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! 🥂✨

To mark the festive season 🎄, we discuss some of the weightier religious and historical topics 📜✝️ such as the cause of Herod’s death ☠️ and the schism between the Catholic and Protestant churches ⛪️⚔️⛪️. Yes indeed, it’s a Christmas 5-a-side ⚽️🎅.

Join us as we find ever more tenuous and tangential ways 🧵🤔 to connect top footballers to the 25 December 🎁🎂 and find out if Al can get a nice early present for himself 🎁😬 with a long-overdue win in the ongoing Injury Time draft series 🏆.

And as it’s the season of goodwill to all men 🤝✨, please do give us a nice rating ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.

Merry Christmas, folks! 🎄🍷🎙️

Pour yourself a very very large glass of wine 🍷, sit back 🛋️, and enjoy Episode 52 of the Dynamo Football Bookclub.

This week, we are taking a lesson in humility from Big Sam Allardyce. 📘

The Premier League’s original innovator turned reactionary, Big Sam elbowed his way up and down England as a player before becoming one of the most noteworthy managers of the Premier League era. His Bolton team really were something back in the day ⚪️⚽ with flair, grit 💪, and no shortage of long punts up the field despite what Sam might say.

It was a management career that started with humble Limerick FC 🇮🇪 and hit some memorable high notes 🎶 before ending on the sour notes of England and Leeds 😬.

It was a heck of a journey for the Big Man Brute who is not, as it turns out, from the north of England 😂.

Join us for Sam’s rose-tinted view of it all. 🌹👓

We are skin deep in Episode 21 of the Dynamo Football Bookclub’s Injury Time looking at footballers’ tattoos. 🏉🖋️

From numerology with Sergio Ramos 🔢 to Richarlison’s tattoo tribute to team mate and all-around good guy Neymar 🇧🇷✨, there is quite a lot to talk about.

Will Johnny take up Al’s offer of a five-figure sum to get a tattoo of Al’s face? 🤔💰😬

And more importantly, can Al finally win one of these damn drafts? 🏆🤞

More important questions answered in Episode 21 of Injury Time. 🎙️

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In Episode 51, we’re back with the Oranje 🇳🇱 as we dive into Basta, the autobiography of the one and only Marco van Basten.

The rather oddly nicknamed “Swan of Utrecht” 🦢 rattled in 242 goals and swept up everything in sight:

three Eredivisie titles 🏆, four Scudetti 🇮🇹, two European Cups 🏆🏆, and not one, not two, but three Ballons d’Or 🥇🥇🥇

And he did all this before the age of 28. Amazing, football’s Alexander the Great ⚔️

Tune in to discover:

• Who slammed the door 🚪 in Van Basten’s face for treachery
• How deep his love ❤️ for Silvio Berlusconi runs
• What he really thought of Arrigo Sacchi’s revolution 🤯
• And what is in the infamous Box 13 📦…

If you enjoy the episode, please like, subscribe, and leave us a rating ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ — it genuinely helps the show grow.

It’s injury time on Injury Time ⏱️⚽️

In Episode 20, we pay homage to all those fine fellows whose careers were brought to a premature end due to injury 🤕💔

From the most famous (David Busst) 😬 to some of the more obscure and unlikely — including the goalkeeper who ended his career up a tree while rescuing a cat 🧤🐈🌳

There is also the harrowing tale of the end of a Sprite-drenched Alistair’s fledgling career 🥤😵‍💫 Oh, what could have been…

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🎉 EPISODE 50! 🎉

We’re celebrating our half-century in style — that’s right, it’s Denis Wise’s autobiography 😏📖⚽️

Wise is one of the three musketeers of English football books. Along with Glenn Hoddle and Steve McMahon, he somehow appears in everyone else’s autobiography — and almost no one ever has anything nice to say about him 😬😂

But rather than just blindly swallowing whatever’s served up by untrustworthy footballers, we decided to go straight to the source. 🎯

Denis’ 2012 autobiography is a suitably short book 🪶 — written while he was still playing, and includes:

📖 The greatest ever FA Cup story

🥜 Vinnie Jones’ penchant for grabbing balls

💥 And all the amazing things we’ve apparently lost to “woke”

It’s Episode 50 — a milestone and a madness all in one 🎙️

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🎶 “It’s not time to make a change…” 🎶

It's time to sit back, relax, and enjoy our Father & Son 5-a-side Draft!

Welcome to Injury Time 19 — the Scott Gemini Nepo Baby Special 👨‍👦⚽️😂

This week, we’re drafting the sons of footballing legends to face off on the pitch. It's rich pickings indeed 🤌💎

Turns out a lot of footballers are, well… footballers’ kids. Who knew?! 😏

Tune in for:

👨‍👦 Football father-son trivia

📚 The lively chatter you've come to expect from DFB

👀 A couple of controversial or perhaps ill-advised picks

😈 And the eternal question — can Alistair make a dint in Johnny's lead in the series...

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