FC Curva

Joe Simpson is with us to talk about football’s relationship with mental health, opening up about how the sport has helped him process grief following the death of his father. We get into the positives and negatives of the emotional state that is football fandom and discuss how the landscape around mental wellbeing has changed over the last 10 years.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Music and features journalist Aneesa Ahmed is with us to talk all things football and community. We get into the lack of South Asian representation within the sport, the uneasy relationship with patriotism as people of colour, and the importance of organisations such as Baes FC & Football For Foodbanks. All this an much [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Elliot Worsop, founder and director of Football For Future and communications manager Dan Hall are with us to talk about how football is responding to the climate crisis.We get into the top down and grassroots work FFF does, whether the sustainability targets of the Premier League and FIFA are realistic, the hypocritical and inconsistent messaging by clubs when it comes to climate action, the environmental cost of the unceasing expansion of football, how fans can get involved, plus much more. @ftblforfuture @fc.curva Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

With us for episode three is Freddie Feltham, founder and co-host of What's Left? a platform exploring how politics has changed, asking the question – what’s left? We get into the current state of UK politics and how football intertwines, the rise of Reform, masculinity in a hypermodernised world and football as the secular man's religion. All this and much more.To hear more from Freddie, head over to What's Left? linktr.ee/wtf.is.left Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Vasilis Kostakis, author of Beyond the Final Whistle: Football for a Better World is with us to talk about his book and a new philosophy of football. Vasilis' personal journey with football that saw him stop watching the sport for a number of years, the importance of accessibility, the ecological impact of the game, and why football is so important when it comes to social issues are all discussed and more.Published by Pluto Press, you can purchase a copy of Vasilis' book here: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745350738/beyond-the-final-whistle/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the first episode of Curva, Jeremy Corbyn is with us to talk about football's role in social justice and his relationship with the sport in 2025. The lack of democracy in the professional game, how local authorities and clubs interact, and the importance of rebalancing the resources available across the football pyramid are also discussed. All this and more, from [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.