Whistleblowers - The Football Podcast

Your headlines for the 11th, with Nathan Caton dropping by. thewhistleblowers.net  @footballpodcast  Produced by Paul Myers and Mike Leigh  Engineered by Leon Gorman  A Playback Media Production  playbackmedia.co.uk  Copyright 2022 Playback Media Ltd - playbackmedia.co.uk/copyright Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about...

Your headlines for the 10th, with Mark Smith and Martin Gritton! thewhistleblowers.net  @footballpodcast  Produced by Paul Myers and Mike Leigh  Engineered by Leon Gorman  A Playback Media Production  playbackmedia.co.uk  Copyright 2022 Playback Media Ltd - playbackmedia.co.uk/copyright Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more...

Your daily headlines and highlights, plus Miguel Delaney shares some further insights! thewhistleblowers.net  @footballpodcast  Produced by Paul Myers and Mike Leigh  Engineered by Leon Gorman  A Playback Media Production  playbackmedia.co.uk  Copyright 2022 Playback Media Ltd - playbackmedia.co.uk/copyright Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more in...

Welcome to a new daily football headline show! Where we bring you the very latest every week day of the season.  thewhistleblowers.net  @footballpodcast  Produced by Paul Myers and Mike Leigh  Engineered by Leon Gorman  A Playback Media Production  playbackmedia.co.uk  Copyright 2022 Playback Media Ltd - playbackmedia.co.uk/copyright Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit aca...

The new fangled Premier league break is in full swing, but the Whistleblowers stops back in early to check in on the state of the league through the joint prisms of the FA Cup 4th round this weekend and the recent end of the January transfer window. Is this now a rebuilding season for Manchester United? Did Spurs do good business and should they be worried about taking on Brighton this weekend? Ar...

The three occasionally wise men are back! After fulfilling their traditional Christmas duties of bringing gifts to a stable, Mark Smith reconvenes with Gritts and Gareth to discuss an eye-popping round of fixtures that starts with a tasty Thameslink derby between Brighton and Crystal Palace and ask which set of fans should be more excited about their clubs future. The biggest game of the week is t...

Football has a case of the bah humbugs going into the festive period with COVID-striken players dominating the headlines and the sort of casualty list not since since the day after the big Christmas game on the Somme. The three bunkering men of the Whistleblowers convene to sift through the remaining games this weekend and focus on woes for Leeds, a sprig of joy for Arsenal and an unerring suspici...

The Whistleblowers’ three-headed monster of buffoonery return from their personal international break to deep dive into Chelsea v Leeds and ask whether Lukaku and Werner are Chelsea’s solutions or problem, and debate if Leeds should just take Christmas off. Ralf Rangnick’s early impact at Manchester United is assessed and we ponder if their opponents Norwich have a glimmer of hope with their new m...

Special guest alert! The premier league is back after what feels like the 20th international break of the season, and whilst most of the Whistleblowers return, one of us is still waiting for their private jet to land in time for match day 12. Thankfully for you we bring in comedian extraordinaire Stuart Law to assess the recent managerial chances in the league and to immediately argue as to whethe...

After a raucous midweek of European football the three unwise men gather together once again to debate whether Conte has immediately put Spurs in contention for a Champions League spot, ponder who will be their Victor Moses and if need to send Man Utd a bouquet for doing them a favour last week. No one has a single clue as to which Man Utd will turn up for the Saturday lunchtime derby with Pep’s c...

This week the Whistleblowers triage convene to discuss the P45 Derby between Spurs and Manchester United and idly speculate as to who goes first and when. That’s after declaring West Ham your 2021/22 Carabao Cup winners and celebrating the end of Manchester City’s vice-like grip on everyone’s favourite midweek trophy. Eyes glance towards future Arsenal manager Brendan Rodgers’ Leicester team hosti...

The unholy trinity preview Match Day 9 and a focus on a mouth watering Sunday of fixtures including Brentford vs Leicester, West Ham vs Spurs and the big one: Manchester United vs Liverpool where we debate whether the visitors are the best team in the Premier League right now. Before that we spend the first half of the pod trying to measure just how far Arsenal have fallen and whether they have mu...

Fresh from an international break that only saw one club bought by a foreign superpower with limitless cash, the Whistleblowers return to cast their eye over the defensive crisis at Manchester and ask whether Leicester can put them in a tailspin. After mulling over whether Brentford can continue their unlikely run of form while hosting Chelsea, we ask which team is more 4 REAL: Everton or West Ham...

As the evenings begin to draw in and the season begins to take shape, the autumnal gloom descends on a few teams and your Whistleblowers trio debate who is most likely to enter the international break after GW7 looking over their shoulders. We consider whether another defeat could be catastrophic for Spurs, if Brendan Rodgers might be a little concerned by a game against Palace and if Benitez coul...

A whistlestop Whistleblowers this week as we ask: is Chelsea’s hoodoo over Man City now irrelevant given that they might be the better team? We are also reminded by our ex-professional footballer that eating chicken and pasta at 9.30am is absolutely awful. The middle part of the podcast is spent debating whether derby days are actually fun - they are not, and why, even if we hate them, such singul...

Mark and Gritts are joined by football writer (and self proclaimed Man Utd fan) Sam Pilger, to preview the weekend fixtures. Will Ronaldo make an appearance? Are Arsenal in a relegation battle v Norwich? Can Dan James make Leeds better? Will West Ham’s form continue away at Southampton? Plus a chance to talk to Sam about ghost writing for the legend Jaap Stam. thewhistleblowers.net  @footballpodca...

Hours after the transfer window simply closed, this week’s Whistleblowers podcast assessed the business done in and outside of the Premier League and we ask if the surrounding teams have done enough to catch up with Manchester City, condemn the inactivity of others and anoint Crystal Palace as a side that’s made some good moves. Afterwards we conduct a root and branch investigation as to the state...

Football as chess? Wipe your Tsimakis off the board early? This week’s Whistleblowers dives into the biggest game of the season so far and we debate whether this is Chelsea’s time or if Van Dijk can keep a Lukaku in his pocket. Much is made of Kane’s ‘decision’ to stay with a club he had no choice but to stay with, and Mark Smith attempts to use as many variations of ‘embarassing climbdown’ as pos...

This week’s forward looking edition of The Whistleblowers lays the bouquet of chat at the feet of West Ham v Leicester in tribute to the most exciting match of Game Week 2, while asking special guest Tom Rennie what the Hammers need to do to match last year’s heroics. Mark Smith and Gareth Dobson debate whether Arsenal vs Chelsea can really be considered a marquee match up anymore and the trio ask...

A Whistleblowers Season Preview! Your faithful football-adjacent heroes return to preview the upcoming Premier League season and attempt to sort the order of finishing behind Man City, condemn a handful of poor teams to certain doom before a ball is even kicked and to each nominate a dark horse much to the derision of the others. Plus Gritts reveals his worst pre-season training experiences and gi...

Imagine a comedy quiz show where all the contestants watched the same matches that you did last night and then makes you giggle as we recap it with quickfire rounds, weird commentary clips and more. That’s basically it, in the form of a podcast called Never Write Off The Germans. Subscribe now, by clicking one of these links, or searching wherever you get your podcasts: Apple: https://podcasts.app...

The fat lady is lumbering up to the stage, as the doomed teams are confirmed and the title all but won. But there is still a bit to be decided - Gritts, Smudger and G-Dob mull over Leicester's lingering 4th place status and Spurs possible new boss, as well as picking their respective managers of the year. Who has what it takes to come straight back up? Is the Championship as disgusting as it looks...

Slightly later than scheduled this week the Whistleblowers trident return to look forwards rather than cast their eyes back over the prior weekend, which is of some relief to those not wanting to remember Spurs’ tepid attempts at winning a trophy again. Instead we look to Liverpool’s do-or-die potential Champions League place decider against Manchester United and ask whether a United fan would rat...

A super exceptional podcast from the Whistleblowers crew this week that began with the end of football as we knew it, and then 35 minutes later saw the European Super League dream crumble in real time. For the duration of that dramatic interval though, messrs Gritts, Smith and Dobson waded through the existential crisis that has overtaken football and found that no single club, entity or instituti...

This week the Whistleblowing three get forensic on Brendan Rodgers and ask what he needs to do to get Leicester City over the line in the wake of their seismic defeat to West Ham this weekend, while lavishing Moyes’ men with due praise too. The rest of the brickbats and bouquets are reserved for United’s almost inevitable second half comeback against United and we ask if this is the best version o...