In Injury Time 26 🎙️⚽, we are doing our 1950s World Cups draft 🏆🔥

With the Nasazzi’s baton 🏏 securely in Johnny’s clutches after the first of our World Cup draft series, can Alistair muster the forces of the ’50s to wrest it from him? 💪⚡

Join us as we learn about some of the quirkier elements of international football in the 1950s (qualification by coin toss you say? 🪙😅) and chat about some of the players we knew — and a few that we didn’t 👀📚

The fifties was when the World Cup started to be televised 📺✨ and things really started to get sexy 😎🔥

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In Episode 56 🎙️⚽ we talk about The King of Football 👑, Edson Arantes Do Nascimento. That’s Dico to his friends and family 👨‍👩‍👦, and Pelé to the rest of us 🇧🇷✨

Tune in for some important pronunciation advice 🔊🗣️. Your friends may all be laughing at you behind your back 😂for how you pronounce this man’s name… Find out why Al thinks Cristiano Ronaldo is football’s real King 🐐 and learn all about Pelé’s one particular vice 👀🍾…

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⚽️ With the World Cup bearing down on us like a busy full back 💨, we are getting into the groove of things 🎧.

🏆 In Injury Time 25, we begin our own countdown to the summer’s festival of football with our first World Cup draft. In this episode, we are selecting the best players from the three World Cups that took place in the 1930s 📜. Lots of familiar names in there like… em… that one guy 🤔 and… ummm… that other guy 😅…

📚 But football facts ahoy, and the winner takes home the Nasazzi Baton 🥇.

🗽⚽️🔥 In Episode 55, join us for the story of the New York Cosmos, as told by Gavin Newsham in his book Once In a Lifetime 📖🎙️

The Cosmopolitans, to give them their full name, burned fast and bright ✨🔥 from 1971 to 1985, lighting up the North American Soccer League ⚽️🌍. They were — to borrow a line from the book — the best thing and the worst thing to happen to the NASL 📈📉.

They had Pelé ⭐️. They had Beckenbauer 👑. So how on earth could they be the worst? 🤔

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In Injury Time 24, we take Sean Dyche’s advice and play the lookalikey game 👀⚽️ — the game he once said makes the world go round.

It may not be that integral to the earth’s orbit, but it sure is fun

Thanks Sean Dyche / Mick Hucknall / Chris Evans 🙏

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In Episode 54, we review Keith Gillespie’s How Not to be a Football Millionaire.

A Class of ’92 graduate alongside Becks and co., Gillespie enjoyed a solid career at Newcastle, Blackburn, and a handful of other lower-league clubs. The book charts his rocket-propelled rise 🚀 and his lamentable fall 📉.

Capped 86 times for Northern Ireland ⚽️, Gillespie reckons he blew somewhere in the region of £7 million through gambling and slippery financial advisors 💷. I know, its amazing to believe Keith Gillespie earned £7 million...

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In our increasingly polarized world, what a tonic it is to think about where the footballers we so admire fall on the political spectrum. We can even go one further and consider who wins when the footballer conservatives take on the game's SJWs?

Tune in to Injury Time 23 of the Dynamo Football Bookclub and find out which ideology was best all along. Or at least best at football...

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In our first episode this year, we review our first football novel, David Peace’s The Damned United 📖⚽

Having already reviewed both Clough and Taylor’s autobiographies, this was Alistair’s way of cramming in more Clough 😄

The book has been described as the best novel about football 🏆📚 — a fictionalised account of what happened during the 44-day reign of Clough (and don’t forget Taylor) at Leeds United ⏳⚽

It’s also been made into a film 🎬, which we discuss too.

🚨 Spoiler alert: the 44 days didn’t go well…

Happy New Year, folks 🎉 Have a smashing 2026! 🥂✨