Magazine editor Andy Lyons, writer Harry Pearson and host Daniel Gray discuss players’ hobbies from radio Rebrov to pigeon fancying, ponder different types of football hats and list sightings of footballers in real life. Plus, a lunge into the pages of issue 397 of When Saturday Comes magazine, including Ipswich Town, adopted home town heroes and Charles Reep’s POMO collection. Record Breakers takes us to Germany, Yugoslavia and Oldham. Warning: includes Mart Poom’s hand jive and Nobby Solano’s trumpet.
Asif Kapadia’s documentary on the Argentinian’s time at Napoli depicts how the man who won and lost the devotion of a city was targeted by dark forces on and off the pitch
Britain’s first purpose-built all-seat stadium was well ahead of its time when it opened in August 1989 and went on to serve as a blueprint for the post-Taylor Report football ground revolution
In this exclusive WSC Supporters’ Club edition of the podcast, magazine editor Andy Lyons, writer Harry Pearson and host Daniel Gray talk football and illness, footballers’ houses and landladies, and WSC magazine front covers of yore. Plus, Record Breakers takes us to Belgium, Italy and Czechoslovakia. Expect the Badger of Prudhoe, George Best making a Mother’s Day card and Esmond Million, corrupt goalkeeper.