Taking time out from their hunt for Newcastle United’s missing fluorescent tabards, magazine editor Andy Lyons, writer Harry Pearson and host Daniel Gray talk Caretaker and Saviour Managers, from the Spanish Tony Parkes to Frank Barlow’s honeymoon period via adairs, Houdinis and Keystone Cops. WSC Deputy Editor Tom Hocking delves into the pages of magazine issue 419, Record Breakers brings marching from Munich, and in our sort-of new feature The Final Third, author Jon Spurling selects this episode’s match, player, object and snack for the WSC Museum of Football.
In this exclusive WSC Supporters’ Club edition of the podcast, magazine editor Andy Lyons, writer Harry Pearson and host Daniel Gray discuss Footballers’ Restaurants and Other Business Pursuits, from Joe Mercer’s bacon boning to Gennaro Gattuso’s fisherman’s blues. Record Breakers brings Amsterdam perspective, and sort-of new feature The Final Third sees Charlotte Cromarty from Rochdale podcast The Dale Way donate a match, player and object to the WSC Museum of Football.
A brief taste of European football for Kent’s non-League clubs was scuppered by logistics in the early 1970s
Taking time out from pondering which footballer’s haircut to get at the barbers’, magazine editor Andy Lyons, writer Harry Pearson and host Daniel Gray discuss Representative XIs, B-Teams and C-Teams, from Jim Baxter versus the Nordics to Great Britain taking on Europe, via a flat share with Jimmy Hill. WSC Assistant Editor Ffion Thomas delves into the pages of magazine issue 418, Record Breakers brings rhymes from Reims, and we continue our nearly-new 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 comedian and radio presenter, Charlie Baker, who also discusses falling for the Vanarama and being the son of a man with an advertising hoarding at a Football League ground.