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The Back Page — 89 episodes
Manu Petit smokes Marlboro Reds: The importance of details, with Ryan Baldi
When Stam says "No" and Wrighty says "Yes"
A Big Announcement!
A Big Announcement!
Sports Writing Masterclass: John Greechan on getting close to the story
John Greechan: Revolution - Ange Postecoglou: The Man, The Methods and The Mastery
Andriy Shevchenko and the Making of My Life, My Football
Arrigo Sacchi And The Making Of The Immortals
Daniel Gray: Snapshot
Ben Reiter: The Edge
Henry Winter: Wild Swimming with Nigel Pearson
Sebastian Moffett: Japanese Rules
Mutiny at Hearts - The Story Behind Our Spotify Original
Oliver Kay: Forever Young - The Story of Adrian Doherty, Football's Lost Genius
My Favourite Sports Book: Matt McGinn and Dark Trade
Matt McGinn: Against the Elements - The Eruption of Icelandic Football
James Pearce: At the End of the Storm
At the End of the Storm: Our new book with The Athletic
Back after the Break...
Matt Spiro: Sacre Bleu - From Zidane to Mbappe
John Carlin: Invictus, the movie
John Carlin: Playing the Enemy - Nelson Mandela and the Game that made a Nation
Ian Ridley: Addicted, Tony Adams
Ian Ridley: Floodlit Dreams - How to Save a Football Club
My Favourite Sports Book: Pete Burns and FitzSimons on Rugby
Pete Burns: How has COVID-19 impacted sports publishing?
My Favourite Sports Book: James Morgan and Open / Brilliant Orange
James Morgan: The Carfin Emeralds - How Celtic players in disguise won the Kennedy Cup
Coming Soon...
My Favourite Sports Book: Matt & Tom Oldfield - The Nowhere Men / Playing for Keeps
Matt & Tom Oldfield: Ultimate Football Heroes
My Favourite Sports Book: Neil Forsyth and Floodlit Dreams
Neil Forsyth: Jousting with Jim McLean
YOUR favourite sports docs and movies
John Greechan: No Sport? Try a Movie Instead
Iain Macintosh and Kenny Millar - Football Manager Stole My Life
James Montague: 1312 - Among The Ultras
Martin BackPage: Read All About It
My Favourite Sports Book: Tom English and The Franchise
Tom English: The Grudge
My Favourite Sports Book: Raphael Honigstein and King of the World
Raphael Honigstein: How Dortmund Won the Race for Haaland
My Favourite Sports Book: Tim Lee and The Damned United
Tim Lee: The official film of the 2019 Champions League final
Andrea Pirlo, I Think Therefore I Play: with translator Mark Palmer & BackPage
Tim Parks: A Season with Verona
My Favourite Sports Book: Ad Hoc films - Fever Pitch and Mike Tyson
Mat Hodgson and Patrick Nathanson: I Am Duran
My Favourite Sports Book: Si Lloyd and Angels with Dirty Faces
Si Lloyd: United with Dad
My Favourite Sports Book: Marcus Christenson and The Miracle of Castel di Sangro
Marcus Christenson: The Guardian's 100 Best Footballers in the World
David Law: Andy Murray - Resurfacing
And that's a Christmas wrap...
The Making of ... The Miracle of Castel di Sangro
Pol Ballus: Pep's City, The Making of a Superteam
Pep's City: Behind The Scenes with BackPage
David Goldblatt: The Age of Football
Hugh MacDonald: On Hugh McIlvanney's Johnny Owen piece
Daniel Gray: On Hugh McIlvanney's Jock Stein piece
Andy Mitten: In Search of Maradona
Lawrence Donegan: Four Iron in the Soul
Oliver Kay: Matt Jansen returns to Rome
Ben Reiter: Astroball
LIVE EPISODE: Fergie to Messi - A Football Writer's Guide to the Giants of the Game
*REPOST* Andy Murray: The History Man
Jonathan Northcroft: Deadlines and Darts with Dele
Mike Calvin: Family
Michael Calvin: State of Play
Hugh MacDonald: Andy Murray, the history man
Patrick Jennings: Lev Yashin, Bullet-maker to Ballon d'Or
Garrincha: The triumph and tragedy of Brazil's forgotten footballing hero
Doctor Socrates: Andrew Downie
Henry Winter: Reporting on a World Cup
Henry Winter: 50 Years of Hurt
Graham Hunter: Spain - The Inside Story of La Roja's Historic Treble
Grant Wahl: Football 2.0
Archie Macpherson: Jock Stein The Definitive Biography
James Montague: Inside the Secret World of Football in North Korea
Nick Harris: The Global Sports Salaries Survey
Richard Moore: In Search of Robert Millar
Grant Wahl: The World's Team
David Winner: Stillness & Speed (Dennis Bergkamp authorised biography)
David Winner: Brilliant Orange
Ben Reiter: How Baseball went beyond Moneyball
Coming attractions
Simon Kuper: Football Against The Enemy
Rory Smith: İlkay Gündoğan's knee
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