Thursday (or Friday, or whatever) means it's time for a new episode of the Football Fives Podcast, and this week it's a whole new format for the show as well. We've got five questions - that's one corner into which we've painted ourselves irretrievably - but the subject at hand is the first in what we hope will be a series of season reviews. Being kids of the 1990s, working our way through that decade year by year was the only way we could approach it, so this week's show focuses on the 1990/91 season. Within, we ask five questions about the season and the big stories and moments within, and establish just how much at least three of us don't remember. Chris Nee's in the host's chair and navigates Daniel Storey, David Hartrick and Ryan Keaney through a discussion about the headlines from 1990/91, the best goals, the retrospective surprises and the forgotten players that deserve a mention in 2017. And, of course, we assess the performance of our own teams. Go! 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 occasionally an unplanned mess. Sometimes we'll have all our ducks in a row, however, and when that happens we like to focus properly on a particular subject area whether it's topical or not. That'll be an internationals episode without an international dates in sight, then? Of course it will. Our four-strong panel of Daniel Storey, David Hartrick, Ryan Keaney and Chris Nee, rifle through five questions about the international game, laying waste to the subject matter for an hour. Again. We know. Yes, it's too long. On the agenda this week: the UEFA Nations League (the naaaaaaaaashuuuuns), unlucky Slovakia, our favourite Irish tournament moments, the FIFA World Cup qualifying playoffs next month, and the future or otherwise of the Netherlands. Is it all over for them at the highest level of international football? 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 up to its full roster this week, and it's just as well. We've got another 'anything goes' show this time around, meaning we've eschewed an overall subject and picked our fives questions from the fullness of football's rich tapestry. We're experimental like that, or something. Daniel Storey hosts as he, David Hartrick, Ryan Keaney and Chris Nee discuss five talking points with some or no connection to the week's football. To begin, we serve up a hot slice of football chat about elbowing, with specific reference to Andy Carroll's not-that-smart pair of yellow cards for West Ham United at the weekend. There's a nod to Europe's title races, our response to the letter signed by 128 Members of Parliament asking the (current) Football Association to give tickets away to schools, a quick debate about the future of Arsene Wenger, and a defence of Zinedine Zidane that's rendered weak by the stupidity of its own necessity. 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 scoring of a goal holds a mystical quality to football supporters and players alike. Strikers hold much of this magic in their boots, and the very best of them can command the affection and adulation of the rest of us by delivering the greatest moment our sport has to offer. For all the other little joys in the game, nothing is better than a goal. The Football Fives Podcast this week is all about strikers. David Hartrick, Ryan Keaney and Chris Nee negotiate five questions on the subject in an attempt to produce a podcast capable of snagging a listener or two in a world of Proper Podcasts. They're a thing now, apparently. I know! In this episode we talk about the false nine, old-timey strike partnerships and Harry Kane, as well as stretching the remit of our topic and discussing players who refuse to play. Finally, we pick our favourite FIFA World Cup mascots. Hint: it's not Striker. (Why would it be?) 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 issue of Catalonia's apparent desire for independence from Spain has far bigger implications than football, but the question of FC Barcelona's future has come up this week with particular attention paid to its potential to reignite the move towards a European Super League. All of this happened after we recorded this episode of the Football Fives Podcast, but let's pretend we're being topical. This week David Hartrick is in the host's chair and opted for one of our blind episodes, in which the other three panelists have no prior knowledge of either the subject or the questions that will be asked. The topic commanding the traditional Football Fives scribbling of the pens this time around? The feasibility and logistics of a European Super League. Through the course of five questions it becomes clear to us that one truth is guaranteed when it comes to this particular hot potato: if they want to do it - whoever they might be - it's going to be a very difficult and bloody complicated thing to achieve. 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 modern football it sometimes seems as if there's a bottomless supply of things to moan about. But there's also plenty to love, and love it we do; if that weren't the case we wouldn't get together every week (shut up) to talk about it. So, this week, we're singing the praises of football thingybobs. The latest episode of the Football Fives Podcast is down a man because Daniel Storey's body is teaching him a lesson about going on holiday, so David Hartrick hosts as Ryan Keaney and Chris Nee join him in nominating five things each that we love about the game. There are players, clubs, habits, phenomena, formats and concepts mined from that subject, and the resulting conversation is a little more positive than your av-er-age foot-a-ball podcast. Because let's face it, football's a bit special. 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

Anything goes at Football Fives Podcast Towers this week, and we've got a full panel on hand to rattle through five pertinent, prominent and pretentious questions you'll find anywhere in the football podosphere this week. Take that, twofootedtackle. Daniel Storey, Ryan Keaney, David Hartrick and Chris Nee go right for the obscure in our new episode, which begins with a conversation about Neymar's transfer from Barcelona to Paris Saint-Germain and its impact on the wider game and its future. We talk about Crystal Palace and Frank de Boer, whose relationship status changed this week. There's some chat about football teams we have an attachment to for no particular reason, a recommendation or five for games to watch this weekend, and a mea culpa each regarding our pre-season predictions, premonitions and...nah, can't think of another one. All in all, it ain't bad. Give it a go. 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 whole Football Fives Podcast team go to football matches, but we also all watch regularly on television. The coverage of football on TV is a bottomless pit of debate and it's one we enjoy diving into on a regular basis. Sure enough, we're back on the case in this week's show despite the absence of BT Sport sympathiser Chris Nee. To spice things up a little we opened up the phone lines and invited our listeners to take charge of our latest chat about football on the gogglebox. Daniel Storey, David Hartrick and Ryan Keaney take on five questions from the floor and get right under the skin of punditry, commentary and other assorted media matters. Our particular thanks are extended to Steven Chicken, Simon Banoub, Jeff Waddell, Louie O'Grady, Jared Timm and Ed Valentine for stepping up to the plate and asking this week's questions. 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

Old men. Many of us are prone to looking backwards, pining for the better days of some mythical bygone era. We do it in football as much as in any other part of life, and one of the most familiar complaints is that the game doesn't have any characters. Football needs more characters. But is that actually true? In this episode of the Football Fives Podcast, three of the usual panel tackle that question and the wider subject of character and characters in football. We're without Daniel Storey this week, so David Hartrick is joined by Ryan Keaney and Chris Nee to talk about the kind of characters we want at our clubs and the importance or otherwise of passion in a professional player. We ask whether the game's elite players are starting, finally, to get to grips with social media, and we each highlight one of our favourite footballing characters and recall a noteworthy story from their pasts. 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 a summer of nostalgia and navel-gazing, the Football Fives Podcast begins its second hundred shows by concentrating on the football as the new season begins. It's an Anything Goes episode, sort of, and also a loose season preview, sort of. It's the Football Fives way. This week it's David Hartrick's turn to be at an actual football match, so Chris Nee takes the host's chair to lasso Daniel Storey and Ryan Keaney and drag them through five questions vaguely related to the start of the new season. We begin by discussing the excitement of a new Premier League year, but we also talk about which other leagues will have our attention. We pick our top three Premier League transfers, place a fictional bet on some eventuality or other as the season unfolds, and tackle our first listener question of the season: will Wolverhampton Wanderers actually be any good, and will the Wolves model be something we see more of in English football? 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