These Football Times

In a packed programme, Brian Clough resigns from Derby and calls a Polish goalkeeper a clown within the same week, England miss out on the World Cup, Leeds go 29 games unbeaten from the start of the s...

1 Aug 20231h 42min

1972/73 arrives and gives us a glimpse of the First Division to come as Liverpool march to the title and carry off the UEFA Cup to boot. At Wembley, there’s an FA Cup final for the ages as Sunderland ...

25 Jul 20231h 33min

Nothing stirs the emotions quite like football does - for good and for bad. In this new series, Chris Lepkowski invites two guests to offer up three of their footballing pet hates before selecting whi...

21 Jul 20231h

We reach 1971/72 in the third part of our 1970s odyssey, an epic title race that ends with the First Division won by a team sitting on a beach in Majorca while the other clubs fall over their feet. Le...

17 Jul 20231h 55min

Introducing a twist on our popular Mount Rushmore series. Steven Scragg, Stu Horsfield and Dave Bowler are called to the witness box to each make the case for which goalkeeper, defender, midfielder, s...

12 Jul 20231h 20min

Picking up our trawl through the 1970s, the team alight upon 1970/71, a season where Arsenal re-emerged from Tottenham’s shadow to do the double (though Spurs did at least win the League Cup as consol...

9 Jul 20231h 45min

In the first of a new series that will cover the ten seasons of the 1970s, Steven Scragg guides Paul McParlan and Dave Bowler through the twists and turns that see the School of Science setting the pa...

6 Jul 20231h 25min

Rounding out our South American odyssey, we visit São Paulo in Brazil, where we look through the myriad of clubs and great names that makes up Brazilian football in the continent’s most populous city....

28 Jun 20231h 20min