Pro Revolution Soccer

A heady mix of genuine expert insight from James and two football fans sitting around taking the piss. Faragegate, Spygate, the much more serious but equally poorly-handled Suarez racism row, plus the sadly successful PR of the various sportswashing projects.

Academic Tom Woodbury joins to discuss the deadline day phenomenon, why fans are so hung up on signing players, and the time he and Tom saw their mates playing keepy-uppy outside a stadium with a substantial sex toy.

The erudite, eloquent, the perspicacious Jon Mackenzie joins to discuss his brilliant new book about the rise and fall of Pep Guardiola, The Spectre of Pep. From What is Juego de Posición to Hegelian dialectics at a million miles an hour- what more could you ask for?

A consortium including Amazon’s billionaire founder Jeff Bezos has bought 40% of Liverpool Football Club. We asked Neil Atkinson- host of the Anfield Wrap podcast and author of Klopp, the Revolution of a Club and Culture about the ramifications of the deal, as well as the identity of his club and the city of Liverpool.

You can order Neil’s book here (not on Amazon): https://www.waterstones.com/book/transformer/neil-atkinson/9781837262953

The Anfield Wrap podcast is here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-anfield-wrap/id456906266

Friend of the show Morgan Ofori returns to discuss whether Johnny Baby is knackered, why UEFA are not the good guys and why, as an Arsenal fan, he’s “scared of everyone”.

All Morgan's excellent Guardian stuff is here:

https://www.theguardian.com/profile/morgan-ofori