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I’m dying to know – how is a Football Weekly panel selected? Please tell me it’s a more exciting process than coordinating schedules. Randall Barry: Tony Cascarino’s autobiography, which he wrote with the help of the Irish journalist Paul Kimmage, is probably my favourite football book, although I’m sure if I ever get around to reading any of the books written by my friend and colleague Jonathan Wilson, I might enjoy them too. As far as non-football books are concerned, I like a good murder of the kind written by the Scottish authors Ian Rankin or Val McDermid. I think the genre is called Tartan Noir. Val is, or used to be, on the board of Raith Rovers. How do you marry the recent anti-gambling rhetoric in the paper and podcast with the constant talk about cheeky bets from Barry? Don’t you feel you should have also held your hands up as part of the problem? John Do you have any plans for a live show in the US? You’ll know better but I bet there’s a lot of listeners over here. Paul
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I wasn’t sure this book was going to be any good, but I didn’t want to not be involved in case it was. I hadn’t seen it until Dr Karl Kennedy from Neighbours brought his copy to the pub and it turns out it’s way better than I thought it would be. I look forward to sitting behind a desk at the live tour ready to sign thousands of copies while people walk straight past me and go to the bar/ask Barry for a selfie.” I’ve just moved to London from Dublin. Which pubs do you recommend to watch football in? I’m living out west but happy to travel further, especially when meeting friends. Robert Walsh Max Rushden and Barry Glendenning will be live on stage at EartH in London and via livestream. Think of this as the only preparation you need for the 2022 World Cup*. Barry: I have no shame in admitting that I love a good, or even bad, romcom. During the pandemic I developed a hopeless addiction to those Hallmark Christmas movies that all have the same saccharine sweet plot. Expect nonsense, trivia, filler, too much about The Mighty Cambridge United, not enough about [insert your club here], and very occasionally, an insightful remark. Think of this as the book you probably don’t need, but might as well buy anyway.
Each show will feature the podcast’s unique take on the world of football, in addition to opportunities for the audience to get involved in the antics, special guests and stories too risky for the podcast. Barry: Of course everyone has the right to support their team, regardless of who owns it because fans have little or no say in who gets to be the custodian of the club they are emotionally invested in. What I find a bit disturbing is the large number of fans who seem happy to excuse, or even condone the often barbaric behaviour of their authoritarian owners for no other reason than that those people have invested money in their football club and might pay for an expensive striker. It’s possible to love the club while holding the owners in contempt, as Manchester United fans, among others, regularly demonstrate.
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This is a question for Barry. When footballers spend a night or two in a hotel room, twin sharing, is it acceptable behaviour for a third footballer to arrive, a tad merry, and commandeer one of the two beds? I ask, because this is exactly what you did to me on a stag weekend in Banagher in the mid-2000s. We acted like professionals and turfed you out. Liam Should a fan’s right to support their football team be dependent upon that club’s ownership? Does Newcastle’s ownership by the Saudi Investment Fund make me morally obliged to stop cheering for them? Can we just accept that our club is our club, regardless of who are running the show? Michael Mand Max: I find this such a difficult question to answer – and I wrestle with how much we cover it on the pod. I wonder if we’ve sometimes been tougher on Newcastle than Manchester City for example, perhaps as a result of not really understanding sportswashing in the early days when City were taken over (or the fact simply that the Newcastle takeover happened on my watch on the pod) – and then sometimes I think it’s really simple and we’re not tough enough.Congratulations on your new book, Max and Barry. What are your favourite books about football? And your favourite books in general? Matej Currently providing expert analysis on the 2023 Premier League, the podcast regularly features at the top of the football and sports podcast charts in the UK and has won a number of sports industry awards, most recently at the Football Supporters’ Association Awards where it was named podcast of the year. Football Weekly launched in 2006 and is one of the Guardian’s longest-running and most popular podcasts, gaining over six million listens during the World Cup in December 2022.
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