The Halcyon Podcast

Adam and Rob are joined by the multi-talented John Nicholson to talk about Middlesbrough's famous UEFA Cup run, in which Boro saw off a litany of big European names with a litany of big European comebacks.  We talk to John about what's happened to football in the age of the Premier League, where the soul of the game is hiding these days and how we once wrote a very prescient article abou...

We're joined by Andi Thomas to talk World Cups, statues, conspiracies and World Cup statue conspiracies as we revisit his brilliant Jaws of Victory chapter on the Wales side of 1958. A real 'What if' story, we also talk to Andi about how imagining and engaging with what could have been is a big, if not the biggest part of supporting a football team. We also chat about how Andi got i...

From the Jaws of Victory contributor Rich Hall joins Adam and Rob to shed light on perhaps the greatest side we never saw at a World Cup. Marking something of a departure from the other chapters in the book, Rich explains how the Yugoslavia side weren’t beaten on the pitch, but were instead denied by history. Chucked out of Euro ‘92 just 11 days before the tournament began, leading the Danish to h...

In the first ever episode of the Halcyon podcast, Adam and Rob are joined by... each other to introduce Halcyon and talk about their chapters in our latest book, From the Jaws of Victory . First up it's the Dutch and Johan Cruyff, the embodiment of style over substance, the exoticism of a World Cup in colour, and how losing one final might be considered unfortunate, but two... We also discuss...

Rob and Adam are joined by Ross MacDonald, an as-yet-unknown percentage of The 1975, to talk about all manner of near misses, from being pipped at the post by David Ginola to hitting the post you may or may not have been aiming for on national television. As one of the top three or possibly two most famous Macclesfield Town fans, we also talk to Ross about what it means when your club ceases to ex...