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May 25, 2022
Jan 27, 2019
Victoriagooner
Jul 17, 2018
This is not your normal football podcast but it is differently a breath of fresh air on that genre. Love insight, stories, knowledge of the game and all around good laughs (at Chinch's expense) 84 episodes strong and still entertaining 🇨🇦
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SPM 275: Last Night In Soho
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Jul 27, 2022 |
SPM 274: Is the landscape of the women's game shifting?
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Jul 06, 2022 |
SPM 273: The Ajax Exodus
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Jun 29, 2022 |
SPM 272: Soccer Story Memory Lane
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Jun 22, 2022 |
SPM 271: EA v FIFA (plus a BIG announcement)
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Jun 07, 2022 |
SPM 270: Nedum Onuoha
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Jun 01, 2022 |
SPM 269: The 6th Annual Hot Takes and Takeaways
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May 25, 2022 |
SPM 268: Why does football keep doing things that benefit the big clubs?
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May 18, 2022 |
SPM BONUS: The End Of The Oligarch Era
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Mar 10, 2022 |
SPM 267: Au Revoir
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Jan 26, 2022 |
SPM 266: Serie A
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Jan 19, 2022 |
SPM 265: Is Football Too Eurocentric?
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Jan 12, 2022 |
SPM 264: The Christmas Schedule Conundrum
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Jan 05, 2022 |
SPM 263: SPMROTY (Part 2)
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Dec 29, 2021 |
SPM 262: SPMROTY (Part 1)
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Dec 22, 2021 |
SPM 261: Being At The Game vs Watching The Game
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Dec 15, 2021 |
SPM 260: What Is Style?
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Dec 08, 2021 |
SPM 259: Is English football as special as it thinks it is?
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Dec 01, 2021 |
SPM 258: What YOU Don't Realise About Commentators...
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Nov 24, 2021 |
SPM 257: Is international football more exciting than we thought?
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Nov 17, 2021 |
SPM 250: Live at the National Football Museum
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Nov 10, 2021 |
SPM 256: Complacency
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Nov 03, 2021 |
SPM 255: Loans, lower league partnerships, or leave the kids alone!
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Oct 27, 2021 |
SPM 254: Do you have to be a football fan to be a football player?
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Oct 20, 2021 |
SPM 253: Are we celebrating the wrong things in football?
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Oct 13, 2021 |
SPM 252: Playbooks
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Oct 06, 2021 |
SPM 251: Soccer Pod Potpourri 2
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Sep 29, 2021 |
SPM 249: Judging Historical Achievements In The Modern Era
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Sep 22, 2021 |
SPM 248: Traditions or Anachronisms?
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Sep 15, 2021 |
SPM 247: Women's Football - Cash, caché and change?
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Sep 08, 2021 |
SPM 246: Are some players bigger than the game?
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Sep 01, 2021 |
SPM 245: Siege Mentalities
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Aug 25, 2021 |
SPM 244: Big Six or Top Six, or neither?
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Aug 18, 2021 |
SPM 243: Leo Leaves (Us Cold)
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Aug 11, 2021 |
SPM 242: Premier League Exceptionalism? - Part 3
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Aug 04, 2021 |
SPM 241: Premier League Exceptionalism? - Part 2
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Jul 28, 2021 |
SPM 240: Premier League Exceptionalism? - Part 1
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Jul 21, 2021 |
SPM 239: Hot Takes and Takeaways (Euro 2020 Edition)
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Jul 12, 2021 |
SPM 238: The 32-team Euro(s)
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Jul 07, 2021 |
SPM 237: Rose Tinted Glasses of Tournament Nostalgia
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Jun 30, 2021 |
SPM 236: Soccer Pod Potpourri
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Jun 23, 2021 |
SPM 235: Footballing Fathers & Sons
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Jun 16, 2021 |
SPM 234: The Value Of Trophies
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Jun 09, 2021 |
SPM 233: Two Things Can Be True
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Jun 02, 2021 |
SPM 232: The 4th Annual Hot Takes and Takeaways
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May 26, 2021 |
SPM 231: Squad Construction
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May 19, 2021 |
SPM 230: Player Priorities
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May 12, 2021 |
SPM 229: Player Pathways
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May 05, 2021 |
SPM 228: A New Kind Of Tribalism
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Apr 28, 2021 |
SPM 227: The ESL S**tshow
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Apr 21, 2021 |
SPM Bonus: The ESL Fury
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Apr 19, 2021 |
SPM 226: Agents
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Apr 14, 2021 |
SPM 225: Should we expect football to reflect our own moral compass?
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Apr 07, 2021 |
SPM 224: The Sub-Chinch England XI
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Mar 31, 2021 |
SPM 223: What is 'International Level'?
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Mar 24, 2021 |
SPM 222: Is football intelligent enough to change?
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Mar 17, 2021 |
SPM 221: How much football is too much football?
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Mar 10, 2021 |
SPM 220: The Anatomy Of A Post-Match Interview
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Mar 03, 2021 |
SPM 219: System or Circumstance?
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Feb 24, 2021 |
SPM 218: GOATs
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Feb 17, 2021 |
SPM 217: Statistics have growing power, but are we using them responsibly?
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Feb 10, 2021 |
SPM 216: Managers' teams or players' teams?
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Feb 03, 2021 |
SPM 215: The Non-Elite World Cup
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Jan 27, 2021 |
SPM 214: What's our current relationship with behind closed doors football?
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Jan 20, 2021 |
SPM 213: Pragmatism
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Jan 13, 2021 |
SPM 212: Why is everyone talking about Leeds?
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Jan 06, 2021 |
SPM 211: Nostalgia (Part 2)
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Dec 30, 2020 |
SPM 210: Nostalgia (Part 1)
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Dec 23, 2020 |
SPM 209: What happens when the magic potion runs out?
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Dec 16, 2020 |
SPM 208: Allegiances
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Dec 09, 2020 |
SPM 207: Can you have the genius without the flaws?
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Dec 02, 2020 |
SPM 206: Why do people support s**t teams?
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Nov 25, 2020 |
SPM 205: What makes a good game?
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Nov 18, 2020 |
SPM 204: Footballers and 'The Mainstream'
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Nov 11, 2020 |
SPM 203: Sport and 'The Mainstream'
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Nov 04, 2020 |
SPM 202: The Rebuild
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Oct 28, 2020 |
SPM 201: Can football die?
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Oct 21, 2020 |
SPM 200: Project Big Picture - Opportunity or Opportunism?
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Oct 14, 2020 |
SPM 199: Team Talks and Press Conferences
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Oct 07, 2020 |
SPM 198: Seriously. WTF is going on?
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Sep 30, 2020 |
SPM 197: Knee-jerk Reactions (Part 2)
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Sep 23, 2020 |
SPM 196: Knee-jerk Reactions
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Sep 16, 2020 |
SPM 195: The Football Pyramid
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Sep 09, 2020 |
SPM 194: What we learnt about matches with no fans
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Sep 02, 2020 |
SPM 193: The Champions League Last Eight (that was good, so let's not do it again)
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Aug 26, 2020 |
SPM 192: Pep Talk
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Aug 19, 2020 |
SPM 191: Elite players who have become elite managers
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Aug 12, 2020 |
SPM 190: The lessons and legacy of the coronavirus pandemic, and will football just ignore them all?
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Aug 05, 2020 |
SPM 189: The 3rd Annual Hot Takes And Takeaways
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Jul 29, 2020 |
SPM 188: The Obsession with Records
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Jul 21, 2020 |
SPM 187: The Relegation Flake Out
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Jul 15, 2020 |
SPM Bonus: MCFC FFP
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Jul 13, 2020 |
SPM 186: Professionalism
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Jul 08, 2020 |
SPM 185: Desire
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Jul 01, 2020 |
SPM 184: Did we miss the actual football, or the paraphernalia that surrounds the games?
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Jun 24, 2020 |
SPM 183: The Premier League is back... but is it still the best?
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Jun 17, 2020 |
SPM 182: SPM Live! (It's Not Live) Part 2
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Jun 10, 2020 |
SPM 181: SPM Live! (It's Not Live) Part 1
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Jun 03, 2020 |
SPM 180: Dressing Room Dynamics
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May 27, 2020 |
SPM 179: The Youth/Maturity Paradox
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May 20, 2020 |
SPM 178: A question for the Premier League: "What are you doing?"
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May 13, 2020 |
SPM 177: The Influence of FIFA and FM
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May 06, 2020 |
SPM 176: The Set Piece Menu Draft
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Apr 29, 2020 |
SPM 175: The (still prospective) Newcastle United Takeover
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Apr 22, 2020 |
SPM 174: Football needs one voice, and better accountants
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Apr 15, 2020 |
SPM 173: The SPM European Super League
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Apr 08, 2020 |
SPM 172: The Football Conversation (Part 2 - Fans v The Media)
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Apr 01, 2020 |
SPM 171: The Football Conversation (Part 1 - Fans v Fans)
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Mar 25, 2020 |
SPM 170: Football's Future In The Coronavirus Pandemic
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Mar 17, 2020 |
SPM 169: Football's Response To The Coronavirus Outbreak
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Mar 11, 2020 |
SPM 168: MLS
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Mar 04, 2020 |
SPM 167: Preparation and Mindset
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Feb 26, 2020 |
SPM 166: The Likeable Footballer XI
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Feb 19, 2020 |
SPM 165: Do the Cups still matter?
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Feb 12, 2020 |
SPM 164: Do professionals enjoy playing football as much as amateurs?
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Feb 05, 2020 |
SPM 163: Captaincy
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Jan 29, 2020 |
SPM 162: Charisma
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Jan 22, 2020 |
SPM 161: Is the media coverage of Manchester City and Liverpool different?
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Jan 15, 2020 |
SPM 160: After the Premier League power shift of the last decade, what will the 2020s bring?
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Jan 08, 2020 |
SPM 159: Unfulfilled Potential XI
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Jan 01, 2020 |
SPM 158: Festive Football Fun!
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Dec 23, 2019 |
SPM 157: What do we mean by 'great'?
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Dec 18, 2019 |
SPM 156: Unfulfilled Potential
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Dec 11, 2019 |
SPM 155: Do we talk about managers too much?
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Dec 04, 2019 |
SPM 154: What makes a club a crisis club?
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Nov 27, 2019 |
SPM 100: And it's LIVE!
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Nov 20, 2019 |
SPM 153: Referees - do we expect too much or are they letting us down?
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Nov 13, 2019 |
SPM 152: Re-evaluating managers we *might* have been wrong about
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Nov 06, 2019 |
SPM 151: Should support be unwavering?
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Oct 30, 2019 |
SPM 150: How do players do amazing things?
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Oct 23, 2019 |
SPM 149: Why do footballers do stupid things?
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Oct 16, 2019 |
SPM 148: Do you need to be an activist, or is being a supporter enough?
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Sep 25, 2019 |
SPM 147: Why do players make mistakes at international level that they don't for their clubs?
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Sep 18, 2019 |
SPM 146: Players So Underrated They're Rated
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Sep 11, 2019 |
SPM 145: Time-warping Past Players Into The Present
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Sep 04, 2019 |
SPM 144: Can football sustain the 92?
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Aug 28, 2019 |
SPM 143: The Entourage
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Aug 21, 2019 |
SPM 142: Betting
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Aug 14, 2019 |
SPM 141: New Season Questions, Queries, and Quibbles
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Aug 07, 2019 |
SPM 140: Tactical Periodisation
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Jul 31, 2019 |
SPM 139: The Clutch Gene
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Jul 24, 2019 |
SPM 138: The Legitimate Football Voice (Part 4)
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Jul 17, 2019 |
SPM 137: The Legitimate Football Voice (Part 3)
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Jul 10, 2019 |
SPM 136: The Legitimate Football Voice (Part 2)
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Jul 03, 2019 |
SPM 135: The Legitimate Football Voice (Part 1)
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Jun 26, 2019 |
SPM 134: Diego Maradona
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Jun 21, 2019 |
SPM 133: Pod Postbag
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Jun 12, 2019 |
SPM 132: The Blueprint for Championship Promotion
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Jun 05, 2019 |
SPM 131: Training
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May 29, 2019 |
SPM 130: The UEFA Finals - Where, Why and Who For?
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May 23, 2019 |
SPM 129: The 2nd Annual Hot Takes and Takeaways
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May 15, 2019 |
SPM 128: Being A Club Man
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May 08, 2019 |
SPM 127: Are players any good at judging other players?
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May 01, 2019 |
SPM 126: Is reinvention the key to ultimate success?
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Apr 24, 2019 |
SPM 125: Do players care about their surroundings?
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Apr 17, 2019 |
SPM 124: Injuries
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Apr 10, 2019 |
SPM 123: Is luck really a thing?
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Apr 03, 2019 |
SPM 122: The Modern Football Fan (Part 2)
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Mar 27, 2019 |
SPM 121: The Modern Football Fan (Part 1)
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Mar 20, 2019 |
SPM 120: The Champions League Has Gone Nuts
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Mar 13, 2019 |
SPM 119: Football On Terrestrial TV
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Mar 06, 2019 |
SPM 118: The Insubordination Of Kepa
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Feb 27, 2019 |
SPM 117: Managers As Mr Motivators
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Feb 20, 2019 |
SPM 116: The Evolution Of The Full Back
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Feb 13, 2019 |
SPM 115: The 2019 January Transfer Window
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Feb 06, 2019 |
SPM 114: Are trophies only for ego?
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Jan 30, 2019 |
SPM 113: Do we treat some players differently?
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Jan 23, 2019 |
SPM 112: Where Is The Line?
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Jan 16, 2019 |
SPM 111: Life After Football
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Jan 09, 2019 |
SPM 110: Atteveld XI (Bag v House)
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Jan 02, 2019 |
SPM 109: Chinch's Worst XI
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Dec 26, 2018 |
SPM 108: How To Run A Football Club
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Dec 19, 2018 |
SPM 107: Commentary
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Dec 12, 2018 |
SPM 106: Is football important?
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Dec 05, 2018 |
SPM 105: Tribalism vs Truth (Part 2)
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Nov 28, 2018 |
SPM 104: Tribalism vs Truth (Part 1)
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Nov 21, 2018 |
SPM 103: XG and other analytics
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Nov 14, 2018 |
SPM 102: Are Manchester City ruining it for everyone?
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Nov 07, 2018 |
SPM 101: What if...?
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Oct 31, 2018 |
SPM 99: What do young British managers have to do to get a top job?
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Oct 24, 2018 |
SPM 98: Burnout
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Oct 17, 2018 |
SPM 97: Local or Inherited Teams (Part 2)
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Oct 10, 2018 |
SPM 96: Local or Inherited Teams (Part 1)
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Oct 03, 2018 |
SPM 95: Does European Football need fixing?
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Sep 26, 2018 |
SPM 94: S**thouses
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Sep 19, 2018 |
SPM 93: What is Beautiful Football?
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Sep 12, 2018 |
SPM 92: Anatomy of a Pundit
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Sep 05, 2018 |
SPM 91: The Shortened Transfer Window
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Aug 29, 2018 |
SPM 90: SPM Book Club with Sanj Shetty
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Aug 22, 2018 |
SPM 89: The Inappropriately Skilled XI Reveal!
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Aug 15, 2018 |
SPM 88: Relegation
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Aug 08, 2018 |
SPM 87: The Inappropriately Skilled XI
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Aug 01, 2018 |
SPM 86: England's World Cup Story
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Jul 25, 2018 |
SPM 85: I Can't Believe That Happened!
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Jul 19, 2018 |
SPM 84: People Who Helped To Shape Modern Football (Part 4) - Silvio Berlusconi
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Jul 11, 2018 |
SPM 83: People Who Helped To Shape Modern Football (Part 3) - Arsene Wenger
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Jul 04, 2018 |
SPM 82: People Who Helped To Shape Modern Football (Part 2) - Walter Crickmar
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Jun 27, 2018 |
SPM 81: People Who Helped To Shape Modern Football (Part 1) - Jimmy Hill
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Jun 20, 2018 |
SPM 80: Does the World Cup still provide the best football?
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Jun 13, 2018 |
SPM 79: Is the World Cup a blessed release?
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Jun 06, 2018 |
SPM 78: The SPM Awards
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May 30, 2018 |
SPM 77: Support Staff
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May 23, 2018 |
SPM 76: The 1st Annual Soccer Hot Takes and Takeaways
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May 16, 2018 |
SPM 75: What's going to make next season's title races interesting?
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May 09, 2018 |
SPM 74: Apologies
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May 02, 2018 |
SPM 73: When is the best time to get a manager's job?
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Apr 25, 2018 |
SPM 72: What's the Point?
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Apr 18, 2018 |
SPM 71: Is pragmatism or a philosophy the key to managerial success?
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Apr 11, 2018 |
SPM 70: A new generation to replace Ronaldo and Messi
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Apr 04, 2018 |
SPM 69: Nerves
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Mar 28, 2018 |
SPM 68: VAR
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Mar 21, 2018 |
SPM 67 and a bit: The Premier League Reset
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Mar 16, 2018 |
SPM 67: Politics and Football
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Mar 14, 2018 |
SPM 66: Corners
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Mar 07, 2018 |
SPM 65: What happened to all the old big clubs?
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Feb 28, 2018 |
SPM 64: What's the best goal?
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Feb 21, 2018 |
SPM 63: One dominant club or a cartel?
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Feb 14, 2018 |
SPM 62: How much cheating should be allowed?
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Feb 07, 2018 |
SPM 61: Unsung Heroes
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Jan 31, 2018 |
SPM 60: Don't You Forget About Me XI
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Jan 24, 2018 |
SPM 59: Parking the Bus
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Jan 17, 2018 |
SPM 58: The Media (feedback episode)
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Jan 10, 2018 |
SPM 57: The Media (Part 3)
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Jan 03, 2018 |
SPM 56: The Media (Part 2)
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Dec 27, 2017 |
SPM 55: The Media (Part 1)
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Dec 20, 2017 |
SPM 54: Are older British coaches stopping the progress of younger British coaches?
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Dec 13, 2017 |
SPM 53: Is there always a bigger club?
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Dec 06, 2017 |
SPM 52: Why do so many fans seem so miserable?
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Nov 29, 2017 |
SPM 51: Joy
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Nov 22, 2017 |
SPM 50: Youth (Part 3)
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Nov 15, 2017 |
SPM 49: Youth (Part 2)
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Nov 08, 2017 |
SPM 48: Youth (Part 1)
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Nov 01, 2017 |
SPM 47: Best of the Pod so far (Part 2)
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Oct 25, 2017 |
SPM 46: Best of the Pod so far (Part 1)
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Oct 18, 2017 |
SPM 45: Intelligence
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Oct 11, 2017 |
SPM 44: Is it getting easier to play away from home?
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Oct 04, 2017 |
SPM 43 and a quarter: A Best of the rest XI
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Oct 02, 2017 |
SPM 43: The polarising of the Premier League
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Sep 27, 2017 |
SPM 42: Segregation
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Sep 20, 2017 |
SPM 41: What's the most important position?
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Sep 13, 2017 |
SPM 40: Does a manager's age matter?
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Sep 06, 2017 |
SPM 39: Tunnel Club
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Aug 30, 2017 |
SPM 38: Is the future of football somewhere other than Europe?
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Aug 23, 2017 |
SPM 37: When will it all end?
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Aug 16, 2017 |
SPM 36: Will the billions make it better?
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Aug 09, 2017 |
SPM 35: Loyalty (Part 2)
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Aug 02, 2017 |
SPM 34: Loyalty (Part 1)
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Jul 26, 2017 |
SPM 33: Transfers (Part 2)
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Jul 19, 2017 |
SPM 32: Transfers (Part 1)
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Jul 12, 2017 |
SPM 31: English Football (Part 4)
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Jul 05, 2017 |
SPM 30: English Football (Part 3)
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Jun 28, 2017 |
SPM 29: English Football (Part 2)
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Jun 21, 2017 |
SPM 28: English Football (Part 1)
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Jun 14, 2017 |
SPM 27: Does money make you less of a success?
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Jun 07, 2017 |
SPM 26: Plan B
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Jun 01, 2017 |
SPM 25: Do you need to have played at the highest level to understand football?
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May 24, 2017 |
SPM 24: Second Teams
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May 17, 2017 |
SPM 23: Three at the back
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May 10, 2017 |
SPM 22: The experience sweet spot
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May 03, 2017 |
SPM 21: Is it the end of an era for the big three of Barça, Real and Bayern?
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Apr 26, 2017 |
SPM 20: Which ideas should football steal from other sports?
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Apr 19, 2017 |
SPM 19: Is football fun anymore?
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Apr 12, 2017 |
SPM 18: The stockpiling of young players
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Apr 05, 2017 |
SPM 17: How long is too long for a manager?
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Mar 29, 2017 |
SPM 16: Does a spell in international football make you a better club manager?
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Mar 22, 2017 |
SPM 15: The Script
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Mar 15, 2017 |
SPM 14: Referees - what are they doing?
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Mar 08, 2017 |
SPM 13: Player Power
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Mar 02, 2017 |
SPM 12: The lost art of defending
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Feb 23, 2017 |
SPM 11: Do Premier League teams care as much about the Champions League as they used to?
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Feb 15, 2017 |
SPM 10: What needs to be fixed in football?
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Feb 08, 2017 |
SPM 9: Is the Premier League's Top Six impenetrable?
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Feb 01, 2017 |
SPM 8: Set Pieces
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Jan 25, 2017 |
SPM 7: Are there really that many world class players?
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Jan 18, 2017 |
SPM 6: Football in a Post-Truth world
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Jan 11, 2017 |
SPM 5: Is an FA Cup run a poisoned chalice?
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Jan 04, 2017 |
SPM 4: Does Christmas actually ruin everything?
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Dec 28, 2016 |
SPM 3: Is there ever anything new in football?
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Dec 21, 2016 |
SPM 2: Who has the right to criticise footballers?
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Dec 15, 2016 |
SPM 1: Is the Premier League the best league in the world?
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Dec 09, 2016 |