Four At The Back

The 2021/22 season is in the book. Neil and Pete chat through the run-in and what might be next for the teams at both ends of the division.

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Erik Ten Hag will be the next permanent manager of Manchester United, and he's taking over a club that has been poorly run for a decade, one bloated by excess and weighed down by the memories of a glorious past. With a huge rebuilding job on the horizon, Neil and Pete take a look at how Man United got here, and what the former Ajax manager will have to address when he arrives at Old Trafford....

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With Oldham Athletic becoming the first former Premier League club to drop out of the Football League entirely, Pete and Neil get together for an emergency bonus episode of the podcast to remember better times and chat about the damage bad ownership can do to some of our historic clubs.

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It wouldn't be the end of a campaign without furious speculation about which players make your team of the season. So Pete, Neil and Maz got together to look over season 3 to pick their Ultimate XI. At least one player from each side, which a second from any one team to make up the numbers. Send us yours at @4atbpod!

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Under Martin O'Neill, a group of players came together and redefined what was possible for Leicester City in the late 1990s. This week, Maz, Neil and Pete get together to discuss one of the defining teams of the era, and there'll be plenty of chat about the League Cup.

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After a generation of being the small fish in Manchester, the blue half started a rapid climb up the league and ended a long wait for the league title. All the more compelling, it came in the last minute of the last game and denied another title to their glamorous opposition from across the City. This week, Neil, Maz and Pete get together to discuss a team that helped redefine the shape of the Premier League, and the most remarkable climax to a Premier League season we have ever seen.

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From the ashes of failure to qualify for multiple tournaments, a group of French footballers redefined what was possible and wrote their names in the history books as some of the most talented players of their era. Neil is joined by Maz and Pete as they look over the team that won the World Cup on home soil to momentarily unite an often fractured nation.

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After a brief mid-season interval, Pete, Neil and Maz are back and they're going back to the first year of the Premier League. For most of the season, Norwich City threatened to 'do a Leicester', leading the title race for most of the year playing freeflowing football and winning friends along the way. The following year saw memorable trips to Vitesse Arnhem and, more famously Bayern Munich. From Bryan Gunn to Jeremy Goss, and Mark Robins to Mark Bowen, relive a remarkable 18 months in the history of the Canaries...

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When the Galacticos exploded, a great Barcelona team ascended to the top of the Spanish and European game. Their successors might get most of the attention nowadays, but Neil, Pete and Maz spend this episode talking about what made Frank Rijkaard's team one of the most popular major clubs with the neutrals.

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Around the turn of the Millennium, the controversial Florentino Perez became the President of Real Madrid, promising to sign the world's best players to make the club a footballing and commercial powerhouse. The arrivals of Figo and Zidane heralded a new era - the much-vaunted 'Galacticos'. But did it actually work?

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