SPM 275: Last Night In Soho
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...
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Set Piece Menu Football Podcast
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...
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20 of 280 episodesSPM 274: Is the landscape of the women's game shifting?
***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...
SPM 273: The Ajax Exodus
The football: At time of recording, three players key to Ajax's recent success had already left during this transfer window, with potentiall...
SPM 272: Soccer Story Memory Lane
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...
SPM 271: EA v FIFA (plus a BIG announcement)
The football: 2022 has brought about a notable conscious uncoupling. After 30 beautiful and productive years together the video game partner...
SPM 270: Nedum Onuoha
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...
SPM 269: The 6th Annual Hot Takes and Takeaways
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...
SPM 268: Why does football keep doing things that benefit the big clubs?
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 BONUS: The End Of The Oligarch Era
SPM returns from hiatus to consider how the sanctions placed on Roman Abramovich will affect Chelsea, the Premier League, and football's bil...
SPM 267: Au Revoir
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...
SPM 266: Serie A
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...
SPM 265: Is Football Too Eurocentric?
The football: As the latest Africa Cup of Nations begins to unfortunate characterisations and complaints about scheduling and availability,...
SPM 264: The Christmas Schedule Conundrum
The football: The Premier League likes attracting the best managerial talent, but what if that talent wants to change the Premier League? Th...
SPM 263: SPMROTY (Part 2)
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...
SPM 262: SPMROTY (Part 1)
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...
SPM 261: Being At The Game vs Watching The Game
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...
SPM 260: What Is Style?
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...
SPM 259: Is English football as special as it thinks it is?
The football: After Paul Merson wondered whether Ralf Rangnick's lack of experience in English football might make him an inappropriate appo...
SPM 258: What YOU Don't Realise About Commentators...
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....
SPM 257: Is international football more exciting than we thought?
The football: The qualification campaign for the 2022 World Cup may well end up delivering familiar countries to the finals, but in getting...