He remains the only England manager to have won the men's World Cup. The FA sacked him when he was 54 and apart from a brief caretaker stint at Birmingham City his career was over. Is he loved or just admired? Was he a great manager?

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Feedback presenter Roger Bolton joins Colin and Paddy to talk about his home town team, their one season in the First Division and how to deal with what otherwise has been a football life of constant disappointment – plus his support for Liverpool.

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The one fixture in a season that everyone is desperate to win. Is the religious origins of the Glasgow rivalry apparent elsewhere? Does the Merseyside derby deserve the title “The Friendly Derby”? Is loathing of the other team as bitter in Bristol and Norwich as it is in Manchester?

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Who can forget Jurgen Klopp stretched out full length on his stomach as he protested a refereeing decision in the manner of an enraged toddler? Followed of course by a goal, producing a triumphant fist pump, a race along the touchline and almost immediately, a pulled hamstring - sent directly one would imagine by his Mummy and Daddy telling him not to be such a silly boy. But of course, he was demonstrating passion which is obviously a Good Thing. We love passionate managers and players. Don’t we? But when is passion good and when is it bad? The team investigates.

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He was the one manager to whom nobody was indifferent. Love him or loathe him Brian Clough was a titan amongst English managers. Martin O’Neill joins the team to recall his time playing under him and to tell us how his own managerial career was influenced by time at Clough’s Nottingham Forest

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The new podcast about old football returns next week on Friday 11th August - just as the new football season kicks off. If you've not already done so, subscribe now. 

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Football Ruined My Life is taking a break for a few weeks so we can build up a new reserve of programmes for series 2. 

In the meantime, many listeners have made use of our email address - [email protected] - and Colin Shindler dips into our postbag to share what you think of it all so far.

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From Billy Wright to Harry Kane, the team discusses each captain and asks the overall question, "Has there ever been a captain to rival Bobby Moore? (Spoiler Alert: No!)

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Don Revie's Leeds United were one of the greatest club sides of the postwar era. The skills possessed by Giles, Bremner, Gray etc. were considerable - so is their "dirty" reputation unfair?

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We all lived through the gradual exacerbation of crowd violence. Why was it so bad in the 1970s and 1980s? Why did it become mixed up in Thatcherite politics? If we thought it had disappeared, the 2021 Euro final demonstrated that it hadn't. 

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