S2 E2 · Fri, January 21, 2022

Gary Bennett (MBE) ex-Sunderland legend and anti-racism campaigner.

S2 E1 · Fri, January 14, 2022

Aston Villa legends Dennis Mortimer and Tony Morley talk all things Villa from European Cups to League titles, deadly Doug Ellis, Steven Gerrard and Coutinho.

S1 E20 · Fri, December 24, 2021

Gavin Peacock and Jason McCarthy talk about how football was their God until they found the love of God. Gavin talks about how Newcastle Utd might still need a miracle to stay up!

Welcome to final Old Spice Boys podcast of 2021. We’ve had some remarkable guests since our launch in August and aim to bring more exceptional football folk to you as we grow in 2022. Now is the time to pause and reflect. We are within reach of Christmas Day and into the usual frenetic period of the football calendar when form fluctuates and there seems to be no time to relax and take in the true meaning of the season.  Except that more and more footballers are confident enough to proclaim their Christianity and celebrate the birth of a child in a manger who changes lives and alters perceptions. We have two very special guests today. Gavin Peacock was a gifted forward who played over 100 times for Newcastle and Chelsea in the 1990s and similarly for QPR at the turn of the century.  He became a Christian in his teens, has presented Songs of Praise on the BBC and is now a pastor at the Calvary Grace Church in Calgary, Canada.  His autobiography, A Greater Glory was published in May. Jason McCarthy is in his third spell at Wycombe Wanderers as a wing-back or full-back, has two young children as is utterly devoted to the word of God. I have seen close up how much his Christianity means to him and it is truly life affirming.

S1 E19 · Fri, December 17, 2021

Howard Wilkinson the Chairman of the League Managers Association talks about how bullshit baffles brains, Vinnie Jones putting a 12 bore shotgun to his head, managing Leeds, England and Eric Cantona.

This is the end of Season 1 of the Old Spice Boys podcast.  Our penultimate guest in 2021 is Howard Wilkinson the man who led Leeds United to the First Division championship title in 1992 , the final season before the Premier League came into its gilded existence. To date, he remains the last English manager to lift the trophy for finishing top of the 92 clubs. Howard Wilkinson has plenty of achievements to his name, not least as someone who, in their first full season as a coach, masterminded the tactics and style which inspired three different clubs to the old First Division, Notts County, Sheffield Wednesday and the aforementioned Leeds to earn promotion to the First Division As FA Technical Director he was instrumental in the planning and development of English football's first National Football Centre .  He later had spells as caretaker manager of the England senior and U21 teams. Wilkinson is currently the chairman of the League Managers Association .

S1 E18 · Thu, December 09, 2021

American businessman, lawyer and sports team owner Rob Couhig talks about how he became the owner of Wycombe Wanderers Football Club. Surviving relegation, covid and why he thinks Derby County were systematically cheating.

S1 E17 · Fri, December 03, 2021

Big Ron Atkinson talks about his time as Man Utd manager. Why Sir Matt Busby resigned from the board because of Bryan Robson. How Charlie Nicholas, Terry Butcher and Gary Lineker all nearly signed for Utd. And why Pogba should leave Utd.

On this week’s Old Spice Boys’ podcast, we’re joined by the man who managed some of the most expressive football teams of the nineteen seventies, eighties and nineties. Few people from the present generation have left an imprint on the game as indelible as that of Ron Atkinson, aka Big Ron. Ron talks about  Why it wasn't easy to leave WBA and join Man Utd Signing Bryan Robson for £2m  and why Sir Matt Busby resigned  What he thinks about modern recruitment and tactics  Why Charlie Nicolas, Terry Butcher and Gary Lineker never signed for Utd How he helped Norman Whiteside get picked so young for Utd and Northern Ireland How Ole was so close as a Utd manager but unlucky Why Pogba is better suited to European football

S1 E16 · Mon, November 29, 2021

Harry Findlay, the man who watches more football than anyone else, talks about football gamblings do's and don'ts.

There is no one alive who watches more football and bets on more football than Harry Findlay. Harry may be instantly recognisable for his co-ownership of Denman, who twice won the Hennessey and whose 2008 Gold Cup victory at Cheltenham is legend among its pantheon of races and he’s famed in Ireland for owning Big Fella Thanks, one of that country’s foremost champion coursing dogs. But Harry knows his football, inside and out. Harry’s talks about Tips from the man who watches more football than anyone else. He knows as much about soccer in Belarus as in the U.K.  Why Brighton and Brentford have the best owners in the Premier League. Educate yourself on how to bet properly. It can save you fortunes. Don’t get caught up in the world of accumulators as promoted by Jeff Stelling and Ray Winstone. How betting in small amounts can give us much satisfaction as a huge wager.

S1 E15 · Fri, November 12, 2021

Alan Smith and Darren Ambrose talk to about the Crystal Palace way. Why Gareth Southgate could have been a travel agent and what next for Newcastle, can they build a Geordie Way?

Join the award winning sports journalists Neil Harman and John Richardson as they talk with Darren Ambrose and Alan Smith about their time at Crystal Palace.   They also talk about  The immediate impact of Patrick Viera, can he store the "Crystal Palace Way?"   Simon Jordan's unsuccessful time as Crystal Palace Manager  The old players such as Geoff Thomas, Andy Gray, Ian Wright and Gareth Southgate Why  Gareth Southgate could have been a travel agent What next for Gareth Southgate after Qatar World Cup  What will happen to Newcastle under the mega-rich Saudis?  The abuse of managers via social media, why it has spoilt the relationship with fans and the press.   Can Eddie Howe build a 'Geordie Way' like Bobby Robson and Sir John Hall?  

S1 E14 · Fri, November 05, 2021

Ex-Man Utd Captain Martin Buchan and Man City's Dennis Tueart talk about the Manchester derby and how both clubs have evolved since their time in the 70's.

The Old Spice Boys podcast has a distinct Mancunian flavour this week, even if our two guests hail from Aberdeen and Newcastle.  Martin Buchan captained Manchester United for most of the 12 seasons he played at Old Trafford under four United managers, Frank O’Farrell, Tommy Docherty, Dave Sexton and Ron Atkinson. Martin made 456 appearances for the Reds, and won 34 Scottish caps, playing in two World Cup Finals.  Dennis Tueart had two spells at Manchester City, playing 224 times in light blue and was later appointed as a director of the club in the time before it was swallowed up by the mega billions of Abu Dhabi.  His overhead kick with which won City the 1976 League Cup against his hometown club, remains one of the most fabled in club folklore In the history of this local rivalry, United have won 77 times, City 55 and there has been a regular diet of been controversies and shall we say, collisions - George Best and Glyn Pardoe, Roy Keane and Alf Inge Haaland spring readily to mind. Fast forward to November 2021 and the current Premier League table has leaders Chelsea five points clear of third placed City with United a further three points away in fifth.  City – who lost at home in the League to Crystal Palace at the weekend - play in the Champions League group stages tonight against Bruges. United were twice rescued last night by Cristiano Ronaldo in Atalanta, for a 2-2 draw. United’s manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is facing a daily discourse as to whether he’s up to the job.

Tue, November 02, 2021

Paul Stewart

Paul Stewart talks to the Old Spice Boys about his new safeguarding in sport project, a football career full of promise but racked with torment, sharing with Gazza and how the abuse he suffered as a kid destroyed his dreams 

S1 E12 · Fri, October 29, 2021

Rick Parry talks about how to protect the EFL, the League Cup and the football 'Pyramid'.

Join Neil Harman and John Richardson as the talk to Rick Parry  the current chairman of the EFL , the former chief executive of Liverpool , the original CEO of the Premier League and a board member at New York Cosmos . Rick talks about:  How long would the Football League survive if there wasn't a dramatic reset of football finance? The dangerous absurdity of the Premier League parachute payments The latest on Derby County, currently in the hands of the administrators Why a World Cup every two years would be a catastrophe Are there enough people in the English game with the vision to secure its future?

S1 E11 · Fri, October 15, 2021

Super Agent Jonathan Barnett talks about why the biggest three agents in world football are getting together . Why a World Cup every two years won't happen. On taking care of Jack Grealish, Gareth Bale.

Listen to Neil Harman and John Richardson aka The Old Spice Boys as they talk with Super Agent Jonathan Barnett the chairman and founder of ICM Stellar Group, one of the most powerful management companies in the world of football. Indeed he represents, among many hundreds of others Jack Grealish and Gareth Bale.  They talk about:  1) Why the biggest three agents in world football are getting together  2) A World Cup every two years? It’ll never happen. 3) On taking care of Jack Grealish, Gareth Bale and his many other footballing clients. 4) If FIFA run the world game, why do they refuse to talk to the men who represent its major assets, the players? 5) From helping make money for two Pakistani cricketers to the dominant force in football.

S1 E10 · Fri, October 08, 2021

Chelsea and Stoke legend Alan Hudson talks about his love of the bright lights, why playing for Chelsea meant the end of his England career and which player had they started in every match, England would have won the Euros.

Listen to Neil Harman and John Richardson aka The Old Spice Boys as they talk with Chelsea, Arsenal and Stoke Legend Alan Hudson who was the cock of the walk along the Kings Road in the early 1970s and played his football with a delightful, uninhibited swagger. Alan Hudson was born in Chelsea and his boyhood dream was to play for Fulham, who rejected him. He signed for Chelsea and was a galvanising spirit at Stamford Bridge, before becoming arguably the best piece of business Tony Waddington ever did as manager of Stoke City when he moved there in 1974. Waddington described his talents as “ the working man’s ballet ." They reminisce about  His love of the bright lights - in hospital as well as on the field of play Why playing for Chelsea meant the end of his England career under Don Revie The day that the Stoke-on-Trent fire brigade flooded the Victoria Ground.  If this player had started in every match at the Euros this summer, England would have won the trophy. How he only overcame not playing in the 1970 FA Cup Final for Chelsea 27 years after the event.

S1 E9 · Fri, October 01, 2021

Spurs Legend Steve Perryman talks about playing for Bill Nicholson, Ossie Ardiles and Ricky Villa. Why he isn't an admirer of television pundits and reflects on Roger Hunt and Jimmy Greaves, two of the great strikers who have recently left us.

Listen too Neil Harman and John Richardson aka The Old Spice Boys as they talk with Spurs Legend Steve Perryman.  They talk about  What it was like to play for Bill Nicholson, the simple philosophies that made a great manager The story of his lone England cap and why he wished he'd never won it. Ossie Ardiles and Ricky Villa, which one of them used to ride a horse to football training Why he isn't an admirer of television pundits who have no idea what it is like to be a manager. On Roger Hunt and Jimmy Greaves, two of the great strikers who have recently left us.

S1 E8 · Fri, September 24, 2021

Frank Clark talks about playing for Newcastle Utd and Nottingham Forest, winning the European Cup and managing Nottingham Forest and Man City before becoming the Executive of the League Managers Association.

For our eighth Old Spice Boys podcast we talk to one of the game’s league of gentlemen. The last time Newcastle United lifted a trophy, 52 years ago, Frank Clark was in the side. When Nottingham Forest first won the European Cup under Brian Clough ten years later, Frank Clark was in the side. He would later be both manager and chairman of Forest and would also manage Manchester City for two years in the late 1990s. Now, as a highly respected member of the executive of the League Managers Association, Frank helps guide today’s managers through the peaks and troughs of their careers.

S1 E7 · Fri, September 17, 2021

Richard Keys and Andy Gray talk about the launch of the Premier League and Sky Sports, The Qatar World Cup and the moment Andy Gray become the game's most expensive player.

Introduction: On this week’s Old Spice Boys podcast, we’re speaking to a football pairing almost as famous as we are. As BBC documentary series ' Fever Pitch ' this month features the birth of the Premier League, we’re delighted to have as our guests the two men who steered us through those formative years and are still at the heart of the sport, Richard Keys and Andy Gray. Richard the anchor and Andy the analyst were at the heart of Sky Sports innovative, game-changing coverage of live football in the UK 30 years ago. Today, based in Doha, they present for Bein sports with the same, evocative blend of comment and news.  We welcome Richard and Andy to the podcast as the Premier League starts to take initial shape, the Champions League bubbles into action and new managers, like those at two of Andy’s former clubs, Everton and Wolves begin to bed in. Show Notes:  The advent of Sky Sports drove one leading manager to refuse to let his players speak to the company for the first year of its existence. Who was it? Why the Qatar World Cup should deliver a permanent winter break in English football Which current Premier League boss should not have to put up with his job any longer? The moment Andy Gray, who had just become the game's most expensive player when he joined Wolves from Aston Villa in 1979, walked barefoot across a Birmingham street. Rafa Benitez and why Everton shouldn't have appointed him, 

S1 E6 · Thu, September 09, 2021

Keith Hackett the first man to lead English referees into the world of professionalism.

For the sixth edition of the Old Spice Boys podcast, we enter an area of football where most are not able to tread – that of the men and women in black. The world of the football referee is largely impenetrable to the rest of us. They arrive at a ground, they officiate, they depart and are never obliged to offer a word of explanation for their decisions. Today, we have as our special guest Keith Hackett, a former English football referee , who began refereeing in local leagues in the Sheffield , South Yorkshire area in 1960. He is counted amongst the top 100 referees of all time in a list maintained by the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS). Keith refereed the FA Cup final between Spurs and Manchester City 40 years ago, spent a decade on the FIFA list and then became the first man to lead English referees into the world of professionalism.  Keith also talks about:  1) Chartering his own plane to referee a match in Europe 2) Telling Mike Dean he'd make him a professional referee 3) Who wound Gazza down? 4) Why he didn’t send anyone off in the infamous Arsenal - Manchester United brawl. 5) The absurdities of VAR

S1 E5 · Thu, September 02, 2021

Gary Lineker talks about Barcelona, Leicester City winning the title. Who he prefers Messi or Ronaldo. Italia 90 and his favourite manager.

Join Neil Harman and John 'Ricco' Richardson as they talk to Gary Lineker about his amazing career in football and his equally stellar career in media.    

S1 E4 · Fri, August 27, 2021

Joe Royle talks about Harry Kane, Rafa Benitez, Everton, Football Agents, England and Modern Football.

Join Neil Harman and John 'Ricco' Richardson as they talk to Joe Royle about his amazing career. 

S1 E3 · Fri, August 20, 2021

Rodney Marsh talks about Denis Law, George Best,Jack Grealish and Elton John as well ashis time at QPR, Fulham and Man City.

Join Neil Harman and John 'Ricco' Richardson as they talk to Rodney Marsh about his mercurial career.   Rodney talks about  Dennis Law's recent announcement that he has dementia. What the American Football authorities are doing to protect young players   Why the PFA hasn't helped players in the game  His time at Man City and his thoughts on Grealish & Kane Why England mistreated its Mavericks like Marsh, Hudson, Osgood, George, Currie, Le Tisser and Hoddle and most recently Grealish but why they built a team around Gasgoine.  Why there are no English managers at the top of the game.   Moving to America and nearly signing for Elton John's team. Messi coming to America and starting his own franchise team like Beckham

S1 E2 · Thu, August 12, 2021

David Platt talks about Grealish, Mancini, Man City, Italia 90, Euros 96/21 and how to take a winning penalty.

S1 E1 · Thu, August 05, 2021

Harry Redknapp talks about Jack Grealish, Harry Kane, Daniel Levy, England and why he would give it all up

Join Neil Harman and John "Ricco" Richardson with special guest Harry Redknapp

Trailer · Mon, June 21, 2021

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