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“I listened to this podcast a good deal in the late noughties and I used to love it. James Richardson was top notch. It was genuinely funny. I moved away from it as I found it became incredibly London-centric, if you didn’t support a top 4 team or a club based outside of London, you had no chance of getting a mention. Any mention came with a healthy dollop of scorn. I stopped listening to the podcast. Recently a friend of mine encouraged me to get back into it. I trust my friend’s opinion a lot. After a decade of not listening I returned to it after my team Everton’s 2-0 win in the Merseyside derby last weekend hoping for some interesting analysis by some of the best paid and highest profile people in the country at talking football. I was aware back in the late noughties that my team weren’t discussed much, but I thought surely after this win at the home of the champions, chasing the top four and with one of the greatest managers in European football in charge that we’d get a fair crack at the whip. I listened to a good detailed 5-10 minutes of interesting stuff on Liverpool’s decline. I get it, they are the champions and the most successful club in English football with a healthy London fan base. No complaints there. Now, time to talk about the Blues? No. Instead there was a conversation about how good -looking Tom Davies is and a sneering discussion about Davies and Leighton Baines buying drinks for the homeless people of Liverpool. Really? The extent of actual football analysis of my team came from Glendenning; “I don’t know why he hasn’t been playing so well”, “Abdoulaye Doucoure played OK”. Wow. I didn’t think it was possible but this podcast has become even more smug, pretentious, middle-class, London-centric than when I left it 10 years ago. I work in the arts, so I’m not unfamiliar with haughtiness, but considering the Guardian was founded in the north in the 19th century the utter contempt with which its offerings like this podcast now treat those people is beggar’s belief. There wasn’t even any decent wit or humour to offset it unless you count some random waffle about Simon & Garfunkel. I suspect the retorts to these comments will involve the usual put downs of ‘chip on the shoulder northerner’ or ‘what does it matter what we/they think?’ or some other snooty ‘joke’ from Ronay. (Or indeed none of the above). I want this to do better, both this podcast and this newspaper as I am a lefty, but I couldn’t help feel that the general demeanour of this podcast was typical of the ‘liberal elitism’ stick often used with which to beat the left. Coming back to football, it was an incredibly alienating experience listening to this as a fan of a team with a rich history, in the midst of a promising season, but who perhaps don’t have the same appeal in the South. If you are a London based fan of United, Liverpool or a local Premier league team, this podcast is for you. If you’re not, and you are a passionate follower of a team, then don’t bother with it. They certainly don’t bother with you. So incredibly tiring and disappointing.”
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