Football Talk - The Yorkshire Post

On this week’s show, Stuart Rayner and Leon Wobschall join host Mark Singleton to discuss whether the overdue away win for Sheffield United at relegation rivals Luton Town could be the kick-start to their Premier League survival battle that the Blades so desperately need.  Is there any stopping Leeds United? So far unbeaten in the Championship in 2024, the Whites moved up to second in the standing...

On this week’s show, YP football writers Stuart Rayner and Leon Wobschall run through who Yorkshire’s winners (Hull City?) and losers (Sheffield Wednesday?) were in the January Transfer Window. They go on to assess Middlesbrough’s chances of making the Championship play-offs before working out how Sheffield United and Sheffield Wednesday respond to their respective heavy defeats at the weekend. PL...

On this week's show YP football writers Stuart Rayner and Leon Wobschall discuss the sacking of Darren Moore by Huddersfield just two days before the closing of the January Transfer Window.  They also cast an eye over whether Sheffield United are good enough to pull themselves out of the relegation hole they find themselve in in the Premier League and how Leeds United are possibly making life...

On this week’s show, YP football writers Stuart Rayner and Leon Wobschall join host Mark Singleton to look at the fortunes of Yorkshire Championship rivals Middlesbrough and Rotherham United and how the rest of the season is likely to pan out for them. Leeds United are on a roll at the top-end of the Championship and are now just two points off second-placed Ipswich Town. With Leicester City so fa...

On this week’s podcast, The YP’s football writing team of Stuart Rayner and Leon Wobschall join host Mark Singleton to discuss Barnsley’s position – both in the League One table and in term of holding onto their best players during the January transfer window.  They also cast an eye over the up-and-down fortunes of Doncaster Rovers, just two games from Wembley in the EFL Trophy, but lacking the ki...

On this week’s show, Stuart Rayner and Leon Wobschall join host Mark Singleton to reflect on the recent Yorkshire derbies between Huddersfield Town and Middlesbrough and Sheffield Wednesday and Hull City and where the results leave all four teams and their aims for the remainder of the 2023-24 season. The return of striker Patrick Bamford to the Leeds United is also discussed as is where next for...

Looking ahead to the festive schedule for Yorkshire's Premier League and Football League teams

On this week’s show – Episode 125 – The YP’s football writing team of Stuart Rayner and Leon Wobschall hook up with host Mark Singleton to discuss the latest issues in and around the Yorkshire football scene. They start in the Premier League to discuss whether Sheffield United have already turned a corner on the returning Chris Wilder following a very welcome win over Brentford.  In the Championsh...

On this week’s show, our panel of Stuart Rayner and Leon Wobschall discuss the change in the dugout at Sheffield United, with Chris Wilder returning to replace the axed Paul Heckingbottom, whose time at Bramall Lane, they say, should be remembered findly after getting the club back into the Premier League. They also cast an eye in the direction of the Championship clash bettween Leeds United and M...

On this week’s show, host Mark Singleton is joined by The YP’s Stuart Rayner and Leon Wobschall, who start off by assessing the below-par performance by Sheffield United against Bournemouth and how the players owe manager Paul Heckingbottom better performances in the coming weeks if they are to avoid an instant return to the Championship. In the Championship, have Huddersfield Town turned a corner...

On this week’s show, The YP’s football writing team of Stuart Rayner and Leon Wobschall join host Mark Singleton to discuss the size of the task in front of new Bradford City manager Graham Alexander, as he looks to end a losing run in League Two, one extended to four games with last weekend’s defeat at Notts County. They also cast their eye over Harrogate Town, who lie just six points off the pla...

On this week’s show, host Mark Singleton is joined by YP football writer Leon Wobschall to discuss a variety of topics in Yorkshire football, starting with Sheffield United inching their way off the foot of the Premier League table after a 1-1 draw at Brighton.  Rotherham United’s decision to fire manager Matt Taylor after the team’s 5-0 loss at Watford comes under the spotlight, as does the task...

On this week’s show, The YP’s football writing team of Stuart Rayner and Leon Wobschall start by celebrating a first Premier League win of the season for Sheffield United before moving on to the ‘statement victory’ for Leeds United in beating the Championship’s runaway leaders, Leicester City.  They also consider how Rotherham United can improve their league position in the Championship, as some o...

On this week’s show, Stuart Rayner and Leon Wobschall pay tribute to Sir Bobby Charlton after his recent death, reflecting on his career and life and the wonderful legacy he leaves behind, both on and off the pitch. Elsewhere, our team assess the promise shown at Hull City under Liam Rosenior, the issues that Darren Moore needs to tackle at a stop-start Huddersfield Town and the positive start mad...

On this week’s show, YP football writing duo Stuart Rayner and Leon Wobschall assess England’s latest international break, one which saw them qualify for Euro 2024 with an international break. They also discuss the confirmed appointment of Danny Rohl as the successor to the axed Xisco Munoz at Sheffield Wednesday and whether he will succeed in turning the Owls’ poor Championship season around. And...

The YP’s football writers, Stuart Rayner and Leon Wobschall, join host Mark Singleton to discuss the latest topics surrounding Yorkshire football, starting with the top priority for Sheffield United in the next few weeks as they continue their search for a first Premier League win of the season. Leeds United head into the international break on a high and tipped as a favourite for promotion, while...

WITH this week’s managerial departures at Sheffield Wednesday and Bradford City, the FootballTalk team have recorded an extra podcast to cover the events. The YP’s chief football writer Stuart Rayner joins ‘caretaker’ host Phil Harrison to discuss Xisco Munoz’s sacking by Sheffield Wednesday and the departure of Mark Hughes at Bradford, as well as focussing on who are the best – and most likely –...

Darren Moore has already experienced the good and the bad from his Huddersfield Town side, ahead of this weekend’s return to former club Sheffield Wednesday, from where he surprisingly departed in the summer after steering them to promotion from League One via the playoffs. The Yorkshire Post’s Stuart Rayner and Leon Wobschall also discuss the promise being shown by League One Barnsley and Grant M...

On this week’s show, The YP’s football writers, Stuart Rayner and Leon Wobschall, join host Mark Singleton to survey the latest on the Yorkshire football scene, starting with whether Sheffield United are capable of bouncing back from their record 8-0 defeat to Newcastle United on Sunday.  In the Championship, Leeds United seem to have turned a corner, while Huddersfield embark under a new era unde...

On this week’s show The Yorkshire Post’s chief football writer Stuart Rayner joins host Mark Singleton to discuss life in Leagues One and Two for Yorkshire’s clubs, plus looking at England’s contrasting performances against Ukraine and Scotland during the recent international break. In League Two, how do Bradford City breathe more life into their stuttering start to the 2023-24 campaign, can Donca...

On this week’s show, The YP’s football writers Stuart Rayner and Leon Wobschall join host Mark Singleton to assess which Yorkshire teams came out best from the summer transfer window and which emerged with unfinished business. Our panel then turns their attention to the match action, starting with Sheffield United’s Premier League basement clash with Everton before moving on to the Championship an...

In the latest episode of our show, we look at how Sheffield United can turn around their difficult start to the Premier League campaign, Leeds United’s up-and-down week which brought victory at Ipswich before a Carabao Cup defeat on penalties at League Two Salford City. Our panel of football writers Stuart Rayner and Leon Wobschall, along with host Mark Singleton, then cast an eye over Hull City’s...

On this week's show, Stuart Rayner and Leon Wobschall join host Mark Singleton to assess the respective starts to the season for Sheffield United, Leeds United, Sheffield Wednesday, Huddersfield Town and Middlesbrough FC.

On this week’s show, YP football writers Stuart Rayner and Leon Wobschall join host Mark Singleton to look back over the first few days of action from the 2023-24 football season. Barnsley were the big winners following their 7-0 hammering of visitors Port Vale, but there were mixed fortunes in the Championship where only Leeds United picked up points, drawing 2-2 at home to Cardiff City. In Leagu...

On this week’s show, host Mark Singleton is joined by YP football writer Leon Wobschall to look ahead to the start of the 2023-24 season for our 10 Football League clubs. The pair cast their eye over the pre-season expectations placed on our six Championship rivals, relegated Leeds United, promoted Sheffield Wednesday, as well as Huddersfield Town, Hull City, Middlesbrough and Rotherham United. Ca...