The Football Ramble

There are just a few days until the summer transfer window slams shut. So what better way to build up to the big day than with a quiz devoted to all those players synonymous with that big yellow ticker?Marcus officiates as Lineal Champion Vish faces Jim today with his precious belts on the line. Come step into the ring with us!Please fill out Stak's listener survey! It'll help us learn more about the content you love so we can bring you even more - you'll also be entered into a competition to win one of five PlayStation 5's! Click here: https://bit.ly/staksurvey2025**Get 15% off annual subscriptions to the Football Ramble Patreon until the end of August! Don't delay!**Sign up for ad-free shows, bonus content every Wednesday and access to our Discord throughout the Premier League season and the 2026 World Cup for just $51 a year or $5 a month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“The penalties were long, but the memes were longer” - Vithushan EhantharajahTwo days later and poor Vish is still hurting from Man United's League Cup exit to Grimsby Town. At least Marcus and Jim were nice to him on today's pod... kind of.Elsewhere, Marcus predicts Arsenal to finally win at Anfield. Plus, we're faced with an impossible decision: Would we rather the newly unemployed José Mourinho manages West Ham or Rangers?Get 15% off annual subscriptions to our Patreon until the end of August! Sign up for ad-free shows, bonus content every Wednesday and access to our Discord for $51 a year or $5 a month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.Please fill out Stak's listener survey! It'll help us learn more about the content you love so we can bring you even more - you'll also be entered into a competition to win one of five PlayStation 5's! Click here: https://bit.ly/staksurvey2025Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Alexander Isak and Yoane Wissa have their heels well and truly dug into the ground, refusing to play for their clubs until they get a move away. But is it fair that it's now the players who hold the cards when it comes to deciding their futures, rather than the clubs who own their contract?Marcus, Luke & Vish are here to share their thoughts on that. Plus, can the Big Dick stadium replace Goodison Park's atmosphere, and is it time to bring back two up top, if only to see a few more chests called into action?Please fill out Stak's listener survey! It'll help us learn more about the content you love so we can bring you even more - you'll also be entered into a competition to win one of five PlayStation 5's! Click here: https://bit.ly/staksurvey2025**Get 15% off annual subscriptions to the Football Ramble Patreon until the end of August! Don't delay!**Sign up for ad-free shows, bonus content every Wednesday and access to our Discord throughout the Premier League season and the 2026 World Cup for just $51 a year or $5 a month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sam Allardyce, Alan Pardew, David Moyes... is there anyone left for West Ham to call?*Sean Dyche's music starts playing*Things have gone from bad to worse for Graham Potter at West Ham. Today, Marcus, Luke, Vish and Jim learn about Sean Dyche's latest ploy to put himself in the shop window. Plus, we wonder how Man United will deal with the dramatic return of Harry the Haddock.Get 15% off annual subscriptions to our Patreon until the end of August! Sign up for ad-free shows, bonus content every Wednesday and access to our Discord for $51 a year or $5 a month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.Please fill out Stak's listener survey! It'll help us learn more about the content you love so we can bring you even more - you'll also be entered into a competition to win one of five PlayStation 5's! Click here: https://bit.ly/staksurvey2025Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join Marcus and Jim as they frolic amongst the ashes of a barn burner at St James' Park. A literal child scored a 100th minute winner for Liverpool!You can tell Marcus enjoyed the game because he started making comparisons to David Beckham vs Greece. Elsewhere, he permits Jim to already celebrate Arsenal winning the title and we take the time to call out ref cam for what it was… s**t.Get 15% off annual subscriptions to our Patreon until the end of August! Sign up for ad-free shows, bonus content every Wednesday and access to our Discord for $51 a year or $5 a month. We're also offering a seven-day free trial now: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.Please fill out Stak's listener survey! It'll help us learn more about the content you love so we can bring you even more - you'll also be entered into a competition to win one of five PlayStation 5's! Click here: https://bit.ly/staksurvey2025Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It might be the second weekend of the Premier League season, but already Marcus has a revolutionary idea that surely every single fan can get behind.He's joined by Pete, Vish and Jim to reflect on some detailed artwork at Selhurst Park and why exactly Nuno Espírito Santo is fanning the flames of his own sacking.Plus, Thomas the Frank Engine is already up to full speed with yet another Spurs victory over Pep Guardiola (when will the bloke learn) and West Ham manage to tick every single box for a terrible first home game of the season. Yikes.Click here for Episode 1 of Game's Gone now, our brand new monthly series available exclusively on Amazon Music!Get 15% off annual subscriptions to our Patreon until the end of August! Sign up for ad-free shows, bonus content every Wednesday and access to our Discord for $51 a year or $5 a month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.Please fill out Stak's listener survey! It'll help us learn more about the content you love so we can bring you even more - you'll also be entered into a competition to win one of five PlayStation 5's! Click here: https://bit.ly/staksurvey2025Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Poor old Daniel Levy. Faffing around with the details of Eberechi Eze's contract then in comes Mikel Arteta and Lovely Berta to nab him for their pesky neighbours.This week, our game is dedicated to those players who very nearly joined Spurs but - for whatever reason - never signed the dotted line.Marcus takes on Vish this week, with Pete on the buttons. We're in for a belter!Please fill out Stak's listener survey! It'll help us learn more about the content you love so we can bring you even more - you'll also be entered into a competition to win one of five PlayStation 5's! Click here: https://bit.ly/staksurvey2025**Get 15% off annual subscriptions to the Football Ramble Patreon until the end of August! Don't delay!**Sign up for ad-free shows, bonus content every Wednesday and access to our Discord throughout the Premier League season and the 2026 World Cup for just $51 a year or $5 a month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Eberechi Eze got his big move to North London, just as we always said he would... Today, Vish and Pete listen to Marcus gloat over what this means for his prediction that Arsenal will win the league.Elsewhere, Cole Palmer goes to war with a French vineyard and Pete is planning a mid-season tour to Wet Wipe Island.Get 15% off annual subscriptions to our Patreon until the end of August! Sign up for ad-free shows, bonus content every Wednesday and access to our Discord for $51 a year or $5 a month. We're also offering a seven-day free trial now: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.Please fill out Stak's listener survey! It'll help us learn more about the content you love so we can bring you even more - you'll also be entered into a competition to win one of five PlayStation 5's! Click here: https://bit.ly/staksurvey2025Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Crystal Palace are in a right old pickle. Kicked out of the Europa League, set to lose Eberechi Eze and Marc Guéhi, and - no we're not making it up - Nottingham Forest coming to town right between their two Conference League qualifiers. Let's not take the p*** here.Luke tells Marcus and Vish why he's expecting Evangelos Marinakis to turn up to that game in a viking helmet. Plus, Neymar's parties are analysed on Brazilian television. Please fill out Stak's listener survey! It'll help us learn more about the content you love so we can bring you even more - you'll also be entered into a competition to win one of five PlayStation 5's! Click here: https://bit.ly/staksurvey2025**Get 15% off annual subscriptions to the Football Ramble Patreon until the end of August! Don't delay!**Sign up for ad-free shows, bonus content every Wednesday and access to our Discord throughout the Premier League season and the 2026 World Cup for just $51 a year or $5 a month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Alexander Isak is having a hot mess summer and he appears to now have Yoane Wissa for company. Today, Marcus, Luke and Vish agree that this is a transfer saga that everyone at the Ramble can enjoy.Elsewhere, we've already had our fair share of controversial decisions in the Premier League - what an amazing surprise! The lads discuss that and we've been sent a sequel to the tale of the Lambton Worm. Plus, Luke gives a definitive answer to the issue of who would win in a fight between Tom Brady and Wayne Rooney.Get 15% off annual subscriptions to our Patreon until the end of August! Sign up for ad-free shows, bonus content every Wednesday and access to our Discord for $51 a year or $5 a month. We're also offering a seven-day free trial now: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.Please fill out Stak's listener survey! It'll help us learn more about the content you love so we can bring you even more - you'll also be entered into a competition to win one of five PlayStation 5's! Click here: https://bit.ly/staksurvey2025Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It turns out we've got our very own Marcus Speller to thank for Manchester City's revival. After a summer spent taping up Phil Foden's bins, the Citizens can finally re-focus their attention on the Premier League. But can they keep it up?Elsewhere, Marcus, Pete & Vish debate the minimum number of men that can legally constitute a wall, and we suffer a cyber attack from a pack of p***ing Gumbies.Please fill out Stak's listener survey! It'll help us learn more about the content you love so we can bring you even more - you'll also be entered into a competition to win one of five PlayStation 5's! Click here: https://bit.ly/staksurvey2025**Get 15% off annual subscriptions to the Football Ramble Patreon until the end of August! Don't delay!**Sign up for ad-free shows, bonus content every Wednesday and access to our Discord throughout the Premier League season and the 2026 World Cup for just $51 a year or $5 a month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ladies and Gentlemen... Sunderland are back, mythical worm and all! Today, Pete demands that Marcus and Vish show the Sunderland worm more respect now that they're back in the Premier League, and we also learn why the whole of Mexico is now supporting the Black Cats.Elsewhere, Marcus sends a threat to the city of Barcelona, and Man United earn a moral victory at Old Trafford. It's everything their former dinner ladies would have wanted.Please fill out Stak's listener survey! It'll help us learn more about the content you love so we can bring you even more - you'll also be entered into a competition to win one of five PlayStation 5's! Click here: https://bit.ly/staksurvey2025Get 15% off annual subscriptions to our Patreon until the end of August! Sign up for ad-free shows, bonus content every Wednesday and access to our Discord for $51 a year or $5 a month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My Biddy Aunt is back for the new season… and she's had a glow-up.You lot voted, the old 'Luke's Game' got the boot, and now we've got a brand new game (and belt) to kick off the campaign.Marcus takes on Jim in the opening bout of the season, with Pete our designated match official. Join us for the start of the 2025/26 season!Please fill out Stak's listener survey! It'll help us learn more about the content you love so we can bring you even more - you'll also be entered into a competition to win one of five PlayStation 5's! Click here: https://bit.ly/staksurvey2025**Get 15% off annual subscriptions to the Football Ramble Patreon until the end of August! Don't delay!**Sign up for ad-free shows, bonus content every Wednesday and access to our Discord throughout the Premier League season and the 2026 World Cup for just $51 a year or $5 a month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Premier League is back and we kick things off at the home of the Champions! Today, Marcus, Jim and Pete look ahead to that. Plus, Pete suggests a few interesting rule changes before the start of the new season.Elsewhere, we discover why Leeds should be nicknamed 'The Pandas' and try to decide who would win in a fight between Tom Brady and Wayne Rooney.Join our Official Ramble FPL league HERE. The joining code is e44ohq.Please fill out Stak's listener survey! It'll help us learn more about the content you love so we can bring you even more - you'll also be entered into a competition to win one of five PlayStation 5's! Click here: https://bit.ly/staksurvey2025Get 15% off annual subscriptions to our Patreon until the end of August! Sign up for ad-free shows, bonus content every Wednesday and access to our Discord for $51 a year or $5 a month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's that time of the year once again, ladies and gents. Time to embarrass ourselves once more as we reveal who we think is going to win the Premier League, who's going to finish as top scorer, who's getting relegated - and of course - what notable mad s*** is going to happen this season.Marcus, Jim & Vish glance into the crystal ball and pick out their predictions for the coming season. But will they have enough to dethrone our reigning champion *checks notes* Pete Donaldson?Please fill out Stak's listener survey! It'll help us learn more about the content you love so we can bring you even more - you'll also be entered into a competition to win one of five PlayStation 5's! Click here: https://bit.ly/staksurvey2025**Get 15% off annual subscriptions to the Football Ramble Patreon until the end of August! Don't delay!**Sign up for ad-free shows, bonus content every Wednesday and access to our Discord throughout the Premier League season and the 2026 World Cup for just $51 a year or $5 a month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My giddy aunt, Jack Grealish is off to Everton! Marcus, Jim and Vish are here to celebrate the union of David Moyes and Super Jack. Have Everton got themselves a new piano man?Elsewhere, we wonder whether Nottingham Forest are going to start a vendetta against Crystal Palace. Plus, we agree to relocate to Monaco and launch our own Football Ramble sandwich. Please fill out Stak's listener survey! It'll help us learn more about the content you love so we can bring you even more - you'll also be entered into a competition to win one of five PlayStation 5's! Click here: https://bit.ly/staksurvey2025Get 15% off annual subscriptions to our Patreon until the end of August! Sign up for ad-free shows, bonus content every Wednesday and access to our Discord for $51 a year or $5 a month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The season's nearly here everybody! The Community Chest has been cracked open and we're ready for the return of Mama Premier League. So, who might put the cat among the pigeons this season?Marcus, Jim & Vish take a look at that and – after another marquee signing – discuss whether the Saudi Pro League will ever be taken seriously. Plus, who's the biggest prat of the 2020s?Please fill out Stak's listener survey! It'll help us learn more about the content you love so we can bring you even more - you'll also be entered into a competition to win one of five PlayStation 5's! Click here: https://bit.ly/staksurvey2025**Get 15% off annual subscriptions to the Football Ramble Patreon until the end of August! Don't delay!**Sign up for ad-free shows, bonus content every Wednesday and access to our Discord throughout the Premier League season and the 2026 World Cup for just $51 a year or $5 a month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Liverpool took Crystal Palace to penalties. Vithushan Ehantharajah, aka the Football Ramble's official Rat Correspondent, thinks that Liverpool will be pleased with the outcome.He's joined by Marcus and Jim to look back on what was a “good game, good game” - although it might have been even better if Dean Henderson swapped his cap for an Oasis bucket hat. Elsewhere, Jim finally tells us about the time he was bitten by a deer and Nathan Jones had a lovely time on his return to the Championship this weekend.Please fill out Stak's listener survey! It'll help us learn more about the content you love so we can bring you even more - you'll also be entered into a competition to win one of five PlayStation 5's! Click here: https://bit.ly/staksurvey2025Get 15% off annual subscriptions to our Patreon until the end of August! Sign up for ad-free shows, bonus content every Wednesday and access to our Discord for $51 a year or $5 a month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Crystal Palace are off to Wembley again! Is the promise of a first Community Shield victory for Palace enough to bring a bit of needle to Sunday's curtain-raiser? Marcus, Jim and Vish certainly hope so as we gather for our annual preview of the community chest.Elsewhere, we kick-start our campaign for Scott McTominay to win the Ballon d'Or and Arsenal have already given Jim reason to be depressed. Would anyone like to give him a hug?Please fill out Stak's listener survey! It'll help us learn more about the content you love so we can bring you even more - you'll also be entered into a competition to win one of five PlayStation 5's! Click here: https://bit.ly/staksurvey2025Get 15% off annual subscriptions to our Patreon until the end of August! Sign up for ad-free shows, bonus content every Wednesday and access to our Discord for $51 a year or $5 a month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

With the Premier League still a week away, it's time for the Championship to take centre stage!Second Tier is the UK's number one podcast for all things Championship, and the perfect place to get your fix of the glorious chaos that is England's second tier.Today, we're bringing you their final Championship league table predictions. Who's going up? Who's falling short? And who's definitely going to make them look silly come May?If you like what you hear, just search Second Tier wherever you get your podcasts to subscribe now. You'll be in safe hands.Sign up to their Patreon here!Watch this episode on YouTube here!Follow them on X, Instagram and email secondtierpod@gmail.com.Please fill out Stak's listener survey! It'll help us learn more about the content you love so we can bring you even more - you'll also be entered into a competition to win one of five PlayStation 5's! Click here: https://bit.ly/staksurvey2025**Please rate and review us on Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your pods. It means a lot and makes it easy for other people to find us. Thank you!** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

All football clubs and fans rejoice, the Chelsea summer catalogue is open for business. With a host of Chelsea players now available to buy or loan, Jim is once again trying to ensure Nicolas Jackson gets his move.Elsewhere, Pete tells Luke and Jim that he is baffled that Benjamin Šeško would choose Man United over Newcastle in the year 2025. Plus, a forgotten Barcelona star was bitten on the “genitals” by a dog...Please fill out Stak's listener survey! It'll help us learn more about the content you love so we can bring you even more - you'll also be entered into a competition to win one of five PlayStation 5's! Click here: https://bit.ly/staksurvey2025Get 15% off annual subscriptions to our Patreon until the end of August! Sign up for ad-free shows, bonus content every Wednesday and access to our Discord for $51 a year or $5 a month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Just ten more sleeps until the Premier League returns! But which top flight club has the most on the line this season?Pete, Luke & Jim tuck into that, and also a speciality dish cooked up by a Premier League manager - but who would do it best? Plus, does Son Heung-min deserve a statue at Tottenham to go alongside one for Harry Kane?**Get 15% off annual subscriptions to the Football Ramble Patreon until the end of August! Don't delay!**Sign up for ad-free shows, bonus content every Wednesday and access to our Discord throughout the Premier League season and the 2026 World Cup for just $51 a year or $5 a month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Only one place for Pete, Jim and Luke to start. Who had the better weekend: Luke and Jim screaming their heads off at Oasis, or Pete getting heartburn after excessive prosecco at a bottomless brunch? Answers on a postcard.There is time for some football post-Oasis though, as Son Heung-min calls time on an esteemed Spurs career and Aaron Ramsdale helps to rearrange the deck chairs on the Tynetanic. Plus, Callum Wilson stops taking the piss out of West Ham long enough to sign for them and proper football returns! Russell Martin's already having a proper moan about it.Please fill out Stak's listener survey! It'll help us learn more about the content you love so we can bring you even more - you'll also be entered into a competition to win one of five PlayStation 5's! Click here: https://bit.ly/staksurvey2025Get 15% off annual subscriptions to our Patreon until the end of August! Sign up for ad-free shows, bonus content every Wednesday and access to our Discord for $51 a year or $5 a month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's official: Alexander Isak has been labelled "a rat". But surely there needs to be a new animal for the Newcastle United fanbase? Pete, Luke and Jim Bernie Campbell are on the case...The lads discuss Spurs winning the first North London derby outside the UK (with thanks to Frontier Pets) and Man United's new hire, who fittingly seems to be an FBI agent from a screwball comedy. Meanwhile, Wayne Rooney begins hatching a plan to bring down High Performance's Tom Brady. Mr. Brady, you ever heard of Walkabout?**15% off Football Ramble Patreon annual subscriptions until the end of August!**Sign up for ad-free shows, bonus content every Wednesday and access to our Discord for $51 a year or $5 a month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

**NEW Football Ramble Patreon offer! If you get an annual subscription before the end of August, you'll get 15% off - so that's just over $50 for ad-free episodes, Discord access and bonus content across an entire Premier League season AND the 2026 World Cup!? Just head to patreon.com/footballramble to subscribe now!**Today's episode is a special teaser of what you can expect every week on the Football Ramble Patreon!On this week's agenda, it's Josh Brownhill's loving ode to Wayne Rooney, our experiences with Oasis tickets, and Luke's 'Buzz Rightyear' find on Temu.As a Patreon subscriber, you'll get access to this bonus Football Ramble episode released every Wednesday, plus ad-free episodes and a special invite to the Football Ramble Discord. And don't forget, if you get an annual subscription to the Football Ramble Patreon, you'll get 15% off - so don't delay! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Man United have copied Newcastle's homework and narrowed their striker options down to Ollie Watkins and Benjamin Šeško. That means Pete, Luke and Jim have to confront the terrifying prospect that they might actually have a decent season, as unlikely as that still sounds…We also get an update on the terrible situations at Sheffield Wednesday and Morecambe, while David Moyes becomes the unlikely head of the Everton tourist board and Joško Gvardiol's pre-season training involves wielding a semi-automatic in the Croatian woods. Plus, Erik ten Hag remains adamant that Granit Xhaka won't leave Bayer Leverkusen - cue the Benny Hill theme #herewego.Sign up to the Football Ramble Patreon for ad-free shows, extended Wednesday episodes, access to our Discord and early access to tickets and merch for just $5 per month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Pete, Luke and Jim are back to officially plinth Sarina Wiegman on today's Mailbag! Plus, do we think Thomas Frank will tame the Spurs madhouse? Should there be a Premier League squad cap to stop Chelsea's puppy farming? And what would Pete do to Les Ferdinand in the confines of his shed?Your suggestions on that last one are very welcome... Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.Sign up to the Football Ramble Patreon for ad-free shows, extended Wednesday episodes, access to our Discord and early access to tickets and merch for just $5 per month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's a historic eeeeeaasaaay for Pete, Luke and Jim today after England retain their Euros crown with a clutch win over Spain. We revel in some era-defining performances from Sarina Wiegman, Chloe Kelly, Lucy Bronze and the rest of those effing heroes.Elsewhere, Arsenal finally complete the signing of Viktor Gyökeres, Pep turns down the India job (sort of) and Evangelos Marinakis convinces Morgan Gibbs-White to stay at Forest - presumably at gun point. Plus, rejoice: pre season tours are here! Shame nobody told the fans in the local area.For Upfront's full review of England's famous win, click here to listen and subscribe!Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.Sign up to the Football Ramble Patreon for ad-free shows, extended Wednesday episodes, access to our Discord and early access to tickets and merch for just $5 per month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Luke, Jim and David are here for a Friday frot! And while there might be no football, there are plenty of worried Geordies because Alexander Isak is being a hot mess – but fear not everyone, Alan Shearer is on the case...Elsewhere, in the loveliest of lovely old jobs, Jack Grealish has been linked with Napoli after someone drove him down the Amalfi Coast – it might be tenuous but we don't care. Plus, a listener tells us about Chelsea's team of magicians and there's the small matter of the Lionesses vs Spain on Sunday!For Upfront's full preview of that game on Saturday, click here to listen and subscribe!Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.Sign up to the Football Ramble Patreon for ad-free shows, extended Wednesday episodes, access to our Discord and early access to tickets and merch for just $5 per month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today, we're bringing you a special episode from Andy's European rabble over at On The Continent!He's joined by Dotun and Italian football expert Nicky Bandini to discuss Ademola Lookman's potential big-money move to Inter. After years of waiting, can he make the splash people think he might at one of Europe's elite clubs?Plus, RB Leipzig are just one day into pre-season training and who rocks up on the sidelines? One Jürgen Klopp of course. But in his role as Red Bull's Global Head of Soccer, what exactly will, should and can he do to get Leipzig back on track?Want more from the best European football podcast out there? Subscribe here for new episodes every Thursday and Friday throughout the summer!Prompted with a question for Dotun, Andy and their guests? Send them in on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok, and email us here: otc@footballramble.com.Please fill out Stak's listener survey! It'll help us learn more about the content you love so we can bring you even more - you'll also be entered into a competition to win one of five PlayStation 5's! Click here: https://bit.ly/staksurvey2025 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Eeeeaaasayyy! Those Lionesses didn't half leave it late, eh? But England are into the final of Euro 2025!Pete, Luke & Jim give their thoughts on a crazy night in Geneva. Plus, Arsenal fans have tracked down Viktor Gyökeres' removal van, Pete discovers what a palindrome is, and Steve Bruce is spotted in a bucket hat.Please fill out Stak's listener survey! It'll help us learn more about the content you love so we can bring you even more - you'll also be entered into a competition to win one of five PlayStation 5's! Click here: https://bit.ly/staksurvey2025Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.Sign up to the Football Ramble Patreon for ad-free shows for just $5 per month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Pete Donaldson is in the hot seat for a Mailbag... what could possibly go wrong? Today he's joined by Luke and Jim for a special rendition of 'I like to move it' by Reel 2 Real.And we promise you there is some football too. Which rules would we love to see binned or brought in next season? And is it make or break for Mikel Arteta? To paraphrase a certain somebody: dive in, it's lovely.Please fill out Stak's listener survey! It'll help us learn more about the content you love so we can bring you even more - you'll also be entered into a competition to win one of five PlayStation 5's! Click here: https://bit.ly/staksurvey2025Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.Sign up to the Football Ramble Patreon for ad-free shows for just $5 per month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is a really interesting market opportunity. Does he score lots of goals? Not really. Will he quite frequently get sent off? Maybe. But yeah, £100m please.Mr Donaldson takes class today with Luke and Jim for a lesson in the economics of Nicolas Jackson, sexy white water rafting with Fabian Schär, and Dudley's finest celebrities.The lads also discuss if Noni Madueke will improve Arsenal and whether Terry Sheddingham is right: does Marcus Rashford 'deserve' to move to Barcelona?Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.Sign up to the Football Ramble Patreon for ad-free shows, extended Wednesday episodes, access to our Discord and early access to tickets and merch for just $5 per month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're back with the final round of Luke's Game for the summer! In this ‘Ramble Icons' season finale, Marcus takes on Luke for the belts. And there's only one category we could pick to end this titanic battle…Plus, we reveal the new name for Luke's Game, as voted for by you!Please fill out Stak's listener survey! It'll help us learn more about the content you love so we can bring you even more - you'll also be entered into a competition to win one of five PlayStation 5's! Click here: https://bit.ly/staksurvey2025Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.Sign up to the Football Ramble Patreon for ad-free shows for just $5 per month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome back to our Ramble rewind! Today, we're revisiting some of our favourite stories from the second half of this season, featuring everyone's favourite disgraced eagle handler Juan Bernabé, Frank Clark's canal-shoving rampage, and Andy Gray as James Bond. Plus, the most contentious round of Jack's Encyclopedia to ever sully the Ramble studio and a quite frankly outrageous FIFA ticketing scheme for the Club World Cup...Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.Sign up to the Football Ramble Patreon for ad-free shows for just $5 per month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For the next two days, we're looking back at some of our favourite moments from the 2024/25 season - aka the longest football season of all time (probably). Today's episode sees us reminisce about a few Ramble classics: Noni Madueke slagging off a town, a parrot grassing up a Spanish referee and David Coote's afters. Join us tomorrow for part two!Please fill out Stak's listener survey! It'll help us learn more about the content you love so we can bring you even more - you'll also be entered into a competition to win one of five PlayStation 5's! Click here: https://bit.ly/staksurvey2025Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.Sign up to the Football Ramble Patreon for ad-free shows for just $5 per month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Well there we have it, ladies and gents. The key is in the trophy and the curtain has finally come down on the Club World Cup.So now it's time for Marcus, Luke, Pete and Andy to reveal their predictions for what was a rather, let's say ‘unique' tournament. It's fair to say we had a pretty varied selection when it came to notable mad s***.Please fill out Stak's listener survey! It'll help us learn more about the content you love so we can bring you even more - you'll also be entered into a competition to win one of five PlayStation 5's! Click here: https://bit.ly/staksurvey2025Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.Sign up to the Football Ramble Patreon for ad-free shows for just $5 per month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chelsea put in a mesmerising performance against PSG to claim the title of world champions - but that's not half the story, is it?Join Marcus, Luke, Pete and Andy for a thorough breakdown of every madcap moment from the final of this foul jamboree, from Donald Trump and Gianni Infantino to Doja Cat wearing the new Crystal Palace shirt. Bear with us, there's a lot to get through.Plus, the curse of modern football strikes again as Crystal Palace are demoted to the Conference League and Andy Carroll fronts a Qatari consortium's takeover of a non-league side. Yep, you read that correctly.Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.Sign up to the Football Ramble Patreon for ad-free shows, extended Wednesday episodes, access to our Discord and early access to tickets and merch for just $5 per month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's a titanic clash this week: Marcus vs Brassell! And remember, for Andy Luke's Game is what the Turkish Süper Lig was for Mauro Icardi. Andy and his beautiful wrists are ready to tear it up.Can Marcus and his hairy chest do anything to stop him? The theme of today's game is Judas Footballers - players who have transferred to their fiercest rivals - so come join us and don't be going to listen to another football podcast, all right? ALL RIGHT!Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.Sign up to the Football Ramble Patreon for ad-free shows, extended Wednesday episodes, access to our Discord and early access to tickets and merch for just $5 per month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

First Mohammed Kudus signs… Now Morgan Gibbs-White?! Imagine what our Big Ange could have done with this spicy new Spurs line-up! RIP Ange u will live on.Marcus, Andy and Pete check in with more transfer tidbits, including an outrageous Premier League return for Jordan Henderson and Noni Madueke's move across town. Elsewhere, John Textor continues to astound as he stumbles his way through a prolonged departure from Crystal Palace and the Club World Cup reaches its climax… Finally. Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.Sign up to the Football Ramble Patreon for ad-free shows, extended Wednesday episodes, access to our Discord and early access to tickets and merch for just $5 per month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In what was billed as Goliath vs Goliath, PSG absolutely crushed Florentino Pérez's poor band of not-so-merry men.Marcus and David wax lyrical about what could be one of the best teams of the 21st century and ask just what it means for little old Chelsea on Sunday. Plus, we link Adam Wharton with Los Blancos because why not and we wonder just how big of a job young Xabi Alonso has on his hands...Please fill out Stak's listener survey! It'll help us learn more about the content you love so we can bring you even more - you'll also be entered into a competition to win one of five PlayStation 5's! Click here: https://bit.ly/staksurvey2025Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.Sign up to the Football Ramble Patreon for ad-free shows, extended Wednesday episodes, access to our Discord and early access to tickets and merch for just $5 per month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chelsea are into the final of the Club World Cup! But João Pedro really is extremely sorry about it all.Marcus, Luke and Andy react to Chelsea's march into the final, while FIFA's new office in Trump Tower brings us a very welcome reminder of the late, not-so-great Chuck Blazer.Plus, we find football's most loyal player in the Champions League qualifiers (yep, they're happening) and ask, will Man United make the documentary that everyone wants to see?Please fill out Stak's listener survey! It'll help us learn more about the content you love so we can bring you even more - you'll also be entered into a competition to win one of five PlayStation 5's! Click here: https://bit.ly/staksurvey2025Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.Sign up to the Football Ramble Patreon for ad-free shows, extended Wednesday episodes, access to our Discord and early access to tickets and merch for just $5 per month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

With the continuing issues at Sheffield Wednesday brought on by owner Dejphon Chansiri, we kick off with a worrying chat about football club ownership and to what extent we can fix such a severe structural problem in English football.Marcus and Luke also get David to reassure all the Sunderland fans listening by confirming that he thinks they'll stay in the Premier League next season and a listener offers Marcus the chance to swap Italy's results from the last ten years with England's. Speaking of, an email caught our eye that argued for all international tournaments to be played in the winter - spicy stuff!Please fill out Stak's listener survey! It'll help us learn more about the content you love so we can bring you even more - you'll also be entered into a competition to win one of five PlayStation 5's! Click here: https://bit.ly/staksurvey2025Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.Sign up to the Football Ramble Patreon for ad-free shows, extended Wednesday episodes, access to our Discord and early access to tickets and merch for just $5 per month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

FIFA have always been very benevolent. So of course seats for Chelsea vs Fluminense are going for $13.40. It's what Gianni always wanted.Marcus and Luke are joined by On The Continent's David Cartlidge to discuss the latest at the Club World Cup and Kylian Mbappé's Mark Hughes impression.Plus, your famous football-related bum sightings and Marcus makes Luke extraordinarily jealous.Please fill out Stak's listener survey! It'll help us learn more about the content you love so we can bring you even more - you'll also be entered into a competition to win one of five PlayStation 5's! Click here: https://bit.ly/staksurvey2025Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.Sign up to the Football Ramble Patreon for ad-free shows, extended Wednesday episodes, access to our Discord and early access to tickets and merch for just $5 per month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.