Planet Sport Football Africa

This week we look at stadium violence in African football, following the death of a Cameroonian footballer in Algeria. Albert Ebosse was hit by an object thrown from the stands, and there are many cases of fans throwing bottles and other objects at players in leagues across Africa. What can be done when fans become angry?

On this week's show we look at the African contingent in the English Premier League this season. West Ham United have the most African players on their books with six players, while potential stars this season include Christian Atsu at Everton and Didier Drogba at Chelsea. And we talk about Divock Origi, the Belgian player of Kenyan origin who Liverpool have signed but have loaned back to Lille.

This week we look ahead to the new English Premier League season and ask what impact we can expect from African players this time around. We hear from fans in Kenya who are looking forward to the new season and we give our own predictions as to who the champions will be.

This week we look at some of the top transfers involving African players ahead of the start of the European season, including Serge Aurier to Paris St Germain and Brown Ideye to West Bromwich Albion. And we talk about the great innovation of World Cup – vanishing spray, and we ask if we need it in Africa.

This week we ask whether Didier Drogba will have a successful comeback at Chelsea. And we find out about Futsal – a version of five-a-side football that's not very popular in Africa, but when we were at the World Cup we discovered that it's huge in Brazil.

This week we continue to reflect on the 2014 World Cup and ask if moving the Africa Cup of Nations from even to odd years helped with the performance of the African teams in Brazil. We also ask how the shift will affect the 2015 Nations Cup. And we discuss whether Africa should have more than five slots at the World Cup.

We ask what lessons can Africa learn from the 2014 World Cup? It was the first time two African teams have progressed from the Group stages but what is necessary for teams to progress further? In particular what can African nations learn from the success of smaller nations at the World Cup such as Costa Rica and Algeria? And we find out about some of your favourite World Cup moments.

This week, with Brazil exiting the World Cup in spectacular fashion and criticised for changing their way of playing to a European style, we ask if African teams can learn something. We ask why African referees are not given the finals of major global tournaments to officiate, and we meet some Ethiopian fans who have travelled to Brazil to watch the World Cup.

For the first time, two African teams reached the second round of the World Cup, but both Nigeria and Algeria have been knocked out at that stage and hence have failed to reach the quarter-finals. So Cameroon, Senegal and Ghana remain the only three teams to have got to the quarter-finals of the World Cup. What do you think of the overall performance of Africa at this tournament?

Steve Vickers, Solomon Ashoms and Stuart Weir in Rio discuss the progress of African teams at the World Cup in Brazil as Nigeria and Algeria progress to the Round of 16.