David Goldblatt and David Wearing in the crisis in the Middle East and the World Cup

A consortium including Amazon’s billionaire founder Jeff Bezos has bought 40% of Liverpool Football Club. We asked Neil Atkinson- host of the Anfield Wrap podcast and author of Klopp, the Revolution of a Club and Culture about the ramifications of the deal, as well as the identity of his club and t…

The erudite, eloquent, the perspicacious Jon Mackenzie joins to discuss his brilliant new book about the rise and fall of Pep Guardiola, The Spectre of Pep. From What is Juego de Posición to Hegelian dialectics at a million miles an hour- what more could you ask for?

Friend of the show Morgan Ofori returns to discuss whether Johnny Baby is knackered, why UEFA are not the good guys and why, as an Arsenal fan, he’s “scared of everyone”. All Morgan's excellent Guardian stuff is here: https://www.theguardian.com/profile/morgan-ofori

A heady mix of genuine expert insight from James and two football fans sitting around taking the piss. Faragegate, Spygate, the much more serious but equally poorly-handled Suarez racism row, plus the sadly successful PR of the various sportswashing projects.