The Late Challenge Podcast

Can anything take the place of football? Is cricket any good? And what is the good, the bad and the ugly of a trip to the Glastonbury Festival? All this plus crisps from 7,000 miles away and Fact of The Week. Do you want more from The Late Challenge? Eight shows are now LIVE on Patreon.  Sign up and watch or listen at: https://www.patreon.com/TheLateChallengePodcast  To get in touch with the show,...

Gareth Roberts and Paul Cope (or is it Statler and Waldorf?) consider how and why Boris Johnson is afforded so many second chances given the litany of lies that litter his career. Martin Tyler’s departure and the shake up at Sky Sports and beyond in football broadcasting is also on the agenda. Do you want more from The Late Challenge? Seven extra shows are now LIVE on Patreon.  Sign up and watch o...

Once again Paul Cope and Gareth Roberts try and fail to get through an agenda for the show. But there’s still time to talk about the treatment of football fans, David Moyes and the musical heritage of Merseyside. Do you want more from The Late Challenge? Six extra shows are now LIVE on Patreon.  Sign up and watch or listen at: https://www.patreon.com/TheLateChallengePodcast   To get in touch with...

What’s it like to walk the cobbles of Coronation Street? When is the right time in life to buy a caravan? And why did someone want to run Robbo over? John Aldridge has been asked about “The Trouser Dance”, there’s a belting fact about the oldest standing building in Merseyside and what can you do to pirouette from the pull of procrastination? All this and more from Paul Cope and Gareth Roberts on...

When does friendly and attentive become overbearing and annoying at an Airbnb?  Why does everyone hate flies? How did Everton stay up? And what is Britain’s best-loved chocolate biscuit? All this alongside a Fact of The Week and a new Crunching Challenge in the latest episode of The Late Challenge. Do you want more from The Late Challenge? Our weekly subscription show is now LIVE on Patreon.  Sign...

Man City have been crowned champions, Liverpool have said their goodbyes to four players and The Reds are going to have to settle for Europa League football. All that is on the agenda for debate, along with Big Sam’s AI rant, emoji use when dating and TLC’s champion crisp.  Do you want more from The Late Challenge? Our weekly subscription show is now LIVE on Patreon.  Sign up and watch the first s...

Do you want more from The Late Challenge? Our weekly subscription show is now LIVE on Patreon.  Sign up and watch the first two shows at: https://www.patreon.com/TheLateChallengePodcast  On this week’s free show, there are rants aplenty, from the airbrushing of football pre-Premier League, to change for change’s sake and the mess made of the media by the rules of clickbait. Meanwhile, it’s the fin...

Do you want more from The Late Challenge?  Our weekly subscription show is now LIVE on Patreon.  Sign up and watch the first show at: https://www.patreon.com/TheLateChallengePodcast  On this week’s free show, we react to the fall out from The Coronation after Anfield’s act of defiance, ponder on why we actually have a Royal Family, and discuss whether Manchester United’s sputtering form could open...

If Everton go down how far will they fall and how do we feel about it? Do we really need to be singing for the king at a football match? And how we can finally find a way of ending The Crunching Challenge on crisps? All these questions and more are debated by Paul Cope and Gareth Roberts alongside Fact Of The Week, a rant about straws and a moan about noisy pubs. Do you want more shows from The La...

Do you want more shows from The Late Challenge? We’ve launched a Patreon at — https://www.patreon.com/TheLateChallengePodcast — to support a weekly subscription show to run alongside the free show. If you want to support us, head over and pick a tier.  In this week’s show we look at Liverpool’s fading hopes of top four, consider schadenfreude in football, joy at the expense of a rival’s failure, a...

What now for Liverpool with the pursuit of Jude Bellingham dropped? Do FSG and Jürgen Klopp deserve criticism? And is there too much for Liverpool to fix in one summer? Paul Cope and Gareth Roberts also discuss whether a Monster Munch is a claw or an actual monster, there’s a rant about the state of buildings in our city, and Copey has been trawling the internet for more madness to get into. Robbo...

New Life For LFC, AI Lies & Cheese and Onion Chocolate | Episode 10 Is there still life in Liverpool and what job has Jürgen Klopp got on his hands this summer? Those questions are on the agenda in Episode 10, alongside regulars The Crunching Challenge, Fact of The Week and correspondence from watchers and listeners. Chat GPT is also once again discussed, this time after it was caught out lyin...

Paul Cope is alongside Gareth Roberts to discuss the mad world we live in once more. Domestic mishaps, DIY, food on the internet you never knew existed and when work emails go wrong are among the discussion points for episode nine. Also on the agenda are Fact Of The Week and The Crunching Challenge.  To get in touch with the show, email us at: hello@thelatechallengepodcast.com You can also give us...

Gareth Roberts and Paul Cope are back to discuss more correspondence about crazy combos of food, why Liverpool is a great place to live and the merits of footie lower down the ladder. Also on the agenda for episode eight are Fact Of The Week, The Crunching Challenge and delicacies of local chippies. To get in touch with the show, email us at: hello@thelatechallengepodcast.com You can also give us...

Paul Cope and Gareth Roberts are back for episode seven of The Late Challenge Podcast. Your weird food shouts, Adrian Chiles’ sex double and Dietmar Hamann’s issues with Jürgen Klopp are among the agenda items. Fact Of The Week, The Crunching Challenge and another weird experience with Chat GPT also feature. To get in touch with the show, email us at: hello@thelatechallengepodcast.com You can also...

Paul Cope and Gareth Roberts return to the Liverpool-based TLC studio for episode six of The Late Challenge Podcast. This week’s show begins with an update on Cope’s dalliance with Wirral frog medicine and more discussion of obscure survival food. Fact Of The Week, The Crunching Challenge and your tweets and emails also feature. And there’s a walk down football’s memory lane to remember the horror...

Paul Cope and Gareth Roberts are back for episode five of The Late Challenge Podcast. This week Liverpool’s mauling of Manchester United, surviving at sea on sauce and Jürgen Klopp are among the agenda items. Fact Of The Week, The Crunching Challenge and your tweets and emails also feature. To get in touch with the show, email us at: hello@thelatechallengepodcast.com You can also give us feedback...

Paul Cope and Gareth Roberts are back for episode four of The Late Challenge Podcast. This week television programmes past and present, football rivalries and artificial intelligence gone wrong are among the agenda items. Fact Of The Week, The Crunching Challenge and your tweets and emails also feature. To get in touch with the show, email us at: hello@thelatechallengepodcast.com You can also give...

In episode three of The Late Challenge Podcast Gareth Roberts and Paul Cope tackle Britain’s sleep crisis, discuss bad advice from people in power and ponder which of Arsenal and Manchester City winning the Premier League would be the more palatable. Usuals including Robbo’s Fact Of The Week and The Crunching Challenge also feature. This week it’s the battle of the cheese and onion crisps…. To pre...

It’s episode two of The Late Challenge Podcast, and this week Paul Cope and Gareth Roberts tackle the feedback on the show so far, football fan toxicity, Chat GPT and Valentine’s Day. The Crunching Challenge returns with two more bags of crisps to judge while the lads trawl the net for some of their favourite online funnies. Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 4:34 - Pie recaps & more World Records 10:24...

In the first episode of The Late Challenge Podcast, Gareth Roberts and Paul Cope explain the ideas behind the show before getting stuck in to headlines about supermarket prices, the price of beer and the return of Scouse soap Brookside. Manchester City’s Premier League charges and how different people consume football is also on agenda alongside The Crunching Challenge – a weekly battle between ba...