London 2012

NTFS#148 – Parents at the Olympics, would you have yours there? If athletes are being asked to pay to attend World Championships, should administrators be given a free ticket? Will Television Save Test Cricket?

You win a place on a team at the Olympic Games, fulfilling a lifelong dream, do you let you parents come and watch? Will they be a distraction? This is not a new question. In fact many coaches have said

NTFS #140 – A Special Edition Celebrating 20 Years of Not The Footy Show.

Not the Footy Show Podcast

Welcome our 20 year celebration edition. John and Ashley and some of our former co-hosts from yesteryear look back on the past 20 years of Not The Footy Show both on air and as a podcast. Both pick five of

The Show Must Go On

Any sports fan will tell you that they never want to see a player get injured, least of all one of the best players. Last week news broke that Australia’s women’s football captain Sam Kerr had injured her anterior cruciate

Danger – Beware

“If God had wanted us to play football in the clouds, he’d have put grass up there” is a famous quote from the great football coach Brian Clough, when English clubs started to resort to the long-ball game. In other

Kamikaze Hokkē

As much as the Tokyo Games were a success, in that they went ahead at all and the athletes managed to complete their events, the way that they have been portrayed outside of Japan has been very different to how