The Football Ramble

Man United have copied Newcastle’s homework and narrowed their striker options down to Ollie Watkins and Benjamin Šeško. That means Pete, Luke and Jim have to confront the terrifying prospect that they might actually have a decent season, as unlikely as that still sounds…We also get an update on the terrible situations at Sheffield Wednesday and Morecambe, while David Moyes becomes the unlikely head of the Everton tourist board and Joško Gvardiol’s pre-season training involves wielding a semi-automatic in the Croatian woods. Plus, Erik ten Hag remains adamant that Granit Xhaka won’t leave Bayer Leverkusen - cue the Benny Hill theme #herewego.Sign up to the Football Ramble Patreon for ad-free shows, extended Wednesday episodes, access to our Discord and early access to tickets and merch for just $5 per month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!**

Pete, Luke and Jim are back to officially plinth Sarina Wiegman on today's Mailbag! Plus, do we think Thomas Frank will tame the Spurs madhouse? Should there be a Premier League squad cap to stop Chelsea's puppy farming? And what would Pete do to Les Ferdinand in the confines of his shed?Your suggestions on that last one are very welcome... Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.Sign up to the Football Ramble Patreon for ad-free shows, extended Wednesday episodes, access to our Discord and early access to tickets and merch for just $5 per month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It’s a historic eeeeeaasaaay for Pete, Luke and Jim today after England retain their Euros crown with a clutch win over Spain. We revel in some era-defining performances from Sarina Wiegman, Chloe Kelly, Lucy Bronze and the rest of those effing heroes.Elsewhere, Arsenal finally complete the signing of Viktor Gyökeres, Pep turns down the India job (sort of) and Evangelos Marinakis convinces Morgan Gibbs-White to stay at Forest - presumably at gun point. Plus, rejoice: pre season tours are here! Shame nobody told the fans in the local area.For Upfront's full review of England's famous win, click here to listen and subscribe!Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.Sign up to the Football Ramble Patreon for ad-free shows, extended Wednesday episodes, access to our Discord and early access to tickets and merch for just $5 per month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the sho

Luke, Jim and David are here for a Friday frot! And while there might be no football, there are plenty of worried Geordies because Alexander Isak is being a hot mess – but fear not everyone, Alan Shearer is on the case...Elsewhere, in the loveliest of lovely old jobs, Jack Grealish has been linked with Napoli after someone drove him down the Amalfi Coast – it might be tenuous but we don't care. Plus, a listener tells us about Chelsea's team of magicians and there's the small matter of the Lionesses vs Spain on Sunday!For Upfront's full preview of that game on Saturday, click here to listen and subscribe!Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.Sign up to the Football Ramble Patreon for ad-free shows, extended Wednesday episodes, access to our Discord and early access to tickets and merch for just $5 per month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show and will make it

Today, we're bringing you a special episode from Andy's European rabble over at On The Continent!He's joined by Dotun and Italian football expert Nicky Bandini to discuss Ademola Lookman's potential big-money move to Inter. After years of waiting, can he make the splash people think he might at one of Europe's elite clubs?Plus, RB Leipzig are just one day into pre-season training and who rocks up on the sidelines? One Jürgen Klopp of course. But in his role as Red Bull's Global Head of Soccer, what exactly will, should and can he do to get Leipzig back on track?Want more from the best European football podcast out there? Subscribe here for new episodes every Thursday and Friday throughout the summer!Prompted with a question for Dotun, Andy and their guests? Send them in on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok, and email us here: otc@footballramble.com.Please fill out Stak's listener survey! It'll help us learn more about the content you love so we can bring you even more - you'll also be ent

Eeeeaaasayyy! Those Lionesses didn't half leave it late, eh? But England are into the final of Euro 2025!Pete, Luke & Jim give their thoughts on a crazy night in Geneva. Plus, Arsenal fans have tracked down Viktor Gyökeres' removal van, Pete discovers what a palindrome is, and Steve Bruce is spotted in a bucket hat.Please fill out Stak's listener survey! It'll help us learn more about the content you love so we can bring you even more - you'll also be entered into a competition to win one of five PlayStation 5's! Click here: https://bit.ly/staksurvey2025Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.Sign up to the Football Ramble Patreon for ad-free shows for just $5 per month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privac

Pete Donaldson is in the hot seat for a Mailbag... what could possibly go wrong? Today he's joined by Luke and Jim for a special rendition of 'I like to move it' by Reel 2 Real.And we promise you there is some football too. Which rules would we love to see binned or brought in next season? And is it make or break for Mikel Arteta? To paraphrase a certain somebody: dive in, it's lovely.Please fill out Stak's listener survey! It'll help us learn more about the content you love so we can bring you even more - you'll also be entered into a competition to win one of five PlayStation 5's! Click here: https://bit.ly/staksurvey2025Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.Sign up to the Football Ramble Patreon for ad-free shows for just $5 per month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential lis

This is a really interesting market opportunity. Does he score lots of goals? Not really. Will he quite frequently get sent off? Maybe. But yeah, £100m please.Mr Donaldson takes class today with Luke and Jim for a lesson in the economics of Nicolas Jackson, sexy white water rafting with Fabian Schär, and Dudley's finest celebrities.The lads also discuss if Noni Madueke will improve Arsenal and whether Terry Sheddingham is right: does Marcus Rashford 'deserve' to move to Barcelona?Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.Sign up to the Football Ramble Patreon for ad-free shows, extended Wednesday episodes, access to our Discord and early access to tickets and merch for just $5 per month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We’re back with the final round of Luke’s Game for the summer! In this ‘Ramble Icons’ season finale, Marcus takes on Luke for the belts. And there’s only one category we could pick to end this titanic battle…Plus, we reveal the new name for Luke’s Game, as voted for by you!Please fill out Stak's listener survey! It'll help us learn more about the content you love so we can bring you even more - you'll also be entered into a competition to win one of five PlayStation 5's! Click here: https://bit.ly/staksurvey2025Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.Sign up to the Football Ramble Patreon for ad-free shows for just $5 per month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome back to our Ramble rewind! Today, we're revisiting some of our favourite stories from the second half of this season, featuring everyone's favourite disgraced eagle handler Juan Bernabé, Frank Clark's canal-shoving rampage, and Andy Gray as James Bond. Plus, the most contentious round of Jack's Encyclopedia to ever sully the Ramble studio and a quite frankly outrageous FIFA ticketing scheme for the Club World Cup...Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.Sign up to the Football Ramble Patreon for ad-free shows for just $5 per month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For the next two days, we're looking back at some of our favourite moments from the 2024/25 season - aka the longest football season of all time (probably). Today's episode sees us reminisce about a few Ramble classics: Noni Madueke slagging off a town, a parrot grassing up a Spanish referee and David Coote's afters. Join us tomorrow for part two!Please fill out Stak's listener survey! It'll help us learn more about the content you love so we can bring you even more - you'll also be entered into a competition to win one of five PlayStation 5's! Click here: https://bit.ly/staksurvey2025Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.Sign up to the Football Ramble Patreon for ad-free shows for just $5 per month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** Hosted on

Well there we have it, ladies and gents. The key is in the trophy and the curtain has finally come down on the Club World Cup.So now it’s time for Marcus, Luke, Pete and Andy to reveal their predictions for what was a rather, let’s say ‘unique’ tournament. It’s fair to say we had a pretty varied selection when it came to notable mad s***.Please fill out Stak's listener survey! It'll help us learn more about the content you love so we can bring you even more - you'll also be entered into a competition to win one of five PlayStation 5's! Click here: https://bit.ly/staksurvey2025Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.Sign up to the Football Ramble Patreon for ad-free shows for just $5 per month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** Hosted on Acast. S

Chelsea put in a mesmerising performance against PSG to claim the title of world champions - but that’s not half the story, is it?Join Marcus, Luke, Pete and Andy for a thorough breakdown of every madcap moment from the final of this foul jamboree, from Donald Trump and Gianni Infantino to Doja Cat wearing the new Crystal Palace shirt. Bear with us, there’s a lot to get through.Plus, the curse of modern football strikes again as Crystal Palace are demoted to the Conference League and Andy Carroll fronts a Qatari consortium’s takeover of a non-league side. Yep, you read that correctly.Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.Sign up to the Football Ramble Patreon for ad-free shows, extended Wednesday episodes, access to our Discord and early access to tickets and merch for just $5 per month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show an

It's a titanic clash this week: Marcus vs Brassell! And remember, for Andy Luke's Game is what the Turkish Süper Lig was for Mauro Icardi. Andy and his beautiful wrists are ready to tear it up.Can Marcus and his hairy chest do anything to stop him? The theme of today's game is Judas Footballers - players who have transferred to their fiercest rivals - so come join us and don't be going to listen to another football podcast, all right? ALL RIGHT!Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.Sign up to the Football Ramble Patreon for ad-free shows, extended Wednesday episodes, access to our Discord and early access to tickets and merch for just $5 per month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

First Mohammed Kudus signs… Now Morgan Gibbs-White?! Imagine what our Big Ange could have done with this spicy new Spurs line-up! RIP Ange u will live on.Marcus, Andy and Pete check in with more transfer tidbits, including an outrageous Premier League return for Jordan Henderson and Noni Madueke’s move across town. Elsewhere, John Textor continues to astound as he stumbles his way through a prolonged departure from Crystal Palace and the Club World Cup reaches its climax… Finally. Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.Sign up to the Football Ramble Patreon for ad-free shows, extended Wednesday episodes, access to our Discord and early access to tickets and merch for just $5 per month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** Hosted on Acast. See acas

In what was billed as Goliath vs Goliath, PSG absolutely crushed Florentino Pérez's poor band of not-so-merry men.Marcus and David wax lyrical about what could be one of the best teams of the 21st century and ask just what it means for little old Chelsea on Sunday. Plus, we link Adam Wharton with Los Blancos because why not and we wonder just how big of a job young Xabi Alonso has on his hands...Please fill out Stak's listener survey! It'll help us learn more about the content you love so we can bring you even more - you'll also be entered into a competition to win one of five PlayStation 5's! Click here: https://bit.ly/staksurvey2025Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.Sign up to the Football Ramble Patreon for ad-free shows, extended Wednesday episodes, access to our Discord and early access to tickets and merch for just $5 per month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.***Please take the time to rate us on you

Chelsea are into the final of the Club World Cup! But João Pedro really is extremely sorry about it all.Marcus, Luke and Andy react to Chelsea's march into the final, while FIFA's new office in Trump Tower brings us a very welcome reminder of the late, not-so-great Chuck Blazer.Plus, we find football's most loyal player in the Champions League qualifiers (yep, they're happening) and ask, will Man United make the documentary that everyone wants to see?Please fill out Stak's listener survey! It'll help us learn more about the content you love so we can bring you even more - you'll also be entered into a competition to win one of five PlayStation 5's! Click here: https://bit.ly/staksurvey2025Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.Sign up to the Football Ramble Patreon for ad-free shows, extended Wednesday episodes, access to our Discord and early access to tickets and merch for just $5 per month: https://www.patreon.com/

With the continuing issues at Sheffield Wednesday brought on by owner Dejphon Chansiri, we kick off with a worrying chat about football club ownership and to what extent we can fix such a severe structural problem in English football.Marcus and Luke also get David to reassure all the Sunderland fans listening by confirming that he thinks they’ll stay in the Premier League next season and a listener offers Marcus the chance to swap Italy’s results from the last ten years with England’s. Speaking of, an email caught our eye that argued for all international tournaments to be played in the winter - spicy stuff!Please fill out Stak's listener survey! It'll help us learn more about the content you love so we can bring you even more - you'll also be entered into a competition to win one of five PlayStation 5's! Click here: https://bit.ly/staksurvey2025Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.Sign up to the Football Ramble Pat

FIFA have always been very benevolent. So of course seats for Chelsea vs Fluminense are going for $13.40. It's what Gianni always wanted.Marcus and Luke are joined by On The Continent's David Cartlidge to discuss the latest at the Club World Cup and Kylian Mbappé's Mark Hughes impression.Plus, your famous football-related bum sightings and Marcus makes Luke extraordinarily jealous.Please fill out Stak's listener survey! It'll help us learn more about the content you love so we can bring you even more - you'll also be entered into a competition to win one of five PlayStation 5's! Click here: https://bit.ly/staksurvey2025Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.Sign up to the Football Ramble Patreon for ad-free shows, extended Wednesday episodes, access to our Discord and early access to tickets and merch for just $5 per month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app.

Today, we're bringing you a special episode from Upfront, Stak's women's football show!Chloe Morgan and Rachel O'Sullivan discuss everything that went down in Zurich as England lost their first game of Euro 2025 against France. Need a bit of reassurance? They've got you.Plus, they react to Wales' tough debut against the Netherlands, which included perhaps the most chaotic planned goal celebration ever, and there's confusing managerial beef in the Dutch and Danish camps...Search 'Upfront' or click here for brand new episodes throughout Euro 2025!Please fill out Stak's listener survey! It'll help us learn more about the content you love so we can bring you even more - you'll also be entered into a competition to win one of five PlayStation 5's! Click here: https://bit.ly/staksurvey2025Sign up to the Football Ramble Patreon for ad-free shows, extended Wednesday episodes, access to our Discord and early access to tickets and merch for just $5 per month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.***Please take the ti