Set Piece Menu Football Podcast

By Rory Smith, Andy Hinchcliffe, Steven Wyeth, Hugh Ferris

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Episodes: 280


 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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This is Set Piece Menu - the podcast where four friends talk about football over food. They are together a writer, a commentator, a presenter and a pundit. Rory Smith is the Chief Soccer Correspondent of the New York Times, Steven Wyeth commentates for BT Sport and the BBC's Match Of The Day, Hugh Ferris is a presenter at BBC Sport, and Andy Hinchcliffe is a former England international (seven caps) who is now a pundit for Sky Sports. On each episode they discuss one footballing issue, while digesting a delicious lunch or brunch, and almost never reaching any sort of conclusion.

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