Owing to a Danny Dyer-caused existential crisis (and a scheduling conflict) we couldn't do a regular episode this week, but listen in for some of our favourite moments thus far, including 

- United Passions' portrayal of the racist English 
- The true story behind FIFA's control of United Passions
- Ken Early's look at the political bedrock of Steve Bruce's novels
- The deadeningly dull origin story of Denis Wise
- THAT chapter in Lovejoy on Football
- Some impRODGE
- Cinnamon Stick

We are LIVE at the sugar club on June 20th with Emmet Kirwan. Details and tickets here - https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/david-conn-eoin-mcdevitt-fifahillsboroughfinance-the-reducer-podcast-review-fifa-united-passions-tickets-46192125892

Get in touch - @TheReducerPod, or @gcooney93 and @shockproofbeats.

Football 365's Steven Chicken joins Gav and Seamas to discuss the not-nearly-as-good-as-you-remember-it, Renford Rejects. 

We also deconstruct a few Irish Catholic mores, if that's more your style of thing. 

Get in touch: @TheReducerPod, @gcooney93, @shockproofbeats and @StevenChicken. 

Football hooligan laureate Greg Spring is back again this week to join Gav and Seamas to wade through the curious effluent that is Green Street 2. 

Listen in to a discussion on a deeply banal, cliched movie which still manages to surprise us with one thing we've never seen before: a prisoner being arrested in prison.

Thanks to everyone thus far for listening, subscribing and spreading the word. We've climbed to the top 4 of the iTunes chart and have successfully annoyed Tim Lovejoy. 

We are also delighted to announce our first live event. We're the warm up act for an interview with FIFA-busting journalist David Conn, so we'll be doing a very special on-stage look at UNITED PASSIONS. It's on June 20th (during Spain/Iran) at the Sugar Club in Dublin. For more details, see our social channels or search 'Con Artist' - they are organising the event. 

Get in touch: @gcooney93, @shockproofbeats and @TheReducerPod. 

WE LOVE YOU. 

It's a very special episode this week, as Seamas O'Reilly provides a dramatic reading of the twitter thread sweeping the world: Ending Up Alone In A Room With My Boss And The President of Ireland While I Was On Ketamine. (5.50-15.50)

Elsewhere, normal service is resumed as we take a smug scalpel to the Netflix soccer drama, 21 THUNDER. 

Get in touch with your topics, comments and tales of tripping with heads of state: @TheReducePod. Also, find some more amazing threads and witty asides @shockproofbeats and, er, Gavin does twitter too: @gcooney93. 

Please tell your friends that we exist. 

We love you. 

Today's topic is the amazing fly-on-the-wall documentary, LEYTON ORIENT: TEAM FOR A FIVER. 

Friendly warning - There's lots of swearing. If you'd like to complain about this or any other element of the show or its hosts - tweet @TheReducerPod, @gcooney93 or @shockproofbeats

We're back after an illness-enforced hiatus. And having focused on the dire, we're finally looking at the Dyer. (Danny, not Kieron, Nathan or Eric). 

MEAN MACHINE is this week's topic, a film which robbed its concept from The Longest Yard and most of its cast and production staff from Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels. 

Get in touch - @gcooney93, @shockproofbeats and @TheReducerPod

We're back with another show packed with football songs, ranging from the good to the ugly (they are rarely just bad). 

Listen in for a double helping of crooning from Kevin Keegan, a weird Man United Calypso song from the '50s, the hip-hop efforts of Andy Cole and Ryan Babel, along with heaps more. 

Oh, and Cinnamon Stick is back. 

Get in touch everybody - @thereducerpod, @gcooney93 and @shockproofbeats. 

Make sure to submit your ImpRODGE scenario suggestions...it's coming next week. 

Being (pointless colon) Liverpool is this week's topic, and such is the yawning and deadening breadth of this six-part glitzy PR-on-the-wall documentary, we've drafted in The Guardian's Sachin Nakrani to help us trundle along through it. 

We talk about a few things about the documentary, but the focus is on its undoubted star, Facebook-meme-shared-by-your-aunt-cum-manager BRENDAN RODGERS, who inflates to fill and dominate this documentary like a weather balloon. 

Prepare to have your teeth ground to dust as Rodgers introduces his family to the camera, and bewildered by his team talks and motivational shtick. 

Also, we're excited to announce a new slot entitled IMPRODGE, where Seamas O'Reilly plays Brendan Rodgers in a number of real-world scenarios. We've suggested the first couple, but get in touch with your own by logging onto iTunes and suggesting a real-world scenario in which you'd like to see Brendan in the review section. (Crafty, we know).

Otherwise, get in touch - @TheReducer Pod or alternatively: @gcooney93, @shockproofbeats and @SachinNakrani. 

Robert Duvall with a Scottish accent! Ally McCoist acting! Michael Keaton as a millionaire Yank considering movomg a second-tier Scottish club to Ireland!

What could go wrong?

Gavin and Séamas discuss

Gavin, Seamás and Greg delve into non-fiction for the first time to discuss the highs and lows of the footballer autobiography genre. Dennis Wise's appalling 1999 autobiography and Joey Barton's book 'No Nonsense' are examined in depth.