Join us this week as we name the top injuries in the premier league, discuss fatigue, pitch changes and new boots possible role in causing injuries. Want to know who has lost 617 days of training and match time to injuries this season? Find out here folks.

As well as covering the Premier League results from the weekend we ask if the number of smaller clubs in the top flight is a problem for English Football? There’s a discussion of the proposed new Champions League from 2024, some gushing over the FA Cup Semi Finals and an FA Cup quiz or three. Plus football’s shame, from racism to Wayne Hennessey and Adam Johnson.

Umpires, fair catches, back passes and more in this brief history of how the laws of football have changed over the centuries. Hands up, this is basically a repeat but it’s a bloody decent repeat. Enjoy.

John Collins, Paul Chapman and Alan Hick answer the question; would it be good for a smaller club to win the FA Cup? Plus first thoughts on the new 2021 Club World Cup proposals and an expanded 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

Along with all the incidents of the weekend we discuss Burnley’s identity crisis, Fulham being a badly run club, discuss Wolves potential to be a top club. We also ask if you can name the ten Watford managers appointed this decade?

In the wake of this weekend's pitch invaders we also take a closer look at policing at football matches and reveal the football arrests league tables, the most policed games and the types of most common football arrests.

The 133rd IFAB AGM has given us a raft of law changes for the 2019/20 season with new rules on handball, goal kicks, penalties and substitutes. We discuss the implications and have a few suggestions of our own for new laws. We also talk about what we’d change more widely about the game.

On this week’s podcast we talk about Chelsea more than we ever have before from Sarri & Kepa to their transfer ban, car boot sale loanees and Abramovich moving on.

We ask if Puel is a bad or a boring manager and if there is such a thing as too much football? Plus, a new handball law could be on the horizon, would removing the deliberate part of the handball improve anything?

Through personal testimony this episode looks at the decline in adult men’s 11-a-side football in the last 20 years in the UK. We explore the historic conditions under which amateur football thrived, look at how social changes and administrative targets and demands have contributed to change and look at how mass participation in football is moving away from 11-a-side and why.

In an age where player power seems to be king and manager’s stints at clubs are getting shorter, we ask how much does the manager matter in bringing success to a club? Is it ultimately down to having the players or is the coach key? Also includes a foray into the world of Armenian sweets, untqnttu anyone?

From Higuain to Almiron via Peter Crouch and all Fulham’s wingers we review the January transfer window buying and selling of Premier League clubs this January. Plus some mysterious raspberry jam.