My current ranking:
Football Ramble > Totally Football League Show > Athletico Mince > Guardian Football Weekly > European Football Show > Quickly Kevin, Will He Score? > Totally Football Show > On The Continent
My current ranking:
Football Ramble > Totally Football League Show > Athletico Mince > Guardian Football Weekly > European Football Show > Quickly Kevin, Will He Score? > Totally Football Show > On The Continent
Big fan of Quickly Kevin, the interviews are actually insightful
Ken Early > everyone else
Really wish football weekly would bin off feigning interest in leagues. Glendenning essentially reading out Serie A results doesnāt offer any insight at all. Generally though Iāve enjoyed this seasonās offerings quite a lot. Priya Ramesh was a great guest.
Other than those you mentored, I quite like the Independentās football podcast for going a bit more in depth on fewer topics, despite having massive preconceptions about Miguel Delaney because of what a tool he is on Twitter.
@shrewbieās right though, the Second Captains output tops them all.
Guardian football and euro leagues podcast. Sacked off totally football as it was (understandably) the same as Guardian
I like the ramble - but I wish Jim didnāt sound so nervous all the time. Relax, take your time m8. Definitely a morning commute show.
Guardian is good - afternoon commute. I really like Max, heās self deprecating and I think makes the panel seem less smug than they did under Jimbo.
New guests like Lars and Priya have been good, not sure how I feel about Jacqui Oatley. Thought they covered the Mark Sampson stuff really well.
Totally football show has been okay, but yeah same show. Only listen too occasionally.
beeeeeeevssss
guardian > ramble preview > 2nd captains > guardian extra > ramble > jimbo
donāt have time for on the continent, donāt bother with jimbo most weeks.
Absolutely adore Second Captains. Listen to Anfield Wrap a bit for Liverpool stuff. Used to like Football Weekly but felt it all was a bit more football #content than I had time for
usually just listen to ttfs and ramble. cba with rushdensās banter and glendenning is stealing a living.
ramble is good but a bit less arsenal content would be nice.
even with the two I feel like thereās a bit too much crossover
The genuine experts like Horncastle and Honingstein aside, Glendenningās the best contributor to any of the above pods for me.
I donāt know why i dislike Iain Macintosh so much.
Canāt stand him.
Shows how sad I am that all of these are on regular rotation;
General best football-talkers - Tim Vickery, Sid Lowe, Honigstein, Horncastle, Jack Pitt-Brooke, Ken Early, Priya Ramesh, Amy Lawrence, Andy Brassell, Jacqui Oatley, Jonathan Wilson.
Recommend these which can be listened to like Audiobooks, would quite like more retrospective football series. Market is very saturated with weekly analysis;
The Mixer Series for Michael Coxās book.
Graham Hunterās interview series (not kept up with it since itās gone subscribery)
The Blizzard
Also some Leeds United podcasts I wonāt bore you (further) with.
Nice to see Jack Pitt-Brooke doing so well for himself. He used to have a City blog as a teenager called The Lonesome Death of Roy Carroll, think heās one of the Independentās senior sportwriters now.
Horncastle has become a bit āgun for hireā though. I still like himā¦but if you listen to a few podcast you hear him recycle quite a few points (same with Andy Brassell).
Couldnāt disagree more about the ramble/on the continent.
The ramble is great. Properly balances enjoying corporate football with the the idiocy or enjoying corporate football. Theyāre four likeable guys tooā¦they have their in-jokes but theyāre socially conscious and open to criticism. Always find myself smiling through their shows
On the continent is just dry. Itās not awful, but you can hear what Brassell thinks in more depth on Talksport 2ā¦and Horncastle is on all the podcasts. The humour is really safe too. Waste of an hour tbh.
feel that way about glendenning tbh. think sometimes you can build an irrational hatred based on first impressions maybe
Itās grown on me a bit, and thereās definitely a space for their style as, like you say, the sober analysis of every other podcast. And itās good thatās thereās something with humour thatās several levels higher than, say, Soccer AM or whatever Bookies-sponsored YouTube channels are the norm these days.
Donāt find it as an out-and-out annoying as I used to, but still just find the laughter really OTT, loud and backslappingā¦ dare I say, Gervais-like. Which is ok if you find it funny but so often itās just not (to me, anyway), and unbearable.
Find a higher quality of analysis and toned down humour a better balance - itās a lot more casual than any other podcast, still. I agree about the recycled points, but I donāt see how theyād avoid that when talking about the same stuff. If anything, it makes me wanna bin off the other podcasts theyāre on and stick to that one.
Athletico Mince is fucking shite.