Vince Tracy Podcasts

@RobDaniels joined @vincetracy discussed #Ollie McBurney #Sol Bamba before looking at the difficulties faced by the managers selecting their team during this avalanche of games. We looked at #SadioMane having himself tested to explain his poor form. We looked at how players like #Neymar outprice themselves from the transfer market. Rob told us about #LaLiga president #JavierTebas and .#UEFA plans....

In Spain, as Pablo Iglesias steps away from Podemos...Podemos as a party was born from the 2011  citizen movement known as 15-M, a series of protests in response to austerity policies in place at  the time and political corruption. The emergence of the group in 2014, led by Iglesias, who back then was a university professor and television host, shook up the traditional two-party system i...

@EricMalpus and @vincetracy  discussed The #FACUPFINAL and the #ChampionsLeagueFinal with great memories of #BertTrautman and #StanleyMathews and #YorkCity in their halcyon days.. We discussed how #UEFA and others had not understood the true legacy of #grassroots football as we looked ahead to the #Leicester v #Chelsea final.   We discussed the difficulties of defining priorities as the...

The elections have been filling the news....the only thing of any note was the member of the Raving Looney Party who was lined up with the other participants at the Hartlepool results coverage....he was hilarious....didn't get many votes but he was so funny....If I lived there he would definitely have got my vote....this is what we need in the world....it's like the Eurovision when a plonker jumps...

@RobDaniels joined @vincetracy   discussed the tragic death of #DalianAtkinson but as the case is still going through the courts we didn't discuss this too deeply. We discussed the great #ChampionsLeague semi-finals which saw #ManCity and #Chelsea emerge as an all English final. We looked back at hooligan element spoiling a genuine and justified  demonstration against the proposed #ESL....

The Valencian health department announced on Saturday that only 2.64% of the region’s hospital be ds are now occupied by Covid-19 patients. Put another way: the current overall occupancy of beds is at 69.29%, of which 66.65% are non-Covid patients.    The Spanish far-right party Vox has committed to a set of demands made by the ultraconservative Catholic organization Hazte Oír (Make Your...

@EricMalpus and @vincetracy   discussed the invasion of #ManchesterUnited by fans who have been outraged by the shenanigans of the proposed #ERuropeasnSuperLeague.and the injuries to the police. We discussed the #PremierLeague sanctions before discussing what can be done to stop this happening again. There is talk of #Tottenham tripling the wages of #BrendanRogers to lure him away from #Leice...

I have been travelling about in my car recently and listening to the radio hoping to hear a decent record....but all we get is meaningless songs with repetitive lyrics with a mess in the background consisting of someone building a shed.....let me hear DRUMS giving us a solid beat we can tap or feet to!!!......however through the despair I was just about to switch off when on comes the latest singl...

@RobDaniels joined @vincetracy to discuss the #socialmedia blackout  ChampionsLeague semi-finals with #ManCity and #Chelsea in the driving seat ....but it's a funny old game saint!   We discussed the fallout from the #EuropeanSuperLeague where the #RealMadrid president is still convinced that he has a binding contract with the clubs involved in the project although #Juventus and the Ital...

Twenty retired French generals have called for military rule if Emmanuel Macron fails to halt the 'disintegration' of the country 'at the hands of Islamists', in an open letter published ahead of next year's presidential election.   ...... The retired officers claimed that France was 'disintegrating with the Islamists of the hordes of the banlieue [suburbs] who are detaching large parts...

@EricMalpus and @vincetracy   discussed the #CarabaoCup Final and the allocation of tickets with 4000 given to #NHS workers. Nobody doubts the fact that the #NHS workers deserve a pay rise but why were match tickets awarded? The #EuropeanSuperLeague has not gone away and I referenced a podcast we had made around this subject in 2006.We looked at the #socialmedia boycott and the #PremierHallof...

The weather has been sunny and dry for the past two weeks so no doubt any day now we will be warned of the risk of a drought....forget the floods over the winter which washed away homes and devastated towns and villages.....if this nice weather continues we will probably have a hose pipe ban....watch this space The football saga has been filling the news with clubs and players licking their lips a...

  @RobDaniels joined @vincetracy to discuss the proposed #EuropeanSuperLeague with the six English Clubs forced to climb down before the billions were even spent on the project. The owners of #Liverpool #Chelsea #ManchesterUnited #ManchesterCity #Arsenal and #Tottenham have had to issue grovelling apologies. In Spain #RealMadrid and #Barcelona are still undecided as the #Juventus Owner has st...

French teachers in the city of Nice have overwhelmingly rejected AstraZeneca's Covid .......... The Spanish National Police on Wednesday rescued a 12-year-old girl in the northwestern city of A Coruña who had allegedly been sold by her parents to another family. ......... According to experts, there are a number of reasons why schools in Spain have been able to stay open. ............. In 1838, ju...

@EricMalpus and @vincetracy   discussed the outrageous plans of #Liverpool #Arsenal #ManCity #Spurs #ManchesterUnited and #Chelsea to form a #European #Superleague. The fans, the pundits, the other #PremierLeague Clubs #UEFA are outraged although  there are elements of hypocrisy following recent events where UEFA have been involved. #Mourinho has been sacked from #Spurs and he allegedly...

New on Podomatic: @donwoods and @vincetracy have a rant about the price of a #Pint #BBC coverage of #DukeofEndinburgh #RobbieWilliams #CliffRichards #urban #cowboys #Birmingham #rodeo #eurovision #JohnandYoko #Beatles https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/rockrupert/episodes/2021-04-19T05_21_15-07_00

@RobDaniels joined @vincetracy to discuss the resurgence of Real Madrid as their beleaguered manager #Zidane manages yet another #ChampionsLeague semi-final as his team edged pas #JurgenKlopp and his spirited #Liverpool team.#ManCity continue their march towards the quadruple as they joined #Chelsea in the semis. We discussed the mangers and #SergioRamos as #Coronavirus affected his appearance. Ro...

Ursula Von der Leyen, the first female president of the European Commission, expressed surprise and raised a hand in disbelief when she found Michel had taken the only chair available next to Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan at the talks.

@EricMalpus and @vincetracy   discussed the valuations of football clubs where #Barcelona and #RealMadrid top the table with #ManUtd #Liverpool #ManCity all in the top ten.#Leicester had a major disciplinary problem which #BrendanRogers managed by dropping three players in an important game against #WestHam.

The song this week is one I wrote for wrestler Adrian Street which he used each time he entered the ring....it's called Imagine What I Could Do To You...I once jokingly played it to a  record producer at a major label who commented that the world would never be ready for this song....it ended up on Adrian's many TV videos and paid off my mortgage....that was my answer. YouTube has opened many...

@RobDaniels joined @vincetracy to discuss the phenomena that exists as groups of footballers and their managers forge their identities on the pitches in a competition to see who is best. The creators of these phenomona are led by such managers as #PepGuardiola #ZinedineZidane #Mourinho #Klopp.  We discussed the #ChampionsLeague with reference to the brilliance of #ManCity and #KevindeBruyne a...

In Spain......“People from the age of six and older have the obligation to wear masks [...] on public streets, in outdoor spaces and in any closed space that has a public use or is open to the public,” reads the BOE announcement published on Tuesday. Until now, regional governments were free to adapt these rules as they saw fit, and many did so immediately after they came out. Some regions made ma...

@EricMalpus and @vincetracy   discussed the chances of #ManCity winning four trophies this year under the guidance of #PepGuardiola. We discussed the comments of #MikeArteta after the #Arsenal defeat at the hands of #Liverpool. e looked at the #WestBrom mauling at #Chelsea where the Baggies put five past the Chelsea defence. The #ChampionsLeague comes into play with the quarter finals taking...

 The Dynamic @DonWoods joins the vicarious @vincetracy to have a rant against #television programmes from #BBC and #itv which are not cutting the mustard! The standard of TV is becoming a joke......there are some decent programmes but you have to search for them by skilfully trying to dodge the cookery programmes or Ant and Dec.....and the talentless Jonathan Ross and Graham Norton with their...

@RobDaniels joined @vincetracy to discuss #International games including #England #Spain #Germany #Faroes and then we looked at #Agents in football and rules being made by #Uefa plus the #under21s with #AidyBoothroyd. Comments have been made in the press regarding the choice of #Qatar and other such countries whjere the problems of the #SepBlatter reign are now being seen for what they are