Podcast Review: World Football from the BBC
Although we were quick to diss the Beeb earlier, if you go looking hard enough you’ll find their excellentpair of World Football podcasts. Originally broadcast on 5Live and the World Service, the BBC’s team of reporters send in dispatches from all over the world on issues such as African television right disputes, international youth transfer regulations or even grass-roots football here in England. If you’ve only ever heard Alan Green getting over-excited on the commentary box or slagging off Fergie, then his reports come as a pleasant surprise.
Better still is the World Football Phone-In, a show for security guards and insomniacs that goes out in the wee hours of the morning. Presented by Dotun Adebayo and featuring, among others, the BBC’s authority on South American football, Tim Vickery, it covers football from every corner of the globe. Genuinely informative, it has a free-wheeling chatty style, offering the listener nuggets such as the fact that the game is slower in South America because they let the grass grow longer, and that the price of a goat in Somalia £15. Being a late-night phone-in you do get the occasional nutter who wants to let the world know that he can now do an impression of Carlton Palmer reading out Belgian football results, but it all adds to the fun. Being the BBC it’s professionally done and if you can listen to the 40-minute show without learning anything we’d be surprised.
If it was a member of the England 1990 World Cup Squad it would be: John Barnes – David Platt: classy, not afraid to try it’s luck abroad.
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