Injury Time 11: The Battle of Brobdingnag - Giant Player Draft
Having passed out Crouchie in the podcast charts a couple of weeks ago, we've decided to tackle more giants of the game 🤖
In Injury Time 11 🎙️ we tackle a question that’s baffled football fans for years: who are the greatest players standing at 6′5″ and above? 🏰
⚽ Have there been any genuinely decent towering strikers beyond the aforementioned Peter Crouch ?
🛡️ Is Per Mertesacker really the best colossal centre-back we’ve ever seen?
🤔 And why on earth are there almost no giant midfielders?
Tune in and find out whether Al can make up more of the ground he has lost to Johnny in our draft series 🚀
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Episode 41: Do You Speak Football by Tom Williams
In Episode 41, we move beyond biographies and autobiographies for the first time and into the wonderful world of the language of football with Do You Speak Football by Tom Williams.
In his book, Williams takes us, Palinesque, on a tour of the world explaining how football is spoken about by fans everywhere.
If you would like to find out where a defensive midfielder is known as a faecal plug, what To Zlatan means in French, or what sunshine and piano football means in South Africa, this is the episode for you.
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Injury Time 10: Kanye's boots - more football music
🎧 Once more into the football-musical breach… 🎤⚽
We’re back with one final (for now) dive into the weird and wonderful world of footballers who made music. 🎶👟
Footballing genius doesn’t always translate to musical talent (spoiler: some of these are rough) 😬🎵 — but there are surprises. And its all good fun anyway...
💫 The players featured in this episode have won six Ballons d’Or between them. And one legend — whose music is probably the best of this particular lot — won zero, but only because the award wasn't open to non-Europeans throughout his career. (France Football later said he’d have won seven!) 👀🇧🇷 Can you guess who we’re talking about?
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Episode 40: Flight to Bogota - England's Football Rebel Neil Franklin by John Leonard
This week, we dive into Flight to Bogotá by John Leonard — the true story of Neil Franklin, the England defender hailed by Tom Finney as the finest defender of his generation… until he threw it all away.
In the years after WWII, Franklin played 27 times for England and had a ticket to the 1950 World Cup in the bag 🏆. But instead of heading to Brazil, he shocked the football world by signing for Santa Fe in Colombia’s rebel pirate Dimayor league — sacrificing his career for freedom, dollars 💰, and a new life beyond the FA’s reach.
We explore the post-war players’ rebellion 🛫🇬🇧, their fight against “slave contracts” in British football, and what awaited them in the chaotic, cash-rich world of Colombian football.
A story of risk, revolt, and thick, thick soup 🔥.
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Injury Time 9 - The Grace Jones World Series - North American Soccer League Draft
In this episode of Injury Time, Al and John dive into the chaotic, colourful world of the North American Soccer League (NASL) — the wild 1970s and 80s league that brought Pelé, Cruyff, Beckenbauer, and Best to America.
Each host drafts a 5-a-side dream team of NASL stars. We use this as a vehicle to tell the story - or at least some of the story - of a league where:
Clubs wore cowboy kits 🤠
No game ever ended in a draw (thats right, game rather than match)
And half-time shows featured live concerts and armadillo racing
And of course, the super computer decides whose team wins.
🎧 Available now — listen wherever you get your pods.
The Dynamo Football Book Club is the podcast for football fans who love a good read.
Each week, we dive into books by and about footballers — from autobiographies and biographies to ghostwritten epics and hidden gems. If Vardy’s vodka, Maradona mayhem, or the Cruyff kidnapping are your thing,, we’ve got you covered. We read em, so you don’t have to (although some of em you really ought to).
The episodes are not tied to the match day cycle and can be listened to any time and in any order. Expect a lively chat, deep dives and a good old larf, har har.
🎙️ New episodes every week.
⚽️ Great for fans of football history, sportswriting, player memoirs, and podcast book clubs.
♬ Music by the wonderful Darragh Fenlon.
*formerly the Ademola Bookmen Podcast.
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