From £100 to £198 million pounds we look at the progression of the world record transfer fee. Who won a piano? Who has been subject of world record fees twice? Which Nations clubs have broken the record most often?

In the first of our transfer window specials we look back on this progression of footballer’s wages through the ages.

Part two on the history of transfer fees will follow with part three, reviewing the January 2019 transfer window finishing the set.

We try to be objective and ask why the idea that refereeing standards are declining is so prevalent as we revisit a discussion we first had last year. In a week where Chris Cavanagh’s decision to send off Nun Espirito Santo was meet with wide spread criticism and managers from Sean Dyche to Jack Ross criticise current refereeing standards we look at the state of refereeing.

This week it’s a mini podcast taking in three decades o football scandals involving Liverpool, Man United and Nottingham Forest.

We ask what football will look like in fifteen and fifty years. How will competitions, transfers and broadcasting change and what effect will technology and esports have on the way we interact with football.

For the Christmas episode it’s our second annual Football Bah Humbug Podcast. We get of our chest all our football bugbears. Join us to find out what the football equivalent of calling the teacher mummy is, why the Ballon d’Or needs to be scrapped and why blaming kit manufacturers for crap kits is daft. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

It seems we can’t move for cup competitions but there is 150 years worth of cup competitions gone by the wayside. We look at some of the highlights and oddities of defunct cup competitions and the reasons they ever existed in the first place.

We discuss how to solve the problem of racism in stadia, the implications of the Copa Libertadores being played in Spain, as well as looking back at this week’s Premier League talking points from the new Liverpool to Chelsea tactics trumping City’s.

No one knows where PFA chief executive Gordon Taylor’s salary is funded. In this episode we ask; what does the PFA do well and where is it falling short?

oh so many questions; Is Gerrard the new Robson? Is it VAR or VARs and should they have matching ties? Paying Scudemore not the problem? The Nations League is actually alright, right? Also, can we have Coventry City back in the Premier League?