The Football Collective Podcast

An interview with Lee Nash, the co-founder and Creative Director of Gløry magazine, and Andy Lawn, Gløry’s Head of Copy - by Dr Joel Rookwood (University College Dublin)

Like a team with an evolving and revolving roster that comes together for international friendlies, the BGs (The Beautiful Game Basel Group) are a loose affiliation of scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds who assemble to investigate the relationship between beauty and soccer. Beginning with the Beautiful Game conference at Basel in July 2016, then subsequent workshops and conferences in...

Joel Rookwood interviews UCLan SU President and Sport Business Management graduate Zuleikha Chikh about Preston’s refugee and asylum seeker football project. Around 40 participants take part each week in free football coaching led by the Sir Tom Finney FC, a non-profit community football club in Preston – coached by UCLan students. This interview explores the lived realities of refugees and asylum...

In this episode, we speak with Dr Dan Parnell & Dr Danny Fitzpatrick about the evidence and recommendations in their submission to the DCMS Select Committee call for evidence 'Sport in our community' on behalf of The Football Collective.

Dr Joel Rookwood of University of Central Lancashire outlined the multitude of issues surrounding Project Big Picture for his students. It is such a brilliant summary that we thought we would put it out on the Football Collective podcast feed. The talk is followed by questions from students and other people on the Zoom call. We hope you enjoy and might use it in your teaching, studies or journalis...

In the fourth episode of Season 3, Sarthak Mondal sits with West Ham Academy coach, Ross Brooks to discuss his journey in the world of football coaching Follow The Football Collective on Twitter: twitter.com/FB_Collective Connect with Ross Brooks on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rossbrookscoaching/ Follow Sarthak Mondal on Twitter: twitter.com/sm_speaks

In the third episode of Season 3, Sarthak Mondal sits with Gavin Price to discuss more about sport diplomacy.. Follow The Football Collective on Twitter: twitter.com/FB_Collective Follow Gavin Price on Twitter: https://twitter.com/GavinMPrice Follow Sarthak Mondal on Twitter: twitter.com/sm_speaks

In the second episode of Season 3, Sarthak Mondal sits with former Indian international footballer, Jules Alberto to discuss more about the current situation in Indian football. Follow The Football Collective on Twitter: twitter.com/FB_Collective Follow Jules Alberto on Twitter: twitter.com/jules_alberto Follow Sarthak Mondal on Twitter: twitter.com/sm_speaks

In the first episode of Season 3, Sarthak Mondal sits with sports data scientist, Laurie Shaw from Harvard University to discuss more about the advent of data science in sports and the so-called magic pill known as expected goals. Follow The Football Collective on Twitter: https://twitter.com/FB_Collective Follow Laurie Shaw on Twitter: https://twitter.com/EightyFivePoint Follow Sarthak Mondal on...

Thousands of students will be starting university for the first time in the next few weeks. But, for many the transition from school and college to university will be fraught with worry. These worries initially surround how to make first impressions with new friends and tutors in a strange new world sometimes hundreds of miles away from home but they also encompass how to build productive, respect...

In this special episode of the Football Collective Podcast, our host Sarthak Mondal sits down with Dr. Daniel Plumley, who is a senior lecturer in Sport Finance at Sheffield Business School, to discuss the impact of Covid-19 on football finance, and the decision by CAS on Manchester City's UEFA competitions' ban. NOTE: As responsible individuals of the society, the podcast was recorded over video...

To celebrate the 4th of July, Professor David Kilpatrick brings together a panel of experts to discuss the state of soccer in the USA today. David, who is a very active member of the Collective, has brought together academics, authors and football industry professionals to do a SWOT analysis on where the beautiful game finds itself stateside - as he says, this their 2020 vision. Joining David for...

Dr Jonathan Ervine of Bangor University has written highly acclaimed books about French film and French comedy. He is also a stalwart member of The Football Collective and is a keen observer of football culture in France. In this podcast he talks about the origins of professional football in France and Paris, the perennial Parisian underdogs Red Star FC, the influence of Paris St Germain on the Fr...

S2 E19 Steve Menary discusses match fixing in friendlies with Josh Dean by The Football Collective

The University of Liverpool's Kieran Maguire produced a book earlier this year which blew open the doors of the previously hidden world of football finance. 'The Price of Football' has become such a phenomenon that it has been reprinted twice with all the profits from the last reprint going to the food bank charity the Trussell Trust. Kieran, along with legendary stand-up comic and TV presenter Ke...

In this episode Josh Dean speaks with Fabian Fritz about his research, involvement with St Pauli, the return of the Bundesliga and life in Germany during COVID-19.

In the week of the 53rd anniversary of Celtic becoming the first British side to win the European Cup, Dr Joe Bradley of the University of Stirling and Dr John Kelly of the University of Edinburgh discuss the continuing political and social significance of the Lisbon Lions. Joe and John recently published an article on this subject in Soccer & Society which is published here: https://www.tandfonli...

Dr Lee McGowan of the University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia makes a welcome return to the podcast for his 10 x 10 discussion of Robin Jenkins's wonderful football novel 'The Thistle and the Grail'. The 10 x 10 series started off asking for 10 football scholars to speak for 10 minutes each on their favourite football books and it has grown wings. This episode is unmissable. Lee, whose monog...

Mr. Peter Drury delivered the keynote session to kick-off The Online Football Collective Conference 2020 on May 12, 2020. The link to the keynote session is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCu3YVFNDtw Here is the question and answer session with Paddy Hoey after the keynote.

Professor Paul Whitty has been capturing the sounds of amateur and grassroots football for many years. He records the sound of lines being drawn on pitches, goalies kicking mud off their boots on goal posts and the incandescent rants of outraged touchline supporters. Interspersed with the pings of balls against posts and shouts of "MAN ON!!", he captures the sounds of birds and traffic that surrou...

Liverpool fan Peter Hooton is perhaps best known as the lead singer of The Farm who are famous for their hit records 'Groovy Train' and the timeless socialist anthem 'All Together Now'. Peter is a central figure in the rise of football casual culture in the 1970s and the fanzine movement in the 1980s through his work in the seminal magazine 'The End'. He is also an important touchstone to 21st Cen...

The 10 x 10 podcasts started out as 10 writers speaking for 10 minutes about their favourite football book. But, this one is our first about a film. Canadian writer, football activist and podcaster Shireen Ahmed fell in love with Gurinder Chadha's 'Bend it Like Beckham' 20 years ago. As a Asian Canadian woman of Pakistani origin who grew up playing football, Chadha's quietly revolutionary film abo...

Latin American football expert Dr Brenda Elsey of Hofstra University in New York couldn't choose between her favourite books, so she got to discuss two. In this podcast she discusses Lynne Truss' brilliant 'Get Her Off the Pitch' and Roger Kittleson's 'The Country of Football'.

Dr Paddy Hoey of Edge Hill University details how the Shoot! Annual, the end of year hardback special edition of the great British football magazine aimed at children, was his gateway drug into a lifetime love of football. It started off as a 10 x 10 and turned into a full podcast.

In our 10 x 10 series where 10 writers talk for 10 minutes about their favourite football books, Dr Kevin Moore, the former director of the National Football Museum, talks about the Ladybird Story of Football. Ladybird Books, first published in 1914, were an entry level for young British and Irish readers across a range of subjects, from folk tales to science and scholarship. Kevin talks about how...