Curva

FC Curva

Sports EN ↓ 6 episodes

In football, ‘curva’ refers to the stand where the most passionate and vocal supporters, often ultras groups, are situated, usually on the banked end of a stadium. It's a focal point of a club's support, often seen as the heart of the team's fan base. This project explores how football can be a vehicle for social change, asking whether the sense of community and belonging we have within the game can be harnessed for wider collective action. Follow us on Instagram at @fc.curva Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Joe Simpson: Football's relationship with mental health 22.12.2025 18:44

Joe Simpson is with us to talk about football’s relationship with mental health, opening up about how the sport has helped him process grief following the death of his father. We get into the positives and negatives of the emotional state that is football fandom and discuss how the landscape around mental wellbeing has changed over the last 10 years.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy fo...

Aneesa Ahmed: The importance of representation and community 02.09.2025 31:55

Music and features journalist Aneesa Ahmed is with us to talk all things football and community. We get into the lack of South Asian representation within the sport, the uneasy relationship with patriotism as people of colour, and the importance of organisations such as Baes FC & Football For Foodbanks. All this an much more. @fc.curva Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informatio...

Football For Future: How football is responding to the climate crisis 20.06.2025 25:30

Elliot Worsop, founder and director of Football For Future and communications manager Dan Hall are with us to talk about how football is responding to the climate crisis. We get into the top down and grassroots work FFF does, whether the sustainability targets of the Premier League and FIFA are realistic, the hypocritical and inconsistent messaging by clubs when it comes to climate action, the env...

Freddie Feltham: Curva x What's Left? 23.05.2025 35:57

With us for episode three is Freddie Feltham, founder and co-host of What's Left? a platform exploring how politics has changed, asking the question – what’s left? We get into the current state of UK politics and how football intertwines, the rise of Reform, masculinity in a hypermodernised world and football as the secular man's religion. All this and much more. To hear more from Freddie, head ov...

Vasilis Kostakis: Beyond the Final Whistle 30.04.2025 18:28

Vasilis Kostakis, author of Beyond the Final Whistle: Football for a Better World is with us to talk about his book and a new philosophy of football. Vasilis' personal journey with football that saw him stop watching the sport for a number of years, the importance of accessibility, the ecological impact of the game, and why football is so important when it comes to social issues are all discussed...

Jeremy Corbyn: Football's need for Democracy 16.04.2025 22:12

In the first episode of Curva, Jeremy Corbyn is with us to talk about football's role in social justice and his relationship with the sport in 2025. The lack of democracy in the professional game, how local authorities and clubs interact, and the importance of rebalancing the resources available across the football pyramid are also discussed. All this and more, from Curva. @fc.curva Hosted on Acas...