High on a surprise package of CBD gummies and pondering Nobby Stiles’ doll collection, magazine editor Andy Lyons, writer Harry Pearson and host Daniel Gray discuss technological changes in the game, from crossbars to scoreboards via lethal rattles and referees’ kazoos. WSC Assistant Editor Ffion Thomas delves into the pages of magazine issue 423, Record Breakers brings tunes from Trondheim, and we continue our perky feature, The Final Third, in which a guest contributes a match, a player and an object to the WSC Museum of Football. Joining Dan as our visiting curator this time is Ian Plenderleith, long-time WSC writer and author of a brand new book, Reffing Hell: Stuck in the middle of a game gone wrong.
In this exclusive WSC Supporters’ Club edition of the podcast, magazine editor Andy Lyons, writer Harry Pearson and host Daniel Gray crack open the tinned potatoes and talk Pointless Tournaments from the Anglo Franco Scottish Friendship Cup to the St Mungo mermaid via Whitley Bay versus Metalist Kharkiv. Record Breakers brings harmonies from Hamburg and we continue our sprightly feature, The Final Third, in which a guest contributes a match, a player and an object to the WSC Museum of Football. Joining Dan as our visiting curator this time is football writer and co-host of the Box to Box WSL podcast, Jessy Parker Humphreys.
A pair of posters that adorned a bedroom wall in 2007 tell a story of how far the women’s game has come
In this exclusive WSC Supporters’ Club edition of the podcast, magazine editor Andy Lyons, writer Harry Pearson and host Daniel Gray stop considering the spherification of biscuits to discuss Overstayed Welcomes, from Coventry City to Ken Bates via the Fratton Park toilets. Record Breakers brings verses from Vienna and we continue our sprightly feature, The Final Third, in which a guest contributes a match, a player and an object to the WSC Museum of Football. Joining Dan as our visiting curator this time is Jeremy Davies of the Nottingham Forest podcast, 1865.