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The Dynamo Football Bookclub
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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.
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.

open.spotify.com/episode/0ECm...
October 8, 2025 at 12:15 PM
🚨 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...
October 1, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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...
August 8, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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...
July 31, 2025 at 6:15 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...
July 24, 2025 at 8:42 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
July 9, 2025 at 9:45 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...
July 2, 2025 at 6:33 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.
June 24, 2025 at 6:39 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.
June 18, 2025 at 5:49 AM
This is the Ireland team that beat England in Goodison in 1947, the first foreign team to do so on English soil. Nice bit of history I encountered the other day.
June 10, 2025 at 7:00 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.
June 10, 2025 at 4:56 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
June 5, 2025 at 9:00 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.
May 21, 2025 at 7:58 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...
May 13, 2025 at 6:55 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.
May 2, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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!
April 23, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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...
April 9, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Morgan Gibb's wife...

#NFFC #Forest
April 2, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Who would make your all time #MUFC and/or #NFFC 5-a-side teams?

We picked ours and asked Artificial Intelligence who would win. Check out the results wherever you get your pods.
April 1, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Hey @garymufc.bsky.social
Who would be in your all-time #MUFC 5-a-side team?
Our podcast just did an all time United versus an all-time Forest ahead of tonight's match. Would love to hear your thoughts.

open.spotify.com/episode/0nvg...
April 1, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Hey @mufcdaily.bsky.social check out our all time #MUFC against all-time #NFFC

Who would be in your all-time United 5-a-s-de?

open.spotify.com/episode/0nvg...
April 1, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Ahead of the big match between #NottinghamForest and #MUFC tomorrow night, we asked AI whether a 5-a-side team of Forest legends could play 5 of United's greatest.

Please have a listen. We'd love to hear any feedback!
open.spotify.com/episode/0nvg...
March 31, 2025 at 9:00 PM
@proudforest.bsky.social

Ahead of the big match between #NottinghamForest and #MUFC tomorrow night, we asked AI whether a 5-a-side team of Forest legends could play 5 of United's greatest.

Please have a listen. We'd love to hear your thoughts.
open.spotify.com/episode/0nvg...
March 31, 2025 at 8:59 PM
@nffchub.bsky.social

Ahead of the big match between #NottinghamForest and #MUFC tomorrow night, we asked AI whether a 5-a-side team of Forest legends could play 5 of United's greatest.

Please have a listen. We'd love to hear your thoughts.
open.spotify.com/episode/0nvg...
March 31, 2025 at 8:58 PM