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Football Ruined My Life

Jon Holmes, Patrick Barclay, Colin Shindler, Paul Kobrak

Released: 2023-10-20

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26 Episodes

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Free New

26 Episodes

Audio

Released: 2023-10-20

Most Recent Episode

Fiction and Football

With special guests, George Layton & Ian McShane

Time: 47:39

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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 unmistakable words of the great German forward Harry Kane, “a dream come true”. However, from ‘United!’, the 1965 BBC tv soap opera, to ‘Ted Lasso’, the current American comedy drama hit show about AFC Richmond, the many attempts to persuade the football audience to watch a drama series about the game have proved only occasionally successful. The usual panellists are joined by actors Ian McShane and George Layton to discuss the promotion and relegation of football in novels and on the film or television screen.

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Episode ID: 1000631949269

GUID: a51af52c-4b0b-11ee-9042-5be99ae74a7f

Release Date: 20/10/2023, 05:30:00

Description

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 distinguished football journalist Patrick Barclay 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.

The podcast views those days fondly - though not uncritically - in comparison to today's game, which it views critically though not unfondly. We welcome everyone who wants to remember Jimmy Greaves and Bobby Charlton, Brian Clough and Bill Shankly and the days when you went to a Football League ground to watch your football and didn't wait for it to arrive on television.

Nostalgic? Yes. Well informed? Certainly. But above all, it glories in the football of our youth when the game seemed charmingly innocent, full of skillful, good hearted, kindly men like Norman Hunter, Ron Harris and Peter Storey.

Join us every week for a romp through the 1960s, 70s and 80s that will warm you like a cup of scalding hot Bovril.

Produced by Paul Kobrak.

Contact the team at footballruinedmylife@gmail.com

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