Platini Played For Kuwait

We were joined by Marco Negeri to talk about those multi-cultured footballers who have represented not one, but two different national teams. In our chat we covered over 98 years of footballers representing more than one nation at international level (or those who are perhaps about to do so). Plus, we finally discuss the name of the podcast and the time that Platini played for Kuwait. You can find...

We were joined by football writer Gary Thacker to talk all things Chelsea in the Abramovich era ahead of Gary's latest book release - Out of the Blue: Chelsea's Unlikely Champions League Triumph. We discussed some of the events which led to Chelsea's 2012 Champions League victory, as well as our love for Michael Ballack, how Jesper Gronkjaer instigated Chelsea's success in the...

This past week, Chelsea lifted the 2022 Club World Cup in Abu Dhabi, so we decided to explore a competition that is still unheralded and unloved by many (particularly in Europe). Our choices this week go right back to the first decade of the competition in the 1960s to the new tournament format created in the 21st century, as we discuss the Intercontinental Cup/Club World Cup via a great performan...

Welcome to the first ever episode of Platini Played For Kuwait - the trivial football podcast (and not really a podcast about Michel Platini or Kuwait). Each week Marc and Matt come up with a football-related theme, which they then have to discuss centred around six 'artefacts' of their choosing  - players, games, clubs, shirts, goals moments etc. In this first episode, they discuss a to...