Winsome, Lose Some Football Podcast

Orit and Luke flick the imaginary calendar featuring the new boys (middle aged managers) in the 26/27 Premier League Season, grade their performances so far and get a bit judgey about their self-presentations.

ALSO, hot updates on Dulwich Hamlets FA Cup onslaught, winsome wonders about blinking and high finance, and the latest "Nallo News" from the Finnish Veikkausliiga. Pull up!

International Rupture >

Luke and Orit not watching the weekend's ungames, instead explore the forces shaping football beyond the pitch, beginning with Manchester City’s financial soup, and the long road toward a verdict. What really is it, this cheating? Sergio Ramos breaking Mohamed Salah in half in the CLF. Or funky accounting? Who's to say? These two fans.

Then at pretty much 19:42, Ireland’s match against Israel and political footballing. Orit shares her perspective as someone born and raised in Israel who left as a teenager, and makes a rare voyage into Israeli media coverage of the crisis, and indeed the ungame. Luke gets weepy over Big Gavin and the Dunnes Stores strikers, but cuts the weepiest bits of that out.

So that's

00:00 - 19:41: Money Laundering in Art v Football, Man City Hot Soup
19:41 - 42:39: #ISRIRL

Who benefits from intense footballing rivalries?

Why Capital of course.

Orit Gat and Luke Clancy wander through the week's football matches and meanings, including how to weigh the politics of supporting Arsenal Women's team, playing against Israel, and watching Disney; also, the entirely not unrelated question of whether the dockers' derby is a thinly veiled assault on solidarity. Plus performing masculinity on and off the pitch, and the god-like genius, on and off the pitch, of London City Lionesses' Alexia and her YouTube channel.

Football, like life, is full of wins that look like losses, losses that feel like wins, and draws that somehow change everything. Luke and Orit break down the strange math of football, referee psychology, the poetry of the draw, and how confidence droughts might spread from one striker to an entire team. Also, are Spurs playing with supernatural forces?

"Perfect for anyone who loves the game but suspects the scoreboard is only telling half the story" says our AI cheerleader.

A football podcast for art fans with Orit Gat and Luke Clancy.

First off, the name, then what did you see, then what Patrick Radden Keefe might tell you about the Premier League, and the tyranny of geometry