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Plus heartbreak for Celtic, the 2030 World Cup goes to multiple continents and your questions answered. Max: I would be dead after a week of living Barry’s life. But I would do it to see Baz making small talk at soft play about nap times before reaching under the pram to get the wet wipes and pulling out half an old banana and then being vomited on. Max: We do. At least I hope we do. As far as I know the audience is 50% UK and 50% worldwide, so we would love to go to as many places as we can. We could do east coast, west coast and then pop to Sydney, finish in Melbourne and then all make our own way home.
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Max: I’m not sure it ever will. And I think a lot of people at the top of the game know that and take advantage of it. If we really care, we should all join the Football Supporters’ Association, and fight for things as a collective. Join our chair, football commentator and journalist Robyn Cowen, as she invites Rushden, Glendenning and Wilson to talk about their book in this special livestreamed event. Barry: Of course everyone has the right to support their team, regardless of who owns it because fans have little or no say in who gets to be the custodian of the club they are emotionally invested in. What I find a bit disturbing is the large number of fans who seem happy to excuse, or even condone the often barbaric behaviour of their authoritarian owners for no other reason than that those people have invested money in their football club and might pay for an expensive striker. It’s possible to love the club while holding the owners in contempt, as Manchester United fans, among others, regularly demonstrate.
I wasn’t sure this book was going to be any good, but I didn’t want to not be involved in case it was. I hadn’t seen it until Dr Karl Kennedy from Neighbours brought his copy to the pub and it turns out it’s way better than I thought it would be. I look forward to sitting behind a desk at the live tour ready to sign thousands of copies while people walk straight past me and go to the bar/ask Barry for a selfie.” The Guardian has today (Thursday 14 September) announced that the world’s favourite, award-winning Football Weekly podcast is releasing its very first book, imaginatively named The Football Weekly Book. Following popular demand, hosts Max Rushden, Barry Glendenning and guests will also return for a second run of the podcast’s live tour across England and Ireland.
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I’m dying to know – how is a Football Weekly panel selected? Please tell me it’s a more exciting process than coordinating schedules. Randall Max: I find this such a difficult question to answer – and I wrestle with how much we cover it on the pod. I wonder if we’ve sometimes been tougher on Newcastle than Manchester City for example, perhaps as a result of not really understanding sportswashing in the early days when City were taken over (or the fact simply that the Newcastle takeover happened on my watch on the pod) – and then sometimes I think it’s really simple and we’re not tough enough. Elsewhere, Manchester City make it look easy once again against Leipzig, with Rico Lewis the next player Pep Guardiola has reinvented. Swansea’s Liberty Stadium and the Landore Park and Ride (left) pictured in May 2023. Photograph: Leighton Collins/Alamy Huish Park, Yeovil Town Should a fan’s right to support their football team be dependent upon that club’s ownership? Does Newcastle’s ownership by the Saudi Investment Fund make me morally obliged to stop cheering for them? Can we just accept that our club is our club, regardless of who are running the show? Michael MandAlex Bowler acquired world rights directly from the authors, with the book scheduled for publication on 28th September 2023. The publisher says it will contain “all the nonsense jokes, off-the-wall trivia and occasional insightful remarks that draw in millions of listeners to the podcast every month". On the podcast today: Newcastle United thrash a poor PSG 4-1 and take control of the most difficult group in the Champions League. Plus: Paul Watson talks about his footballing escapade to Mongolia, and there’s an overdue home game for Pakistan. In part three, Kieran Maguire and Kevin Day join us to talk about their new book, ‘Unfit and Improper Persons: An Idiot’s Guide to Owning a Football Club’.
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Presented by Max Rushden, with Robyn Cowen, Ed Aarons, Paul Watson, Kieran Maguire and Kevin Day. Produced by Silas Gray, with Joel Grove. Executive Produced by Max Sanderson.How do you marry the recent anti-gambling rhetoric in the paper and podcast with the constant talk about cheeky bets from Barry? Don’t you feel you should have also held your hands up as part of the problem? John On the podcast today: the panel discusses England’s qualification for Euro 2024 following their 3- 1 win over reigning champions, Italy. Have we run out of superlatives for Jude Bellingham? I find the accusations from some that we would cover it differently if it was another club – that this is an anti-Newcastle thing – really frustrating. The media isn’t a monolith. I can’t speak for anyone else but we would do the same if it was Spurs, Stevenage or Shrewsbury Town. The 2023 tour is already set to be a sell out. This comes as no surprise as almost six thousand people came to the first Football Weekly live tour in 2022, which featured Mark Langdon’s Meat Raffle, Barry’s rendition of Call Me Maybe and Steve Claridge eating industrial quantities of fruit. Barry: Tony Cascarino’s autobiography, which he wrote with the help of the Irish journalist Paul Kimmage, is probably my favourite football book, although I’m sure if I ever get around to reading any of the books written by my friend and colleague Jonathan Wilson, I might enjoy them too. As far as non-football books are concerned, I like a good murder of the kind written by the Scottish authors Ian Rankin or Val McDermid. I think the genre is called Tartan Noir. Val is, or used to be, on the board of Raith Rovers.
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