Episode 40 - The Genius of David Squires with....David Squires!
Very special edition this week - we dig into what makes the genius of Guardian football cartoonist David Squires with the man himself. We co...
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The Reducer is a podcast dedicated to bad football art
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20 of 43 episodesEpisode 39 - Take The Ball Pass The Ball
This week we look at the new documentary film on Barcelona's glory years under Pep Guardiola - Take The Ball, Pass The Ball . It's really ve...
Episode 38 - Make Us Dream
Amazon Prime are showing a brand new documentary about Steven Gerrard, entitled Make Us Dream. It gets the Reducer treatment this week, as w...
Episode 37 - The Damned United
This week's show is about the film version of The Damned United, David Peace's famous book on Brian Clough's turbulent 44-day spell with Lee...
Episode 36 - The Workers' Cup/ The Football is Sick Edition
Following a dismaying week of revelations from Football Leaks and Der Spiegel , we have confirmation that football is a deeply sick, grotesq...
Best of The Reducer Volume II
A look back at some of our favourite bits from the last few months: Neymar's book, CONVERSATIONS WITH MY FATHER (00.20) Morrissey's novel, L...
BONUS - Jermaine Pennant on Jeremy Kyle
Our old friend Pennant turned up on Jeremy Kyle today, and we couldn't avoid giving it the Reducer treatment
Episode 34 - Callum Best's 'Dangerous Game' (The worst thing we've seen)
Here we are then, 34 episodes in and we have found the worst thing we have ever seen. It's DANGEROUS GAME, a farcically bad movie starring C...
Episode 33: Neil Warnock Documentary
On this week's show, a 2004/05 fly-on-the-wall documentary about former Sheffield United manager Neil Warnock. Listen in to a (sweary) episo...
Episode 32 - Neymar's Autobiography
In 2013, Neymar and his father wrote a baffling book called CONVERSATIONS WITH MY FATHER. 5 years on, it gets the Reducer treatment.
Episode 32 - Neymar's Autobiography
In 2013, Neymar and his father wrote a baffling book called CONVERSATIONS WITH MY FATHER. 5 years on, it gets the Reducer treatment.
Episode 31 - Final Score with John Rain
John Rain, host of the superb SMERSH podcast, joins Gavin and Seamas to run through FINAL SCORE starring Bautista, Pierce Brosnan and West H...
Episode 30 - Jermaine Pennant's Autobiography
On this week's episode, we tackle the Fake News doing the rounds about Jermaine Pennant's book. We read the book to disprove some of the yar...
Episode 29 - GOAL 3
After a papal-enforced week off, we've travelled back to our roots with a look at GOAL 3. (We've heard this was so bad we skipped GOAL 2). G...
Episode 28 - Man City's Amazon Prime Documentary
On this week's show, we watch a documentary about the work of a bearded ideologue funded by the Middle East - it's All or Nothing: Mancheste...
Episode 27 - Baddiel and Skinner's Fantasy Football
25 years after it debuted, we revisit the legendary Fantasy Football with David Baddiel and Frank Skinner. We remember some of its best mome...
Episode 26 - Best of Friends: The Official Story Of Gary Lineker and Willie Thorne
Today we dissect one of the maddest documentaries we have ever seen: a 48-minute long offering from 1992 based solely on the fact that Gary...
Episode 25 - The Football Punditry of Eamon Dunphy
Given that Eamon Dunphy this week announced his retirement from RTE. we delve into his astonishing 40-year career. Hear who he is, some of h...
Episode 24 - Class of '92
Getting the smug scalpel this week is the documentary Class of 92, starring Man United legends Nicky Butt, Ryan Giggs, David Beckham, Paul S...
Episode 23 - Mike Bassett England Manager
With England now out of the World Cup, we look at another man who took over England in dodgy circumstances and guided them to the World Cup...