Pro Revolution Soccer

Tom is joined by senior lecturer in sports business and politics at the University Campus of Football Business, Doctor David Webber, to discuss the spending rules that Manchester City have brazenly flouted, plus Juliet Jacques returns to give us her take on the whole sordid tale.

Sam Kelly- host of the Red Medicine podcast and socialist City fan- joins to try to make sense of the news and formulate a response through a left lens.

You can find Sam's stuff here: https://www.instagram.com/medicine_red/

Here: https://redmedicine.substack.com

And here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/red-medicine/id1587752889

For no particular reason, Toms James and Williams discussed some of football’s most infamous cases of cheating, gamesmanship and shithousery. Parts of this were used in episodes of our Every Move You Make series during the World Cup, but here it is in all its glory. Brighton’s Poogate saga, Maradona’s fake penis and Carlos Bilardo’s gynaecological misconduct.

Tom W will be back next week for a proper discussion of the Man City verdicts, but until then our ‘Why don’t I hate Man City more?’ episode back in May explored the charges, the potential ramifications and suggested that the FFP/PSR/SCR rules City have been found guilty of breaking are in themselves elitists and unfair:

https://www.patreon.com/ProRevolutionSoccer/posts/why-dont-i-hate-157118129?l=it

Barrister, Riverway to the Sea co-director and Irish guy Franck Magennis gives his analysis of the Ireland-Israel Nations League saga.

Tom and Juliet are joined by the Guardian journalist and friend of the show Tom Davies, along with a debuting special guest- renowned Melody Maker, NME and Guardian music journalist, author of Fear of Music and creator of the notorious Mr Agreeable character, David Stubbs. Together they discuss Andy Burnham's favourite albums and why he's more convincing as a music lover and football than his predecessor, lament the dearth of creativity when it comes to modern terrace anthems, and talk about the links between football fandom and music in general.