Football Ramble

Welcome to Fantasy Five-a-Side, a brand new show in which Jim invites a special guest to submit their dream five-a-side team and lead them to glory as player-manager. Where will they play themselves? Will the team gel on the pitch? Just as importantly,...

Competitive football creeps ever closer with the Emirates Cup out of the way, the transfer window hotting up - Daniele De Rossi has signed for Boca Juniors! - and Mike ‘Flannels’ Ashley up to his usual shenanigans.  He’s part of a r...

It is absolutely roasting at Ramble HQ but as ever we’re braving it for you, our beloved listeners. We’re here to chat about Mike Ashley putting his hand in his pocket for the people of Newcastle once again, Chelsea and their slightly odd season prepar...

With so many of the game’s biggest prizes being played at once it’s a great time to be a football fan, especially if you’re of a Geordie persuasion. Steve Bruce’s mere presence was enough to get his Newcastle United revolution under ho-way with a seism...

We’re back in your ears and though we were only gone for a short while, the football Gods (Newcastle United) have provided, in the squishy form of Steve Bruce. We react with a range of emotions while also casting an eye over Frank Lampard’s appointment...

Erkut Sögüt is the Founding Partner at Football and Family, a sports agency that looks after footballers Mesut Özil, Ilkay Güdogan and many others. In this exclusive interview with The Football Ramble, Erkut talks about the demands placed on agents i...

Here we are then, the final Best Of… episode of the summer! It’s a selection of the best bits from last season, and there are some crackers. Nelly Yoa checks in from *somewhere*, Charlie Austin’s not happy and we play the first ever game of Kevin Keega...

To ease you into the weekend, here’s another Best Of… episode, this time from the 2017/18 season! We hear of Neil Warnock hustling his Sheffield United players at a bowling alley, Mick McCarthy mugging off his own Ipswich fans and Louis van Gaal’s ghos...

On this episode of Ramble Meets… Andy Brassell speaks to Danny Higginbotham about his storied career, from his fledgling start at Manchester United - where a broken leg nearly ended it all - to playing for ten other clubs and transitioning into punditr...

We’re back to soothe those Monday blues with another Best Of… episode, this time from the 2016/17 season! There is, gloriously, an awful lot of Kevin Keegan’s adventures in this episode. From being accosted in Belgrade to somehow coming third in a Th...