Football Weekly

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Football Weekly
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Presentation
Hosted by Max Rushden (2017–present)
James Richardson (2006–2017)
GenreSports
Language English
Publication
Original release 2006
Provider The Guardian
Related
Website theguardian.com/football/series/footballweekly

Football Weekly is a podcast about football produced by The Guardian newspaper in the United Kingdom. It was first broadcast in 2006. It reviews the latest football results and news, and previews forthcoming matches. While focused on the Premier League and English football more broadly, the show pays significant attention to football across Europe, paying particular attention to La Liga, Serie A and the Bundesliga. [1]

Contents

Originally provided weekly—as its name suggests—Football Weekly, as of 2021, broadcasts three times a week during the European football season. [2] The original episode release day was Monday, after the weekend's fixtures, and since 2007 a second weekly podcast, Football Weekly Extra, has aired on Thursdays to review midweek action and preview the next weekend's matches. [3] A third weekly episode published on Tuesdays or Wednesdays has been produced since June 2020, [2] typically either focusing on news from non-British European leagues, or providing space for extended discussions of particular topics.

History

The podcast began on 11 May 2006 as The World Cup Show, produced daily throughout the 2006 World Cup, and returned during the season under its new name on 29 August 2006, due to popular demand. [4] During European Championships and World Cups, the podcast has aired daily.

The show was originally presented by James Richardson, with contributions by various Guardian journalists and freelance correspondents, most regularly Barry Glendenning. Richardson and journalist Iain Macintosh left in July 2017 for a new rival podcast, The Totally Football Show . [5] [6] Richardson was replaced by Max Rushden. [7]

Rushden explains that the show "ranges from proper analysis of what has happened on the pitch in the UK and around Europe, to commentary about serious issues off it, balanced with some complete nonsense." [8] Speaking in the wake of the 2018 World Cup, the Guardian's head of sport called the podcast "a brand leader despite plenty of opposition including from the BBC . It is one of our greatest multimedia successes." [9] Since the late 2010s, the programme has paid greater attention to women's football, giving more frequent segments and occasional dedicated episodes to the women's game. [10]

Awards

In April 2008 Football Weekly was nominated for Sports Programme of the Year in the annual Sony Radio Academy Awards – the UK's main national radio awards. [11] In 2018 the Football Supporters' Federation awarded Football Weekly the Podcast of the Year for the second year running and the fifth time in the last six years. [12] Esquire called the show "one of the big beasts of football podcasting". [13]

Regular panellists

Other occasional contributors include Jim Burke, Andy Hunter, Gregg Bakowski, Sean Ingle, Louise Taylor, Anne-Marie Batson, Elis James, Jacqui Oatley, Paul Doyle, Rory Smith, Paul MacInnes. James, Oatley and Carruthers are occasional guest hosts in the absence of Rushden, while MacInnes is a previous guest host of the show.

Lowe, Rhind-Tutt and Wrack will typically only appear to discuss matters pertaining to, respectively, Spanish, German and women's football. While also appearing on regular shows, in podcasts specifically themed around European football, Auclair and Bandini are the respective regular experts on the French and Italian game.

Former panellists

Former guest hosts

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  2. 1 2 Rushden, Max. "Tweet, June 24 2020". Twitter. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
  3. ↑ "James Richardson and his pod-mates return to preview the new Premier League season". The Guardian. London. 10 August 2007. Retrieved 2 May 2010.
  4. ↑ "Battle of the Pods". Epltalk.com. 1 February 2007. Retrieved 8 May 2014.
  5. ↑ Williams-Grut, Oscar. "Football journalist Iain Macintosh wants to build a podcast empire", Business Insider , 30 September 2017. Retrieved on 14 August 2019.
  6. ↑ Storey, Daniel (31 July 2017). "Exclusive: James Richardson to leave Guardian Football Weekly – Football365". Football365. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
  7. ↑ Rickett, Oscar. "Soccer Is Not 'Art', and That's Fine", Vice Media , 6 July 2018. Retrieved on 14 August 2019.
  8. ↑ Rushden, Max. "Knowledge and nonsense – in the studio with Guardian Football Weekly", The Guardian , 23 September 2017. Retrieved on 14 August 2019.
  9. ↑ "The joys and challenges of covering the World Cup in the digital age". The Guardian. London. 16 July 2018. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
  10. ↑ "Top 10 female footballers in the world 2020 - Football Weekly Bonus". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
  11. ↑ Wells, Matt (10 April 2008). "Radio Guardian: our Sony award nominations". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2 May 2010.
  12. ↑ "Guardian wins three honours at Football Supporters’ Federation awards", The Guardian , 3 December 2018. Retrieved on 14 August 2019.
  13. ↑ Nicholson, Tom. "The Best Football Podcasts For The New Season", Esquire , 13 August 2019. Retrieved on 14 August 2019.
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