Episodes
Welcome to Football is Nice with me, Russell Brand, and my co-host Gareth Roy!
This week:
Oligarchs and ownership
Declan Rice, Mark Noble and Yarmolenko
Love for the classic British TV show Goodnight Sweetheart
That Rooney tweet!
Gareth is back after having Covid... and it's JMF final show!
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Published 03/30/22
There's no Football is Nice episode this week but don't worry we'll be back next week with inane, divine, sublime and stupid conversations about football and how nice it is.
Let me know what guests you'd like to see on the podcast! Stay free!
Published 03/04/22
Welcome to Football is Nice with me, Russell Brand, and my co-host Gareth Roy!
This week:
Russell dreaming of Gary Neville
Russell's Trip To Manchester
Being pursued by men in a van!
Klopp's ability to diffuse any situation or crisis.
Some sad Hull facts.
Is Mo Salah making the world a better place?
Russell's experience with Chris Evans!
How great Declan Rice is.
Is Kane OK?
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Let us know what...
Published 02/24/22
Welcome to Football is Nice with me, Russell Brand, and my co-host Gareth Roy!
This week:
JMF is missing.
The universe punishes Russell
Gareth's gallant effort to make this podcast about football
What if Russell's daughters dated a footballer?
What the hell are Man Utd doing?
The time Russell has to get naked in front of The Rock
Gareth & Russell's points don't count in this week's league table of predictions, but does it make any difference to the leader board?!
If you'd...
Published 02/17/22
Welcome to Football is Nice with me, Russell Brand, and my co-host Gareth Roy!
This week is an express episode based on:
The FA Cup Matches
Some incredible atmospheric games
Does it matter what Dele Alli wears?
Why do we all want Lampard to do well?
What happened to Russell's voice in the film Arthur?
What strange pacts have you made if your favourite team wins?
We find out what happened to Russell's chickens!
Are Barcelona in decline?
Russell VS Gareth VS Jenny May - The...
Published 02/09/22
Welcome to Football is Nice with me, Russell Brand, and my co-host Gareth Roy!
This week is an express episode based on:
Last week's transfer week
The first time Gareth met a famous footballer and made it weird
Our vintage football shirts provided by a fan of the show
Devastation over Matt Target leaving his cop double
All of the Foo Fighters or NONE AT ALL.
Russell's cat football squad
Russell's new way of predicting who wins games revealed.
If you'd like to send a compliment...
Published 02/02/22
Welcome to Football is Nice with me, Russell Brand, and my co-host Gareth Roy!
This week features:
Russell's time on TalkSport
Gareth's drunken childhood
Danny Murphy
M&M's unusual identity change
Your weird reasons games have been delayed
Christiano Ronaldo's Neck
The plan to meet the Turkish Simon Cowell
Jenny May's Big Black Apple
VAR is in trouble again
Bielsa's deep existential pain
Pep's inability to discuss the title
If you'd like to send a compliment to Gareth...
Published 01/26/22
Welcome to Football is Nice with me, Russell Brand, and my co-host Gareth Roy!
This week we whittled on about:
Our producer Jenny May Finn leaning in for you.
The time Russell & Gareth deceived Christina Aguilara
Did Russell endorse Charlton's pies?
The League Table Upset continues
Coutinho is shy!!
Russell's mates' football insights
Waterloo stations's Bird of Prey
Russell's Hollywood Career on Horses
Will Rooney become a manager?
Is Graham Potter's name too...
Published 01/19/22
Welcome to Football is Nice with me, Russell Brand, and my co-host Gareth Roy!
We are back after our Winter Break and we had a lot to say:
We read out some of your brutal football upsets
Russell's experience on Micail Antonio's podcast
Emoji Etiquette
Russell's dog's incident in Windsor
Gareth's TK Maxx Debacle
Man Utd - what's going on?
Is a real life Foo Fighter coming on the podcast?
What about pitch invasions?
Bielsa's translation enhancer
And there's a huge upset in our...
Published 01/13/22
Welcome to Football is Nice with me, Russell Brand, and my co-host Gareth Roy!
This almost seasonal but not quite episode thrived on:
Russell's reaction to West Ham's win against Chelsea
What a start Bowen is!
The Middle of Lidl
Man City's ability to always produce great players
Your funny stories about mistakes and Gareth's reluctance to accept them
The Behind Hug
Moyes' Gilet
Klopp's Snood
How beautiful Virgil van Dijk would look naked
Eddie Howe licking his lips too much
An...
Published 12/09/21
Welcome to Football is Nice with me, Russell Brand, and my co-host Gareth Roy!
This guest-less week features:
1 Breakfast
Ralph Rangnick
Hilarious Arguments
Gareth writing letters to football clubs
Snowflakes in manager's eyes
Man Utd doing NO tactical training
Ivan Tony's Mum
JMF & Russell Debate The Function Thighs
Rich People Leaf Blowers
The Predictions League Table Gets Serious
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Published 12/02/21
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Produced by Jenny May Finn
Published 11/25/21
Welcome to Football is Nice with me, Russell Brand, and my co-host Gareth Roy!
This high energy episode was fuelled by:
Russell's disdain for International Week
Tony Cottee's anecdotes
Russell's inability to pronounce San Merino
Jenny May's encounter with Gareth Southgate
Ketchup
Aston Villa retaining their rockstar
Dean Smith's move to Norwich
Stories about when you listeners have been humiliated
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Published 11/18/21
Welcome to Football is Nice with me, Russell Brand, and my co-host Gareth Roy!
This high energy episode was fuelled by:
Russell's future predicting skills
West Ham's Win!
Antonio giving away too much important intel
Would you wear a football jersey on a date?
Russell's genius disguises
Tony Adam's takes over the show!
Gareth tries out his new segment "Good Week / Bad Week"
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Let us know what...
Published 11/10/21
Welcome to Football is Nice with me, Russell Brand, and my co-host Gareth Roy!
This high energy episode was fuelled by:
Carlton Cole's Life Lessons
Your experiences meeting famous people at football games
Russell's dream about David Moyes
JMF's eyes
Harry Kane not really into football anymore
THERE'S A BIRD IN THE HOUSE! THERE'S A BIRD IN THE HOUSE!
Pundits Are People Too!
Footballers wearing bras saga...continued and concluded?
Should the offside rule be changed?
If you'd like...
Published 11/04/21
Welcome to Football is Nice with me, Russell Brand, and my co-host Gareth Roy!
This football-based aural joy involves:
Ole Gunnar Solskjær's fate
Liverpool VS Man Utd Rivalry
Is football run by impulsive people?
Is Antonio Conte from Labrinth?
Mo Salah's transcendent footballing skills
Your humiliating football moments
Frank McAvennie appears
The Matrix Celebration
When does David Moyes decide to change into his suit?!
Gareth's observations.
If you'd like to send a compliment...
Published 10/28/21
Welcome to Football is Nice with me, Russell Brand, and my co-host Gareth Roy!
This football-based aural joy involves:
Gareth's need to multiple words for love
Former footballer John Barnes joins us in an incredible conversation
Jenny May's favourite player revealed
Bobby Firmino's Teeth
The Manager that is a bottler
Great goals! GREAT GOALS.
Russell's experience at the opera
American Football VS English Football
Football Manager Fashion Review Continued
The Football Is Nice...
Published 10/21/21
Welcome to Football is Nice with me, Russell Brand, and my co-host Gareth Roy!
This football-based audio production involves:
Reflecting on International week
The Newcastle Takeover
Gareth's boring Scotland analysis
Russell's Hollywood Star Wig Experience
Pirates
Your most memorable non-football football moments!
More breakfasts...
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Published 10/14/21
Welcome to Football is Nice with me, Russell Brand, and my co-host Gareth Roy!
This football-based audio production involves:
Russell's experience in a cryogenic chamber
Dean Ashton (former West Ham, Noriwch & England player)
Giving managers yellow cards
Too many Aston Villa players names sound like Cop Double Acts
Your compliments for Gareth
Brentford Manager has too many gimmicks
Your favourite most unusual football takedowns & criticisms
Graham Potter's beard
Some...
Published 10/07/21
Welcome to Football is Nice with me, Russell Brand, and my co-host Gareth Roy!
A few of the things discussed:
Gareth's ability to predict the correct results
Bielsa's Bucket - does it help or hinder Leeds?
True Geordie aka Brian Davis joins us
Newcastle's ownership
His incredible dislike for Steve Bruce
Russell's hatred of the use of heat and stinging references for goalie's hands
Is Aston Villa's assistant manager a rockstar?
Russell gets more compliments than Gareth
The...
Published 09/30/21
Welcome to Football is Nice with me, Russell Brand, and my co-host Gareth Roy!
This week we discuss:
Russell's Football Breakdown
Russell's inability to pronounce players names and cities properly
How Bowen needs to kick the ball harder
Unfit looking referees of yester-year
Ben Foster joins post-training
How managers are like Father-figures
Your worst reactions when a game is going wrong
Gareth's ability to predict and control the future
Are Chelsea unstoppable?
Let us know...
Published 09/23/21
Welcome to Football is Nice with me, Russell Brand, and my co-host Gareth Roy!
This week we discuss:
Russell does his weekly football (mental) breakdown
The lengths some of you have gone to meet players
Ronaldo week
We chat to the incredible football coach impersonator Conor Moore
How Russell doesn't think Norwich is a proper club
Chelsea and Villa
Oli Watkins and Dean Smith sound like made up footballer names
Gareth's controversial tweet to Match of the Day
We try to predict the...
Published 09/16/21
Welcome to Football is Nice with me, Russell Brand, and my co-host Gareth Roy!
This week we discuss:
We speak to David Seaman and he reveals some of his goalkeeping secrets
How Ronaldo makes Russell doubt himself
The most imaginative football chants you've heard
How much Russell loves Roy Keane
Gareth's obsession with the documentary Fever Pitch!: The Rise of the Premier League
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Published 09/09/21
Welcome to Football is Nice with me, Russell Brand, and my co-host Gareth Roy!
This is some of what we discuss:
Gareth's experience going to watch Charlton
Michaeil Antonio's rockstar personality
The poetic and dark abusive chants fans come up with
Russell's hatred for towns that play more than one sport
The Winklepicker Scavenger Hunt
Playing football at Robbie Williams LA Mansion
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Published 09/02/21