The Off Script Podcast

We catch up with former England and Liverpool legend John Barnes, who’s in town to watch his beloved Reds in the Merseyside derby. John offers his thoughts on Liverpool’s difficult start to the season, and England’s prospects in Qatar under boss Gareth Southgate. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Matchroom CEO Eddie Hearn joins the show from Abu Dhabi, while he was in town talking up Dmitry Bivol's November 5 clash with unbeaten Mexican Gilberto Ramirez. Eddie offers his thoughts on Canelo Alvarez' upcoming trilogy fight with bitter rival Gennady Golovkin, reveals where Anthony Joshua's headspace is at as he ponders his next move and offers his thoughts on a possible undisputed heavyweight...

Robbie's in conversation with the award-winning author and former Rolling Stone magazine senior writer, Anthony Bozza, who gained unique access into Eminem’s inner circle as the rapper rose to superstardom in the late 1990s.  As well as Marshall Mathers, Anthony has worked with and alongside some of the biggest names in the industry including AC/DC, Slash, INXS, and Tommy Lee - bringing their amaz...

Andrew Cotton, professional big wave surfer, features in Garrett McNamara's HBO Max docuseries 100 Foot Wave . Sonal catches up with him to get the measure of a man who rides waves the size of a 5 storey building and to hear what it's like when things don't go to plan, which happened to Andrew during a dramatic wipe out in 2017. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From pioneering YouTuber to being called out by his idol Floyd Mayweather, 20-year-old Emirati Rashed Belhasa aka "Moneykicks" has always done things a bit differently. Here, he opens up on his unlikely journey to the undercard of Usyk-Joshua 2. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this Extra Time Special we focus on the brand new Premier League season, from a fantasy football perspective! Joining Robbie and Chris is top fantasy manager and pundit Abubakar Siddiq , aka BigManBakar , to share some top tips for building a winning fantasy team! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Raj Athwal has worked in the football industry for over 27 years in various senior positions with clubs such as Glasgow Rangers, Watford and Coventry City - and he's got plenty of stories to tell! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dubai-based Andreia Brazier is a 4 time Fitness Model World Champion and a 44 year-old mum with 1.2m Instagram followers. She moved from her home of Brazil to London and scraped a living for years before deciding to pursue fitness as a career to turn her fortunes around. In 2012 she decided to chase the dream of achieving peak human performance and as a result dominated international professional...

When you talk about ordinary people doing extraordinary things, you cannot look past Moss Hill .  When the luxury liner Oceanos started taking on water in rough seas off the coast of South Africa in 1991, the vessel's on-board entertainment crew, spearheaded by guitarist Hills suddenly found themselves responsible for everyone on board - Moss relives that story with Chris McHardy and boy what a st...

Chris Fallows is an expert of great white sharks, it was Chris who first observed and photograph the breaching behavior of these incredible animals in False Bay, South Africa and his photographs are famous around the world.  Follows has worked with David Attenborough and created shows for National Geographic, his show ' Air Jaws ' is the Discovery Channel's most successful Shark Week series.  Chec...

Chris Mchardy speaks to former England captain Dylan Hartley following a triumphant first week of test matches for all Southern Hemisphere sides against the touring northerners. Hartley, the soon to be Director of Men's Rugby at Dubai Sharks, says there's not going to be any major cabinet re-shuffles.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The former Arsenal, Manchester City and France full-back joins Chris and Robbie for his first stint on Off Script Extra Time where he compares Guardiola and Wenger's tactical acumen, explains why Gabriel Jesus might not be the answer for Arsenal and reveals why he hasn't spoken to Thierry Henry for over two years! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In a golden era for children's television Tim Child created Knightmare , a game show that took its young competitors to a revolutionary virtual-reality challenge through a medieval fantasy world. Knightmare ran from 1987 to 1994, famously only 8 teams ever won the game and at its peak 5 million people tuned in to watch each episode. Tim talks to Robbie about the show, and about its legacy. See omn...

To mark the 135th edition of Wimbledon we take a look at the surprising, fascinating, and at times murderous history of Tennis' oldest Grand Slam.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We speak to Sarah Weinman, author of the book Scoundrel , about a killer on death row who convinced the public of his innocence. But was this a story of a wrongful conviction or one of a cunning manipulation? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For Polly Brooks, October 12, 2002, is a day she'll never, ever forget. This is a story of loss, survival, courage and selflessness. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ex-England Rugby Union captain Dylan Hartley has a new job, which is exciting news for rugby fans in the UAE as the Dubai Sharks unveil their ambitious plans for the future. Find out what in this episode of the podcast. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Erin Plante is a Senior Director of Investigations at Chainalysis, which is a blockchain firm that has been involved with a number of investigations with clients ranging form law enforcements to the victims of cyber crimes. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A brand new feature on Off Script, Sonal casts our minds back to the first games consoles we ever played on, the memories, the origin stories, and the hours spent waiting for them to load.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Cat Hobaiter is a primatologist and a lecturer working for the School of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of St. Andrews, she has spent more than 16 years working at the Budongo Conservation Field station in Uganda, focusing in communication and cognition in wild chimpanzees.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kenny Bräck is a Swedish former race car driver, he competed in the CART, Indy Racing League and the IROC series. He won the 1999 Indianapolis 500 and was the 1998 Indy Racing League champion. He also recorded the highest horizontal g-force ever survived by a human being. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Former FBI Agent and Special Agent Michael McGowan talks to Chris about tracking and brining some of the most sophisticated and most dangerous criminal organizations and individuals in the world to justice. Joaquín " El Chapo" Guzmán and the Sinaloa Cartel. His operations was one of the reasons an indictment was made to extradite him, and his book - Ghost: My Thirty Years as an FBI U...

REVISIT: In 2015, the Making a Murderer  series became a global phenomenon, placing a spotlight on the controversial true crime story of Wisconsin native Steven Avery. After serving 18 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, Avery was subsequently convicted in the 2005 murder case of Teresa Halbach. Avery has always maintained his innocence. Shortly after news broke that new evide...

Larry Lawton is not your average petty thief. A mastermind of over 20 heists spanning seven, lucrative years, it's little surprise that in 1996 Larry found himself on the FBI's Most Wanted List.  That coupled with the fact Larry was associate of the infamous Gambino crime family, makes his life story a must-listen for fans of mob movie classics.  So how does one become a master jewel thi...

An exclusive Off Script Extra Time snow sports special - Chris McHardy in conversation with a three-time Olympic Gold medal winner across five different games, and a record 13 golds in X-Games, a man who single handedly transcended the sports of snow boarding: Shaun 'The Flying Tomato' White. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.