In a week which saw the testimonial game for Jon Mackenzie's over 200 appearances for Corpus Christi College, we're here to celebrate the podcast's one year anniversary. Much like Jon's testimonial, we expect this episode to be full of silky skills, crunching slide tackles and, as requested by Will Geeson, for things to end with a gentlemanly shaking of hands and a rousing rendition of God Save the Queen before each heading home for a comfortable evening in the company of Radio Four.

Before that though, we're going to be talking about our ideal podcast guests. For the sake of brevity and listener sanity, we have each pledged to not mention our actual ideal podcast guests. So if you have come here for discussions of Peter Mandleson, Martin Luther or Martin McGuinness you might as well leave now.

After this Miles-Davis-esque creative, free-flowing harmony of thought, we return to the rigidity of Organised Fun. Paddy has organised fun this week so expect it to be unbelievable.

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Towering at well over 6 feet tall, prowling around the box with an unparalleled arrogance, defying all expectations, a lethal finisher who is carrying his team through the best part of the season.

Though this description may most obviously bring up thoughts of Leeds Utd's Chris Wood, it could arguably also apply to the lesser known Swedish talisman, Zlatan Ibrahimović. This week the team will be considering how a Championship striker such as Chris Wood would perform if he played for a commercial machine-cum-football club like Manchester United. Are there important fine marginal differences in ability that define a 'top level' striker or are we simply slaves to the notion of a 'big name' star goal scorer?

All this and more in this week's episode of 'A Team of John O'Sheas'…

Only 10 months ago, Andrea Bocelli serenaded a triumphant Leicester City with classics such as "We Are the Champions" and "Nessun Dorma". The heart wrenchingly emotional set ended with Bocelli's own "Time to Say Goodbye". At that moment it was impossible to conceive that it would become prophetic.

Now the dream has faded, Ding Dong, Ranieri's gone. No more pizza, no more Kante, no more boxers on Match of the Day. The powers that be in modern football have struck back with a vengeance and our dear Claudio has paid the ultimate price.

In the rat race that is football management in the premier league, a string of hopefuls are lined up to try and do the impossible and "Make Leicester Great Again". Could it be old Woy? Should we 'give it giggseh til end of season'? Could Shakespeare himself play his part in a true footballing tragedy?

This week the team are taking it in turns to 'make a case' for various candidates for the Leicester vacancy. To add an appropriate level of risk to proceedings, the contenders will be randomly selected using a powerful complicated number generator also known pulling pieces of paper out of a bowl.

The self declared 'older man's thinking football pundit' Jon Mackenzie is organising fun this week. As someone who grew up playing Tetris on a Sega MegaDrive let's hope he can provide a more up to date gaming experience today. Luckily for Will Geeson, fine linen jumpers will never fall out of fashion. He returns alongside Patrick McCloskey who has recently embarked upon establishing a clothing line for the podcast.

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We’ve gone through a bit of a turbulent political period of late. Brexit, Trump, the rise of the European right and whatever in God’s name is going on in North Korea. Luckily however, we have Paul Nuttall, who this week singlehandedly managed to achieve peace in the Middle East, find the Lost of Ark of the Covenant and create a cure for cancer… I’m joking. He didn’t do any of those things. And he never will. I genuinely struggle to think of a worse person than Paul Nuttall.

Will Geeson is back this week. Revived and motivated following his trip – sorry, pilgrimage - to the Peter Mandelson Heritage Centre he’s ready to join us in answering this week’s question no is answering and even fewer people will listen to: how will our beloved football look in the inevitable dystopia that will be the year of 2026?

This week, our quickfire question concerns football time travel. We’ll be asking which footballer corpses and careers we would resurrect from the underworld of Hades to our world of Trump. How would Pele fare in the era of post-truth football? Would he play even make the current Santos team in front of their present star striker, Paul Nuttall? Beckenbaeur, Beckham, Puskas, Jon Mackenzie… we’ll be talking all the greats who were once relevant to football.

We’ll finish with Will Geeson’s zipless organised fun. Usually Paddy does organised fun. The English taking something from the Irish. Sounds familiar doesn’t do it? So long as Geeson lives, Cromwell never truly dies.

In a week where Manchester United managed to claw on to their 6th place in the Premier League, the Team are back to continue the shittest unbeaten streak of history that is the world of football.

From time immemorial, human kind has been attempting to transcend itself through the creation of beautiful things: the hanging gardens of Babylon, the Pyramids at Giza, the Colossus at Rhodes, the list goes on. Football is no different, boasting its own wonders: Joey Barton’s Twitter account, this podcast, the fact that Emile Heskey had a career at all… Our Quickfire Question this week challenges the Team to draw up our own list of the 7 Wonders of the Footballing world.

Paddy’s taking a break from Organising Fun this week. Curiously enough, Will Geeson is also absent. It’s almost like he cheats…. Anyway, Robin is doing it instead. So I hope you’re feeling Italian.

All this, and more besides in this week’s edition of A Team of John O’Sheas.

This week, our question that no one is asking is about cult heroes in football. We’re going to work our way around all the childhood heroes whose posters adorned our youthful bedroom walls. Since Will isn’t here, we unfortunately won’t be mentioning Peter Mandelson, but with the trio of myself, Robin and Paddy, strap yourself in for some serious nostalgia over Tony Yeboah, Arrigo Sacchi and Gerry Adams.

All this, and more besides in this week’s edition of A Team of John O’Sheas.

For our question that no one is asking this week, we’re turning the lens back to managers. Tiki Taka, GegenPress, Inverted Physios. With the footballing media constantly enamoured with one new style of play after another, you’d be forgiven for wondering whether, given the saying about old dogs and new tricks, football is a young man’s game. Naturally, Jon Mackenzie has something to say about this. Our question this week is, “Do top level managers have a shelf life?”

In a week where results in the top three of the premier league suggested that Antonio Conte has got hold of God’s leaked iCloud photos, the team are back to call “Photoshop” on the world of football.

My slightly dated intro is appropriate this week as we’re casting our minds back to pick the best years in the world of football. Jon will be selecting from the 1980’s, or as he calls it his “mid-life crisis.” Will Geeson has the task of choosing from the 90s while putting his teary eyed fondness for 1997 behind him. I’m taking on the noughties since that was the decade I’m old enough to remember but young enough that I couldn’t drink through. And finally, we’ve given Paddy McCloskey the 2010’s because we felt like not taxing his brain with a full decade.

Paddy’s once again rustled up some organised fun for us to tackle. I hope I won’t come to regret that last crack in the unlikely event that there’s some sort of score related dispute we need him to weigh in on. This week the team play for one of my mother’s coveted homemade flapjacks. Cake based submissions from listeners should be directed to Patrick McCloskey, The Londonderry Fun Dungeon, Northern Ireland.

All this, and more besides in this week’s edition of A Team of John O’Sheas.

Do you ever find yourself judging the ever burgeoning numbers of people in gilets who are populating the terraces of football grounds around Britain? If you do, then this is the podcast episode for you.

The Team discuss what exactly it is about some forms of football fandom that makes us feel uneasy - is there any justification for this? should we react against it?

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