Dead Ball Brothers

Adam tells Drew the story of Cambridge United and John Beck, the coach who was called the Dracula of English soccer, and how the team nearly reached the pinnacle of the English game in the most backwards way possible.

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Drew regales Adam with the tale of the 1918-1919 US Challenge Cup, the forerunner to the US Open Cup, a tournament that spanned almost a full year, and the dozens of forfeitures and mishaps that befell the teams competing in it.

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Surprise! We're back for episode No. 2 of this double game week. Adam tells Drew the tale of the life and death of the Major Indoor Soccer League, one of the most important and most silly iterations of American Soccer.

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Drew revists a story thanks to a listener suggestion, and we look at some of the early history of the legendary AC Milan midfielder, becoming a Croatian legend in the process. Also, we discover the platonic team name for war crimes.

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Adam and Drew decide to lighten the mood with a tale from the Football League's early days. Referee intrigue abounds, a proper thumping occurs, and Drew finally learns what a telegram actually is.

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Drew tells Adam the story of a man who should be one of International soccer's most infamous villains. You've probably never heard of him. But you will.

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Adam tells Drew the story of one of the single most bizarre days in the history of American sports, from soccer fails, to football drama, to everyone ignoring the NBA. It got wild.

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The Snavelys get into the history of one of soccer's most famous, and infamous, tricks. A move fabled both for its disrespect of your opponent, and for it's ability to make the player doing it look like an idiot. We're going one-footed, all the way.

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To celebrate its anniversary, Adam and Drew discover some of the more unsavory parts of the history of crowd control in England, and one game just after World War II that created a perfect storm for tragedy.

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Drew and Adam run through the peculiar career of the international game's game's greatest ever scorer, and his inability, or unwillingness, to replicate his form at the club level, despite reaching some of the game's highest peaks.

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