🎧 Episode 12 of Injury Time is here! 🎙️

It’s the Great African Draft Showdown — Johnny’s Danny Invincible 11s take on Alistair’s Orlando Pirates in a five-a-side battle to determine who really knows their African football EPL legends. 🇿🇦⚽🇪🇬🇨🇲

Our hosts pick their best five-a-side teams of African Premier League players and AI tells us who’d win.

With 33 of Africa’s 54 nations represented in the Premier League to date, the talent pool is deep… but that doesn’t mean it was easy, some positions are stacked (hello, strikers 😅), others… not so much (goalkeeper, anyone? 🧤).

Check out and let us know who you think were the most under-rated African players to play in the EPL. We’d love to hear from you.

🎙️ Episode 42 is LIVE!

📘 The Feet of the Chameleon – The Story of African Football by Ian Hawkey

⚽️🌍 An epic journey through the past, present & power of African football.

In this episode of the Dynamo Football Bookclub, we explore the rich, complex and utterly compelling story of football across Africa’s 54 nations 🇿🇲🇪🇬🇸🇳🇨🇲.

🦁 From apartheid-era pitches in South Africa…

🎯 To Cameroon’s unlikely rise as a footballing powerhouse 🇨🇲

🛑 And that unforgettable moment when a Zaire defender booted the ball away before Brazil’s free-kick in ‘74 🤯

Hawkey's book covers it all and more again.

🎧 Tune in now and take a trip across the continent with us.

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 🚀

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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🎧 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?

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 🔥.

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 Podcast — Episode 39: Di Stéfano

We kick off our rebrand as The Dynamo Football Book Club with a book about a real legend Di Stéfano by Ian Hawkey.

Alfredo Di Stéfano — the Blonde Arrow 🏹 — won the first five European Cups 🏆 with Real Madrid, played for three national teams 🌍, and lived a life packed with drama: a Venezuelan kidnapping 🕵️, 514 career goals ⚽, and a near-marriage to a woman 50 years his junior 💍.

This episode blends football history with Cold War intrigue, featuring cameos from a young García Márquez ✍️, Che Guevara 🧳, and a future King of Spain 👑.

🎧 If you like football books, wild biographies, and the golden age of the game — this podcast is for you.

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