Left Field

In Episode 5, Wogan and Allen reflect on a weekend when sport may have peaked. Not so much on the football front, although we still discuss Arsenal being a laughing stock, the upcoming AFCON final and a new list, a rebranded Top Four – this time of African Premier League players. After the break in not football, we dissect Lewis Hamilton's character flaws or lack of, contrasting Wimbledon finals and the gobsmacking finale to the Cricket World Cup.

In episode 4, Wogan and Allen compare the football fortunes of the US men's and women's national teams. It seems only one is any good. Then attention turns to the raft of international tournaments taking place - Copa America, Gold Cup and AFCON 2019. Is English football ready for a player to come out? We discuss a Twitter account that says it's about to happen. Finally in part one, in a new segment 'The Champions League of [x]' we talk worst/best transfer window clichés. 

In Not Football, our passive enjoyment of Wimbledon soothes a hangover, the Cricket World Cup struggles to grab our attention, we're completely ambivalent towards Le Tour de France and our shocking ignorance of the NBA salary caps shines through. 

Enjoy. 

In Week 3, your boys Wogan and Allen react to the USA crushing the World Cup dream of England's Lionesses, there's chat about an Arsenal kit launch howler, the birth of Flat Earth FC (wtf?) before attention turns to not football - is baseball better at the London Stadium than West Ham, will everybody go out at Wimbledon and what is NBA free agency? Enjoy!

This week, your boys Wogan and Andrew Allen are neck-deep in VAR, which is going some way to ruining the Women's World Cup. Elsewhere in a first half of football, there is discussion of how England have bottled the European U-21 Championship, Rafa Benitez leaving Newcastle United and an unlikely punch-up at the Vue in Islington. That's before a second half of Not Football, where there is amazement at giant athletic teddy bear and NBA Draft #1 pick Zion Williamson, talk of baseball coming to London, a Wimbledon preview for the casual fan and a story about a dog.

Your boys Wogan and Andrew Allen give their mild to piri-piri takes on the Football in the first half of the new Left Field – including first impressions of the Women's World Cup, Michel Platini's corruption arrest, Qatar's unrelated place at Latin American football's top table. That's before Not Football takes centre stage in the second half, with the NBA-champ Toronto Raptors and new segment Sports Old White Guys Like, starring Gary Woodland and the Cricket World Cup.