football weekly panel members

(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

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!
http://www.football365.com/news/exclusive-james-richardson-to-leave-guardian-football-weekly

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.