These Football Times

Fresh from being chiselled into the European Championships’ Mount Rushmore, Antonín Panenka takes centre stage as Aidan Williams brings us chapter and verse on perhaps the most iconic penalty ever tak...

6 Jun 202433min

A goal of beauty is a joy forever as the old saying almost goes. Proving the old adage true in 1996 was Davor Šuker who produced one of the tournament’s immortal moments with his goal for Croatia agai...

5 Jun 202426min

In a tournament dominated by the usual heavyweight suspects of European football, nobody saw Greece’s title winning tournament of 2004 coming. Matthew Gibbs talks to Gary Thacker about the ultimate un...

4 Jun 202424min

Ahead of this summer’s European Championship, Gary Thacker invites members of the team to talk about some of their most indelible memories of the competition. In this first episode, Dave Bowler recall...

3 Jun 202425min

The 1970s provided fertile fare for the lower division teams in the FA Cup, from the early round exploits of Hereford and Colchester to latter stage glory for Second Division Sunderland and Southampto...

27 Mai 202448min

With the dust settling on the Championship season ahead of the playoffs, John Dunn, Matthew Gibbs and Dave Bowler gather together for a post-mortem on the campaign, which includes debating the age old...

10 Mai 20241h 7min

We’re joined in the Centre Circle today by Callum McFadden, author of Behind The Curtain Of The Beautiful Game.  Callum’s first book features a string of fascinating interviews with characters involv...

6 Mai 202454min

It’s football’s greatest achievement that you’ve probably never heard of. In 1930/31, West Bromwich Albion won promotion from the Second Division and, if that wasn’t enough, they won the FA Cup as wel...

1 Mai 20241h 5min