The Back Page cover art

All Episodes

The Back Page — 89 episodes

#
Title
1

Manu Petit smokes Marlboro Reds: The importance of details, with Ryan Baldi

2

When Stam says "No" and Wrighty says "Yes"

3

A Big Announcement!

4

A Big Announcement!

5

Sports Writing Masterclass: John Greechan on getting close to the story

6

John Greechan: Revolution - Ange Postecoglou: The Man, The Methods and The Mastery

7

Andriy Shevchenko and the Making of My Life, My Football

8

Arrigo Sacchi And The Making Of The Immortals

9

Daniel Gray: Snapshot

10

Ben Reiter: The Edge

11

Henry Winter: Wild Swimming with Nigel Pearson

12

Sebastian Moffett: Japanese Rules

13

Mutiny at Hearts - The Story Behind Our Spotify Original

14

Oliver Kay: Forever Young - The Story of Adrian Doherty, Football's Lost Genius

15

My Favourite Sports Book: Matt McGinn and Dark Trade

16

Matt McGinn: Against the Elements - The Eruption of Icelandic Football

17

James Pearce: At the End of the Storm

18

At the End of the Storm: Our new book with The Athletic

19

Back after the Break...

20

Matt Spiro: Sacre Bleu - From Zidane to Mbappe

21

John Carlin: Invictus, the movie

22

John Carlin: Playing the Enemy - Nelson Mandela and the Game that made a Nation

23

Ian Ridley: Addicted, Tony Adams

24

Ian Ridley: Floodlit Dreams - How to Save a Football Club

25

My Favourite Sports Book: Pete Burns and FitzSimons on Rugby

26

Pete Burns: How has COVID-19 impacted sports publishing?

27

My Favourite Sports Book: James Morgan and Open / Brilliant Orange

28

James Morgan: The Carfin Emeralds - How Celtic players in disguise won the Kennedy Cup

29

Coming Soon...

30

My Favourite Sports Book: Matt & Tom Oldfield - The Nowhere Men / Playing for Keeps

31

Matt & Tom Oldfield: Ultimate Football Heroes

32

My Favourite Sports Book: Neil Forsyth and Floodlit Dreams

33

Neil Forsyth: Jousting with Jim McLean

34

YOUR favourite sports docs and movies

35

John Greechan: No Sport? Try a Movie Instead

36

Iain Macintosh and Kenny Millar - Football Manager Stole My Life

37

James Montague: 1312 - Among The Ultras

38

Martin BackPage: Read All About It

39

My Favourite Sports Book: Tom English and The Franchise

40

Tom English: The Grudge

41

My Favourite Sports Book: Raphael Honigstein and King of the World

42

Raphael Honigstein: How Dortmund Won the Race for Haaland

43

My Favourite Sports Book: Tim Lee and The Damned United

44

Tim Lee: The official film of the 2019 Champions League final

45

Andrea Pirlo, I Think Therefore I Play: with translator Mark Palmer & BackPage

46

Tim Parks: A Season with Verona

47

My Favourite Sports Book: Ad Hoc films - Fever Pitch and Mike Tyson

48

Mat Hodgson and Patrick Nathanson: I Am Duran

49

My Favourite Sports Book: Si Lloyd and Angels with Dirty Faces

50

Si Lloyd: United with Dad

51

My Favourite Sports Book: Marcus Christenson and The Miracle of Castel di Sangro

52

Marcus Christenson: The Guardian's 100 Best Footballers in the World

53

David Law: Andy Murray - Resurfacing

54

And that's a Christmas wrap...

55

The Making of ... The Miracle of Castel di Sangro

56

Pol Ballus: Pep's City, The Making of a Superteam

57

Pep's City: Behind The Scenes with BackPage

58

David Goldblatt: The Age of Football

59

Hugh MacDonald: On Hugh McIlvanney's Johnny Owen piece

60

Daniel Gray: On Hugh McIlvanney's Jock Stein piece

61

Andy Mitten: In Search of Maradona

62

Lawrence Donegan: Four Iron in the Soul

63

Oliver Kay: Matt Jansen returns to Rome

64

Ben Reiter: Astroball

65

LIVE EPISODE: Fergie to Messi - A Football Writer's Guide to the Giants of the Game

66

*REPOST* Andy Murray: The History Man

67

Jonathan Northcroft: Deadlines and Darts with Dele

68

Mike Calvin: Family

69

Michael Calvin: State of Play

70

Hugh MacDonald: Andy Murray, the history man

71

Patrick Jennings: Lev Yashin, Bullet-maker to Ballon d'Or

72

Garrincha: The triumph and tragedy of Brazil's forgotten footballing hero

73

Doctor Socrates: Andrew Downie

74

Henry Winter: Reporting on a World Cup

75

Henry Winter: 50 Years of Hurt

76

Graham Hunter: Spain - The Inside Story of La Roja's Historic Treble

77

Grant Wahl: Football 2.0

78

Archie Macpherson: Jock Stein The Definitive Biography

79

James Montague: Inside the Secret World of Football in North Korea

80

Nick Harris: The Global Sports Salaries Survey

81

Richard Moore: In Search of Robert Millar

82

Grant Wahl: The World's Team

83

David Winner: Stillness & Speed (Dennis Bergkamp authorised biography)

84

David Winner: Brilliant Orange

85

Ben Reiter: How Baseball went beyond Moneyball

86

Coming attractions

87

Simon Kuper: Football Against The Enemy

88

Rory Smith: İlkay Gündoğan's knee

89

Between the Lines: trailer