# Colin Shindler
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colin shindler (born 1949) is an English author, social historian and Affiliated Lecturer in History at Cambridge University.
== Life and career ==
Born in Manchester, colin shindler graduated with a degree in History from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he later completed his PhD thesis on Hollywood and the Great Depression. Since 1998 he has been lecturing and teaching at Cambridge on films and American history.He has written numerous books on British and American cultural history with an emphasis on the impact of sport and film on modern society.
142. Team of the 1980s (with Steve Coppell)
Today we’ll be following on our discussion of football in the 1980s with an entirely self-indulgent session of selecting the team of that decade. To help Jon Holmes and Colin Shindler to do so they are delighted to be able to call on the services of Steve Coppell, a man who was playing for Manches…
143. The One With Duncan Hamilton - 1966 And All That
In our last edition before the World Cup break, Colin Shindler and Jon Holmes are joined by the distinguished author and journalist Duncan Hamilton. Duncan has written almost twenty books on various aspects of football and cricket including three William Sports Book of the Year winners. Among tho…
144. The Return of Football Ruined My Life
After a long hot summer, Colin Shindler welcomes back our favourite football podcast with the start of what will be our 5th series. And it begins on the same day as the Premier League season kicks off - Friday 21st August, with a special (they're all special) look at England under the stewardship …
145. Don Revie’s England
In 1974, Leeds United won the First Division by five points, transforming themselves from the ugly side known as Dirty Leeds. It was Don Revie’s greatest triumph as a club manager. At the end of that 1973-4 season Alf Ramsey was sacked. Don Revie was his obvious successor as the FA had no intent…
146. Can An Ex-Player Ever Make A Successful Owner?
This week Jimmy Mulville, Jon Holmes and Colin Shindler examine ex-players who become owners. It used to be that players saw how managers behaved and thought they could do better when they retired. Now with the increase in players’ affluence, they have seen how the clubs they played for were run …
147. Which Players From The Pre-1992 Era Would Be Stars In Today’s Football?
In this episode Colin Shindler, Jon Holmes and Andy Hamilton set out to annoy everyone with a discussion of which players from the pre-1992 era – the year when the world of English football changed with the arrival of Sky Sports and the Premier League – would have been stars in today’s
football. I…
149. The One About Jimmy Hill
This week Jon Holmes, Colin Shindler and Jim White are talking about one particular player – and one manager and one club director and one club chairman and one trade union official and one television executive and one presenter and one analyst and famously on one occasion, one linesman... none ot…
151. SPECIAL EDITION - Manchester City
In a change to our usual podcast, we bring you a special edition of Football Ruins My Life in which we consider the leak at the end of last week that Manchester City have apparently been found guilty on 114 of the 115 alleged breaches of Premier League rules. Not so much a discussion as a series o…
152. Never Go Back
In this edition, Colin Shindler, Jon Holmes and Jimmy Mulville are talking about one particular phrase and its meaning within football. Never Go Back is a particularly poignant phrase for two of the panel when it’s used to refer to two of their heroes - Malcolm Allison and Howard Kendall. The oth…
153. The One With Paddy Barclay – The Nations League
Since we’ve had two weeks off from the Premier League (and the Championship) in order to wallow in beating up Croatia and the Czech Republic as well as losing (as is our tradition) to Spain, we thought you might like to hear again the familiar, engaging voice of Patrick Barclay who
took strong exce…
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