Footylosopher Podcast
1) Is it Ethical to Attend World Cup 2022?
With future travel back on everyone's mind, we take a look toward the next most important global destination event--The FIFA World Cup 2022. This one was controversially awarded to Qatar back in 2010....Show More
2) Soccer Based Travel
We all like to travel with a purpose. For some it's to immerse themselves in a new culture. Some want to see history first hand. Others want to leave their stressors behind for a relaxing vista and a ...Show More
3) Waking Diego Maradona
The world has lost some of it's color. The passing of Diego Maradona doesn't just affect the soccering world, but the world at large. He was a larger than life personality that had a global spotlight ...Show More
4) Musings: Diego Maradona
Diego Maradona was a larger than life figure, but he was as much a cautionary tale as he was an inspiration. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/footylosopher/message Support this podca...Show More
5) Why Do Nations Compete?
The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete. ...Show More
6) Queen's Park FC and The Scotch Scientists
You can't begin to discuss the first International Football Match without first establishing the first Non English Football Club. Glasgow's Queen's Park Football Club was established in 1867 in a most...Show More
7) Kobe Bryant and Celebrity Soccer Fans
Kobe Bryant spent an important part of his childhood in Italy where he grew a love of the game of soccer. A natural talent in basketball, his destiny was set. He did, however, apply tactics and strate...Show More
8) Charles Alcock and the FA Cup
Charles William Alcock was a major player in the formation of the structure of English Football we know today. A Harrow boy, and avid Cricketer, he needed a sport to play during the winter months when...Show More
9) Early Codification Part 3: The FA
Five years after the Sheffield Rules were first written down a solicitor from West London became "the first person to write down the rules of soccer".聽 Popular opinion seems to favor Barnes founder...Show More
10) Early Codification, Part 2: Sheffield Rules
The two men that had more to do with football codification than anyone else were Nathaniel Creswick and William Prest; or as I lovingly call them: Pres-Wick. These all around athletes competed in e...Show More