The Touchline Show is our flagship football podcast, published three mornings a week from August through May. Hosted by Dilan Roy with reporters Priya Raman, Callum Ives and a rotating bench of writers, it takes you inside the week's biggest stories and the reporting behind them.
FollowWith one league title, a domestic cup and a continental final settled inside eleven weeks, where does this run actually sit against the great sides of the last thirty years? Dilan Roy is joined by Priya Raman and Marta Bexell to argue the case… more
A £74m fee, a wage bill already at 71% of turnover, and a squad that has finished mid-table twice running. On this bonus episode Callum Ives is joined by Naomi Fadipe in Lisbon and Andrés Kolt in… more
Three of the last four promoted clubs spent more than half their parachute money before the first fixture list landed. Priya Raman asks two sporting directors why the calendar, not the squad, drives the… more
An expanded tournament adds 23 match days to a season that already runs 46 weeks. Dilan Roy, Marta Bexell and financial analyst Tomás Erdeli work through who pays for it, who gets paid, and which… more
Four analysts, two recruitment models and a relegation. Callum Ives is joined by Naomi Fadipe and former head of research Ilse Vermeer to dissect how an evidence-led project lost the dressing room long before… more
Three clubs, two places, one weekend. Priya Raman is joined by Andrés Kolt and Tomás Erdeli to run the permutations, then turn to a final between a side that hasn't reached one since 1998 and a… more