Footy Banter

Helllo y'all we're back with summer previews and talking Manchester United for this week We talk through United's 2022/23 campaign, play some dubious trivia, give you the El Trafico rundown ... and thats it I guess Please rate 5 stars (please?) Give it to us - we want it

Whaaatup y'all we're back for Episode 31 and we're bringing you our first Summer Preview, where we'll be unpacking major European clubs as we go into the 2023/24 season. This week, Brock brings an Arsenal deep dive and discusses where they found success last season, what they'll do this offseason, and predicts how they'll fair next season. Plus, we roll rout our new s...

Whaaaaatup y'all we're back for Episode 30 This week we unpack the return of Gregg Berhalter, and review the Premier League table predictions we made at the beginning of last season.  Spoiler alert: predictions suck and are very hard. Give it a listen and tell a friend! Find us on Red Coral!

Whaaaatup we're back for episode 29 after a long hiatus due to moving (again) and general life activity like Brock's love for fishing. We didn't miss anything, did we?

Whaaaatttup we are back for Episode 28 with a very special guest, Owen Murray of Area Sports Network, House of Sounders, and Ranks FC. We blast you with some MLS expansion drama, play the longest trivia game of all time, and talk through our favorite storylines/narratives of the season. Give it a listen and tell a friend!

Whattup folks - we're back for episode 27, and we're as caught up as you are in the Premier League relegation battle. Seeing all of the potential talent going down to the Championship got us thinking, "What is the relegation battle's best XI?" So, we break it down for you live on air, and sort it out as we go along until we pull together the best XI possible from Southampt...

Whatup Y'all! We're back again for the fourth (we think?) consecutive week in what has to be a record for the Footy Banter pod. This week, we're talking about what's surprised us the most this season - the good and the bad. Plus, we bring our weekly trivia and MLS Blast, but we did forget about banter this week. We're so so sorry :( 

Helllllo and welcome back to Footy Banter for Episode 25 To celebrate the quarter-century mark, we chat Champions League. We discuss the four quarter-final ties that got us here, and preview/predict the semi-final ties that lie ahead: City vs Real and Inter vs AC Milan Plus, we play a new game of "does that dude play in MLS or Turkey?", talk the new USMNT Sporting Director Appointment, a...

Whatsup y'all - we're back for Episode 24 and we're talking the three 'big 6' teams that didn't quite get it done this year: Chelsea, Spurs, and Liverpool. Each of us has picked a team and given ourselves the responsibility of re-building them. Who's coming in? Who's getting sold? And how are we turning things around? Plus, we've got your usual Trivia,...

What up y'all - we are back with Episode 23 as we look towards the business end of the Premier League season. We talk City and Arsenal, and predict how each team will fare down the stretch.  Do we like the 'City comeback? Or will Arsenal hang on? Plus, we bring trivia, MLS Blasts, and some boot deal banter. Give it a listen!

Whattup! We're (finally) back with episode 22 after a few weeks off. Max is back from Japan, Brock is back from whatever the hell he's been up to, and John is typing this right now so it feels weird to be saying "john" in the third person like this. Anyway, after Mesut Özil's retirement last week, we thought it'd be interesting to discuss a few careers that may not ha...

We're back for Episode 21 with a twist this week, as LAFC and Manchester City specialist, Justin Ruderman, joins the pod in place of a traveling Max Matsumoto. Justin brings experience from Upper 90 and Area Sports Network, and Brock and I pick his brain on everything from MLS' Apple TV deal, to Man City's hopes in the Champions League.  Enjoy!

Whatup! We're back this week to talk World XI's, as Fifa's "The Best" awards just dropped this week. But, we're all bringing in world class players that fit a particular theme: Technical, Athletic, or Saucy. We get in our weekly trivia, then go through our World XI's back to front, with the unusual levels of Khvicha Kvaratskhelia discussion along the way. Enjoy,...

Whatup! MLS is back this weekend, there are a whole bunch of title races going on  around Europe, and the Champions League is in full tilt...so things are going great for us footy fans. In this week's two-man episode, Max and John frantically discuss the return of MLS and preview the second leg of the champions league over a couple of beers on a Friday night. Vibes are high. Give it a listen!

Heyo! We're back again with episode 18 and we're talking the Premier League relegation battle. We discuss the current bottom six in the league, and whether or not we like each team's chances of survival.  Plus, we bring the usual trivia/blast/banter combo to get your week off to a flying start

We return from our Bundesliga-esque winter break to bring you our favorite matchups for the upcoming slate of European Football, as the Champs league, Europa League, and conference league all return to action next week...like kinda outta nowhere, right? Plus, I blast you with MLS and Brock brings some chanting banter - enjoy!

After another hietus (hayatus? High-atus? *check spelling*) we are back with Episode 16! This week, we revisit our preseason predictions of "the big 6" and see what we got right...and what we got wrong.  Plus, we bring the usual trivia, Max brings some cross- generational banter, and we do our first ever "MLS Blast" where I blast you with MLS. Enjoy! 

Whaaatup we are back after the winter break for episode 15. Out of World Cup mode and straight into January panic mode. To celebrate "silly season", the Footy Banter fellas have all brought you one transfer they'd like to go through, and one they hope falls through. And, we go over our 40 minute limit by like a lot. Plus, we're back on Premier League trivia and bringing banter...

With Max unable to attend today's recording, it's the Brock and Baney banter special comin' at you hot just in time for your holiday travel.  We're wrapping up some of our World Cup discussions as we review what was (maybe) the best World Cup Final of all time, and review some of our favorite talking points of the entire tournament. Plus, we sprinkle in some one-man trivia, and...

After this weekend's action we're left with just four teams, and four possible combinations of a World Cup Final:  1) Argentina vs France 2) Argentina vs Morocco 3) Croatia vs France 4) Croatia vs Morocco Of these four potential match-ups, we talk through which would be the most fun to watch, and which we're hoping to avoid. Which ones have the best stories, and which one we've...

We're back for Episode 12 and we're still talkin' World Cup! Now that the group stage and round of 16 are done, we're taking a chance and trying to predict the winner RIGHT NOW. What could possibly go wrong...? Plus, we play some trivia, update you on our draft scores, and Max brings some delicious banter this week in his ranking of World Cup cuisines from all nations participa...

We are back, we are comin in hot, and we no longer have zoom premium, so we absolutely blasted through a good 'ol 40 minute episode to chat through what we've loving in this World Cup, and what we're disappointed with. We touch on Giroud somehow not being considered the best player of all time, about Japan's heroics, about the impressive (in hindsight) performance of the USMNT,...

Welcome back to Footy Banter for Episode 10! We didn't think we'd hit double digits either, but we're gonna keep rolling until Elon takes us down. This week, Max and I catch World Cup Fever while Brock just gets a fever straight up, but plays through his 100+ degree body temp in his very own flu game. It was draft day in the Footy Banter studios, and we went through 6 rounds of sele...

Welcome back to Footy Banter for Episode 9! This week, we play a few rounds of Start, Bench, Cut. Despite me getting the name of this game wrong repeatedly throughout the podcast, the concept is pretty simple:  A question is asked with three possible answers, and we have to decide whether to "start", "bench", or "cut" each option. If you've ever played F/M/K, the...

Welcome back to Footy Banter for Episode 8! This week, we're doing it a little different. We've all assembled an XI, and are putting them head, to head, to head. The catch? All of the players have to play the same position in real life.  So, how did our Strikers XI, our Center Mids XI, and our Fullbacks XI stack up to one and other? We let democracy decide, of course. While we casted our...