Sharp conversations with the big names and great minds of the world's game.
Every week, a special guest joins host Jack Holmes to preview the biggest match of the coming weekend. It might be the Superclásico or the North London Derby, the Champions League final or a Premier League title-decider. This show is about the history of a rivalry, a behind-the-scenes look at a club and its culture, or just some thoughtful commentary before the ball gets rolling.
You'll also find classic clips featuring some great moments from podcasts past.
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Sharp conversations with the big names and great minds of the world's game.
Every week, a special guest joins host Jack Holmes to preview the biggest match of the coming weekend. It might be the Superclásico or the North London Derby, the Champions League final or a Premier League title-decider. This show is about the history of a rivalry, a behind-the-scenes look at a club and its culture, or just some thoughtful commentary before the ball gets rolling.
You'll also find classic clips featuring some great moments from podcasts past.
If you're enjoying The Football Weekend, please leave us a rating and review! It will help spread the good word.
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At the end of the 2023/24 season, Jon Champion joined the show just before calling the FA Cup final for ESPN. He’s also a Premier League commentator for NBC, and he’s been to all kinds of grounds across England and beyond over his decades in the game.
So what are his favorite stadiums?
Champion has a natural predilection for old places with all their layers, one laid atop another until there’s a tasty cake of architectural, cultural, and sporting history to devour. He had kind words for Fulham’s Craven Cottage, and — earlier in the episode — for Luton Town’s Kenilworth Road.
But his greatest praise was for Goodison Park, Everton’s grand old cathedral, and he had some fabulous stories about the treacherous route to the commentary gantry at the 1892 ground and the dire consequences thereof for an old colleague of his, Gerald Sinstadt.
Champion’s words here were so stirring that he inspired The Weekend’s trip to Merseyside last season.
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