football weekly panel members

ummed & ahhed about james richardson's inclusion

voted for barry. they did a live podcast a week or two a guy and the guy was DRUNK, which was awesome. also he sounds like a 50+year old codger but i saw a picture of him, he's probably mid-thirties.

sid is a dude as well, he gets my alternate vote.

lol barry's wiki: In September 2010, after a prolonged absence from podcast Football Weekly , substance abuse allegations appeared on podcast Football Weekly comments. [3] Such claims have been due to a nicotine patch.

find this unlistenable due to that barry guy. he's like aural kryptonite.

<3 barry

raphael hongistein, cause, as an american, i can understand his english the best.

hongistein says "of course" in this dismissive continental way that makes me apoplectic. you fucking guy! glad he hasn't been on much lately

Rafa Honigstein by a considerable margin.

feel like the zonal marking guy could be an ilxor

love barry...

can't stand john ashdown

Don't listen to podcast purely for the fear I may encounter Glendenning. Already had to stop reading the Guardian online because of his anti-intellectual, unfunny and unoriginal observations.

barry's not that bad. not really feeling the studenty cult status though. (same applies to sid lowe to some extent.)

non-jimbo fave would be rafa defo. paul doyle not far behind. least fave = sean ingle by a million miles.

is glendenning really anti-intellectual? i mean besides being irish...

on second thoughts maybe i'll retract my ingle hate a few thousand miles - he is supremely irritating but can occasionally spark off something entertaining from the other panelists, which you can't say about pointless boring ashdown/dart.

poll forgot that brazilian dude too.

my friend says that honigstein is awesome and that glendenning is funny but severely lacking in sophisticated thought

but then my friend's totally in it for the intellectualism :D

Perhaps anti-intellectual is harsh but a friend of mine says 'football is where the English go to be stupid' and BG is the epitome of that, even if he's not English. I don't actually find him funny in print - mean-spirited, trite and bullying in his GU minute-by-minutes - but maybe it's all about delivery.

'football is where the English go to be stupid'

That's grand, I'm having that one for myself.

I might put it on a t-shirt.

wasn't surprised to hear about BG being a failed standup comedian

poll also omits paulo bandini and the argentine (?) woman who speaks in a very drawn-out dramatic way (though she isn't on very much)

Marcela Mora y Araujo is her name

i vote barry because every panel needs a grump

although i will say that honigstein is very good-looking

I think my disike of Glendenning comes down to this.

Football journalism is full of moralistic miserablist know-alls pontificating from the sidelines and while I can't stand Barclay, Lawton, Williams, Collins et al, I can at least appreciate that they - at one time at least loved the game and know it intimately (or the way it used to be, when it was so much better) as they interviewed and socialised with the players and managers. They annoy me and I think they are wrong about nearly everything, but I get where they are coming from.

But then somebody like BG comes along who is full of the old-man cynicism and bitterness and obvious distate/contempt for football, but with none of the background that at least partly legitimises that stance. The other Guardianistas like Smyth and Taylor can be just as annoying at times with their snide and flippant comments, but Smyth knows football and Taylor has good contacts (albeit all at one club).

shit! totally forgot about fernando duarte. he's one of my faves too, luv that li'l dude

(and paulo bandini obv, who I can take or leave despite my luv of serie A. think ac jimbo covers that better, if only for the wistful quality he brings to his recollections... might just be me projecting there tho)

smyth really grinds me gears.

i agree tho about bg, he doesn't know a huge amount about football.

I read all of darraghmac's posts in bg's voice

My best friend, then, who listens to every episode:

The show would be NOTHING without James Richardson
It's a no-brainer
Honigstein is best guest
I would say
but i'd add that Glendenning is essential to the mix
as the comic relief / motley fool
I think Jonathan Wilson is overrated
he's better in print
Sid Lowe is great
obv
Yet to be won over by Michael Cox
but he's quite new to the mix

your bf otm

has anyone read raf hon's book?

think ac jimbo covers (Serie A) better, if only for the wistful quality he brings to his recollections... might just be me projecting there tho

no that's exactly right, wistful otm, kind of a shame he won't win this.

are you yankee or britisher, 156?

usa
it's clear he misses italy, it adds some emotion(? something) to the podcast. i dunno i might be overthinking this

no no not at all, just wanted to know whether you watched his UK tv show on serie A from the early 90s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HQZnLqmqjM

/wipes single tear from eye

wow, never seen him with hair before

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this week's was great, raphael honigstein and philippe auclair

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/audio/2010/dec/06/football-weekly-arsenal-world-cup

when they refer to the "message board" do they just mean the comments thread below the podcast?

yes. they also call it a "blog" sometimes i think.

sid lowe playing against mourinho in today's edition

lolled at intro to todays versh

Today's was funny, until the Dylan impressions. I can't decide whether my desire to tell Sid Lowe "sit the fuck down in your office for 10 minutes and say your little piece" is outweighed by my enjoyment of James's patience with him when he's on a train or a bike or in the men's room or whatever.

michael cox is on dis ting, v nicely understated

I was all 'how'd I miss this?', but no, there I am upthread.

I don't think I listened to Football Weekly at the time. Now I sort of orientate my week around it. Appreciating James Richardson more & more, but Marina Hyde did a cameo on the live one recently and she was the best.

op is a savage for omitting philippe au clair

Now I sort of orientate my week around it.

I only ever run on days football weeklys drop

the older i get the less i can stand tolerate sid lowe, tend to skip his bits entirely now

love jimbo's bizarre exaggerated (but not fully insincere) oohs and ahhs, probably make the show what it is moreso than the content most weeks

sid lowe is kind of a victim of the madrid/barca goldfish bowls

he was better five or six years ago when it was still a proper league

i kinda love how passive-aggressive and patronising the rest of the panel are towards sid lowe

auclair is p much always wrong anyway but i'd almost forgotten how insufferable he can be when his gooner tail is up

I was only half listening, what'd he say? besides that the 07/08 side was the best in recent memory.

auclair is good....a bit precious, not sure i entirely believe he likes everton that much

this new dude is a bit 'bantz' in a broadsheet sort of way

ugh noooooo it's this guy, he's here

idk about anyone else but usually when pressed into making extended small talk with males you try settle for whatever kind of fitba chatz, UNLESS you have the misfortune of finding this guy in which case you would rather talk about any and everything else

this guy you are the the absolute fucking pits

str8 closed the tab after the strident man city overratedzzzzzz speech, piss off

i mean at least sean ingle has enough about him to know he's a wanker

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literally are there any acceptable united fans

no

Fuck's sake, it is this guy. A treat best savoured tomorrow maybe. But I do love that literally the first thing Jacob Steinberg says to him is: "yeah, that's not the law though".

jimbo didnt seem much impressed either

i do quite like it when he gets peeved (usually at sweary lewdness or such), it really highlights the high level of his seemingly innocuous ringmastering

the previous episode with just rafa and steinberg was quite nice i thought, was wondering if only two guests wasnt the way forward until this new dull steamrollering studenty knobhead showed up

This was so bad. It's like waking up hungover on a couch after your mate's house party, and the guy there whom nobody knows is determined to carry on largeing it.

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Excellent analysis by Daniel Harris about Hart. Good addition to the pod.

Also, think that there is massive bias against L'pool in this Pod. Or maybe it's just me.

comments are overwhelmingly positive, if you didn't already know guardian commenters are lower than rat fleas

i didn't close the window but i did skip through quite a few bits

so many vague unfalsifiable assertions, also the contrived HARDEST EPL MANAGER thing even brought richardson down a level

steinberg is good though, probably the best of the guardian's in-house people

broadsheet bantz dude is back, better than last time but he still managed to say that villa have spent 'very little money'

'pardieu'

banty glendinning

drogba 'the best big name player of all time...almost'

Taking this in just now; the heavyweights keeping bantzman well in check here. Ronay in particular showing some deceptive steel in the Walcott celebration row.

that should be big game xp

Lion Messi surely?

Awww, lay off the new guy. He's clearly got early game nerves. I bet JR was rubbish when he first started.

I enjoyed today's effort. <3 Fernando Duarte, he should be kinda crap but he's so irrepressible, it's great listening imo.

forgot to post about last week's return of tosser man, but suffice to say i must have looked quite the lunatic on the tube what with the pall of black rage descending over me every so often

he must be destroyed

particularly enjoyed barry and ronay admitting to the guilty pleasures of talksport

rafa comparing wenger's plight to something d'angelo once said about prince = next level

Yes! I only didn't post that the moment I heard it because I was running for a train at the time.

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/audio/video/2013/2/21/1361476924832/Raphael-Honigstein-001.jpg

He is the man of the moment.

shame jimbo wasn't there for the d'angelo thing really, rafa might have got more change out of it than he did from baz and temp presenter

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2003/jul/25/newsstory.sport7

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I think it was Snoop Dogg's Payed Tha Cost To Be Da Boss. [Small Talk registers mild surprise at such gangsta-rap tendencies]. Well, I'm not sure if I'm a Crip or a Blood here, Small Talk, but for me Dr Dre was always the master and he's shown himself to be a true business man, etc, etc, etc. To the detriment of his music career, as it turns out.

I was massively disappointed at Sid Lowe revealing his iTunes last week

What's going on this week? JR appears to be close-mic'ed, there're unexplained pauses every so often, it's quite disorientating - producer Ben getting avant-garde by the sounds.

a fade-out in the slash fic bit, probably very wise

this seems to be acappella?

where is the late 90s channel 4 snowboarding show intro music

i dont give a shit about baby caitlin, fuck u lutz i mean putz

fat papist in denial glendenning needs to dry his eyes and talk fitba, except not about david moyes for a change

well if it isnt our old friend "imperial phase" turning up in convo re bale

I've definitely heard a sample from this place at least once before.

it's a shame that that dude didnt write the slashfic about someone less painfully unfunny than sid

wenger as prince was the greatest thing ever says guy who listens to podcasts three weeks out of date

ban sid lowe

How come Sid's the one who gets to be on every episode? Rafa gets to do Bundesliga about once a month, and today's was the first Ligue 1 for ages.

they can talk about spain all day but just not with sid lowe

sid's sort of a goon but i find his enthusiasm infectious. sorry

Sid's good. I like how he gets annoyed about having to always talk about Madrid and Barca, like he'd be getting on every week if all he had was the Celta Vigo inside line.

its more his periphrastic way of always saying theres a sense in which maybe just maybe theyre saying hang on a minute you know maybe this isnt quite the situation we thought it was going to have been etc etc

Sean Ingle being asked who he thinks will win QPR v Sunderland, and being completely unable to give a view

christ sid is excruciating

What are you talking about? Don't you like cereal?

no, cereal's brilliant!! eh? eh? remember when we were kids we -? you know when -?

Sid's mum went out to pick Sid's dad up from the tube, is what I took out of that

jesus that must have been about 4 minutes fastforwarding

r|t|c getting quoted (uncredited) on this one

huh where?

sid is the worst, fernando/james the best

was funny when the new lawyer oink & that other one started squabbling

don't really mind max rushden tbrr

Rochdale gag at the end was his iirc. Either that or he's been plagiarising someone else.

not bloody likely

scandalous suggestch from IK; ilxors are blood brothers

Shots fired by IK!
r/t/c will think twice before dissing spirit of shankly again.

Oi! I believe in r|t|c, don't let me down fella.

ithappens to the best of us...

for maximum accuracy, the sid/james fan fic must feature sid's long-winded tangents as the main obstacle to consummation

Hm, not sure this is an idea whose time has come

sid lowe is shit

well in a sense you're right but in another sense you're wrong, now let me stiffly tell you an unrelated joke

the video one was a mildly entertaining novelty i thought

didnt really pay attention to a word they said tbh but wilson who otherwise usually sounds like a defensive little hedgehog often being made fun of actually seemed quite brusque and idk, alpha dog

sean ingle is a pitiful wretch and a terrible waste of suit fabric but i guess i already knew that

ingle also displayed a crew neck vest (possibly even a t-shirt) under his shirt which is basically leprosy imho

Good edition today - well part one is, I couldn't keep it in.

Meant to point out Sid getting on the 'six cup finals' bandwagon - at length - on Monday, no doubt thereby incurring further contempt from ILF hipsters.

I, for one, resent the implication that my hipsterdom only extends as far as this sub-board. On the contrary, it is far-reaching and comprehensive. And Sid Lowe is a boring cunt

http://i.imgur.com/1Mdvkoe.jpg

Kilbane was really pretty good on this, totally upbeat, good-humoured, just what I want to be hearing. Obviously ymmv if you're particularly sour-faced.

He's got a misleading way of saying 'I saw so-and-so doing x' rather than 'I saw that so-and-so was doing x'. I was wondering if he had a new career as the hardest-working field reporter in the land, 'til James picked him up on having actually seen Jeremy Kyle's teamtalk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl5Muo11rhg

kilbane is good cuz he doesn't have the 'i played 2492 professional games and my bromides are worth 100x more than yours' sense of entitlement

NO POP CULTURE SHIT

Rafa bringing a top Keysy & Graysy anecdote, and bang in character to boot

iain mcintosh please never come back

otm

yyyyeah idk i mean he's certainly treading the disciplinary tightrope but i'm not sure mcintosh has quite done enough yet to warrant the full revulsion of that guy or lowe at his worst. (i didnt hear the previous episode tho tbf)

irl lol at the 8-0 suarez gag btw

Jimbo recycling his own gag there tho - a few years ago he came out with the line 'Liverpool with a score line straight out of posh spice's diary - 8 nothing'. Worth repeating tho I guess

James bumping into Vialli at the pictures was incredible stuff I thought. Luca in a wig pretending to be avoiding him is one of my favourite Football Italia memories.

sol campbell being a weirdo stories are my favourite, worth the entrance fee for that alone

eating alone ≠ being a weirdo, come on - one of life's finest pleasures imo

eating alone and telling small children to bog off the day after you win the double though

i mean we'd all like to imagine he was savouring his artichoke vinaigrette in holy epicurean peace but it seems more sol just to be sitting there being blank and troubled

never had those precise circumstances tbf

http://metro.co.uk/2013/06/21/sol-campbell-approaches-fa-over-becoming-england-under-21-manager-3850615/

ooh i hadnt seen this

would've been nice if Steinberg had elaborated a little more - did Sol curse, he doesn't seem the cussing kind, in fact you can imagine him going to lengths not to profane

u21 boss would be a much funner finale for sol than the mysterious suicide i was half-expecting

xp he only retired last year?! Feels like a decade ago. Played for Newcastle in 2011 ffs!

The a-list on today. I've missed those guys.

anyone planning to adopt "fernandjinho" this season

everyone using the term 'football hipster' or describing fitba players as hipsters because they don't look like fat rapists from bromsgrove can fuck off

with a grim inevitably i was to hear someone repeat that hipster line in the pub after 5s tonight

this is all rushden no diamonds

need an editor, nearly an hour including repurposed shit music hack, liverpool drone & rushden is pushing it

<3 fernando duarte - get him on every week, just monologueing. Maybe one other to press his buttons

the cautionary spiel abt brazilian players and their agents was ✓

more 'hipster' crap tho

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This is one of my favourite ILF moments fwiw

i like steinberg but he needs to not sound so bored

o_0 at Glenndenning's pronuciation of tortoise. never heard that before.

What did he say? Tor-twah?

tor-toys

wait

i had to google to remind myself of what the non tor-toys pronunciation was. solidarity w/ barry.

http://www.youtu.be/CmwzLWlUxO0

lol don't think you'll get any converts here miz

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His mbms are the worst

he's the abrasive one who squabbles with ronay right

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xxxp nah. i can assure you only polish commentators say chezza's name properly

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bit much to expect of anglo dudes who mash the keyboard when confronted with januzaj tbf

jacob steinberg hasn't yet used any variant of 'football hipster' right?

don't think wilson has either

turns out they all say TORT-oz except for Barry

forget the guardian, second captains on the irish times is where it's at:

http://soundcloud.com/secondcaptains-it-com

the start of this week's episode about ireland/germany is just amazing. bit irish-centric obv but i still recommend it.

Yeah both this week's eps of 2nd captains football were great. The bit about Florentino Perez and Sam Allardyce was wonderful. Also 'pudgy faced ruin' is my new insult of choice.

j-wils on fire this week

steinberg and everyone agreeing that wilshere has been stitched up the media was just.................... i have no words

sid at his worst but them asking him for his la liga select xi was such a suicidally bad idea that i actually now reckon they all think he's a cunt and were just giving him enough rope

the whole bit about low's slightly mean/ignorant pre-match comments was great. i was ambiv about the game but now i would LOVE IT if we beat them.

ive got tired of sid lowe's columns and phoned in contributions but he was surprisingly good today

seemed sharper, less grist, better integrated, rather like adil rami would be if bielsa managed him

kind of sick of epl previews, hacks should spend less time previewing and prognosticating

sid lowe back in peak equivocating form today

who is this whimsical pleb

nearly an hour long, so much shit

The last few have been excellent

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turn offs: daniel day lewis

By contrast, on 2nd Captains, Ken Early quoting Borges when discussing the proposed increase to a 40 team World Cup.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2013/dec/08/ross-barkley-everton-arsenal

i know the "football hipster" thing is bad and wrong but idk how anyone can resist a smirk at the commentbros here earnestly bringing their powers of perception to bear on the similarities between ross barkley and toni kroos

disappointed that fitba weekly are laying on the borderline racist, totally inspid bantz about lol vincent tan

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36 min I’d pay as much cashmoney as I don’t have to see Jose Mourinho get lairy with Diego Simeone.

Jonathan Wilson had a really good taribo west anecdote recently.

glendenning is so fucking stupid

Glendenning seemingly wilfully mispronouncing names "mourinho" being the main one grates. Also his inability to ever rise above bloke-in-a-pub level of input on anything ever.

Is Gregg Bakowski the worst panel member they've ever had? It's pretty stiff competition I know but he is just the fucking pits. Constantly sounds like he's about to burst into tears.

Although i appreciate how frequently Richardson invites contribution from GB only to sniff condescendingly at whatever's said and move on

sol campbell being a weirdo stories are my favourite, worth the entrance fee for that alone

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eating alone and telling small children to bog off the day after you win the double though

i mean we'd all like to imagine he was savouring his artichoke vinaigrette in holy epicurean peace but it seems more sol just to be sitting there being blank and troubled

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jimbo out!
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I've completely jumped ship. it's basically football weekly without barry

or sid lowe - who i like well enough as a writer but i don't really care for on a podcast

i had a little go at the new European football one, On The Continent, cause I like wondering how many football matches Andy Brassell is supposed to have watched in a given week, but those twunts from the Football Ramble just make it unlistenable. The presenter one in particular is staggeringly awful

i abhor the football ramble with all my soul.