Football Fives Podcast

With quizzes in our Football Fives DNA™ and lockdown ongoing, it was inevitable that one of us would subject the others to another of our inexplicably popular pub quiz episodes. On this occasion it's Ryan Keaney in the quizmaster's chair and he uses an app(!) instead of the usual manual nonsense. So, no chaos to be expected then...Steven Chicken joins Chris Nee, David Hartrick and Daniel Storey for his first ever Football Fives quiz and he wasn't the only one. Graham Sibley of The Sound Of Football and The Finnish Football Show's Rich Nelson are here to spice up your life.So crack open a beer, get some popcorn on the go and enjoy yet another Football Fives quiz episode, for some reason.Submit a question:show[at]footballfivespodcast.comListen to the show:Click to play / right-click to download (MP3)Import to podcatcher of choice (feed)Subscribe in Apple Podcasts // Subscribe in Stitcher

The Football Fives team is back in action and this new episode of our sporadically released podcast is one of our bafflingly popular five-a-side teams. Typically we'll pick a country or a league from which to select the ultimate five-a-side team. This time around we're doing it differently.David Hartrick, Steven Chicken, Ryan Keaney and Chris Nee have each chosen five players from the two Milan clubs - AC Milan and Internazionale - and go toe to toe as they argue for the inclusion of their selections in the final five. Fun, eh?So kick your shoes off, put your feet up, get a beer on the go and join us as we bicker about football. What could be finer?Submit a question:show[at]footballfivespodcast.comListen to the show:Click to play / right-click to download (MP3)Import to podcatcher of choice (feed)Subscribe in Apple Podcasts // Subscribe in Stitcher

Welcome back to the sporadically populated world of the Football Fives podcast, where our erstwhile panel congregates to pick apart five of football's brightest burning topics. We're fast approaching our 150th episode - we're coming for you, 2037! - and to keep things ticking over we've recruited a fifth team member.Yes, Episode 138 marks the debut of Steven Chicken, the newest member of the podcast, and he's joined by Chris Nee, David Hartrick and Ryan Keaney to tackle five footballing questions that begin with our favourite moments from the past year or so and end with a look ahead to Harry Kane's EURO 2020 prospects.In between those two pod-ends we talk about the Carabao Cup and the tactical impact of the short goal kick. Is it the game changer it was said to be, or a mere lubricant for the teams who like to play that way anyway?Submit a question:show[at]footballfivespodcast.comListen to the show:Click to play / right-click to download (MP3)Import to podcatcher of choice (feed)Subscribe in Apple Podcasts // Subscribe in Stitcher

All hail the mighty Meatball! Oh, hello. This is the Football Fives Podcast calling. We're back, in a manner of speaking. The weekly podcast is a thing of the podpast - you already know that, right? - but in the spirit of avant-garde pod publishing we are going to keep going and adhere to no structure whatsoever. Hurrah!This week's episode was supposed to be a round-up of listener questions. Thank you for sending those in. We haven't used them. Ryan Keaney hijacked this comeback and turned it into an entirely unexpected (seriously) PUB QUIZ! episode in which Daniel Storey, David Hartrick and Chris Nee merely attempt to retain their dignity. Mission not accomplished.Some pod-sonal news: we've signed Steven Chicken as well. You know, Football FIVES and that. He's not on this one. Welcome aboard, Stevie Chicks.Submit a question:show[at]footballfivespodcast.comListen to the show:Click to play / right-click to download (MP3)Import to podcatcher of choice (feed)Subscribe in Apple Podcasts // Subscribe in Stitcher

Hello. Here is the latest episode of the Football Fives Podcast, in which our assembled panel rattle their way through five of the most pressing questions in the world of football. We're without Daniel Storey this week, so it's a three-hander - and, topic-wise, anything goes.Ryan Keaney is in the host's chair and spends 55 minutes trying to keep control of David Hartrick and Chris Nee. Our first two questions focus on the wrong end of the Premier League, putting Fulham in the spotlight next to former Southampton manager Mark Hughes. We also talk about abuse of referees and mythical tournaments of the future.Finally, we welcome Sol Campbell to the world of Football League management. Macclesfield Town have hired the outspoken advocate of black managers and plunged him into a battle for their league status. Has Campbell taken on an impossible job?Submit a question:show[at]footballfivespodcast.comListen to the show:Click to play / right-click to download (MP3)Import to podcatcher of choice (feed)Subscribe in Apple Podcasts // Subscribe in Stitcher

After last week's stuttering return to action - sorry about that, something went wrong with the Wordpress upload and we had to repost the audio - this week's Football Fives Podcast is the one in which we truly get back to how things should be. Even Daniel Storey joins us in this episode, if you can imagine such a thing.Better yet...it's a pub quiz! Yes, this bafflingly popular F5 format has been tapped once more for 55 minutes of chaos, moaning and quizzy questions. Chris Nee's in charge this time and Daniel competes against Ryan Keaney and David Hartrick for podcast bragging rights and a Mini Metro.So buckle up for five rounds of football trivia, a few giggles and a surprising amount of bad language from almost the very beginning. Parental discretion iz advised.Submit a question:show[at]footballfivespodcast.comListen to the show:Click to play / right-click to download (MP3)Import to podcatcher of choice (feed)Subscribe in Apple Podcasts // Subscribe in Stitcher

Alright? Been a while, hasn't it? Sorry about that. We've had a quiet few months and have never really explained it to our bafflingly loyal subscribers, and that's because there's really not much to explain. We're still going. We've been rubbish at getting the podcast together. We're going nowhere in every sense of the phrase.Yes, the Football Fives Podcast is still alive. This week we're without Daniel Storey, who's living the life in Italia now he's the hottest property in the freelance football writing world. So it's down to David Hartrick, Ryan Keaney and Chris Nee to tackle this week's subject which is, obviously, what we've missed so far this season.We discuss the teams and players that have caught our eye, rattle through an update on how each of our teams is performing so far, and ask whether the dawn of Eleven Sports (and related matters) has affected the way we consume football.Submit a question:show[at]footballfivespodcast.comListen to the show:Click to play / right-click to download (MP3)Import to podcatcher of choice (feed)Subscribe in Apple Podcasts // Subscribe in Stitcher

My word. My. Word. What a World Cup that was! Here at the Football Fives podcast we like to look back on major international tournaments, what with them being the pinnacle of the sport and that, and when a new tournament's happened we just dive right in straight away. This is the F5 World Cup 2018 retrospective episode!Daniel Storey, David Hartrick, Ryan Keaney and Chris Nee are back together to revisit a competition that seemed to capture a whole load of imaginations. We begin with an assessment of England's performance in Russia, and then rattle through a ton of highlights: our favourite goals, favourite games and memories we just ay gon' shake.And, as is customary, we'll ask whether the right team won the competition. Did France, under Didier Deschamps, truly deserve to take home that wonderful trophy? Is Deschamps a fitting third member of the exclusive player-and-manager champion club? Or was there some other side who deserved it more?Submit a question:show[at]footballfivespodcast.comListen to the show:Click to play / right-click to download (MP3)Import to podcatcher of choice (feed)Subscribe in iTunes // Subscribe in Stitcher

It's the World Cup tomorrow! It's the World Cup tomorrow! It's the World Cup tomorrow! It's the World Cup tomorrow! It's the World Cup tomorrow! It's the World Cup tomorrow! It's the World Cup tomorrow! It's the World Cup tomorrow! It's the World Cup tomorrow! It's the World Cup tomorrow! It's the World Cup tomorrow!Oh, right. Podcast. Yes, it's the second half of the Football Fives World Cup 2018 preview, covering five key questions about the teams that make up the second half of the draw. We've made a substitution for this rattle through Groups E to H - Chris Nee returns to replace Daniel Storey because, apparently, it's a busy time to be a football writer.Chris joins David Hartrick and Ryan Keaney to talk about Brazil's psychological steel, Germany's complacency or otherwise, Belgium being Belgium, England's prospects and the rather wonderful prospect of six Group H matches for the ages.Submit a question:show[at]footballfivespodcast.comListen to the show:Click to play / right-click to download (MP3)Import to podcatcher of choice (feed)Subscribe in iTunes // Subscribe in Stitcher

The World Cup starts next week. You might have heard about it. After a few weeks of unexpected absence we're back to show off just how excited we are about the flagship event of our sport. We're down to three because Chris Nee only talks about England now and England don't play a part in this week's Football Fives Podcast.That's because this is the first half of our World Cup preview. Daniel Storey, David Hartrick and Ryan Keaney discuss Groups A to D by way of a question about each one, and round off the show by asking whether the tournament winners will come from this half of the draw.So, if you're wondering who qualifies with France, how bad Russia could be, whether Argentina will slip up and whether Spain and Portugal can be prevented from getting through, look no further. We'll be back next week with part two.Submit a question:show[at]footballfivespodcast.comListen to the show:Click to play / right-click to download (MP3)Import to podcatcher of choice (feed)Subscribe in iTunes // Subscribe in Stitcher

The showpiece showcase showdown between Real Madrid and Liverpool is fast approaching and it's an intriguing conclusion to a UEFA Champions League season that's thrown up a few surprises and a handful of memorable matches. Now we're at the business end, we couldn't resist; this week's Football Fives Podcast is all about the continent's elite competition.Daniel Storey was probably doing someone else's podcast so it's down to David Hartrick, Ryan Keaney and Chris Nee to put the spotlight on the latter stages. We ask whether the Champions League final could or should be played outside Europe, whether the Group Stage is anything more than a procession and whether Liverpool and Roma have blown open the doors.And we look forward to this year's final - complete with some likely wayward predictions - and back to our favourite finals of all. We'll just assume Dan's would have been rather close to home...Submit a question:show[at]footballfivespodcast.comListen to the show:Click to play / right-click to download (MP3)Import to podcatcher of choice (feed)Subscribe in iTunes // Subscribe in Stitcher

Shahid Khan's bid to buy Wembley from the Football Association - its spiritual and current owner, if not its traditional one - has put the national stadium at the heart of the conversation about the soul of English football. In this week's Football Fives Podcast we dedicate our unnecessarily rigid five-question format to the old place.It's a full house as Daniel Storey, David Hartrick, Ryan Keaney and Chris Nee delve into the life and times of Wembleys original and rebuilt, discussing our personal perspectives on the stadium, our favourite ever Wembley memories and the statues that aren't outside the ground but bloody well should be.And, of course, we talk about the sale. Should the FA take the money and run? Is it a good deal? Should the England team vacate the premises rather than become a tenant in their own home? You'll have to listen to find out. So go on. Listen. Seriously.Submit a question:show[at]footballfivespodcast.comListen to the show:Click to play / right-click to download (MP3)Import to podcatcher of choice (feed)Subscribe in iTunes // Subscribe in Stitcher

Every now and then we like to get up close and personal with just one player, subjecting him to our inflexible five-question format and putting him in the spotlight. This is one of those shows - this week's Football Fives Podcast is a career retrospective and the man in question is the inimitable Roberto Baggio.Baggio is a larger than life figure for British followers of Italian football in the 1990s but he came through in the mid-1980s and embarked upon a career that would create history. Daniel Storey, David Hartrick, Ryan Keaney and Chris Nee begin this week's episode by asking whether that's a career of which we're jealous.We debate the characteristics that made Baggio so loved, relive his best goals, try in vain to establish whether he'd be a superstar in modern football. Our closing question this week is an indulgent one for those British Serie A fans: would Football Italia have been as successful as it was without that Divine Ponytail to look at?Submit a question:show[at]footballfivespodcast.comListen to the show:Click to play / right-click to download (MP3)Import to podcatcher of choice (feed)Subscribe in iTunes // Subscribe in Stitcher

Phew! Manchester City have finally won the Premier League title. What took them so damned long, eh? Luckily, the Football Fives Podcast gang is on hand to run the rule over their extraordinary tardiness. It's gone Easter, for Christ's sake. Embarrassing.We're a three-piece this week. Chris Nee had to go and cause some trouble at a derby match so it's left to David Hartrick, Daniel Storey and Ryan Keaney to talk City's triumph, mull over the bizarre phenomenon of the PFA awards, discuss football documentaries and name the best footballing time of the year. (It's Christmas.)There's also a dip back into our hands-off running of the fictional club we made up once as we talk about our marquee summer signings. Will we snatch Mohamed Salah? Snare Cristiano Ronaldo? Rescue Leonardo Bonucci and Giorgio Chiellini from their parted hell, reuniting them in our fantastical version of Berlin? There's only one way to find out...Submit a question:show[at]footballfivespodcast.comListen to the show:Click to play / right-click to download (MP3)Import to podcatcher of choice (feed)Subscribe in iTunes // Subscribe in Stitcher

We're a bit distracted by the World Cup. With only a few more months to wait, with sticker albums out, with that Germany away kit revealed, who could blame us? So, in this week's Football Fives Podcast, we're getting even further ahead of ourselves by talking about World Cup finals. Finals. The final game. Not finals.You know what we mean. Anyway... Daniel Storey, David Hartrick, Ryan Keaney and Chris Nee are together once more to talk about the pinnacle of our sport, including the old-timey finals that most intrigue us, our favourite final goals and a few stories about the men who went out on the pitch and made it happen.We also talk about the likelihood or otherwise of another World Cup final hat-trick and make what is likely to prove a pretty terrible attempt at predicting which two teams will appear in the final of FIFA™ World Cup™ 2018™ Russia™ this summer.Submit a question:show[at]footballfivespodcast.comListen to the show:Click to play / right-click to download (MP3)Import to podcatcher of choice (feed)Subscribe in iTunes // Subscribe in Stitcher

This week's Football Fives Podcast is a little bit different. It's a quiz episode, which isn't unusual in its own right, but Daniel Storey's work-related absence means we've got a straight-up head-to-head between two blokes who like talking about football but may or may not know sod all about it. David Hartrick and his new book are in the quizmaster's chair.Chris Nee (ENG) is a retainer of useless memories from football in the 1990s, a solid quizzer on the subjects of Aston Villa and Olof Mellberg, and a fierce competitor who'll settle for second but never third. NEVER third. Not this time, anyway.Ryan Keaney (NIR) is a finger-on-the-pulse enthusiast who knows what's going on in the football world around him, remembers vital matters about the sport's biggest historical moments and understands the importance of an analytical approach to quizzing. So, who'll come out on top?Submit a question:show[at]footballfivespodcast.comListen to the show:Click to play / right-click to download (MP3)Import to podcatcher of choice (feed)Subscribe in iTunes // Subscribe in Stitcher

Here at the Football Fives Podcast we love nothing more than fixing football. This week, we've dedicated our entire show to it. Instead of the usual five questions, each member of the panel has five opportunities to change one of the laws of the game or a detail within. Fun, eh?We're without Daniel Storey this week because of real work - whatever that is - so it's a three-hander starring this week's host, David Hartrick, along with Ryan Keaney and Chris Nee. We change five rules each, and throw in a bunch of listener suggestions for good measure. Five substitutes anyone?We talk about effective playing time, orange cards, penalties, offside, handball, head injuries, sin bins, transfer windows and many, many more topics that make the beautiful game beautiful. Would we change some of these? Sure. Would we change football fundamentally? Not a chance.Submit a question:show[at]footballfivespodcast.comListen to the show:Click to play / right-click to download (MP3)Import to podcatcher of choice (feed)Subscribe in iTunes // Subscribe in Stitcher

We find a certain joy in recording some of our podcasts without a plan. It means you get our unfiltered opinions, you get us at our fastest thinking and let's be honest - we are at our best *looks to camera*. It has nothing to do with 2018 being manic so far, and all of us needing to keep things relatively easy preparation wise.This week is another blind episode and another chance for us to delve into David Hartrick's bag of football teams. We pick out another side to get the Football Fives Podcast run down and having previously pulled Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur out, we figured that law of averages would see us head down the road less travelled for our third attempt.And so, of course we ended up with West Ham United - who have definitely shied away from the headlines in the last few days and months. Lovely. Join Dave, Daniel Storey and Ryan Keaney as we talk about the current state of the club, our favourite current and past players, what personal connection we all feel for the Hammers and how we see the next three years going for them.Submit a question:show[at]footballfivespodcast.comListen to the show:Click to play / right-click to download (MP3)Import to podcatcher of choice (feed)Subscribe in iTunes // Subscribe in Stitcher

If your jam is listening to four amateur audio talkers judging countless professional audio talkers, this is the Football Fives Podcast for you. We're stepping away from the field of play this week and dipping into another aspect of football culture. Our topic for this episode, upon which we tackle the customary five questions, is the peerless BBC Radio 5 Live.Daniel Storey takes the Mark Chapman role and guides David Hartrick, Ryan Keaney, Ryan Keaney's tea and Chris Nee through those questions, which begin with a discussion about the legendary phone-in show, 606, and end with a few ideas for the shows we should be commissioned to make for the station.In between, we touch on the joys of radio football commentary, ask whether there should be more - yes, more - football on 5 Live, and identify the queen or king of the station's football output. There's some nattering about talkSPORT as well, but don't hold that agin us.Submit a question:show[at]footballfivespodcast.comListen to the show:Click to play / right-click to download (MP3)Import to podcatcher of choice (feed)Subscribe in iTunes // Subscribe in Stitcher

Welcome to the latest episode of the Football Fives Podcast. This week we're without Daniel Storey, who presumably was out on some kind of press tour to promote The Totally Football Show, so it was left to the three remaining panelists to embark upon on of our very favourite Fives formats: the tournament retrospective. Yes!Over the years we've mentioned far too many times that the FIFA World Cup closest to one's birthday is the one against which other tournaments are compared. For Ryan Keaney and Chris Nee, that tournament was USA '94, and in this week's episode we finally get around to talking about it through a mist of nostalgia. David Hartrick completes the line-up to take the edge off the giddiness.So, World Cup USA '94. Romario and Bebeto. Bulgaria and Stoichkov. Salenko. Romania and Hagi. Even El Diego made an appearance! Join us, then, as we relive the most attended World Cup in history with childlike excitement.Submit a question:show[at]footballfivespodcast.comListen to the show:Click to play / right-click to download (MP3)Import to podcatcher of choice (feed)Subscribe in iTunes // Subscribe in Stitcher

We're not late. You're late. Or you're early. Or we're early. Or something. Either way, this is last week's podcast this week. Later this week you'll get this week's podcast this week. Clear? Good. This is what trying new things and then contracting the lurgy will do for your podcast, folks. Think on. Anyway, Episode 120 is an 'anything goes' show, so let's go.We're sans Keaney this week so it's David Hartrick, Daniel Storey and Chris Nee who begin by discussing the Premier League's new proposal for a staggered winter break. Is it needed? Is it a good compromise? Or are we all just so distracted by football that we can't go two weeks without something tasty to watch?There's also a chat about Wolverhampton Wanderers and their recruitment strategy, some aimless speculation about big transfers of the future, a debate about the longevity of Jose Mourinho's prospects at Manchester United and a not-for-nothing run-down of our favourite ever Dutch international goals.Submit a question:show[at]footballfivespodcast.comListen to the show:Click to play / right-click to download (MP3)Import to podcatcher of choice (feed)Subscribe in iTunes // Subscribe in Stitcher

It's not always endearing to rattle through a podcast without any preparation but sometimes it can keep old hands like us on our toes. Every now and then, the Football Fives Podcast likes to tackle a 'blind' episode, by which we mean an episode in which only one or none of us knows what's on the agenda.This week, we're taking on an unnamed football club and answering five questions thereupon. David Hartrick is the man in charge of the hat, and, in Daniel Storey's deadline day absence, Ryan Keaney and Chris Nee follow up our previous selection of Tottenham Hotspur by randomly selecting a club to discuss. Naturally, we want to avoid the headlines and get under the skin of something original.That'll be Manchester City, then. Still, the hat never lies so we muddle through with what knowledge we can scrape together about our favourite City players past and present, our own relationship to and opinion of the club, their progress this season - LOLZ - and where we see them going in the next three years.Submit a question:show[at]footballfivespodcast.comListen to the show:Click to play / right-click to download (MP3)Import to podcatcher of choice (feed)Subscribe in iTunes // Subscribe in Stitcher

After last week's frivolity, the Football Fives is back to the serious stuff in this latest episode. There's a lot going on off the pitch at the moment, so we take the opportunity to sink our teeth into the topics that are dominating the football agenda, only without ever really talking about them. Same Football Fives, different day.David Hartrick hosts as Daniel Storey, Ryan Keaney and Chris Nee navigate the choppy waters of soccerdom. We ask whether young players' pre-professional transgressions on social media should be bannable by the Football Association, and also discuss - again - whether the FA itself is to be considered unfit for purpose.There's a chat about the poisonous effect of Twitter replies on football supporter culture, as well as a run-down of our favourite transfer swap deals and a brief look ahead to the FA Cup Fourth Round clashes that we're expecting to catch our eye.Submit a question:show[at]footballfivespodcast.comListen to the show:Click to play / right-click to download (MP3)Import to podcatcher of choice (feed)Subscribe in iTunes // Subscribe in Stitcher

With apologies for a short break, enforced by catastrophic technical problems last week, we're back with a new episode of the Football Fives Podcast. Eager listeners will have noticed that the show we attempted to put out last time - in fact, the show we fully recorded and then couldn't use - was supposed to be one of our inexplicably popular pub quizzes.Still, one can't dwell on such things. So we keep on rolling this week with an in-depth analysis of the ins and outs of the National League's stringent financial requirements, picking our way through five of the criteria participating teams must meet before being granted entry into the competition in time for next season.(Only joking. It's a quiz.)Submit a question:show[at]footballfivespodcast.comListen to the show:Click to play / right-click to download (MP3)Import to podcatcher of choice (feed)Subscribe in iTunes // Subscribe in Stitcher

It's a new year and a World Cup year, so what better way to kick off our podcasting proceedings with a look back at a competition from the past. Every now and then we put together a tournament retrospective episode and, this week, we present our distant take on FIFA World Cup 2006. Seems like yesterday, doesn't it?Italy took the famous trophy home from Germany after defeating the hosts in a dramatic semi-final and seeing off a fine French side in the final showpiece. In this Football Fives special Daniel Storey, David Hartrick, Ryan Keaney and Chris Nee ask whether the right team won, as well as analysing England's performance in their quarter-final run.We reveal our favourite goals and our favourite matches, and we pick apart the competition's most memorable moments and characteristics. So sit back, stick yo' buds in, and relive the last tournament to not be destroyed by social media.Submit a question:show[at]footballfivespodcast.comListen to the show:Click to play / right-click to download (MP3)Import to podcatcher of choice (feed)Subscribe in iTunes // Subscribe in Stitcher