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The Reducer is a podcast dedicated to bad football art
Very special edition this week - we dig into what makes the genius of Guardian football cartoonist David Squires with the man himself. We co...
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...
Amazon Prime are showing a brand new documentary about Steven Gerrard, entitled Make Us Dream. It gets the Reducer treatment this week, as w...
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...
Following a dismaying week of revelations from Football Leaks and Der Spiegel , we have confirmation that football is a deeply sick, grotesq...
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...
Our old friend Pennant turned up on Jeremy Kyle today, and we couldn't avoid giving it the Reducer treatment
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...
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...
In 2013, Neymar and his father wrote a baffling book called CONVERSATIONS WITH MY FATHER. 5 years on, it gets the Reducer treatment.
In 2013, Neymar and his father wrote a baffling book called CONVERSATIONS WITH MY FATHER. 5 years on, it gets the Reducer treatment.
John Rain, host of the superb SMERSH podcast, joins Gavin and Seamas to run through FINAL SCORE starring Bautista, Pierce Brosnan and West H...
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...
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...
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...
25 years after it debuted, we revisit the legendary Fantasy Football with David Baddiel and Frank Skinner. We remember some of its best mome...
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...
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...
Getting the smug scalpel this week is the documentary Class of 92, starring Man United legends Nicky Butt, Ryan Giggs, David Beckham, Paul S...
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...
After a couple of weeks off where your intrepid hosts had to find time to watch the World Cup group stages/have a baby, we're back with a lo...
Inspired by the World Cup, we are going back to our roots with a look at some of the best and worst football ads. We look back at the glory...
Days after being heralded as one of The Guardian's favourite football podcasts we're, eh, doing a non-football themed show. But stick with u...
Owing to a Danny Dyer-caused existential crisis (and a scheduling conflict) we couldn't do a regular episode this week, but listen in for so...
Football 365's Steven Chicken joins Gav and Seamas to discuss the not-nearly-as-good-as-you-remember-it, Renford Rejects. We also deconstruc...
Football hooligan laureate Greg Spring is back again this week to join Gav and Seamas to wade through the curious effluent that is Green Str...
Greg Spring is back this week to discuss the utterly execrable LOVEJOY ON FOOTBALL - by Tim Lovejoy, which he memorably describes as being l...
It's a very special episode this week, as Seamas O'Reilly provides a dramatic reading of the twitter thread sweeping the world: Ending Up Al...
Today's topic is the amazing fly-on-the-wall documentary, LEYTON ORIENT: TEAM FOR A FIVER. Friendly warning - There's lots of swearing. If y...
We're back after an illness-enforced hiatus. And having focused on the dire, we're finally looking at the Dyer. (Danny, not Kieron, Nathan o...
We're back with another show packed with football songs, ranging from the good to the ugly (they are rarely just bad). Listen in for a doubl...
Being (pointless colon) Liverpool is this week's topic, and such is the yawning and deadening breadth of this six-part glitzy PR-on-the-wall...
Gavin is considerably smug this week, as only Seamas has done the homework, and read Alastair Campbell's doorstopping new novel, Saturday Bl...
Our subject this week is the best movie we've watched thus far - ESCAPE TO VICTORY. Hear about a battle between the respective egos of Pele...
Robert Duvall with a Scottish accent! Ally McCoist acting! Michael Keaton as a millionaire Yank considering movomg a second-tier Scottish cl...
Gavin, Seamás and Greg delve into non-fiction for the first time to discuss the highs and lows of the footballer autobiography genre. Dennis...
There's a problem this week - Gavin found this week's topic (the Frodo Baggins-starring film Green Street) to be not terrible, so Séamas has...
Ken Early is special guest as Gavin and Séamas deconstruct the second novel in the Bruce trilogy and wonder did Steve Bruce/Steve Barnes pre...
Gavin and Séamas discuss the potted history of the football song. Del Amitri, Football's Coming Home and the brilliant Cinnamon Stick are up...
If you've listened to episode three, you'll have realised that FIFA's United Passions was less a movie directed than it was wanked out by Se...
Gavin and Séamas discuss the diabolically terrible FIFA propaganda film 'United Passions' (2015). This piece of flaming shite features Tim R...
Gavin and Séamus wrap their heads around the first of the famous Steve Bruce crime novels, Striker!. In this confounding crime novel from 19...
Gavin and Séamas begin The Reducer journey with a heady discussion of the first installment of the 21st century's greatest film trilogy: Goa...