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Football Ruined My Life

Hosted by Colin Shindler, Jon Holmes, Paul Kobrak (and the late Patrick Barclay).

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Guest activity
Sometimes has guests
25% of recent episode titles look like interviews
Episode length
44 min
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Publishing
Monthly
148 episodes · last 2026-09-04
Language
English
The feed says "en" without a region, so the country is unknown.
Where it's from
Not established
No .uk domain and no region in the feed language. Apple reports the storefront, not the show, so we do not guess.
Reach
64
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Worth a pitch. This show publishes its own contact, sits outside the national chart, is independently published, and its recent episodes show it books guests.

What the show says about itself

When Football Ruined My Life started back at the beginning of 2023 it was the new podcast about old football. In it, distinguished football journalist Patrick Barclay joined with Colin Shindler, author of the best selling Manchester United Ruined My Life, and the Super Agent Jon Holmes (think Gary Lineker, Peter Shilton, Tony Woodcock etc.) to talk about football as it used to be in the days before the invention of the Premier League. For over 80 weekly episodes, the podcast viewed those days fondly - though not uncritically - in comparison to today's game, which it views critically though not

Recent episodes

Straight from the feed. The quickest way to judge whether your angle fits.

  1. 147. Which Players From The Pre-1992 Era Would Be Stars In Today’s Football?
  2. 146. Can An Ex-Player Ever Make A Successful Owner?
  3. 145. Don Revie’s England
  4. 144. The Return of Football Ruined My Life
  5. 143. The One With Duncan Hamilton - 1966 And All That
  6. 142. Team of the 1980s (with Steve Coppell)

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