An interview with Lee Nash, the co-founder and Creative Director of Gløry magazine, and Andy Lawn, Gløry’s Head of Copy - by Dr Joel Rookwood (University College Dublin)

Like a team with an evolving and revolving roster that comes together for international friendlies, the BGs (The Beautiful Game Basel Group) are a loose affiliation of scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds who assemble to investigate the relationship between beauty and soccer. Beginning with the Beautiful Game conference at Basel in July 2016, then subsequent workshops and conferences in Wake Forest, Dortmund, and Dublin, as well as the publication of the edited collection, The Aesthetics, Poetics, and Rhetoric of Soccer, David Kilpatrick moderates a discussion with Ridvan Askin, Aline Bieri, Catherine Diedrich, Adam Kadlac, Michael O’Hara, Cyprian Piskurek, and Connell Vaughan on the birth, growth, and future of the BGs.

Joel Rookwood interviews UCLan SU President and Sport Business Management graduate Zuleikha Chikh about Preston’s refugee and asylum seeker football project. Around 40 participants take part each week in free football coaching led by the Sir Tom Finney FC, a non-profit community football club in Preston – coached by UCLan students. This interview explores the lived realities of refugees and asylum seekers, the meaning of football in this context and the approach and impact of the project.

In this episode, we speak with Dr Dan Parnell & Dr Danny Fitzpatrick about the evidence and recommendations in their submission to the DCMS Select Committee call for evidence 'Sport in our community' on behalf of The Football Collective.

Dr Joel Rookwood of University of Central Lancashire outlined the multitude of issues surrounding Project Big Picture for his students. It is such a brilliant summary that we thought we would put it out on the Football Collective podcast feed. The talk is followed by questions from students and other people on the Zoom call. We hope you enjoy and might use it in your teaching, studies or journalism.

Among the key points discussed are:

- The roots of Project Big Picture in the 39th game proposal by the EPL

- Fan culture in the 1970s/ 1980s and policing and the route to the establishment of the Premier League

- Financial structure of EPL and increased role of domestic and global TV revenues

- Covid as a Trojan horse for globalisation of TV coverage

- The history of Project Big Picture and how the deal(s) work out of financially for all clubs

- The financial effects of Project Big Picture and how they might play out in British fan culture

In the fourth episode of Season 3, Sarthak Mondal sits with West Ham Academy coach, Ross Brooks to discuss his journey in the world of football coaching

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In the third episode of Season 3, Sarthak Mondal sits with Gavin Price to discuss more about sport diplomacy..

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In the second episode of Season 3, Sarthak Mondal sits with former Indian international footballer, Jules Alberto to discuss more about the current situation in Indian football.

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In the second episode of Season 3, Sarthak Mondal sits with former Indian international footballer, Jules Alberto to discuss more about the current situation in Indian football.

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In the first episode of Season 3, Sarthak Mondal sits with sports data scientist, Laurie Shaw from Harvard University to discuss more about the advent of data science in sports and the so-called magic pill known as expected goals.

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