Twohundredpercent

This week's Twohundredpercent Podcast has lofty ideals, as Edward and Ian tackle the thorny and ever-present subject of loss.

We discover the reason why any loss by a big team is now greeted by pant wetting on a national and international scale, and fire a stinging riposte to any pearl clutching ninnies whose innocence has been so badly abused by Norwich City's failure to win a game so far this season that they believe they ought to be expelled from the league. 

Your heroes also finally address the poignant question: were things better in the olden days? (They are not). Are things, therefore, better now? (They are also not). Nevertheless, Ian defends the right of modern football to be like it is, even in the face of grumbling old bastards like the pair of us, who go as far as to share some booing tips designed to keep your mental well-being on an even keel. 

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This week's Twohundredpercent Podcast (sponsored by Smithy's Kaff) is all about identifying problems and finding solutions.

After a week where the Premier League's top three teams absolutely battered anything put in front of them, your heroes are keen to work out if this kind of competitive gulf is here to stay.

If so, what is the answer? A Brentford-style, statistics-led "Moneyball" approach? A return to long ball tactics? Or the wilful neglect of all the technological trappings of the modern game until every playing surface is a midden? Our conclusions may or may not surprise you, particularly if you happen to be Paul Scholes.

There's also news of Edward's visit to the West Country for a society wedding and Ian - who had been laid up all weekend with a stinking cold - offers some dialectical advice for those forced to deal with anti-vax campaigners.

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This week's Twohundredpercent Podcast walks the fine line between moral outrage and slapstick comedy like never before. However, for once it is neither Ian nor Edward's fault, they are merely playing with the hands that footballing fate has dealt them. 

There are some serious ponderings on Newcastle United's new Faustian takeover agreement, as well as Manchester United's wanton disregard for both their sporting legacy and their carbon footprint. 

Your heroes also delve into Paul Merson's affecting BBC documentary about the secret shame of football's gambling problem, complete with some valuable personal insight from Ian, formerly the manager of a bookmaker's shop in London Colney. 

Luckily, there is some light relief from all of this furrowing of the brow, thanks to legendary Northern Irish team Glentoran's goalkeeper punching his own centre half. Ah football. We knew there was a reason we keep coming back. 

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This week's Twohundredpercent Podcast is a Listeners' Questions special, with the entire agenda set by a bumper crop of queries sent in by you. Naturally, these ended up with Edward and Ian learning more about themselves and each other than ever before, but in between the discoveries there is also plenty of football chat.

Ian holds forth on the efficacy of the Pozzo brothers' approach to running Watford FC, as well as the prospect of a populist fan-led uprising changing British football forever and for the better.

Edward, meanwhile, is very keen that no-one notices how good a job Graham Potter is doing at Brighton & Hove Albion, having seen this movie before and knowing what inevitably happens next.

There's also significant consideration of onions, high winds and post-apocalyptic survivalism, all of which time and again brought us back to a similar conclusion about our current favourite Premier League football manager.

If you'd like to submit a question for us to percolate on for the next edition, you can find us on Twitter @twoht or @200percentpod, or email us: twohundredpercentpodcast at gmail dot com.

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On this week's Twohundredpercent Podcast, Edward and Ian - two weary, middle-aged old duffers - met during a torrential rainstorm that at times sounded like being inside a car wash in order to harvest their ripest takes about a sport that has long since stopped caring what they think. 

On the slate was the embarrassing Tottenham performance in last weekend's North London Derby which has cast serious doubt over both Nuno Espirito Santo's future at the club and also the number of follicles on the top of his head. Your heroes also cast a critical and heartily unapologetic eye on the latest thing to infest professional soccer, players issuing public apologies for mistakes they have made. On the field of play, at least. 

All this, plus! Three new Jamie Vardy facts that leave at least one of our panel distinctly underwhelmed, a disagreement about who Rastamouse supports and some fond reminiscences of terrible, awful football matches that we went to in the bad old days. 

If you would like to see the highlights of this week's Match of the Week - which was neither terrible nor awful - you can find them here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wVectMaEDY. 

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It's a(nother) bumper seaside special edition of the Twohundredpercent Podcast this week, as Edward and Ian return from the international break more fed up with everything than ever. 

Casual fans of Manchester United and people who vote Conservative should probably give this one a miss, as two weary old Trots do their best to pick through what's going on at Oldham Athletic, try to establish the numerically sustainable level of British football clubs and bitterly critique the BBC's new Premier League documentary series. 

But there's also hope for the future: Edward comes up with an embargo-busting solution that works for everyone and somehow doesn't suck, we celebrate animals getting onto the field of play and come out as strong proponents of football players being high on recreational drugs at all times. 

Ian even finds time to commission an epoch-making television series, perhaps not that much of a surprise when you eventually find out that this episode is easily half an hour too long, for which we can only apologise (but don't). 

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On this week’s all-thriller Twohundredpercent Podcast, Edward and Ian are thankfully joined by special guest Sam Whyte, who is artfully able to take both of your regular heroes – who had both been on the pop – by the hand through their weekly discussion of all things football. And what a week it’s been. Edward, Ian and Sam look on with grim faces at Manchester United’s signing of Cristiano Ronaldo, which is both inexpicable and wrong whichever angle one chooses to look at it.

Arsenal’s recent travails are also revisited, with Sam revealing they’ve now made it onto her Critically Endangered list of the eight clubs who cannot possibly avoid relegation this season and Ian still lost in admiration of Nuno Espirito Santo’s beard. We also remember Wigan Athletic’s very own Keith the duck – whose death this week caused shockwaves across the region – as well as Speckles the chicken, a much less-heralded but equally dead bird from north-west England who met with an igniminious fate.

Match of the Week sees more fond reminiscence, as your panel of experts pine for the golden era of the FA Cup: inflatables, haddocks and pitches like ploughed fields aplenty, as Terry Phelan scores a worldy to break Grimsby hearts.

You can find Sam Whyte on Twitter @SamWhyte, while we are as ever @twoht and @200percentpod. If you’d like to watch our Match of the Week, you can find it here.

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This week's Twohundredpercent Podcast sees your heroes turn their gimlet eye onto two stories from the Football League.

The first is a horror story, that of Nottingham Forest and their dismal start to the season under Chris Hughton. We explore key issues such as: who is responsible for editing his Wikipedia page? Are monkeys in suits any match for modern football data analysts? And are all these questions moot, when the prophecised Chosen One is consolidating his power right now in Sherwood Forest, waiting to scatter his magic beans and lead Forest back to domestic and European glory?

The second story is far more redemptive, as Edward and Ian celebrate Rochdale AFC's seeming deliverance from yet another murky takeover attempt in the EFL.

There's also news of Sean Dyche, a monstrous road junction in Chesterfield and some more potential solutions to the thorny issue of male pattern baldness; as well as action from the 1989 Full Members Cup, if anyone cared.

If you'd like to get in touch with us, to suggest a future Match of the Week or pose a listener question, you can find us on Twitter @twoht or @200percentpod, or email twohundredpercentpodcast at gmail dot com. If you'd like to bask in this episode's Match of the Week, you can find it here.

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This week's Twohundredpercent Podcast is (probably) the only place that you'll get to both hear Sean Dyche talking backwards and admiration for Ron Atkinson's leather jacket. And that's just for starters, because Edward and Ian had all sorts of shit to unpack, what with it having just been the opening weekend of the Premier League season. Amongst their discoveries is that Pep Guardiola is (still) bald, Japhet Tanganga is now one of our own (if you support Spurs) and it's never not going to be too soon to make any jokes about Matt Busby.

Ian imagines an alternative universe in which Manchester United are only as good as Sheffield Wednesday, Edward reveals which bird Paul Pogba looks like this week and Arsenal's collective buttocks receive a traditional garnish. Meanwhile, as VAR enters its rebellious and nihilistic teenage years, your heroes also answer more listeners' questions, helpfully establishing Harry Kane's exact cash value and helping to doom a number of previously distinguished top flight clubs to the most igniminious relegation of all. If you'd like to ask a question of your own (or suggest a future Match of the Week) you can find us on Twitter: @twoht and @200percentpod, or you can email us at [email protected].

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Association Football returns as the mainstay of the Twohundredpercent podcast from this week and it is like Edward and Ian have never been away. Except for the fact that FC Barcelona have run out of money and been forced to let Lionel Messi run away and join the circus. 

There's also news from Derby County (a club in crisis to a lesser extent, but try telling that to Wayne Rooney), FA Cup Quarter Final action (from 1982), listener questions and praise for the awesome natural power of rhizomes. 

It's the podcast that finally dares to lay bare the intricacies of The Banks-Shilton-Wallington Contiuum, a rolling set of transfer moves that kept East Midlands football clubs in goalkeepers for more than 20 years. 

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