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This is Set Piece Menu - the podcast where four friends talk about football over food. They are together a writer, a commentator, a presenter and a pundit. Rory Smith is the Chief Soccer Cor...
The football: It's our last show, live in London (slightly edited for content like movies on ITV in the 1990s, but still self-indulgently lo...
***Nedum Onuoha will be our guest at the live show in London! He's joining us for our final episode on July 20th. Get your tickets here: htt...
The football: At time of recording, three players key to Ajax's recent success had already left during this transfer window, with potentiall...
The football: Some Set Piece Menu nostalgia. You miss Andy Hinchcliffe, we do too. So in response to requests to revisit some of his stand o...
The football: 2022 has brought about a notable conscious uncoupling. After 30 beautiful and productive years together the video game partner...
The football: Did Hugh say he'd written a book? Well just in case you missed it, he takes the opportunity of Rory and Steven being distracte...
Our hiatus-interrupting continues with another new pod, and another reminder to join us for a special SPM LIVE in London on Wednesday 20th J...
We're breaking into our hiatus to do two things: 1) be with you for a run of mini-pods to mark the end of the Premier League season and more...
SPM returns from hiatus to consider how the sanctions placed on Roman Abramovich will affect Chelsea, the Premier League, and football's bil...
The football: March 2020 was football's hiatus, January 2022 is ours. With changes afoot in the SPM family, and a relaunch expected later in...
The football: Is Serie A the most exciting league in football right now? And if so, does that mean it has at last shaken off its stereotype...
The football: As the latest Africa Cup of Nations begins to unfortunate characterisations and complaints about scheduling and availability,...
The football: The Premier League likes attracting the best managerial talent, but what if that talent wants to change the Premier League? Th...
The football: Part two of our Set Piece Menu Review of the Year allows us to skew negative, and yet it's a shorter episode. Go figure... The...
The football: We're getting festively reflective as we bring you our Set Piece Menu Review of the Year, which is in no way attempting to sou...
The football: What's the difference between watching a game on TV and being at the stadium itself? A listener poses the question, and we try...
The football: A listener who's relatively new to football wants us to put a little meat on the bones he regularly hears in the coverage of f...
The football: After Paul Merson wondered whether Ralf Rangnick's lack of experience in English football might make him an inappropriate appo...
The football: In the unforeseen absence of two of our number, we fill their places with people who actually know what they're talking about....
The football: The qualification campaign for the 2022 World Cup may well end up delivering familiar countries to the finals, but in getting...
The football: In front of a live audience at Manchester's National Football Museum, we discuss whether football does a good job of curating...
The football: Is complacency football's greatest leveller? All the talk of complacency from those on the pitch is about how to avoid it, but...
The football: After the last round of the EFL Cup (yes we were organised enough to make a plan then and save it for this week's round) Pep G...
The football: After Benjamin White revealed he'd never watched a football game that he wasn't a part of himself, we ask Chinch how a player'...
The football: Following the Saudi (sorry, PIF) takeover of Newcastle (see SPM175 for more) we talk about how money, and the availability of...
The football: After Julian Nagelsmann talked about football potentially introducing an NFL-style playbook we ask if that's completely prepos...
The football: For availability, and as it turns out, expediency reasons (Rory's dad is about to have lunch, and we're not allowed to be in t...
The football: Upon Jimmy Greaves' passing, his astounding goal-scoring record was brought to the attention to a whole new generation of foot...
The football: The fact that Cristiano Ronaldo's 're-debut' couldn't be shown on television in the UK was considered by some to be proof that...
The football: With caveats abounding that we are men talking about women's football, this week's discussion is about how the new TV deal and...
The football: Pep Guardiola suggested Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are players of such stature they can choose the club they play for....
The football: Siege mentalities, or more pertinently, fake ones. Why has what once might have been a genuine management tactic turned into l...
The football: Why are the 'Top Six' clubs in the Premier League spoken about so much, when some of those 'Top Six' don't fill the top six po...
The football: Lionel Messi is leaving Barcelona, but the story - mainly because of the destination - is leaving us cold. We discuss what Mes...
The football: In the final part of our series we ask why the Premier League isn't the centre for tactical innovation in the game, and whethe...
The football: In part two of our summer series, we ask how the Premier League's exceptionalism applies to its finances, transfers and player...
The football: The summer series (aka filler content between organised domestic or international football) is back! We have three connected e...
SPM 239: Hot Takes and Takeaways (Euro 2020 Edition) by Rory Smith, Andy Hinchcliffe, Steven Wyeth, Hugh Ferris
The football: Rory has an idea of how an expanded Euros could be expanded further, to include 32 teams. He's very proud of it, but clearly c...
The World Cups and Euros of our youth are acclaimed through the rose tinted spectacles of nostalgia. In our mature years we are much more li...
Over time we've be inundated with excellent suggestions from you, the listener. Many have been used & attributed, some nefariously repurpose...
The podcast where four friends - presenter Hugh Ferris, writer Rory Smith, commentator Steven Wyeth & pundit Andy Hinchcliffe - talk footbal...
The football: Do trophies have a different value depending on who wins them, how often, and whether they are claimed by a player that's also...
The football: After Pep Guardiola seemed to lean into the very narrative that appears to annoy his acolytes more than any other for the Cham...
The football: The Premier League season has come to an end, but it can't be officially 'put in the books' until we've delivered our annual h...
The football: How does a manager put together a squad for a major international tournament? Is it the 'best 23 players', as the requirement...
The football: As a follow up to last week's pod, which turned out to be an inadequate answer to a question posed by a listener, we try to ac...
The football: Erling Haaland, his dad, and his agent, all have a plan. They've been plotting the player's career ever since he started as a...
The football: The European Super League seemed to re-frame the tribalism that's become such a huge part of modern football culture. Instead...
The podcast where four friends - presenter Hugh Ferris, writer Rory Smith, commentator Steven Wyeth & pundit Andy Hinchcliffe - talk footbal...