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With the close season starting to wear a bit thin, and just Olympic Football, pre-season friendlies and transfer rumours to keep us going, the Pubcast team were understandably distracted this week – not least by Dan’s striking likeness to a certain deceased Italian opera star! Nevertheless, the boys still managed to find plenty of talking points, including a dubiously named new rising star section (more of which in coming weeks), and Dan’s very own “aria” of expertise – dodgy beards! Also in this week’s show:

• The various incarnations of the “new Maradona”

• Mexican wrestling

• Olympic reaction

• Usain Bolt’s Theatre of Dreams

• Good news from Stiliyan Petrov

• England’s highest ever ranking

• Kendall Town’s new sponsor

• Danny Wellbeck’s heroic father

• Yeovil Town & Playford FC’s naked ambition

• Violent family days

• Foul Hajduk Split fan comes clean

• Senegalese Olympic footballer goes AWOL

• Dukes of Hazard

• Ashley Cole winds up Arsenal fans on Twitter

• Sami Khedira faces the goal

• AFC back to Wimbledon?

• Plus plenty more from the boys in the Wharf

Maradona, Olympics, Pavarotti, Usain Bolt, Man Utd, Stiliyan Petrov, England, FIFA, Kendall Town, Danny Wellbeck, Yeovil Town, Playford FC, Blackburn Rovers, Hajduk Split, Tottenham, Eden Hazard, Ashley Cole, Sami Khedira, AFC Wimbledon,

It might be the close season but our Pubcast team still found plenty to discuss in this week’s landmark show – with the “Pop n Lock” dance move proving such a revelation the boys just had to give it a try before watching Gabon at Wembley! From the positive performance of Team GB (male and female) through to the more sombre topics surrounding Gillingham and Portsmouth… Show #90 has got it all. This week…

• Italia ’90 youngsters

• Gabon v South Korea, BIG MATCH preview!

• Olympics round-up

• David Platt overhead kick!

• Jackie Chan – Man City supporter

• Mark McCammon’s/Gillingham racial discrimination case

• Pompey crisis

• Mirror Fantasy Football – Pubcast League

• A Ferrari on fire

• Sinclair brothers

• Rio the tweet

• Newcastle sign someone Good

• Brechin vs Rangers

• Western Sydney Wanderers

• Naughty boys of the week

• Man Utd shirt deal

• Much, much more!

Team GB, David Platt, Italia 90, Jackie Chan, Gillingham, Mark McCammon, Portsmouth, Fanasty Football, Scott Sinclair, Martin Sinclair, Charlie Adams, Rio Ferdinand, Leon Knight, Michel Morganella, Senegal, Gabon, South Korea, Brazil, Arsenal, Brechin, Glasgow Rangers, Western Sydney Wanderers, Man Utd, Man City,

After a week’s enforced hiatus, the pubcasters braved the midday sun at Canary Wharf for a pint and a chat about football. This week we were joined by a pair of Johns as well as well as our good friend Aimee, who was discussing pairs of another kind…

Despite a distinct lack of actual football, plus a slight technical hitch with our high tech recording equipment (Jim’s phone overheating in the sun), we managed to pack plenty of footy chat into the show, including:

• Jerome’s team GB performance review

• Ronaldinho’s costly can of cola

• Pompey in turmoil

• Darlington update

• Darren Fletcher’s future

• Luka Modric going AWOL

• Bale banned?

• QPR’s cunning plan

• Mirror Fantasy Football

• Western Sydney Wanderers update (& Adelaide United’s phantom player)

• Sean’s speech impediment

• Naughty boys of the week, including Mario Balotelli’s new best mate

• Michael Owen’s Twitter Q&A & 30p for a pee rant

• Bangor City’s Les Davies up for European Player of the Year

• Plus the usual insight and banter you know and tolerate

Our friends at @FFDU are back with episode 30 of their own Austalian based Pubcast

Revelations of Japanese porn stars provide the backdrop for this weeks show; with further insight into the not-so private life of Pascal Chimbonda in a distinctly “Carry On” themed Pubcast! You can also expect the usual round-up of more traditional footballing matters from the usual Pubcast voices. Also this week…

• Glasgow Rangers update

• Luke McCormick situation

• Mancini’s new contract

• Micah Richards in Olympic claim

• Adebayor’s contract quandary

• Gazza to return?

• Terry court case

• Short shorts

• Euro 2012 sticker book update

• Naughty boys of the week

• Western Sydney Wanderers

• Much, much more!

Another packed week for the Pubcasters to get stuck into… kicked off by a Bangles related fact concerning the recent FIFA World Rankings (yes there is one). Attention then moved to the final games of Euro 2012 which includes some interesting trivia on Guy Mowbray and Hacker T Dog. Also on Show #87…

• Team GB

• FIFA World Rankings

• Mario’s physique

• Japanese wonder goal

• Steve Kean the Portuguese expert

• CBBC commentary

• Round up of domestic news

• 50 Shades of Andy Gray

• @FootballFunnys

• Breno of Brazil

• Goal line technology

• UEFA fake TV coverage

• Western Sydney Wanderers

• Much, much more!

Our friends at @FFDU are back with episode 29 of their own Austalian based Pubcast

OK the defeat to Italy was ultimately disappointing, but our Pubcasters were looking at the positives in this week’s show as they discuss the next steps for Roy Hodgson and his backroom staff post Euro 2012. We hear from host Jim, who finally got first hand experience of the atmosphere amongst the England fans out in Kiev, as well as reviewing the 3 other Quarter Final games played since Show #85. Also this week…

• Stolen bikes in Mexico

• Performance of the week

• Semi Final Predictions

• The “Welbeck” dance

• Mark McCammon’s racial discrimination case

• England in Brazil 2014

• Mario’s secret diary

• Danny Murphy to Blackburn

• A French waiter speaks out

• Glasgow Rangers update

• Naughty boys of the week

• Practicing pens

• Pirlo the Home-o-phobic

• Much, much more!

This week’s show was recorded in glorious sunshine – made even more glorious for Dan Silver after Sean was forced to cough up on a bet they made during the recent Pubcast Friday Night Special!!! Since the last show the group stages have come to a dramatic conclusion, UEFA have fined just about everyone and the ¼ Finals were confirmed. This week…

• Performance of the week

• Nicklas Bendtner & UEFA fines

• ¼ Final Predictions

• England tactical analysis

• Dan’s book review

• A Ray Wilkins sandwich

• Naughty boys of the week

• Ballotelli and what could happen

• Much, much more!

Our friends at @FFDU are back with episode 27 of their own Austalian based Pubcast