In Episode 51, we’re back with the Oranje 🇳🇱 as we dive into Basta, the autobiography of the one and only Marco van Basten.

The rather oddly nicknamed “Swan of Utrecht” 🦢 rattled in 242 goals and swept up everything in sight:

three Eredivisie titles 🏆, four Scudetti 🇮🇹, two European Cups 🏆🏆, and not one, not two, but three Ballons d’Or 🥇🥇🥇

And he did all this before the age of 28. Amazing, football’s Alexander the Great ⚔️

Tune in to discover:

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It’s injury time on Injury Time ⏱️⚽️

In Episode 20, we pay homage to all those fine fellows whose careers were brought to a premature end due to injury 🤕💔

From the most famous (David Busst) 😬 to some of the more obscure and unlikely — including the goalkeeper who ended his career up a tree while rescuing a cat 🧤🐈🌳

There is also the harrowing tale of the end of a Sprite-drenched Alistair’s fledgling career 🥤😵‍💫 Oh, what could have been…

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🎉 EPISODE 50! 🎉

We’re celebrating our half-century in style — that’s right, it’s Denis Wise’s autobiography 😏📖⚽️

Wise is one of the three musketeers of English football books. Along with Glenn Hoddle and Steve McMahon, he somehow appears in everyone else’s autobiography — and almost no one ever has anything nice to say about him 😬😂

But rather than just blindly swallowing whatever’s served up by untrustworthy footballers, we decided to go straight to the source. 🎯

Denis’ 2012 autobiography is a suitably short book 🪶 — written while he was still playing, and includes:

📖 The greatest ever FA Cup story

🥜 Vinnie Jones’ penchant for grabbing balls

💥 And all the amazing things we’ve apparently lost to “woke”

It’s Episode 50 — a milestone and a madness all in one 🎙️

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🎶 “It’s not time to make a change…” 🎶

It's time to sit back, relax, and enjoy our Father & Son 5-a-side Draft!

Welcome to Injury Time 19 — the Scott Gemini Nepo Baby Special 👨‍👦⚽️😂

This week, we’re drafting the sons of footballing legends to face off on the pitch. It's rich pickings indeed 🤌💎

Turns out a lot of footballers are, well… footballers’ kids. Who knew?! 😏

Tune in for:

👨‍👦 Football father-son trivia

📚 The lively chatter you've come to expect from DFB

👀 A couple of controversial or perhaps ill-advised picks 

😈 And the eternal question — can Alistair make a dint in Johnny's lead in the series...

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Is Michael Owen football’s oddest ball of all? 🧐

From the helicopter highs of that goal against Argentina 🚁⚽️ to the hamstring horrors that followed (quite a lot of them 😬), Owen’s career was a tale of glory, pain, and lots of grudges.

In this week’s episode, we dive into Reboot, Owen’s attempt to set the record straight — revisiting his electric early years, his complicated later life, and his, er… unique way of remembering it all.

For reasons we didn’t quite expect, this turned out to be unlike any other football book we’ve read.

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☁️ The clouds have lifted over Old Trafford since the weekend with United’s smash-and-grab win down at Anfield — but has the storm truly passed? ⚡️

United’s failures on the pitch in recent years have only been compounded by the uncanny ability of their former flops to reach new heights away from the stifling drag around the Theatre of Dreams 🏟️.

In this episode of Injury Time, we see if United fan Johnny can put together a 5-a-side team ⚽️ of current United players that can beat United-hater Alistair’s team of cast-offs and rejects 🚷. Is Šeško better than Rashford? How does Dorgu compare to Elanga? 🤔

Johnny is ahead in the series — but only just. Can Alistair bring them level, or can Johnny put some space between the two? 🔴⚫️

🎙️ Note: This episode was recorded before United’s aforementioned victory over Liverpool 🏆 and Forest’s appointment of, ahem, Sean Dyche. 😬 Yikes.

⚽️ Episode 48: A Season with Verona — Tim Parks and the Tifosi 🇮🇹

After the drama of our last episode, we’re staying in Italy with another unfashionable football club. This time it’s Hellas Verona, a club known as much for its tifosi as for its football 🔵🟡

Back in 2000, British author and horny English teacher Tim Parks embarked on a wild year with the Verona faithful, traveling the length and breadth of Italy as the club battled its way through 34 games to see if they could say in Serie A 🚆🔥

The result, A Season with Verona, is part travelogue, part meditation on fandom, and part fever dream — a portrait of Italy seen through blue-and-yellow smoke 🇮🇹💨

Can Parks match the magic (and madness) of Joe McGinniss’s Miracle of Castel di Sangro? 📖⚡️

Join us for Episode 48 of The Dynamo Football Book Club to find out 🎙️📚

It’s 23 November 2002. Luis Figo trots over to take a corner for Real Madrid against Barcelona. Moments later, a severed pig’s head sails onto the pitch — lobbed by a fan of the club that claims to be “more than a football team.”

Once adored, now despised, Figo had become public enemy number one for the Blaugrana, and the Camp Nou was baying for blood (and ham).

Inspired by this gloriously grotesque episode in football history, Johnny and Alistair host a snake draft of snakes — picking players who crossed the great divides to join their fiercest rivals.

Expect grudges, betrayal, and zero no-celebration celebrations from whoever wins this one. 🐖⚽🔥

🚨 Episode Drop! 🚨

Almost two years in, and on our 46th book, we think we’ve found the best one yet. Hold on to your hats, because Joe McGinniss’s The Miracle of Castel di Sangro is coming your way.

Alistair had never even heard of it (he blames the title). But have you? 🤔

Back in 1996, tiny Castel di Sangro — a town of just 5,000 souls tucked away in Abruzzo — pulled off the impossible. Against all odds, their Serie C1 side won promotion to Serie B, making them the smallest club ever to reach that level. That was the miracle. Or at least, the first one.

What followed — on the pitch, in the dressing room, and in Joe McGinniss’s unforgettable book — is a story packed with glory, heartbreak, and a gut punch ending you won’t see coming.

This episode has it all. 🎧 Give it a listen — and if you haven’t already, grab the book. 📚

⚽ Injury Time 16 is here! 📺🎙️

In this episode, we choose our greatest television lineups. There may be some personal and national biases at play as we pick the best presenters 🎤, pundits 💬, and commentators 🎧. Thankfully, 🤖 AI is on hand to settle the debate and decide whose lineup comes out on top.

Heated arguments 🔥, nostalgia 🕰️, and a few questionable selections 🤔 ahoy.

🎧 Listen now and let us know which lineup you think deserves the crown 👑!