The Football Weekend Podcast
1) ESPN's Jon Champion on FA Cup glories and a peculiar Manchester derby
The Football Weekend is on tour this week with a first stop in Paris, France after a harrowing red-eye flight sat in front of the most formidable snorer in human history. More on that in this week’s e...Show More
2) The FA Cup Third Round is magic
We all spend a lot of time lamenting the cynical side of the modern game, but if there’s an antidote, it’s the weekend ahead of us. The FA Cup Third Round Proper is one for the romantics: the smallest...Show More
3) This rebel club in Paris is the anti-PSG
New year, new weekend, and we’re off in an unconventional direction. The big match of the coming days for our purposes is in Paris, but it ain’t PSG. RED STAR PARIS travel to face TROYES on Saturday f...Show More
4) The Battle of Lisbon: Mourinho, Eusébio, Sporting and Benfica
David Novo from Lisbon's Record newspaper joins to help us preview the Dérbi de Lisboa, as Benfica host Sporting CP in a battle for bragging rights in the Portuguese capital. Along with Porto — w...Show More
5) Brad Friedel was an American embroiled in Türkiye's most explosive football feud
Brad Friedel played his college ball at UCLA and had a stint at Liverpool before a longer and seriously fruitful one at Blackburn Rovers. He also stopped shots for Aston Villa and for Tottenham Hotspu...Show More
Brad Friedel was an American embroiled in Türkiye's most explosive football feud
55:25 | Nov 28th, 2025
6) The Road to World Cup 2026, Vol. 3: Jonathan Wilson's Histories
The World Cup is a sporting competition between national football teams to determine the best of them. But it’s always been a vessel for so much more, not least the ambitions of political leaders rang...Show More
7) El Clásico blasts off the title race in La Liga
There’s a big game down in Italy on Saturday, but there’s only one headliner for this weekend. It’s El Clásico, Real Madrid vs FC Barcelona at the Santiago Bernabéu, the biggest game in club football ...Show More
8) Derek Rae + Stewart Robson on Der Klassiker 🇩🇪 — and doing the commentary for EA Sports FC!
Club football is back and so is Germany’s biggest game. It’s BAYERN MUNICH vs BORUSSIA DORTMUND in Der Klassiker.The Bavarian hosts have returned to their formidable best with 11 wins from 11 matches ...Show More
9) The Road to World Cup 2026, Vol. 2
It’s the second international break of the young club season, so we’re continuing our tour around the continents to see who’s doing what in World Cup qualifying. This week we head over to the Confeder...Show More
10) Nobody's too happy at the world's sunniest football derby!
Monaco and Nice are not the biggest clubs in the South of France — that’s Marseille — but they maintain a testy feud that carries the cultural differences between the two towns. The Principality ...Show More