The J-Talk Podcast

What a weekend in J1! After some Olympic and transfer window housekeeping in Part 1 (to 22:50), we dive in to a terrific top flight matchday beginning with Yokohama FC's stunning win at home over Nagoya, then contrasting results for the top two - F.Marinos stumbling at Shimizu while Kawasaki cruised at Oita - before wrapping up Part 2 with Tosu continuing their dominance over Tokyo, and Kashiwa claiming a huge win at the death over Kobe (to 52:15).

Then in Part 3 we wrap up the other five games, including more late drama at Shonan, and Tokushima claiming a huge three points at home over Gamba Osaka.

With the third tier in the middle of its summer recess, Jon Steele & Mike Innes got together to review each team's progress over the first half of the J3 season. 

In this episode, the guys take a forensic look at the teams currently occupying the top five positions in the league table (and Jon compares Fukushima United's squad-building with him struggling to carry an armful of laundry up a staircase).

Look out for Part 2 & Part 3 soon!

After a week or two of downtime, Jon Steele was once again joined by Stuart Smith for a catch-up, 'Summer Special' JTET with a J2 focus. 

In Part 1, the boys discuss the season so far, and the major transfer news from the summer window. 

In Part 2, they look forward to the 'second half' of the second-tier season, and end with a (rather long!) debate about alleged 'power harassment' at Tokyo Verdy.

Hope everyone enjoys the show!

Jonny Nicol returns to the pod to help us round up a difficult week for the Japanese teams at the Olympics, with the men following Nadeshiko Japan out of gold medal contention after their extra time loss to Spain in the semi final on Tuesday (to 43:23).

Then in Part 2 Jonny is rightly buoyant after Gamba Osaka's impressive recent results in their games in hand during the Olympic break hauled them out of relegation danger, and we finish up with some of the most intriguing arrivals during the J1 summer transfer window ahead of the league resuming next Monday.

We're back for a second episode of the week to mark Japan's progress to the Tokyo 2020 knockout stage in both the women's and men's football tournaments.

Once again we begin with the Under 24 men, and welcome back Richy Palmer, whose New Zealand side stand in the way of Japan making the semi final, but Hajime Moriyasu's team will certainly take some stopping after their superb performance against France. Where can the OlyWhites hurt Japan, and who are their players to watch? Richy fills us in (to 24:58).

Then we recap the 1-0 win over Chile that took Nadeshiko Japan in to the quarter finals, but they will definitely have to perk up their ideas against a Sweden side that have swept all before them in the group stage.

On this episode we chat about the contrasting fortunes of the Japan National Teams at Tokyo 2020, with fingers crossed both can make it through to the quarter finals (to 25:55), then cover the four J1 games from the past week. 

Stuart Smith is here with a brief roundup of what happened in the last set of fixtures before the J2 summer "break", with updates on tight situations at the top and bottom of the league, plus a sprinkling of the latest transfer news. 

Stay safe, stay hydrated, and stay alert for more podcasts to come even the J2 is on hiatus!!

A slow week ahead of the Olympics starting? Well Celtic, Kobe and Kyogo Furuhashi put paid to any plans we had for a cruisy episode by dropping their transfer bombshell on Friday morning, and Sean Galbraith joined us for Part 1 in which we discuss Furuhashi's move to link up with Ange Postecoglou and how he might fit in at Parkhead. We then move on to some Yokohama F.Marinos transfer news - that Sean is slightly less excited about - with Ado Onaiwu looking set for a move to France, and 2019 J1 Player of the Year Teruhito Nakagawa possibly heading to Kobe to attempt to fill Furuhashi's boots (to 30:39).

In Part 2 Alex Bishop makes a very welcome return to the pod to chat about the key players, youngsters to watch, and overall medal prospects for Asako Takakura's Nadeshiko Japan side in Tokyo 2020, while we also chat about the makeup of the squads for the other three teams in Japan's group in the men's Under 24 Olympic football tournament (to 1:01:38).

Then finally in Part 3 we review the four J1 games played on Saturday, with mixed results for the returning ACL clubs.

Fashionably late, here is this week's new JTET episode!

In Part 1, Jon Steele rounds up all of the recent Emperor's Cup action involving J2 & J3 sides, & looks back on last weekend's J2 action.

In Part 2, 'Magic' Mike Innes runs the rule over the latest J3 events in 'J-Talk: Short Corner'.

As always, thank you for your support!

It's a bumper new episode of the pod, with Jonny Nicol guesting for the duration after a weekend full of the good and bad (VAR?!) of the J.League.

In Part 1 Sam chats about his trip to the Euro 2020 Final on Sunday, and then Jonny reviews Gamba Osaka's ACL campaign, before we discuss Kaoru Mitoma's rumoured move to Brighton (via Belgium) and speculation over Kyogo Furuhashi's future (to 36:53).

Then we move on to J1 Matchday 22, and kick things off with three huge upsets where bottom five teams stunned top half opponents (to 1:06:56), before we round up the other four games.