Pro Revolution Soccer

Jessy Parker Humphreys joins again to discuss the WSL taking centre stage during the men’s international break, peculiar marketing of the women’s game, the policing of femininities and- sadly- transphobia (although you get to hear them go in two-footed on the Telegraph).

Some of the most insightful commentary on women’s football you’ll hear.

Jessy is frequently on another great podcast called Counterpressed, which you can find here: https://open.spotify.com/show/3rVkscPzdtKm0NIVU8S0X8?si=2e07857bec264cba

Their Observer stuff is here: https://observer.co.uk/contributor/jessy-parker-humphreys

We have elected to overlook the disgraceful Russell Martin slander contained in one of these articles because Jessy is nice.

PRS OG Keir Milburn joins to discuss how the unreality and untruths of capitalism are mirrored by football, whether the City verdict has created a time travel paradox, the libidinal energy of football fandom, life being gamified and football de-gamified, and all manner of other trademark speculative whimsy.

Guardian journalist Morgan Ofori joins to discuss the dark clouds hanging over the game in this country, from Man City and other dodgy owners, through the stitch-ups in academy football, all the way to clubs losing their identities and whether the recent scandal will affect broadcast revenues.

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You can find Morgan's stuff here, including his recent interview with Dwight Yorke:

https://www.theguardian.com/profile/morgan-ofori

Also Morgan's partner Jas recently published a superb critical analysis of the play Dear England:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13528165.2025.2687315

Assistant Professor in International Relations at the University of Sussex and PRS guest host David Wearing returns to use his expertise on Anglo-Gulf relations to help us better understand the eerie political moment English football finds itself in.

Tom is joined by senior lecturer in sports business and politics at the University Campus of Football Business, Doctor David Webber, to discuss the spending rules that Manchester City have brazenly flouted, plus Juliet Jacques returns to give us her take on the whole sordid tale.

Sam Kelly- host of the Red Medicine podcast and socialist City fan- joins to try to make sense of the news and formulate a response through a left lens.

You can find Sam's stuff here: https://www.instagram.com/medicine_red/

Here: https://redmedicine.substack.com

And here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/red-medicine/id1587752889

For no particular reason, Toms James and Williams discussed some of football’s most infamous cases of cheating, gamesmanship and shithousery. Parts of this were used in episodes of our Every Move You Make series during the World Cup, but here it is in all its glory. Brighton’s Poogate saga, Maradona’s fake penis and Carlos Bilardo’s gynaecological misconduct.

Tom W will be back next week for a proper discussion of the Man City verdicts, but until then our ‘Why don’t I hate Man City more?’ episode back in May explored the charges, the potential ramifications and suggested that the FFP/PSR/SCR rules City have been found guilty of breaking are in themselves elitists and unfair:

https://www.patreon.com/ProRevolutionSoccer/posts/why-dont-i-hate-157118129?l=it

Barrister, Riverway to the Sea co-director and Irish guy Franck Magennis gives his analysis of the Ireland-Israel Nations League saga.

Tom and Juliet are joined by the Guardian journalist and friend of the show Tom Davies, along with a debuting special guest- renowned Melody Maker, NME and Guardian music journalist, author of Fear of Music and creator of the notorious Mr Agreeable character, David Stubbs. Together they discuss Andy Burnham's favourite albums and why he's more convincing as a music lover and football than his predecessor, lament the dearth of creativity when it comes to modern terrace anthems, and talk about the links between football fandom and music in general.

Today’s episode focuses on two genuinely community-centred clubs, one old, one new:

Guy Courtney talks about how Rochdale survived and whether EFL clubs can truly be sustainable.

George Baker discusses ripping it up and starting again with FC United, and how he feels about Manchester United now.