The Dynamo Football Bookclub
@dynamofootballbc.bsky.social
The season is over but the football carries on...
We read footballers' autobiographies and talk about them.
www.dynamofootballbookclub.com
formerly the Ademola Bookmen Podcast.
We read footballers' autobiographies and talk about them.
www.dynamofootballbookclub.com
formerly the Ademola Bookmen Podcast.
What do Luis Figo, Sol Campbell, Nick Barmby, Clarence Seedorf, and Denis Law have in common?
Tune in to Injury Time 17 by the Dynamo Football Bookclub to find out.
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Tune in to Injury Time 17 by the Dynamo Football Bookclub to find out.
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October 8, 2025 at 12:15 PM
What do Luis Figo, Sol Campbell, Nick Barmby, Clarence Seedorf, and Denis Law have in common?
Tune in to Injury Time 17 by the Dynamo Football Bookclub to find out.
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Tune in to Injury Time 17 by the Dynamo Football Bookclub to find out.
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🚨 Episode Drop! 🚨
Almost two years in, and on our 46th book, we think we’ve found the best one yet. Hold on to your hats, Joe McGinniss’s The Miracle of Castel di Sangro is coming your way.
This book has it all. 🎧 Please do give us a listen 📚
open.spotify.com/episode/7qtH...
Almost two years in, and on our 46th book, we think we’ve found the best one yet. Hold on to your hats, Joe McGinniss’s The Miracle of Castel di Sangro is coming your way.
This book has it all. 🎧 Please do give us a listen 📚
open.spotify.com/episode/7qtH...
October 1, 2025 at 6:01 AM
🚨 Episode Drop! 🚨
Almost two years in, and on our 46th book, we think we’ve found the best one yet. Hold on to your hats, Joe McGinniss’s The Miracle of Castel di Sangro is coming your way.
This book has it all. 🎧 Please do give us a listen 📚
open.spotify.com/episode/7qtH...
Almost two years in, and on our 46th book, we think we’ve found the best one yet. Hold on to your hats, Joe McGinniss’s The Miracle of Castel di Sangro is coming your way.
This book has it all. 🎧 Please do give us a listen 📚
open.spotify.com/episode/7qtH...
Bravo @dtathletic.bsky.social We reviewed your Keegan book. We gave it 4.25 savage beatings out of five. Do give the episode a listen if you have a chance.
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open.spotify.com/episode/2EIf...
Episode 45: Kevin Keegan - My Life in Football
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September 5, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Bravo @dtathletic.bsky.social We reviewed your Keegan book. We gave it 4.25 savage beatings out of five. Do give the episode a listen if you have a chance.
open.spotify.com/episode/2EIf...
open.spotify.com/episode/2EIf...
Episode 45 - Kevin Keegan's Life in Football
And what a life it was too.
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And what a life it was too.
open.spotify.com/episode/2EIf...
Episode 45: Kevin Keegan - My Life in Football
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September 5, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Episode 45 - Kevin Keegan's Life in Football
And what a life it was too.
open.spotify.com/episode/2EIf...
And what a life it was too.
open.spotify.com/episode/2EIf...
Who do think was the Premier League's worst even wrong 'un? it's hard to see past Joey B, but there's competition out there.
Check out our latest here, the Wrong 'Uns draft:
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Check out our latest here, the Wrong 'Uns draft:
open.spotify.com/episode/2rZ5...
August 8, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Who do think was the Premier League's worst even wrong 'un? it's hard to see past Joey B, but there's competition out there.
Check out our latest here, the Wrong 'Uns draft:
open.spotify.com/episode/2rZ5...
Check out our latest here, the Wrong 'Uns draft:
open.spotify.com/episode/2rZ5...
Episode 43 is out and It's Only Ray Parlour's autobiography.
Some Ray facts at a glance:
- most performances for Arsenal in Prem (333)
- Arrested in Hong Kong
- named on the bench against Liverpool while drunk
- not liked by Glenn Hoddle or 'Gate' Southgate
open.spotify.com/episode/3Aql...
Some Ray facts at a glance:
- most performances for Arsenal in Prem (333)
- Arrested in Hong Kong
- named on the bench against Liverpool while drunk
- not liked by Glenn Hoddle or 'Gate' Southgate
open.spotify.com/episode/3Aql...
July 31, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Episode 43 is out and It's Only Ray Parlour's autobiography.
Some Ray facts at a glance:
- most performances for Arsenal in Prem (333)
- Arrested in Hong Kong
- named on the bench against Liverpool while drunk
- not liked by Glenn Hoddle or 'Gate' Southgate
open.spotify.com/episode/3Aql...
Some Ray facts at a glance:
- most performances for Arsenal in Prem (333)
- Arrested in Hong Kong
- named on the bench against Liverpool while drunk
- not liked by Glenn Hoddle or 'Gate' Southgate
open.spotify.com/episode/3Aql...
🎧 Episode 12 of Injury Time is here! 🎙️
It’s the Great African Draft Showdown — Johnny’s Danny Invincible 11s take on Alistair’s Orlando Pirates in a five-a-side battle to determine who really knows their African football EPL legends. 🇿🇦⚽🇪🇬🇨🇲
open.spotify.com/episode/1KlN...
It’s the Great African Draft Showdown — Johnny’s Danny Invincible 11s take on Alistair’s Orlando Pirates in a five-a-side battle to determine who really knows their African football EPL legends. 🇿🇦⚽🇪🇬🇨🇲
open.spotify.com/episode/1KlN...
July 24, 2025 at 8:42 AM
🎧 Episode 12 of Injury Time is here! 🎙️
It’s the Great African Draft Showdown — Johnny’s Danny Invincible 11s take on Alistair’s Orlando Pirates in a five-a-side battle to determine who really knows their African football EPL legends. 🇿🇦⚽🇪🇬🇨🇲
open.spotify.com/episode/1KlN...
It’s the Great African Draft Showdown — Johnny’s Danny Invincible 11s take on Alistair’s Orlando Pirates in a five-a-side battle to determine who really knows their African football EPL legends. 🇿🇦⚽🇪🇬🇨🇲
open.spotify.com/episode/1KlN...
Join us for Episode 11 of Injury Time - The Battle of Brogdingnag
This is a draft of players over 6 foot 5.
It includes:
- one truly great player
- literally only one midfielder
- lots of Dutch and Serbian people...
Available where you get your pods
This is a draft of players over 6 foot 5.
It includes:
- one truly great player
- literally only one midfielder
- lots of Dutch and Serbian people...
Available where you get your pods
July 9, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Join us for Episode 11 of Injury Time - The Battle of Brogdingnag
This is a draft of players over 6 foot 5.
It includes:
- one truly great player
- literally only one midfielder
- lots of Dutch and Serbian people...
Available where you get your pods
This is a draft of players over 6 foot 5.
It includes:
- one truly great player
- literally only one midfielder
- lots of Dutch and Serbian people...
Available where you get your pods
Hi @tomwfootball.bsky.social we read and reviewed your book. We had a lovely old time with it. Please do check out our chat. open.spotify.com/episode/6fW3...
Episode 41: Do You Speak Football by Tom Williams
The Dynamo Football Bookclub · Episode
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July 2, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Hi @tomwfootball.bsky.social we read and reviewed your book. We had a lovely old time with it. Please do check out our chat. open.spotify.com/episode/6fW3...
Do You Speak Football?
Episode 40 is our review of Tom Williams' tour de force of the language football around the globe.
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Episode 40 is our review of Tom Williams' tour de force of the language football around the globe.
open.spotify.com/episode/6fW3...
July 2, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Do You Speak Football?
Episode 40 is our review of Tom Williams' tour de force of the language football around the globe.
open.spotify.com/episode/6fW3...
Episode 40 is our review of Tom Williams' tour de force of the language football around the globe.
open.spotify.com/episode/6fW3...
Once more into the football-musical breach… 🎤⚽
With music from players who between them won six ballons d'or. And Pelé. Don't forget Pelé.
Episode 10 of Dynamo Football Bookclub Injury Time. Available wherever you get your pods.
With music from players who between them won six ballons d'or. And Pelé. Don't forget Pelé.
Episode 10 of Dynamo Football Bookclub Injury Time. Available wherever you get your pods.
June 24, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Once more into the football-musical breach… 🎤⚽
With music from players who between them won six ballons d'or. And Pelé. Don't forget Pelé.
Episode 10 of Dynamo Football Bookclub Injury Time. Available wherever you get your pods.
With music from players who between them won six ballons d'or. And Pelé. Don't forget Pelé.
Episode 10 of Dynamo Football Bookclub Injury Time. Available wherever you get your pods.
Episode 40 - Flight to Bogota, England's Football Rebel Neil Franklin by John Leonard - out today.
You're playing for England in the '40s but tired of the thick soup they serve in Stoke. So you head off to Colombia, the land of amorous women & sweet wine.
Available wherever you get your pods.
You're playing for England in the '40s but tired of the thick soup they serve in Stoke. So you head off to Colombia, the land of amorous women & sweet wine.
Available wherever you get your pods.
June 18, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Episode 40 - Flight to Bogota, England's Football Rebel Neil Franklin by John Leonard - out today.
You're playing for England in the '40s but tired of the thick soup they serve in Stoke. So you head off to Colombia, the land of amorous women & sweet wine.
Available wherever you get your pods.
You're playing for England in the '40s but tired of the thick soup they serve in Stoke. So you head off to Colombia, the land of amorous women & sweet wine.
Available wherever you get your pods.
In this episode of Injury Time, Al and John dive into the chaotic, colourful world of the North American Soccer League (NASL) — the wild 1970s and 80s league that brought Pelé, Cruyff, Beckenbauer, and Best to America. We pick 5 NASL greats each. And the super computer decides whose team wins.
June 10, 2025 at 4:56 AM
In this episode of Injury Time, Al and John dive into the chaotic, colourful world of the North American Soccer League (NASL) — the wild 1970s and 80s league that brought Pelé, Cruyff, Beckenbauer, and Best to America. We pick 5 NASL greats each. And the super computer decides whose team wins.
Football and rap anyone?
#FootballPodcast #SoccerRap #MemphisDepay #BabyJet #ChartToppers #PodcastTok #FootballersWithMics #FYP #DynamoBookClub #BennyMcCarthy
#FootballPodcast #SoccerRap #MemphisDepay #BabyJet #ChartToppers #PodcastTok #FootballersWithMics #FYP #DynamoBookClub #BennyMcCarthy
June 6, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Football and rap anyone?
#FootballPodcast #SoccerRap #MemphisDepay #BabyJet #ChartToppers #PodcastTok #FootballersWithMics #FYP #DynamoBookClub #BennyMcCarthy
#FootballPodcast #SoccerRap #MemphisDepay #BabyJet #ChartToppers #PodcastTok #FootballersWithMics #FYP #DynamoBookClub #BennyMcCarthy
The Dynamo Football Bookclub is here to help you through the barren football-less months to come.
Join us for a deep dive into the world of football, em, literature.
Wherever you get your pods.
#FootballPodcast #FootballBooks #SoccerStories #OffSeasonFix #DynamoBookClub #PodcastRecommendation
Join us for a deep dive into the world of football, em, literature.
Wherever you get your pods.
#FootballPodcast #FootballBooks #SoccerStories #OffSeasonFix #DynamoBookClub #PodcastRecommendation
June 5, 2025 at 9:00 AM
The Dynamo Football Bookclub is here to help you through the barren football-less months to come.
Join us for a deep dive into the world of football, em, literature.
Wherever you get your pods.
#FootballPodcast #FootballBooks #SoccerStories #OffSeasonFix #DynamoBookClub #PodcastRecommendation
Join us for a deep dive into the world of football, em, literature.
Wherever you get your pods.
#FootballPodcast #FootballBooks #SoccerStories #OffSeasonFix #DynamoBookClub #PodcastRecommendation
In our 8th edition of Injury Time, we return to the football musical canon. This time round, we are listening to football’s greatest rappers featuring one World Cup winner, lots of hits on YouTube and a lady somehow singing with a Liverpool winger’s voice.
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open.spotify.com/episode/4n04...
Injury Time 8 - Rappers' Highlights
The Ademola Bookmen Podcast · Episode
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May 29, 2025 at 7:04 AM
In our 8th edition of Injury Time, we return to the football musical canon. This time round, we are listening to football’s greatest rappers featuring one World Cup winner, lots of hits on YouTube and a lady somehow singing with a Liverpool winger’s voice.
open.spotify.com/episode/4n04...
open.spotify.com/episode/4n04...
In Episode 38, we discuss the life The Three Lives of the Kaiser Franz Beckenbauer by Uli Hesse.
Lives that included:
- World Cup wins as player and manager
- 3 European Cups in a row
- Bribes
- Brides
- a naked Grace Jones riding a white horse through Studio 54
Wherever you get your pods.
Lives that included:
- World Cup wins as player and manager
- 3 European Cups in a row
- Bribes
- Brides
- a naked Grace Jones riding a white horse through Studio 54
Wherever you get your pods.
May 21, 2025 at 7:58 AM
In Episode 38, we discuss the life The Three Lives of the Kaiser Franz Beckenbauer by Uli Hesse.
Lives that included:
- World Cup wins as player and manager
- 3 European Cups in a row
- Bribes
- Brides
- a naked Grace Jones riding a white horse through Studio 54
Wherever you get your pods.
Lives that included:
- World Cup wins as player and manager
- 3 European Cups in a row
- Bribes
- Brides
- a naked Grace Jones riding a white horse through Studio 54
Wherever you get your pods.
We reviewed your Gazza book @danielstorey85.bsky.social
One of the best we've done, really tremendous stuff.
open.spotify.com/episode/3hgH...
One of the best we've done, really tremendous stuff.
open.spotify.com/episode/3hgH...
Episode 37: Gazza in Italy by Daniel Storey
The Ademola Bookmen Podcast · Episode
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May 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
We reviewed your Gazza book @danielstorey85.bsky.social
One of the best we've done, really tremendous stuff.
open.spotify.com/episode/3hgH...
One of the best we've done, really tremendous stuff.
open.spotify.com/episode/3hgH...
Check out our latest draft The Lance Armstrong Cup - Party Boys and Drug Cheats, featuring global superstars, reinventors of football tactics, and at least one (alleged) war criminal.
Available on Spotify and anywhere else you get your pods
open.spotify.com/episode/00tz...
Available on Spotify and anywhere else you get your pods
open.spotify.com/episode/00tz...
May 13, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Check out our latest draft The Lance Armstrong Cup - Party Boys and Drug Cheats, featuring global superstars, reinventors of football tactics, and at least one (alleged) war criminal.
Available on Spotify and anywhere else you get your pods
open.spotify.com/episode/00tz...
Available on Spotify and anywhere else you get your pods
open.spotify.com/episode/00tz...
Alex Ferguson described Gazza as the best player of his generation. That may be debatable but he was the most interesting.
Daniel Storey's book about Gazza’s three years in Italy is a riot. 4.5 snakes in Bobby Di Matteo’s pocket out of 5.
Check out our review.
open.spotify.com/episode/3hgH...
Daniel Storey's book about Gazza’s three years in Italy is a riot. 4.5 snakes in Bobby Di Matteo’s pocket out of 5.
Check out our review.
open.spotify.com/episode/3hgH...
Episode 37: Gazza in Italy by Daniel Storey
The Ademola Bookmen Podcast · Episode
open.spotify.com
May 7, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Alex Ferguson described Gazza as the best player of his generation. That may be debatable but he was the most interesting.
Daniel Storey's book about Gazza’s three years in Italy is a riot. 4.5 snakes in Bobby Di Matteo’s pocket out of 5.
Check out our review.
open.spotify.com/episode/3hgH...
Daniel Storey's book about Gazza’s three years in Italy is a riot. 4.5 snakes in Bobby Di Matteo’s pocket out of 5.
Check out our review.
open.spotify.com/episode/3hgH...
Do you know which player has charted highest in the UK charts?
Do you know who released a song written for him by Chris Lowe of the Pet Shop Boys?
And do you know the name of Gazza’s second single?!
We answer all these important questions in Injury Time 6.
Available wherever you get your pods.
Do you know who released a song written for him by Chris Lowe of the Pet Shop Boys?
And do you know the name of Gazza’s second single?!
We answer all these important questions in Injury Time 6.
Available wherever you get your pods.
May 2, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Do you know which player has charted highest in the UK charts?
Do you know who released a song written for him by Chris Lowe of the Pet Shop Boys?
And do you know the name of Gazza’s second single?!
We answer all these important questions in Injury Time 6.
Available wherever you get your pods.
Do you know who released a song written for him by Chris Lowe of the Pet Shop Boys?
And do you know the name of Gazza’s second single?!
We answer all these important questions in Injury Time 6.
Available wherever you get your pods.
Episode 36 – Gladiator by Francesco Totti, the 8th King of Rome
If you're wondering, the other 7 are Romulus, Numa Pompilius, Tullus Hostilius, Ancus Marcius, Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, Servious Tullius, and Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, or just Superbus to his friends
Wherever you get your pods!
If you're wondering, the other 7 are Romulus, Numa Pompilius, Tullus Hostilius, Ancus Marcius, Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, Servious Tullius, and Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, or just Superbus to his friends
Wherever you get your pods!
April 23, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Episode 36 – Gladiator by Francesco Totti, the 8th King of Rome
If you're wondering, the other 7 are Romulus, Numa Pompilius, Tullus Hostilius, Ancus Marcius, Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, Servious Tullius, and Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, or just Superbus to his friends
Wherever you get your pods!
If you're wondering, the other 7 are Romulus, Numa Pompilius, Tullus Hostilius, Ancus Marcius, Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, Servious Tullius, and Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, or just Superbus to his friends
Wherever you get your pods!
Join us for the 5th instalment of Ademola Bookmen Injury Time.
This time we are picking the best players never to win the Premier League.
With Al yet to win one of these, there’s pride at stake.
Please do like and subscribe.
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podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/i...
This time we are picking the best players never to win the Premier League.
With Al yet to win one of these, there’s pride at stake.
Please do like and subscribe.
open.spotify.com/episode/1a7h...
podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/i...
Injury Time 5 - the Greatest Players Never to Win the Premier League, 5-a-side draft
The Ademola Bookmen Podcast · Episode
open.spotify.com
April 17, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Join us for the 5th instalment of Ademola Bookmen Injury Time.
This time we are picking the best players never to win the Premier League.
With Al yet to win one of these, there’s pride at stake.
Please do like and subscribe.
open.spotify.com/episode/1a7h...
podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/i...
This time we are picking the best players never to win the Premier League.
With Al yet to win one of these, there’s pride at stake.
Please do like and subscribe.
open.spotify.com/episode/1a7h...
podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/i...
Check out our episode on Matt Le Tissier's book Taking Le Tiss, written in 2009 before he went a bit mad.
Available wherever you get your pods, including:
open.spotify.com/episode/7rEW...
and
podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...
Available wherever you get your pods, including:
open.spotify.com/episode/7rEW...
and
podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...
April 9, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Check out our episode on Matt Le Tissier's book Taking Le Tiss, written in 2009 before he went a bit mad.
Available wherever you get your pods, including:
open.spotify.com/episode/7rEW...
and
podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...
Available wherever you get your pods, including:
open.spotify.com/episode/7rEW...
and
podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...
April 2, 2025 at 6:41 AM