If you follow football, you might as well have heard about a certain player from Argentina called Leo Messi. The same person who returned after quitting football at an international level and ended up winning the World Cup in Qatar last year.

Our Co-host Dwaipayan gives out the usual stats, figures and numbers that embellish Messi’s career before Anukarsh goes deeper into how much of an impact Messi has created not only on the field, but also beyond it.

We will never know why Divyansh - the first person to join our team more than 7 months ago - decided to make an appearance wearing the German jersey on an episode where we celebrate Messi. But he spreads light on how even not the biggest Messi fans walking around can’t help but marvel at his ability and achievements across the major part of the last couple decades.

Lastly, our latest team addition and a precocious sports talent - Rahul Bandopadhyay - shares his experience of being a Messi fan and his reactions when the Argentine side picked up silverware last year, among many other valuable insights.

We are widening our palette of football fans. We value the voice of every single fan of the sport, irrespective of the club that they represent.

This week, we have Fateh Sahota with us who is an Inter Milan fan. We begin by talking about some of the most popular players from the Italian side to then taking Fateh back to his first ever exposure to football almost 3 decades ago!

How many of us remember the 1994 FIFA World Cup, or the 1998 Champions League season? Fateh goes in depth on how he started to foster an affinity for the Italian side before Dwaipayan took the occasion of quizzing his panelists on yet another unsolicited interjection.

Anukarsh and Fateh talk about the significance that many Inter players have had over the years. The culture and spirit and style of play that the Italians adopt remain the highlight of our conversation.

Staying true to our mission of instilling a deep rooted football culture in India, we asked Fateh about his Indian football experience and his answer would leave many of us reminiscing and pondering on what could have and should have been for Indian football.

Things have been going great for our podcast recently. Ever since we breached the half century mark on our episodes, we have been raising the bar of the guests that we call in our podcast.

For this week, we are grateful to have Charlotte Cromarty with us who is not only an avid fan of football (her Twitter account is testament to her enthusiasm) but has also been doing some great work around the sport.

As an ambassador for her childhood club called Rochdale, she’s part of the Her Game Too Podcast that has been creating waves in a relatively short period of time.

She also mentions about her affinity to other sports like cricket which was enough for our Co-host Dwaipayan to ask her predictions on the upcoming Ashes series!

In this very interesting half an hour conversation with a person from a different time zone, there are a lot of perspectives provided by Charlotte which will compel us to look at the game in a more holistic and inclusive manner.

After 3 weeks since our last Spotify episode, we wanted to keep up with the standards of guests in our podcast. With close to 20K followers on his Arsenal Instagram account, we have Apurv Gupta with us.

In what is one of our most candid and fluid discussions throughout our 51 episode history, we closely talk about different Arsenal players who have positively impacted the Gunners.

We don’t leave a stone unturned in analysing the Arteta effect on the Gunners and also shed some light on the strong legacy that Arsene Wenger had.

Even though the title might have just slipped from their hands, it is a proper education into how the Arsenal outfit has shaped their team over the past few seasons.

We hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we did recording this!

In our milestone 50th episode, we were determined to sit down and have a conversation with a prominent figure from the global football industry.

We couldn’t have done this better than having Thomas Gronnemark with us - former Danish athlete who works as a throw-in coach for a number of professional football teams.

In what has been a conversation touching various topics, we highlight how the throw in aspect and technique has evolved over the years, his challenges along the way and the working relationship with Jurgen Klopp’s players.

For all the fans enthusiastic about Indian football, wait till the end where Grønnemark shares his fascination and intent to visit Indian shores and contribute to the sport in our country as well.

As we move closer towards our half century mark of episodes, it was one of our great pleasures to have Deep Raja with us for the episode.

Someone who’s followed Liverpool since the early days of this century, he has a unique set of experiences as part of his fan journey.

As if visiting Anfield in itself wasn’t enough to make other Liverpool fans envious, he shares his moments of playing on the Anfield pitch with the football greats - Alan Kennedy and the late David Johnson.

Just when we thought Deep has and done it all as a Liverpool fan, he also mentioned about his tattoos.

If you are a sports fan and are currently facing a dilemma about how to go about your first tattoo, maybe listening to the episode till the very end might help!

Do you want to know how the role of midfielder in modern football has changed over the years? Or did you know that the work rate of Luka Modric (37) is almost the same as the next bright prospect of English football - Jude Bellingham, who is all of just 19 years!

What has made Napoli such a force to reckon with in recent times and who exactly have been the architects behind the resurgence showcased by Manchester United under Erik Ten Hag?

In Indie Football Podcast, we strive to bring you everything football. This episode with Karan Dave, which is very specific in nature about data around football, might just blow your minds!

In our latest episode at the Indie Football Podcast where we are inching closer towards the half century mark, it was a pleasure to have Ankit Rana - a long standing Chelsea fan.

We begin with his earliest memories of football back in the 1998 World Cup to how he believes the last 12-18 months is probably the toughest throughout his tenure as Blues fan.

The discussion then goes to the current manager, what has gone right and what could probably be better. The holistic perspective that Ankit brings to the table will leave you a much learned football fan by the end of the episode.

Do subscribe us on YouTube where you will be able to see the enviable jersey collection that Ankit possesses!

We sat down to record this episode on the evening of March 21, before the earthquake showed up and we had to cut down on our progress.

24 hours later, we found no natural forces hindering our attempts at shooting the episode where Tathya spoke about his most memorable Real Madrid match, much to Anukarsh’s chagrin.

Tathya then goes to share his thoughts on how Indian football needs to explore beyond their neighbourhoods to rise to international standards.

When talking about the ISL, a relegation system where teams are given more of a stake than the current scenario might improve the league in the future is what Tathya added.

Listen to the full episode here to expand your knowledge well around Indian football.

Roshan Sameer from LFC Ahmedabad is here! That's right, lads! This week at IFP, we got down with the likeable and vivacious Roshan to talk about the emphatic victory over United. We also talked about Liverpool's upcoming second leg fixture against Real Madrid in the Champions League. Furthermore, Roshan discusses how his Liverpool fandom began, how important Liverpool is for him and the road ahead for the club. For more such podcasts, keep following the Indie football podcast on Spotify, Twitter and Youtube!