Adam and Rob are joined by multi-award-winning author and journalist Michael Calvin for a wide-ranging and actually very moving chat about... well, everything really. In this second part, we discuss the cleansing experience of Leicester City and the 2021 FA Cup final, as well as how the club is run and how that reflects on the 'Super League plotters' - remember them?. We also talk in more depth about Mike's experiences researching Whose Game is it Anyway and how he approaches his stories...

Adam and Rob are joined by multi-award-winning author and journalist Michael Calvin for a wide-ranging and actually very moving chat about... well, everything really. In this first part, Mike talks to us about his earliest memories of football, being in the privileged position of ballboy at Vicarage Road in his formative years and 4am starts to queue for FA Cup Fourth Round replay tickets (ask your dad, kids) at the ground. We also cover the fundamental nature of being a football fan in...

Adam and Rob welcome The Guardian Football Weekly’s host Max Rushden, who is still on a high after Cambridge United’s automatic promotion from League 2. Max explains why he was initially reluctant to appear on the pod until promotion was secured considering our remit focuses on glorious defeat and Cambridge were making a complete hash of gaining one point from their last three games. He talks to us about how he first fell for the football, which includes Pavarotti, Gazza’s tears, a Cambridge...

Adam and Rob are joined by the legendary Patrick Barclay for a joyful journey down memory lane to the famed Dundee side of the early 1960s. Paddy talks to us about how he first fell for football at Dens Park and both the famous title win of '62 and subsequent European Cup campaign, back when the European Cup was for champions ONLY. We also talk to Paddy about his illustrious career in football writing, including the dread of the Saturday match report, pretending to be a player at the...

Adam and Rob break with tradition to look at current affairs this week, specifically the Premier League 'Big Six''s affair with a closed-shop anti-competitive collective of glorified friendly-seekers. Ahem. They're joined by From the Jaws of Victory contributor and author of 'Can We Have Our Football Back', John Nicholson, who's written brilliantly on the subject for Football365 in the past ten days. We discuss the origins of both the Premier League and the Super League, and how much the...

Adam and Rob are joined by the author of one of the best football books ever written, Pete Davies, whose book, All Played Out, so perfectly summed up the many highs and some lows of following England at Italia ‘90.This episode is all the more pertinent...

Adam and Rob are joined by Neil Atkinson of the Anfield Wrap to discuss his brilliant From the Jaws of Victory chapter on the Liverpool side of 2013-14 and much more besides. We cover the various contributing factors to Neil's chapter being such an...

Adam and Rob break with tradition by welcoming two guests onto the pod to tell the tale of West Ham’s remarkable 1985-86 season. They are joined by Stuart Fuller, author of two Football Tourist books, former football blogger and current chairman of...

Adam and Rob are joined by broadcasting and football legend Barry Davies for a chat covering everything from the great man's commentating career to VAR and Monday Night Football.Barry talks to us about notable World Cup stories and his first assignments...

Adam and Rob are joined from Berlin by the brilliant Uli Hesse, writer at 11 Freunde and author of - among other things - Tor! The Story of German football and Building the Yellow Wall.We discuss the nature of glorious defeat in Germany in relation to...

Rob and Adam are joined by renowned football writer Marcela Mora y Araujo for a thoroughly enjoyable chat about her chapter in From the Jaws of Victory - the Argentina national team in a period of contrasting fortunes from 2006-2014, dubbed 'the Messi...

This week, Adam and Rob welcome minute-by-minute pioneer, author and Guardian stalwart Scott Murray to the pod to shine a light on the Matthews final in 1953, including whether Blackpool’s 4-3 win over Bolton should actually be named after hat-trick...

Adam and Rob are joined by the multi-talented John Nicholson to talk about Middlesbrough's famous UEFA Cup run, in which Boro saw off a litany of big European names with a litany of big European comebacks. We talk to John about what's happened to...

We're joined by Andi Thomas to talk World Cups, statues, conspiracies and World Cup statue conspiracies as we revisit his brilliant Jaws of Victory chapter on the Wales side of 1958. A real 'What if' story, we also talk to Andi about how imagining and...

From the Jaws of Victory contributor Rich Hall joins Adam and Rob to shed light on perhaps the greatest side we never saw at a World Cup. Marking something of a departure from the other chapters in the book, Rich explains how the Yugoslavia side weren’t...

Rob and Adam are joined by Ross MacDonald, an as-yet-unknown percentage of The 1975, to talk about all manner of near misses, from being pipped at the post by David Ginola to hitting the post you may or may not have been aiming for on national...

In the first ever episode of the Halcyon podcast, Adam and Rob are joined by... each other to introduce Halcyon and talk about their chapters in our latest book, From the Jaws of Victory.First up it's the Dutch and Johan Cruyff, the embodiment of style...