We're not late. You're late. Or you're early. Or we're early. Or something. Either way, this is last week's podcast this week. Later this week you'll get this week's podcast this week. Clear? Good. This is what trying new things and then contracting the lurgy will do for your podcast, folks. Think on. Anyway, Episode 120 is an 'anything goes' show, so let's go. We're sans Keaney this week so it's David Hartrick, Daniel Storey and Chris Nee who begin by discussing the Premier League's new proposal for a staggered winter break. Is it needed? Is it a good compromise? Or are we all just so distracted by football that we can't go two weeks without something tasty to watch? There's also a chat about Wolverhampton Wanderers and their recruitment strategy, some aimless speculation about big transfers of the future, a debate about the longevity of Jose Mourinho's prospects at Manchester United and a not-for-nothing run-down of our favourite ever Dutch international goals. Submit a question: show[at]footballfivespodcast.com Listen to the show: Click to play / right-click to download (MP3) Import to podcatcher of choice (feed) Subscribe in iTunes // Subscribe in Stitcher

It's not always endearing to rattle through a podcast without any preparation but sometimes it can keep old hands like us on our toes. Every now and then, the Football Fives Podcast likes to tackle a 'blind' episode, by which we mean an episode in which only one or none of us knows what's on the agenda. This week, we're taking on an unnamed football club and answering five questions thereupon. David Hartrick is the man in charge of the hat, and, in Daniel Storey's deadline day absence, Ryan Keaney and Chris Nee follow up our previous selection of Tottenham Hotspur by randomly selecting a club to discuss. Naturally, we want to avoid the headlines and get under the skin of something original. That'll be Manchester City, then. Still, the hat never lies so we muddle through with what knowledge we can scrape together about our favourite City players past and present, our own relationship to and opinion of the club, their progress this season - LOLZ - and where we see them going in the next three years. Submit a question: show[at]footballfivespodcast.com Listen to the show: Click to play / right-click to download (MP3) Import to podcatcher of choice (feed) Subscribe in iTunes // Subscribe in Stitcher

After last week's frivolity, the Football Fives is back to the serious stuff in this latest episode. There's a lot going on off the pitch at the moment, so we take the opportunity to sink our teeth into the topics that are dominating the football agenda, only without ever really talking about them. Same Football Fives, different day. David Hartrick hosts as Daniel Storey, Ryan Keaney and Chris Nee navigate the choppy waters of soccerdom. We ask whether young players' pre-professional transgressions on social media should be bannable by the Football Association, and also discuss - again - whether the FA itself is to be considered unfit for purpose. There's a chat about the poisonous effect of Twitter replies on football supporter culture, as well as a run-down of our favourite transfer swap deals and a brief look ahead to the FA Cup Fourth Round clashes that we're expecting to catch our eye. Submit a question: show[at]footballfivespodcast.com Listen to the show: Click to play / right-click to download (MP3) Import to podcatcher of choice (feed) Subscribe in iTunes // Subscribe in Stitcher

With apologies for a short break, enforced by catastrophic technical problems last week, we're back with a new episode of the Football Fives Podcast. Eager listeners will have noticed that the show we attempted to put out last time - in fact, the show we fully recorded and then couldn't use - was supposed to be one of our inexplicably popular pub quizzes. Still, one can't dwell on such things. So we keep on rolling this week with an in-depth analysis of the ins and outs of the National League's stringent financial requirements, picking our way through five of the criteria participating teams must meet before being granted entry into the competition in time for next season. (Only joking. It's a quiz.) Submit a question: show[at]footballfivespodcast.com Listen to the show: Click to play / right-click to download (MP3) Import to podcatcher of choice (feed) Subscribe in iTunes // Subscribe in Stitcher

It's a new year and a World Cup year, so what better way to kick off our podcasting proceedings with a look back at a competition from the past. Every now and then we put together a tournament retrospective episode and, this week, we present our distant take on FIFA World Cup 2006. Seems like yesterday, doesn't it? Italy took the famous trophy home from Germany after defeating the hosts in a dramatic semi-final and seeing off a fine French side in the final showpiece. In this Football Fives special Daniel Storey, David Hartrick, Ryan Keaney and Chris Nee ask whether the right team won, as well as analysing England's performance in their quarter-final run. We reveal our favourite goals and our favourite matches, and we pick apart the competition's most memorable moments and characteristics. So sit back, stick yo' buds in, and relive the last tournament to not be destroyed by social media. Submit a question: show[at]footballfivespodcast.com Listen to the show: Click to play / right-click to download (MP3) Import to podcatcher of choice (feed) Subscribe in iTunes // Subscribe in Stitcher

We're phoning it in for Christmas even though it's not, you know, Christmas. Our original plan for this week will now be played out next time around, but we've taken advantage of David Hartrick's work-related absence to throw the show open to you, our loyal and imaginary listeners. Yes, it's a listener questions lucky dip! Having whittled our question submissions down to a lovely round number of, erm, we've forgotten, Daniel Storey chucked them into a hat that didn't exist and we pull out the customary five to discuss in this, our podcast about football. Football Fives, you see. This week Dan, Ryan Keaney and Chris Nee flounder in Dave's shadow. We talk about footballing shithouses, statues that don't exist but should, our clubs' Christmas lists, football on Boxing Day and football on Boxing Day again. It's eclectic, or at least that's what the marketing bumph says. Good luck. Submit a question: show[at]footballfivespodcast.com Listen to the show: Click to play / right-click to download (MP3) Import to podcatcher of choice (feed) Subscribe in iTunes // Subscribe in Stitcher

With Christmas fast approaching, we gave ourselves a lovely little present on this week's Football Fives Podcast. You see, one of our favourite things to do is record ourselves talking to one another about five-a-side football. To be more precise we like to build the ultimate five-a-side team from this country or that country, and that's what we're doing in the this episode. We've done this for some big names already. We even took the plunge and did one for England, which is something we'd been keeping for a rainy day because, y'know, some of us are English. We did fictional footballers. We did the Football League outside the top flight. We did foreign players in Serie A. Now, arguably the most legendary selection we'll ever tackle. This week Daniel Storey, David Hartrick, Ryan Keaney and Chris Nee are debating and selecting the ultimate five-a-side team from... Brazil. Enjoy. Submit a question: show[at]footballfivespodcast.com Listen to the show: Click to play / right-click to download (MP3) Import to podcatcher of choice (feed) Subscribe in iTunes // Subscribe in Stitcher

When it comes to pulling off a podcast - stop sniggering at the back - with very little preparation, the Football Fives Podcast panel has a small selection of go-to formats. This week's episode stems from one of those very roots, the blind episode. Within, the week's topics and quintet of questions are kept hidden from three of our number and sprung upon them unceremoniously in the moment. On this occasion it's Chris Nee in the host's chair. The subject at hand? Being a football supporter. We have a few things in common and that's one of them. Facing this week's Football Fives grilling are Daniel Storey, David Hartrick and Ryan Keaney, who are challenged on their feelings about fandom. The unprepared gentlemen of the podcast discuss football culture's relationships with gambling and alcohol, the whys and wherefores of wearing football shirts in public, the intersection between video games and supporter culture, and whether or not there's a significant difference between  fans and supporters. Submit a question: show[at]footballfivespodcast.com Listen to the show: Click to play / right-click to download (MP3) Import to podcatcher of choice (feed) Subscribe in iTunes // Subscribe in Stitcher

Well, it's all been kicking off since the end of the international break, hasn't it? What better way to mark the return of top flight games than to ignore its existence for a significant portion of a podcast that's supposed to cover the game as diversely as possible? This week's Football Fives Podcast is a three-hander, it's an 'anything goes' episode, and here it is. With Daniel Storey unable to join us, the intrepid trio of David Hartrick, Ryan Keaney and Chris Nee voyage through the choppy waters of the football matters of the day. We ask whether Manchester City should expect to win more than just the Premier League, and discuss the end of Chris Coleman's own international break. Is Sunderland a backwards step? There's a chat about whether club managers are right to complain when their players come back injured from international friendlies, a batch of rash and ill-informed predictions ahead of next summer's FIFA World Cup, and a very lovely nod to some very lovely goals, all scored by the one and only John Barnes. Submit a question: show[at]footballfivespodcast.com Listen to the show: Click to play / right-click to download (MP3) Import to podcatcher of choice (feed) Subscribe in iTunes // Subscribe in Stitcher

The Football Fives Podcast is back with no apologies for missing last week - what we did instead was a lot of fun, so there - and Ryan Keaney's late withdrawal means that he misses out on one of our occasional 'blind' episodes, in which one of our number brings a subject to the table that the others do not know in advance, and ask the traditional five questions thereupon. This time, it's even trickier. Dave Hartrick is in the chair and he's got a shiny new idea: pulling a team out of a hat and talking about them, so even he didn't know what Daniel Storey and Chris Nee would be discussing. Yes, twohundredpercent did it and did it better. And while Dave protests his innocence, at least one of the others remains suspicious. The unlucky team out of the pot after an aborted first effort is Tottenham Hotspur, whose past, present and future therefore become the talking points of this week's show. Something approaching normal service will be resumed in due course. Submit a question: show[at]footballfivespodcast.com Listen to the show: Click to play / right-click to download (MP3) Import to podcatcher of choice (feed) Subscribe in iTunes // Subscribe in Stitcher