 75.
Born in Sweden in 1948, Eriksson lived a remarkable life that saw him working in ten countries in jobs that included national team manager roles on four different continents. Most famous for his five year stint as manager of England, Sven was as much a regular in the country’s tabloid gossip columns as he was on their back pages.
Throughout his ca...
2024-11-0659 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubEpisode 23: Tony Cascarino - Full TimeIn Episode 23, we discuss Full Time – the secret life of Tony Cascarino as told to Paul Kimmage. Despite having earned 88 caps for them, scoring 19 goals, the book is famed for the revelation that Cascarino did not in fact qualify to play for Ireland. Although was that really the case or were they just try to grab headlines and move copies of the book?
Twenty-four years after its publication, with Cascarino’s career highlights long forgotten, the book remains a stalwart of lists of sports books recommendations. Shorn of the empty platitudes of so-many football autobiographies that...
2024-10-2359 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubEpisode 22: Garrincha - The Triumph and Tragedy of Brazil's Forgotten Football HeroIn Episode 22, we review the biography of Manuel Francisco dos Santos - Garrincha to you and I. In a Dylan goes electric moment for the Bookmen, this is our first biography, as opposed to autobiography. And it's a good one.
Garrincha - which means Little Bird - is remembered by Brazil of being even better than Pele. The grandchild of slaves, born with a curved spine, he led Brazil to their first world cups - in 1958 and 1962. '62 was also the year he met samba star, Elza Soares and left his wife and eight daughters, th...
2024-10-0858 min
Popular Front PF bonus RSS feedBONUS 162: Is Óglaigh na hÉireann About to Start Start Shooting?Doyle: https://www.instagram.com/spicebag.exe x https://spicebag.substack.com/p/a-few-3d-printers-and-a-deathless
2024-09-2453 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubEpisode 21: Peter Taylor - With CloughIn Episode 21, Al and Johnny review With Clough by Peter Taylor, the book that is believed to have created the rift between the two men that ultimately led to them parting ways and not talking for seven years before Taylor's death in 1990.
The pair had played together at Middlesborough. When they met, Taylor was a jobbing sub keeper and Clough was being overlooked by a team that found his ego largely outweighed his ability on the field. In Taylor, Clough found a champion, who canvassed for him to play and helped nurture a talent that w...
2024-09-2458 min
Celtic Ligers#047 somewhere in Meath (FREE)After AI riffing, The Ligers talk about Sinn Féin's Housing Policy and find it hard to get excited. Then in the second half on www.patreon.com/celticligersNeale Richmond being an oaf on political panel shows, Starmer visting Ireland and also Spicebag's article about "Scrotes". And Then The Whole Luas Clapped by Spicebag:-https://open.substack.com/pub/spicebag/p/and-then-the-whole-luas-clapped?r=177lm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
2024-09-121h 01
The Dynamo Football BookclubEpisode 20: Brian Clough - The AutobiographyAfter a couple of technical glitches, it's Episode 20 of the Ademola Bookmen Podcast. And to mark this (kind of) milestone in our podcasting journey, we have indulged Al by delving into the mind of Brian Clough, Nottingham’s most famous man not in tights.
After being forced to retire following a stellar career as a second division striker, Clough became the youngest manager in the football league, when he took over Fourth Division Hartlepools in 1965. It was a less than glamourous beginning to one of the most storied managing careers in English football.
2024-09-1159 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubEpisode 19: Robbie Fowler - My AutobiographyIn Episode 19, the Ademola Bookmen Podcast takes an ecclesiastical turn with our review of God’s book – Robbie Fowler’s, My Autobiography.
Kop legend and the eighth highest scorer in the Premier League, Fowler notched a total of 183 goals for his boyhood club Liverpool who he left in reasonably acrimonious circumstances in 2001 only to return again in 2006. While he wasn’t scoring goals, Fowler was often getting himself in trouble albeit for more cheeky antics than anything else. Despite attaining a level of immortality in his native Liverpool, he only played 26 times for England. The second ha...
2024-08-1359 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubEpisode 18: Johan Cruyff - My TurnIt’s Episode 18 and its Johan Cruyff’s My Turn for the Ademola Bookmen Podcast. Join us as we take a trip through the life of arguably the best influential person in the history of football.
Cruyff won the European Cup three times with Ajax, the team whose stadium he grew up across the road from. He also invented the modern game of football with the Total Football of the Netherlands in 1974 and went on to build the footballing cathedral of Barcelona, to borrow a line from his protégé and heir, Pep Guardiola.
A true g...
2024-07-3053 min
Popular FrontWhat's Fuelling Ireland's Immigration Riots?Today we speak to artist and political writer Adam Doyle (AKA Spicebag) about the recent anti-immigration riots in Ireland and the complicated events that's causing serious violence. Doyle's art: www.instagram.com/spicebag.exe Discounted internet privacy services for all our listeners: www.protonvpn.com/popularfront - Extra: www.patreon.com/popularfront - Info: www.popularfront.co - Merch: www.popularfront.shop - News: www.instagram.com/popular.front - Jake: www.twitter.com/jake_hanrahan
2024-07-211h 18
The Dynamo Football BookclubEpisode 17: Mark Noble - Boleyn BoyIt’s Episode 17 and we are reading Boyeln Boy by Mr. West Ham himself, Mark Noble. Having been released in November 2022, this is by far the most recent book we have reviewed. Noble famously played for only one club (if you don’t count the time he spent at Arsenal, Hull, and Ipswich) but this book is perhaps most memorable for the revelation that he’s really a Man United fan.
Putting that juicy morsel to one side for a moment, Noble played a million times for West Ham and never for England (or indeed for Ire...
2024-07-1758 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubEpisode 16: Robbie Savage - Savage!Episode 16 focuses on the life and times of that most overlooked of the Class of 92, Robbie Savage.
Less famous for his time as an underweight and underscoring striker in the Man United Youth Team than he is for his displays as an all tackling, all bullshiting midfielder for Leicester, Birmingham and Blackburn and others, Robbie is by his own admission something of a marmite character.
Throughout his 2011 book Savage! (complete with exclamation mark in the title) Robbie says that people should meet him before they judge him. If you are not particularly interested in meeting...
2024-07-0256 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubEpisode 15: Neil Warnock - The GafferWith a career in English football going all the way back to 1967, Neil Warnock has traveled to every corner of the country. In his 2013 book, The Gaffer – The Trials and Tribulations of a Football Manager, Warnock outlines his view of the football world. It’s an old fashion view, in many respects, but a romantic one too.
Less an autobiography than an insight into the day-to-day running of a Championship/Premier League team, the book covers Warnock’s likes (wingers, Scott Parker, his son William, the British Monarchy) and dislikes (Shaun Wright Philips, Graham Poll, the des...
2024-06-1952 min
Reboot Republic - Rory Hearne by Tortoise Shack Media1269. Nuseirat, Gaza with Dr Musallam Abukhalil and Adam SpiceBag DoylePlease join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack
It was a pleasure to be rejoined on the podcast from Nuseirat by Dr Musallam Abukhalil from the medical shelter where he works with his colleagues and the volunteers with Dignity for Palestine, and activist artist Adam SpiceBag Doyle. We just wish it was under better circumstances.
We talk about how things are right now on the ground in Gaza and the immense suffering of thousands of displaced people and how voluteers are resilient, yet overwhelmed.
Note Adam is donating money from the sales of his An Phalaistín scarves to Dignity for P...
2024-06-0900 minhttps://tortoiseshack.ie/feed/podcast/[PREVIEW] Patron Exclusive: Dr Musallam and Adam SpiceBag DoyleLast night we managed to get a connection with Dr Musallam Abukhalil in the medical shelter where he works with his colleagues and the volunteers with Dignity for Palestine. Joining us also as we talk about how things are right now on the ground in Gaza and the immense suffering of thousands of displaced people is artist (who is now raising money for Dignity for Palestine) Adam SpiceBag Doyle.You can get the (back on order) scarfs here:https://spicebagmerch.bigcartel.com/product/an-phalaistin-scarfThe Palestine GAA Jersey will be available soon. And you can...
2024-06-0605 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubEpisode 14: James Milner - Ask a FootballerJames Milner's first appearance in the Premier League was as a substitute for Manchester United's new technical director, Jason Wilcox. He is that bloody old. 634 Premier League appearances later, he may soon takeover Gareth Barry as the player with the most appearances of all.
In 2019, he wrote Ask a Footballer, which is not so much an autobiography as it is a collection of thoughts - musings even - on the life of a Premier League footballer.
Ultimately, the thing that most people interested in this book want to know is, is James Milner as boring as...
2024-06-0452 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubEpisode 13: Patrice Evra.- I Love This GameIn Episode 13 we read about the life and times of the chicken licking, Marseilles fan kicking, Patrice Evra.
Born in Senegal, one of 24 children (not a typo), and raised in the meanest streets of Paris, Evra won five Premier Leagues with Manchester United and two Scudettos with Juventus. He also has the less enviable accolade of being the player who has lost the most ever Champions League finals taking (but not taking home) four losers medals to go with the one winners medal he got for beating Chelsea on that famous night in Moscow in 2008.
2024-05-2259 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubEpisode 12: Arsene Wenger - My Life in Red and WhiteArsene Who?
In Episode 12, we review our first book by a manager. He may have been a stranger when he arrived in England in 1996 but he is no stranger now. In his 22 years with Arsenal, Wenger went from nobody to managerial royalty, with a turn towards the end as the most hated man in North London, or at least so it seemed at the time.
Is this the sex-filled page turner that Al has been calling for since we launched the good ship Bookmen? Tune in to find out.
Thanks to my friend Sa...
2024-05-0257 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubEpisode 11: Steve Claridge - Tales from the Boot CampsWho better to follow Diego Maradona than the Aldershot Hotshot Steve Claridge?
Probably most famous for scoring the goal that got Leicester up to the Premier League in 1996, football's fruit and veg man played for 24 (by our count) clubs in a career that spanned four decades. Throughout that period, he traveled around in battered cars as he commuted from his parents house in Portsmouth to clubs all over the south and southeast, earning himself a reputation for tardiness and for having the filthiest boots in football.
Written in 1997, Tales from the Boot Camps is the f...
2024-04-1758 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubEpisode 10: Diego Maradona - El DiegoEpisode 10, the magic and mayhem of Diego Maradona.
In this episode, Al and Johnny slalom their way around flailing defenders and through the life of arguably the best and certainly the greatest player of them all.
Written in 2004, El Diego examines the life of a boy from Villa Fiorito in Buenos Aires who conquered Italy with lowly Napoli and the world in the blue and white of Argentina.
Includes tips on how to beat a goalkeeper in the air...
2024-04-0359 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubEpisode 9: Neville Southall - The Binman ChroniclesIn Episode 9, we take a tour on an open top bin lorry with Neville Southall's The Binman Chronicles back to a time when Everton FC were riding high at the top of the English football pyramid.
In a career that brought him such highs as two league wins, Southall also experienced the lows (or at least, the lowers) of playing in the basement of English football with teams like Bury, Torquay, Southend and Rhyl in a career that began in the 70s and ended in the 2000s.
A Wales and Everton legend and an all r...
2024-03-2058 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubEpisode 8: Peter Crouch - How to be a FootballerIn Episode 8, Al and Johnny visit the first literary work by Peter Crouch, the all volleying, sometime header-ing, everyman of English football.
At 6ft 7 inches, Crouch is the 3rd tallest player ever to play in the Premier League and while he ended his career as a universally liked person, his road to stardom started with regular abuse from fans, including his own. So bad was the guff that he received for his unusual body shape, his father ended up in physical fights with fellow matching going supporters.
From roboting for the future King of England t...
2024-03-0657 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubEpisode 7: Paul McGrath - Back from the BrinkIn the introduction to his Back from the Brink, his 2006 autobiography, Paul McGrath is described by his ghostwriter, Vincent Hogan, as "undeniably Ireland's best loved sportsman". In Episode 7 of the Ademola Bookmen Podcast, Al and Johnny wrestle with what must surely be one of the heaviest books in the football canon. The book, which won both the William Hill and Boylesports sports books of the year in Ireland in 2006, covers McGrath's heartbreaking childhood as an orphan in a series of Dublin orphanages, his illustrious club career with Manchester United and Aston Villa, his legendary displays in an iconic Ireland t...
2024-02-2158 minhttps://tortoiseshack.ie/feed/podcast/[PREVIEW] Patron Exclusive: Let It Bring Hope - The Free Derry WallThe last time we spoke with Pattern Up and Adam SpiceBag Doyle, they'd caused a lot of pearl clutching with their Crack Zone posters. This time they've done something very different and very much appreciated by the Shack. They've repainted the iconic Free Derry Wall with words from the poem of our friend Dr. Refaat Alareer, who was murdered by the Israeli military last December. Not content with that, they then went to Belfast and installed a DUP urinal (now detroyed), because of course they did. Art and activism go hand in hand and Pattern Up and S...
2024-02-0705 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubEpisode 6: Didier Drogba - CommitmentWith Ademola Lookman plotting a course to the final of the African Cup of Nations where he may (fingers crossed) find himself taking on Ivory Coast, the Ademola Bookmen Podcast bring you our AFCON special.
Didier Drogba, the greatest Chelsea player of all time according to Chelsea fans. A scorer of great goals - that one against Liverpool in 2006 comes to mind. A scorer of big goals - the first player to score in four FA Cup finals and the man whose penalty won Chelsea their first ever Champions League. And, well, just a scorer of lots of...
2024-02-0748 min
The Truth is In ThereThe Brutal Spicebag and PittakionophobiaIrish Stand up Comedian Dan Stephens discusses his latest Google searches including The Brutal Spicebag, Attraction to Arses, and Pittakionophobia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-01-2928 min
The Dan Stephens ShowThe Brutal Spicebag and PittakionophobiaIrish Stand up Comedian Dan Stephens discusses his latest Google searches including The Brutal Spicebag, Attraction to Arses, and Pittakionophobia
2024-01-2928 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubEpisode 5: Joey Barton - No NonsenseIn 2016, as his playing career was coming to an end, Joey Barton published his autobiography. Titled "No Nonsense", the book takes us through Joey's turbulent childhood in Liverpool; being spurned by Everton, the team he supported as a boy; and through his professional career with teams including Manchester City, Newcastle United, and Marseilles.
Barton's years as a player were punctuated by regular controversies on and off the field, including a 74-day stretch in prison following a violent altercation with a man and a 15-year-old boy during a night out in Liverpool. The book predates Barton's stints as...
2024-01-2358 min
Popular Front PF bonus RSS feedBONUS 143: Understanding the Dublin RiotCheck out Spicebag: https://www.instagram.com/spicebag.exehttps://www.youtube.com/@CouncilMagazinehttps://youtu.be/oh_xkupsJN8?si=gzCD5IhgrcSv25N7
2023-12-1254 min
Catch Up with Louise McSharryA Dublin Riot, Spicebag and Dolly Parton for Queen of the World*Please send me your thoughts, feelings and feedback via voicenote to 0892096423.*DO NOT WORRY IT IS NOT FRIDAY! You did not sleep through Thursday, I'm just bringing you the episode a day early this week as I'm on the road to Other Voices. I thought it was important that we talk about what happened last week, and I hope you find this episode useful. Carl Kinsella and I chat through what happened and where things stand now as well as the rest of the week's news. I talk to artist Spicebag about the...
2023-11-301h 32
The Dynamo Football BookclubEpisode 4: Ian Wright - A Life in Football - Part IISouth London icon and Arsenal/Palace legend Ian Wright's book has such heft that it took us two episodes to get through it. Join Al and Johnny as they wander with Ian through the streets of Brockley, the gates of Chelmsford prison, all the way up the steps of Wembley Stadium, and right into the hearts of (many although not all) football fans everywhere. This is Part II in which Ian tells us all about London in the 70s and 80s.
2023-11-2248 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubEpisode 3: Ian Wright - A Life in Football - Part ISouth London icon and Arsenal/Palace legend Ian Wright's book has such heft that it took us two episodes to get through it. Join Al and Johnny as they wander with Ian through the streets of Brockley, the gates of Chelmsford prison, all the way up the steps of Wembley Stadium, and right into the hearts of (many although not all) football fans everywhere. This is Part I, in which Ian scores goals and wins trophies.
2023-11-2244 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubEpisode 2: Zlatan Ibrahimovic - I Am Zlatan"It was a fairytale and I was Zlatan". These are the final words of the Zlatan book, described by the Guardian as the greatest ever football biography.
Is this just more Zlatan hubris or is I am Zlatan the literary equivalent of an overhead kick from 50 yards out?
Listen to hosts Al and Johnny as they wrestle with this most pertinent of questions right at the juncture of football and literature.
2023-11-2159 min
The Dynamo Football BookclubEpisode 1: Jamie Vardy - From Nowhere, My StoryIn the first episode of the Ademola Bookmen Podcast, hosts Al Bond and Johnny Coughlan tackle the literary heft of the Jamie Vardy story. The skittle vodka swilling goal machine takes us from the lows of the English 8th tier to the highest of highs, the top of the Premier League. Is it worth a read? Listen & find out.
2023-11-211h 01https://tortoiseshack.ie/feed/podcast/Patron Exclusive: Protest Art and Trauma Informed DesignNote: If you're a non-member listening to this please have a look around; maybe join us for a month and see what you think. It's the easiest bit of activism you can do. We've gotten a lot of heat from Monday's podcast with SpiceBag and Pattern Up. Which is great and we wouldn't change anything, tbhwy.One person who endorsed the posters is Ireland's leading advocate and academic in drug policy and trauma informed design, UCC's Senior Lecturer and Phycologist, Dr Sharon Lambert and it was a pleasure to get both SpiceBag and Sharon on t...
2023-08-1038 minhttps://tortoiseshack.ie/feed/podcast/[PREVIEW] Patron Exclusive: Those #LetsGetCracking PostersArt is supposed to provoke and with their Designated Crack and Heroin Zone posters, activist artists, SpiceBag and Pattern Up have certainly done that.Read More: https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/fake-drug-posters-claiming-dublin-27467020Both SpiceBag and Pattern Up joined us to talk about the reasons for their poster and the heat that comes with provoking a conversation. Then Sinn Féin Cllr in Dublin City Council, Daithí Doolan, joins us all to share his concerns about the posters and why he feels they aren't helpful. There's some disagreement, conflict with a small c, but everyone wa...
2023-08-0704 min
Shite Talk: An Irish History PodcastTalking Shite w/ SpicebagHello! This week is the third and last of our interview series (for now) and it’s with the artist Spicebag. I chatted with Mr Bag about the controversy over his eviction art earlier in the year, his connection to famine era artist Daniel MacDonald, and the general state of housing in Dublin at the minute.If you want to see our video content and all that there then here are the links -> STH Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2023-07-0959 min
Vogue & AmberSpicebags, Dumpable Offences & Amazon vs AmazonIn today's episode of Spencer & Vogue: Find out what a spicebag is and why Spenno has been one this week, Imo & Spen go on a date, Amazon nearly saves Spen from going to the Amazon - but doesn't, Vogue's time at the Palladium, boring husbands, dumpable offences, Masterchef and gross nicknames.Watch Finding Michael on Disney+ now. Remember, if you want to get involved you can:Email us at Spencerandvoguepod@gmail.comOR find us on socials @voguewilliams @spencermatthews AND @spencer_and_vogueListen and subscribe to Spencer and Vogue on Global...
2023-05-1649 min
Vogue & AmberSpicebags, Dumpable Offences & Amazon vs AmazonIn today's episode of Spencer & Vogue: Find out what a spicebag is and why Spenno has been one this week, Imo & Spen go on a date, Amazon nearly saves Spen from going to the Amazon - but doesn't, Vogue's time at the Palladium, boring husbands, dumpable offences, Masterchef and gross nicknames.Watch Finding Michael on Disney+ now. Remember, if you want to get involved you can:Email us at Spencerandvoguepod@gmail.comOR find us on socials @voguewilliams @spencermatthews AND @spencer_and_vogueListen and subscribe to Spencer and Vogue on Global...
2023-05-1649 minCatch Up with Louise McSharrySpicebag, Margaret Josephs and BarbiepaloozaThis week Aoife Moore and I discuss the Spicebag controversy and my head nearly explodes, Margaret Josephs of The Real Housewives of New Jersey and I discuss feminism and the housewives among other things, and Cassie Delaney and I lose our minds about the Barbie movie.RecommendationsThe Super Mario Bros MovieLewis Capaldi: How I'm Feeling NowBar CañeteDon't forget to send thoughts, comments, criticism or stories to 0892096423 - I love to hear your voices! For a bonus episode every s...
2023-04-071h 08
The Group ChatSpicebag, Stormy & Homeless PetsA tense interview with artist Spicebag and Fionnan Sheahan has caused huge online debate around his Garda artwork.Gavan explains the lack of supports for children with autism and how long it can take for a child to be assessed. Are these problems unfixable?Trump has been arrested and the trio explain why things are about to get a lot more complicated for him... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2023-04-0646 min
The Tonight ShowMonday 3rd April 2023 - Artist behind eviction tweet image says "people seem to be missing the point", Russian ships off Irish coast spark concern, Former Miss Ireland Lynda Duffy on her battle with an eating disorder Claire Brock is joined by Minister of State Jack Chambers, Matt Carthy TD, Fionnán Sheahan, George Hook, Adam Doyle also known as Spicebag, and Lynda Duffy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2023-04-0446 min
Poly TicksEpisode 17 - Stepaside, Shane Ross!Two Irish dickheads talk shit about politics and the news, direct to your earholes.
This week: Finally, a quiet week for the warm weather. The new cabinet takes it's first baby steps, Spicebag is in trouble in the states, and the election aftermath is still making waves in the UK.
Theme tune as always by Thomas O'Boyle: @soundcloud.com/thomas-oboyle
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