Episodes

Julian Joachim's 'You Must Be Joachim'
March 18, 2024x
15
1:07:0261.37 MB

Julian Joachim's 'You Must Be Joachim'

A late contender for best book title of the series, this week we're reading former Aston Villa, Leicester and Coventry City forward Julian Joachim's 2023 autobiography 'You Must Be Joachim'. Featuring the ups and downs of a career which sampled the Premier League to the Gibraltar National League, J...

Rohan Ricketts's 'Passion For Football'
March 04, 2024x
14
1:05:3059.97 MB

Rohan Ricketts's 'Passion For Football'

It's time for, perhaps, the most obscure and most bizarre book we've ever read on Football Book Club - and definitely the shortest. We're reading all 58 pages of former Spurs, Wolves and Arsenal midfielder Rohan Ricketts's self-published, 2013 book 'Passion For Football: Things To Know From Youth t...

Roy Keane vs Mick McCarthy Pt. 2
February 19, 2024x
13
1:14:5968.66 MB

Roy Keane vs Mick McCarthy Pt. 2

After the drama of Mick McCarthy's 2002 World Cup Diary a fortnight ago, it's time for Roy Keane's side of the story, as we read the Manchester United legend's explosive 2002 book 'Keane: The Autobiography'. Joining us to read it is the brilliant comedian and comedy writer, as well as host of The W...

Roy Keane vs Mick McCarthy Pt. 1
February 05, 2024x
12
1:15:3869.25 MB

Roy Keane vs Mick McCarthy Pt. 1

We're heading back to 2002 where, over on an island in Japan, the Irish World Cup camp is about to be rocked by a heavyweight clash for the ages - Roy Keane vs Mick McCarthy. Once and for all we're going to find out who was right, who was wrong and most importantly, who wrote the better book about ...

Story Time 3: Cyril the Swan Goes On The Rampage & Taylor Swift Charms Corinthians
January 22, 2024x
11
54:0349.5 MB

Story Time 3: Cyril the Swan Goes On The Rampage & Taylor Swift Charms Corinthians

It's time once more for everyone's favourite Football Book Club spin-off - Story Time! Previously only available to members of the Football Book Club *Club*, now everyone can enjoy our New Year's Day collection of loosely-football related stories, including brawling mascots, Romanian World Cup mish...

Alan Brazil's 'There's An Awful Lot of Bubbly in Brazil' (ft. Beef and Dairy Network's Ben Partridge)
January 08, 2024x
10
1:18:0971.55 MB

Alan Brazil's 'There's An Awful Lot of Bubbly in Brazil' (ft. Beef and Dairy Network's Ben Partridge)

Crack open a bottle! Because it's the first episode of 2024 and we're celebrating by reading Alan Brazil's champagne-laden, 2006 memoir 'There's An Awful Lot of Bubbly In Brazil'. Joining us to read it is podcasting royalty and star of Beef and Dairy Network & Three Bean Salad - Ben Partridge, ...

Frank Lampard's 'Frankie's Magic Football: The Great Santa Race'
December 11, 2023x
9
1:16:4370.24 MB

Frank Lampard's 'Frankie's Magic Football: The Great Santa Race'

It's (almost) Christmas! So what better at this time of year than for the Book Club to sit down around the log fire with a copy of Chelsea legend Frank Lampard's children's classic 'Frankie's Magic Football: The Great Santa Race'. Frank wrote *twenty* books in the 'Frankie's Magic Football' series ...

Theo Walcott's 'Growing Up Fast' (ft. Dane Baptiste)
November 27, 2023x
8
1:16:5170.36 MB

Theo Walcott's 'Growing Up Fast' (ft. Dane Baptiste)

The brilliant comedian Dane Baptiste (Mock The Week, Live at the Apollo, BAMOUS) has been pushed to therapy by years of supporting Arsenal. So let's see how he holds up when he joins us to read ex-Arsenal and Southampton hero Theo Walcott's 2011 classic 'Growing Up Fast'. Written when he was just 2...

More of Gary Lineker's Favourite Football Stories
November 13, 2023x
7
1:13:2867.27 MB

More of Gary Lineker's Favourite Football Stories

Almost two years after we read Gary's first compilation of loosely-football related short stories, we've tracked down the sequel - the imaginatively named 'More of Gary Lineker's Favourite Football Stories'. And, somehow, it's even madder than the first. Featuring ghost grandpas, Tudor football-org...