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The Football Heritage Podcast
Heritage. Identity. Football.
We explore the roots, culture and history of the beautiful game.
New podcasts release every Monday. New Patreon exclusives releases every Thursday.
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- Episodes
- 139
- Releases
- Weekly
- Typical length
- 56 min
- On air since
- 2023
- Latest episode
- 1 day ago
Episodes
139 episodes, newest first
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56 min
Fanzines
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138. Fanzines
We're joined by Daniel Gray, author and editor of Nutmeg magazine, to talk about the history and culture of the fanzine movement which he explores in his latest book.
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1 hr
Yugoslavia: Football and Identity
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137. Yugoslavia: Football and Identity
We're joined by Lazar Šoć to talk about Yugoslavia's heritage in the development of football tactics, the innovative Yugoslav tactical school of thought and how these innovations were tied to the ideology and identity of Yugoslavia as a nation.
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45 min
SV Robinhood
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136. SV RobinhoodWe're joined by Desney Romeo to talk about the history and heritage of SV Robinhood, one of Suriname's most successful football clubs, and the current landscape of Surinamese football as a whole.
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56 min
The Anarchist Roots of Argentine Football
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135. The Anarchist Roots of Argentine Football
We're joined by Tomas Rothaus to talk about the football clubs from Argentina with roots in the Anarchist movements of the late 19th and early 20th century.
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Argentina, a Tale of Two Utopias: Anarchism, Soccer, Neoliberalism
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1 hr
How Football Shaped Mostar
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134. How Football Shaped Mostar
We're joined by Ekrem Huskic to discuss the role of football in Mostar, a city in southern Bosnia and Herzegovina which has an incredibly rich history but an ultimately tragic story.
Football first came to Mostar in the late 1800s and almost immediately became dominated by two clubs - Zrinjski Mostar and Velež Mostar.
During the Yugoslav and Bosnian Wars, football clubs and supporters played a unique role in the conflicts and genocides which took place. This was no different in Mostar, where both clubs are now representative of the ethnic and religious divisions which scarred Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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'Emancipation for Goalposts: Football's Role in the Fall of Yugoslavia' by Chris Etchingham
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44 min
From Slavery to Football: Bramley-Moore Dock
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133. From Slavery to Football: Bramley-Moore Dock
We're joined by author Bob Waterhouse to discuss the research featured in his latest book, which analyses Bramley-Moore Dock - both as an area of Liverpool and as a stadium - and it's relationship with the transatlantic slave trade.
We talk about the direct and indirect influence of the slave trade on Everton and football in Merseyside, and the challenges associated with research the influences of the slave trade on football as a whole.
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57 min
Football in Fall River
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132. Football in Fall River
We're joined by professor Tom McCabe and film producer Kirk Rudell, hosts of the An American Game podcast, to talk about football in Fall River, one of football's early hotbeds on the east coast of the United States.
As is often the case with early football development in the United States, the themes of migration and industry feature heavily.
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50 min
Street Football: The Real Grassroots of the Beautiful Game
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131. Street Football: The Real Grassroots of the Beautiful Game
We're joined by Dave Proudlove to talk about his latest book, Street Football, and the culture of grassroots football in the UK and across the world which underpins our national football ecosystems.
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1 hr 3 min
Bohemian FC
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130. Bohemian FC
"To be bohemian is to be countercultural. It's an idea more than anything else".
We're joined by club historian Gerry Farrell and Chief Operating Officer Dan Lambert to talk about the increible history, culture and activism of one of Ireland's most loved and most hated football clubs - Bohemian FC.
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1 hr 7 min
Cymru: Designing a New Era
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129. Cymru: Designing a New Era
"The loudest thing in the room is not always the thing worth listening to.
You start with one person, one idea, one voice, and someone having the nerve to believe in it before anyone else does."
We're joined by CREO co-owner Jordan Thorne to talk about their recent rebrand of the Cymru Premier and the heritage-centred approach they took to creating a new identity for Welsh football.
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1 hr 5 min
Greenland: No Place for Football
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128. Greenland: No Place for Football
We're joined by film director Brandon Smith, B67 Chairman Jimmy Holm Jensen and B67 captain Patrick Frederiksen to talk about one of the last bastions of non-FIFA football in the world - Greenland.
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1 hr 6 min
Lleida CF
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127. Lleida CF
To create something bigger than football from the ashes of your club which has twice been driven to bankruptcy shows a desire that many football clubs dream of.
We're joined by Jordan Thomas from La Liga and Beyond and Juanjo Lecumberri, club vice-president, to talk about the recent revival of Lleida CF, who are starting life for a third time in the tenth tier of football in Spain.
The difference between the former club and the latest iteration of Lleida CF is that the power of controlling and representing the club now belongs to the supporters.
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54 min
Groundhopping
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126. Groundhopping
We're joined by Matty Slinger of Scotch 'n Scarves to talk about groundhopping and our shared love of seeking out different football cultures and experiences.
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56 min
Olimpija Ljubljana
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125. Olimpija Ljubljana
For this club history episode, we're joined by Miha Zupan and Matjaž Homar to cover the complex history of one of Slovenia's biggest clubs - Olimpija Ljubljana.
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56 min
Who Owns Football?: A History of Football Regulation, Governance and Finance
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124. Who Owns Football?: A History of Football Regulation, Governance and Finance
We're joined by Mark O'Neill to talk about the history and heritage of football ownership, regulation and governance.
How football is regulated has never been more prominent in the game as it has been in the modern day.
Sadly, the supporters of the past faced many of the same crises and questions faced by football today.
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1 hr 14 min
The Two Sides of the World Cup
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123. The Two Sides of the World Cup
We're joined by Chris Lee and Matt Walker to talk about the two sides of the World Cup - the overcommercialisation, corruption and boundaries pushed by FIFA every year, and the cultural exchanges, joy and celebrations from supporters of all backgrounds which acts as a counter.
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32 min
No ICE In The Cup
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122. No ICE In The Cup
We're joined by Julia Roig, co-founder of the Horizons Project, to discuss the role of United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents at the 2026 World Cup and how their involvement is in direct contradiction to the culture of football.
Julia and her colleagues launched No ICE In The Cup earlier in 2026. This campaign aims to challenge the presence of ICE in World Cup spaces and build a stronger political culture in the United States centred around human rights, trade unionism and social justice.
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32 min
The World Cup and Resistance
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121. The World Cup and Resistance
We're joined by author and journalist Simon Kuper to cover the wide-ranging subject of resistance at the World Cup.
The World Cup is many things. In the same way that the tournament is often used by regimes and governments for legitimisation and to sportswash, the World Cup also has a strong heritage of protest and resistance.
There is no greater platform to spread your message and promote your cause, and at World Cup 2026, protest has played a central role.
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53 min
Uruguay, 1930: The Origins of the World Cup
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120. Uruguay, 1930: The Origins of the World Cup
We're joined by Alvaro Perez to talk about the origins of the World Cup and the role Uruguay played in making the tournament a success.
We also discuss Uruguay's heritage within the World Cup as the first World champions and how this influences Uruguay's football culture today.
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45 min
Latinx Activism at USA 1994
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119. Latinx Activism at USA 1994We're joined by Professor Celso Thomas Castilho to talk about Latin American activism during the 1994 World Cup in the United States, a response to a series of aggressive police crackdowns in Latinx communities who were celebrating victories for their respective national teams.
With Celso's latest NACLA article in mind, we compare this activism with responses to World Cup 2026 and our thoughts on how resistance may play out at this tournament.
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