On this week's show we're joined by Patrick Venn, a financial bodyguard for professional footballers to look at Football Index's collapse and the consequences for football's relationship with gambling from the media to the clubs themselves.

In the third part of our series on football and political extremism we look at some of the most politically charged clubs around from the left and the right and from Europe to the Middle East

In the second part of our series looking at how political extremism has influenced and effected football we examine how communist states have consistently struggled to harness the power of football

Listeners questions podcast this week discusses how referees can be humanised, how more than a salary cap is needed for the EFL and Why concussion subs need to go further. Plus there is some salacious stuff.

In the first part of a new series looking at the ways in which political extremism has manipulated and used football throughout its history.

It's time to delve into the mail bag to talk regional leagues, fan engagement and more.

Its our first pod of 2021 as Alan and Paul go into our third quiz episode tied on one win each. Get your mildly obscure football quiz questions here

OK, WE ARE ALL ILL THIS WEEK, SOME WITH COVID. SO HERE IS EPISODE 138 , AGAIN. We discuss what makes a player a hero? How do styles of play, special and temporal as well as individual moment’s effect fans perceptions. We ask are there actually five types of cult hero? Wonder how you can lose your hero status and ask if the heroes of your youth effect how you view the game in the future and ask what that means for the future of football?

The first in our Brits abroad series takes us to Colombia and football El Dorado

its part 2 of our Joy Of series and its those little things from a volley to snow on the pitch, a very deep net and much more.