Footy Banter

Whaaaatup and welcome back for season FOUR episode 1 of Footy Banter. 107  tries later, we're bringing you our favorite episode of the year for the fourth time - The Premier League Prediction Show. We work our way from 20th to 1st as we try to predict the 2025/26 Premier League table with immense, blind confidence. Who's getting relegated? Who's nabbing a Champions League place? And...

Whaatup and welcome back for Episode 106. It's the second annual Footy Banter Awards show! We've also just discovered that our editing platform generates AI Blog Posts for every episode, which is absolutely insane. So, enjoy that below! Title: The Footy Banter Awards: Celebrating the Best (and Baldest) in Football Introduction: In the world of football, where every kick, pass, and goal i...

Whaaaatup and welcome back for the episode 105 We're back after our international break of doing nothing to bring you a quick 30 minute runout on the club world cup. We could not go the full 90 as the physios have us on minutes restrictions But, we chat the bizzare, problematic, but enjoyable club world cup in our own words and unpack how we're feeling abou thte tournament. Enjoy and tel...

Whaaaaatup and welcome back for episode 104 of Footy Banter. After an extended, unannounced hiatus of our own doing, we came back guns a slingin this week to unpack the entire premier league season in order.  We see what we got right from our preseason predictions, and just how wrong we could be about United and Tottenham.  Tell ya friends.

Whaaaaatup and welcome back for episode 103. With the first legs of the Champions League Semi-finals down, we break down each side's chances of glory come May 31st. Can Arsenal come back from 1-0 down on the road in Paris? How the hell is Inter vs Barcelona going to play out back at the San Siro? And,  most importantly, will our pre-knockout prediction of PSG vs Inter going to play out in the...

Whaaaaaatup and welcome back for Episode 102. This week, we're joined by Max Neve of Studio 14. We walk through Studio 14's efforts to explore the intersection of sport, society, culture, and fashion through individual case studies, and connect that to a larger conversation surrounding American soccer culture in this "wild west" landscape. Then, we blast you with MLS updates fr...

Whaaaatup and welcome back for Episode 101! This week, we're talking all things USMNT after their Nations League exit last week. We break down some issues from a squad point of view, a federation point of view, and a geo-political (?) point of view as the US is set to host World Cup 2026 under ... difficult circumstances.  Listen and tell a friend!

Whaaaaaatup and welcome back for Episode 100 of Footy Banter. To celebrate the century mark, we broke out the thinking caps with special guest Trey Fillmore. This week, we're talking all things soccer data and advanced metrics. How important are they as an evaluation tool? Which metrics should be used? Which should be avoided? And above all, how much do they actually matter? Give it a listen...

Whaaaaaatup and welcome back for Episode 99 of Footy Banter. This week, we're bringing you a first (we think): a Champions League bracket challenge. With this year's new format, the random draws are gone, and there are brackets to be made from the Round of 16 on, so you best believe we're building this one out democracy style. The three of us will vote on each fixture, with the favo...

Whaaaaaaaatup and welcome back for episode 98 This week, we bring on a friend of the program, Will Flannery. He's a former D3 teammate turned coach, who walks us through the managerial world of American soccer through the lens of a former player.  We talk through his coaching journey before diving into a chat about Arsenal, his favorite club. We talk through their title aspirations, Mikel Art...

Whaaaaatup and welcome back for Episode 97.  This week, we're talking all things January transfer window and building a starting XI of players who found a new club this winter. We bring some big name big money moves, and also some smaller niche transfers that we found generally interesting. But most of all, we had fun :) Listen along and tell a friend!

Whaaaaatup and welcome back for Episode 96. This week, we're back after a our multi-week pause to bring you a special episode with special guest, Chris Bowerbank. He's representing Guerrilla FC, the club famously home to our very own Will Brock.  Chris walks us through the history and mission of the DC-based club, and walks us through what a footballing "Utopia" is all about. F...

Whaaaaatup, welcome back, and happy New Year! We're back with episode 95 to bring you a New Year's resolution for all 20 Premier League clubs. Is it a new signing? A new manager? Or a new stadium altogether? Listen along to find out, and tell all of your friends and/or family about it once you do. Enjoy!

Whaaaatup and welcome back for Episode 94. For this week's headlines, we talk: - Galaxy lifting MLS Cup - Arsenal as set piece merchants - City's continued struggles - Simone Inzaghi as the best coach in the world (right now?) - American Bias/Stigma in world football Then, we round it out with some oddly difficult trivia. Enjoy!

Whaaaaatup and welcome back for Episode 93! This week, we're bringing you what we're thankful for in this footballing world, even if it almost killed Will to do it. Then, we bring you headlines from around the globe. At home, we break down a wild MLS playoff bracket, a particularly sad Hudson River Derby for us Pigeons, and the first dominant display for the USMNT under Poch. Abroad, we...

Whaaaatup and welcome back for episode 92! This week, Lauren Sesselmann and Danny Rose join the program this week to walk us through their up-and-coming Yerba Mate brand, Pablo's Mate. As the founder and co-owner of Pablo's Mate, Danny tells us what his brand is all about, and explains the intersection of mate and the beautiful game. Sesselmann, the former Canadian International and real...

Whaaaatup and welcome back for Episode 91! This week we bring you our 5min headlines from around the footballing world and play some trivia. Enjoy!

Whaaatup and welcome back for Episode 90! This week we're bringing you aall of the headlines we've missed in the last few weeks and doing it on a shot clock.  We bring you a tight 5 on Rodri's (controversial?) Ballon D'or, Ruben Amorim's appointment at Manchester United, and the title aspirations of Arsenal, Manchester City, and Liverpool. We round it out with some thought...

Whaaaatup and welcome back for episode 89 of Footy Banter. This week, we're talking women's soccer and rolling out the red carpet for our esteemed guest, Annie Pendleton. As a lifelong player and fan of the game, she helps break down the state of the women's game today. From challenges to triumphs, and roadblocks to breakthroughs, Annie brings us a bit of perspective of how she sees...

Whaaatup and welcome back for Episode 88! This week, we welcome Sader Matar to the program to walk us through all things Mexican soccer. We chat about Mexico taking down the USMNT 2-0, the state of the Mexican federation, and how Liga M-X fits into the picture compared to European exports. Enjoy!

Whaaaatp and welcome back for ANOTHER international break episode. We can hardly contain our excitement.  This week, to pass the time, we created our own country and gave it a national team. I'm not sure exactly where we landed on the logistics, but I'm pretty sure we annexed the pacific garbage patch and made it our own. Then, we drafted players from different countries around the footb...

Whaaaaatup and welcome back to Footy Banter! This week, we're talking two pretty different topics: Major League Soccer, and the growing issue of fixture congestion worldwide.  We bring you some updates from the Major League Soccer playoff race, a few words on each of the contenders, and how Messi's Miami are looking after locking up the supporters shield mere hours after this podcast was...

Whaaaatup and welcome back for episode 85! Our Serie A correspondent, Niko Filippi, joins the show to walk us through how its all unfolding in Italy these days. In a mildly too late season preview, we break down how things were supposed to shake out going into the season, and how these things  actually are shaking out 5 matches in. Enjoy!

Whaaaaatup and welcome back for season 3 episode 5! Fresh off the back of the first ever Footy Banter Tournament, we take you through the latest in a much larger tournament: The Champions League, and its new format. We chat through exactly how this new structure is supposed to work, and try to figure out if we like it or not. We talk through the pros, cons, and weird kinks for this "league ph...

Hellllo and welcome back for Season 3 Episode 4! We keep the Season Preview's coming with the biggest of the lot so far: Manchester City. We bring in our Resident Manchester City Correspondent, Sage Ranaldo, to break down all things City in 24/25. From Pep's next tactical tweak, to the promise of new signings like Savinho and Gündogan, to the implications of "1-1-5" and how thi...