Very special edition this week - we dig into what makes the genius of Guardian football cartoonist David Squires with the man himself. 

We cover loads - how David started off at Swindon Town, where he designed the club mascot, earned the fury of Steve McMahon, broke into the ground with his mates and how he spent some time with a porn-watching electrician. 

We also talk Arsene Wenger, Gunnersaurus, the challenges of writing in an era in which the truth is stranger than cartoon fiction and in an era when England are really quite.....good. 

David's got a new book out that we highly recommend - Goalless Draws Illuminating The Genius of Modern Football. 

Plus -  Tortured Pun Corner, and Chris Waddle forces us into a dramatic change of theme tune.

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This week we look at the new documentary film on Barcelona's glory years under Pep Guardiola - Take The Ball, Pass The Ball. 

It's really very, very good. 

Listen in as we find an antidote to the real world's cynicism, wonder if Xavi is a committed ideologue or just a bit of an arse, and moan about Pep's music choices. 

Plus there's Spurs, Banarama, PETA, Tim Lovejoy and urinal cakes. 

Amazon Prime are showing a brand new documentary about Steven Gerrard, entitled Make Us Dream. 

It gets the Reducer treatment this week, as we ask - why the hell did Gerrard stay at Liverpool for so long? And how is he so....dull?

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This week's show is about the film version of The Damned United, David Peace's famous book on Brian Clough's turbulent 44-day spell with Leeds United. 

Michael Sheen is brilliant as Clough, but does the movie take too many liberties with the truth? Did it need to be so on the nose? 

Plus - Republic of Ireland 0-0 Northern Ireland stain our souls; Evil Mr. Tayto; Smug Gavin Smugly Responds To An Abusive Email; Bad puns. 

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Following a dismaying week of revelations from Football Leaks and Der Spiegel, we have confirmation that football is a deeply sick, grotesque world. On that topic, this week we watched The Workers' Cup, an excellent documentary which shines a light on the appalling work conditions inflicted on migrant workers preparing Qatar for the 2022 World Cup. 

If this is too serious for you, don't worry: Gavin also tells a joke. 

To read the Der Spiegel allegations, click here - http://www.spiegel.de/international/topic/football_leaks/

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A look back at some of our favourite bits from the last few months:

Neymar's book, CONVERSATIONS WITH MY FATHER (00.20)

Morrissey's novel, LIST OF THE LOST (5.40)

Eamon Dunphy's punditry career (15.30)

Jermaine Pennant's autobiography (21.20)

FINAL SCORE with John Rain (27.00)

Neil Warnock (41.00)

Our old friend Pennant turned up on Jeremy Kyle today, and we couldn't avoid giving it the Reducer treatment 

Here we are then, 34 episodes in and we have found the worst thing we have ever seen. It's DANGEROUS GAME, a farcically bad movie starring Callum Best. 

It is the first draft of a rejected Midsomer Murders script in the Pro Evo universe casted entirely from ITV4. 

Thanks to Danny Ryan for flagging this! 

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On this week's show, a 2004/05 fly-on-the-wall documentary about former Sheffield United manager Neil Warnock. 

Listen in to a (sweary) episode to learn more of the man, and why in these dark and turbulent times, he represents the best of British swearing. 

Also: Seamas models socks, Jeff Winter models naked, Gavin backs the right side of the Kanye/Taylor Swift divide, and we meet Seamus O'Reilly....porn star.

In 2013, Neymar and his father wrote a baffling book called CONVERSATIONS WITH MY FATHER. 5 years on, it gets the Reducer treatment.