Maybe you can cheat on your taxes, but NEVER cheat on your barber. It's not a problem Paulo has, but Senzo tells us how deep it goes. Coming up this week: - **Liverpool’s Salah Saga**: Why are Liverpool hesitating on Salah's contract, and is Mo using Klopp's hair guy? - **Mbappé is on Fraud Watch**: Is the French superstar living up to the hype, or are the critics sharpening their pitchforks for no reason? - **World Cup 2034 – Desert Dreams or Nightmare Fuel?** FIFA’s Saudi Arabia decision has us all questioning life (and football). - **The FIFA Club World Cup Draw**: We’re a little excited! Rhulani Mokwena might get a potential date with his man-crush Pep, but will either manager still be around by kick-off? - **Percy Tau is playing hardball with Al Ahly** – just give him all the money already, we say. - **Paul Pogba Drama**: Now it involves his mama. Just when the guy should be sorting out his future, the noise surrounding him cranks up the volume. Senzo says, "Just sit down and work it out like brothers." Paulo opens up the gates to GOAT Farm and inducts an entire tournament for the first time. The tournament in question? The **1994 FIFA World Cup**. Mavericks, Colombian executions, surfing goalkeepers, a ball that was all G-spot, and Paulo's cursive handwriting – what's not to love? Finally, Senzo’s **non-football story of the week** dives into the SARU equity deal D-Day. Why isn’t rugby more profitable? I mean, you can even buy a Springbok sim card now!

What international break?!? Paulo and Senzo fire up a pod that hits harder than peak Mike Tyson. Danny Jordaan AKA, "Teflon Jordan" got arrested this week, but what difference will it make because he has the ability to walk away from explosions. What’s R20 000 bail going to do, rather make the guy a groundskeeper at some of the amateur clubs who have vanished under his ‘’leadership’’. When you out-villian Sepp Blatter, you deserve a lot of praise to be honest. David Coote is the ref who became a lines man. Should 42 year old men be behaving that way? You decide, one thing's for sure. Don’t film it. You’re not a high school kid. A video trashing on Liverpool and Klopp, another video of him snorting coke. We eagerly await his sex-tape. Youtubers are ruining everything and defiling the bastion of football purity that is the Argentinian league. A publicity stunt that has gone very wrong. Who signed off on that? Danny Jordaan? The Goat Farm opens its gates for The Baddest Man on the planet. Iron Mike may be a cuddly grandfather type these days - albeit with a face tattoo, but we go back to the days when he was the most feared man in short-shorts. Jake Paul has turned him into a side-show but we remember him as the youngest world champ ever and even though Paulo grew up on the Fresh Prince song, ‘’I think I can beat Mike Tyson’’ and once beat him in the video-game, ‘’Punch Out’’ - he really hopes that a mistimed punched unleashes the beast and Mike does what every middle-aged man really wants to do - beat the crap out of a Youtuber.

Sunglasses, boots, Gianni Infantino. Is there anything in the world that Beckham can't make look better? OK the last one might be a stretch even for him. United are a club haunted by the ghosts of nostalgia. The pale and sickly appearance of Paul Scholes. The incessant and uncanny shrieking of Gary Neville. Do we need to add the spectre of Ruud Van Nistelrooy to the job young Ruben already has on his hands? Admittedly the Dutch legend looks amazing in a coat but we ask why would you have someone, “who knows the club’’ sitting next to you while you untangle a decade long mess? There must have been a Ballon d’or ceremony at the Bernabeu this week because Real Madrid didn’t show up again. Paulo and Senzo refuse to remove the Fraud Watch on Mbappe’s name. He’s getting in everyone’s way and the only thing that can solve it is someone who rolls his studs over the ball. The ultimate skill, don’t @ us. We feel sorry for Neymar after his latest injury. Shame, poor guy is going to end up living in Miami with Messi, Suarez and Becks. But what is his legacy, would a 2014 World Cup win have put him on the Mt Rushmore of Brazilian players. Paulo doesn’t even think he gets ahead of Romario. We in no way belittle FC Noah with ill-advised puns and the gates of the GOAT Farm are back and Ayrton Senna drives his McLaren MP4/5B into the paddock.

Throw out the running order Man Utd are looking for a new manager. Erik gave his goodbye Hags and next lady for a shave is a lovely little Portuguese man that made this shows' resident lovely Portuguese man believe again. Paulo makes a last ditch attempt at convincing United to “give it Ruud” to help save his beloved Sporting from going back to the doldrums. What can United expect from Ruben? We talk his management style. His tactics. And how he needs to deal with Rio. We also take a moment to talk about the Galactico tantrum. Fergie said never trust Real Madrid and while we were calling them big, classless children - we haven't once mentioned how a literal child told the Bernabéu to sit down. The Devil's greatest trick and all that. Flashy tricks will never beat a tucked in shirt. It's the law of life. When we weren’t hitting refresh on Fabrizio Romano's Twitter feed we took some time to watch the Amazon documentary series, Game 7 - specifically the episode about the 2006 Western Conference semifinals between the Dallas Mavericks and the San Antonio Spurs, two Texas rivals with rich histories. It has NBA prejudices about European players, the most boring, best team in NBA history and Mark Cuban. We don't know if that's a good or a bad thing.

*** THIS EPISODE WAS RELEASED AN HOUR BEFORE THE ERIK TEN HAG NEWS BROKE. ERIK RUINED OUR PODCAST, BUT ALSO. GOOD RIDDANCE**** Senzo is all full of Fanta and bouncing around the studio like a hyperactive 2-year old, which is exactly the make-up of 90% of the Barcelona team who thrashed the European champions and FC Hollywood in the same week. Arsenal vs. Liverpool also surprised us and Paulo thinks Arteta is building a very flashy Stoke City. Will Ten Hag still be United coach by the time you listen to this, and maybe he can ‘’Hag’’ his fellow Dutchman Max who is a very unhappy F1 Champ. No slow start in the NBA as teams are getting better every season. Is it sports science? Is it analytics? Is it something juicier? A coffee break conversation between Paulo and Senzo has turned into us creating the definitive list of fictional sports teams, including “Steamin’ Willie Beamen,” the only team who had Jordan and Lebron on the roster, AFC Richmond and the foul-mouthed Roy Kent, Supa Strikers and El Matador, Shakes Mokena, a white man who can jump, side-boob, A Bo you outta know and Netflix’s Club de Cuervos. Lastly, a review of Chasing The Sun 1.5 AKA Two Sides - about the British and Irish Lions tour in 2022, got Paulo wondering why everyone was so upset about Rassie’s video but it highlighted why the SARU equity deal might not be that bad after all. After all, we can’t waste money more than New Zealand have, can we?

Thomas Tuchel is England's Fußballmeister, and the Brexiteers are not happy—unless it brings them a World Cup. At least he won't be showing up on the Old Trafford touchline anytime soon. Which is lucky for him, as King Eric (Cantona) is flinging bags of sh*t around after INEOS took away Fergie's pension money. New billionaires, just like the old billionaires. City have brought in a new Portuguese prodigy, but he's not taking to the field. Instead, he's heading to the exec suites. Hugo Viana's first few jobs at City may be to replace KDB, Ederson, and Pep. Better get his good mate Ruben Amorim on the line. Paulo calls that appointment first. Paul Pogba's latest interview has challenged Paulo to rethink the way we talk about players of color, and we find out what happens when you change a Super Eagles flight plan. Raphaël Varane thinks players are too robotic and not allowed to make mistakes anymore—and he played under Mourinho, so it must be bad. Samuel Eto'o wants to run for CAF President. We're team Motsepe all the way, but Samuel will be fun as hell. When we're not watching sports, we're watching sports documentaries and talking about them—and this week, we got stuck into Starting 5, the best NBA documentary since The Last Dance. It's so good, Anthony Edwards has Paulo contemplating committing heresy. Luis Figo enters the GOAT Farm and Senzo picks apart the Ackerley Sports Group's pathetic equity offer for the Springboks. We find out they own the 49ers, among others, and tell you just how much of Patrick Mahomes' $75 million will get you. Spoiler alert: not much.

An international break gives us pause to spend time with our significant others - and Paulo and Senzo find one another very significant. We start the show with ‘’5-a-side’’, 5 things each from the world of football we find worth talking about. Arne Slot is disappointingly anti-Moyes but is time up for Darwin Nunez? Scott McTominay is being called, ‘’one of the best midfielders in Napoli’s history’’. He’s not even the best midfielder in the past 5 years but we do agree he needs his moment in the sun. Just don’t forget the sunscreen. Jurgen Klopp has taken his bright teeth to the Red Bull group. We await the inevitable Klopp in an F1 cross-over promo. It’s Pog-Back Part 4 but will he join the rest of the Suicide Squad at Marseille? Mbappe is on Fraud Watch, The Saudi Pro League has raised a full-scale Fraud Alert, and Senzo feels sorry for The Supersized Ligue 1. In our sports documentary review we cover, ‘’ The Figo Affair: The Transfer that Changed Football’’ and find out that Paulo tried to grow his hair like the Portuguese almost man and as the world settles into EAFC 25, we go back to simpler days and talk about the original FIFA International Soccer video game.

Why is it so hard to get concert tickets these days? And why go through the effort for Chris Brown? Paulo and Senzo talk about residual thirst blow-back before they get into this week's short-sided, 5-A-Side. The last place you want to go when you're wounded is The Dragao and Bruno found out that the worst person a Portuguese guy can have on their back, is another Portuguese guy! It was a bad week for Atletico Madrid, and an even worse one for whoever picked up THAT packet. Griezmann says au revoir to France while FIFA will do anything to keep the Club World Cup teams onside. Plus is Lassana Diarra about to change the face of the football transfer system? We're not lawyers, but we don't think so. In out documentary feature we talk about, ''Mr McMahon'' on Netflix and conclude, you don't have to like him, but God you gotta admire him. Because he says so! GOAT Farm inducts Andre Agassi and Senzo's non-football story of the week talks about a legend.

Paulo and Senzo aren't even mad at Ten hag anymore, we just feel bad for him. Not as bad as we felt for Rafael Varane who has been forced into early retirement, until we counted his trophies - he'll be ok. Julen Lopetegui is on Fraud Watch, Barca prove we know nothing about football and Michael Olise has gone Super Saiyan. We talk about the All or Nothing series and aren't getting in our feels about Manie Libbock - clutch means clutch.

And the season starts...NOW!! Paulo and Senzo are back with your Working Title FC podcast. New season, new energy, new features. Like 5-a-side, where each one of us brings their 5 big football stories of the week. We'll also be talking more about sports documentaries and this week we start with one about a player who could just be the best human to ever play for Argentina. Senzo wants to know what Diddy did do and we open the gates of The GOAT Farm to Manuel Rui Costa. #Working Title FC, #football podcast, #Erik ten Hag, #Manchester United, #Champions League, #Juventus, #Inter Milan, #IOL, #sports content, #African Podcast and Voiceover Awards, #Sports Podcast of the Year, #personal updates, #listener engagement, #football stories, #Bruno Fernandes, #Marcus Rashford, #Southampton, #Crystal Palace, #Ten Hag’s future, #Ruud van Nistelrooy, #Champions League format, #single league table, #knockout stage, #player fatigue, #Sporting Portugal, #transfer window, #revenue for clubs, #Alex Morgan, #retirement, #women’s football, #Chelsea Football Club, #Todd Boehly, #ownership issues, #Jim Ratcliffe, #sports documentaries, #Ángel Di María, #Breaking the Wall, #mental health in sports, #Ballon d'Or shortlist, #Vinicius Junior, #Rodri, #Jude Bellingham, #Victor Osimhen, #striker role evolution, #midfielders, #Carlo Ancelotti, #FIFA, #Mario Kempes, #Sean "Diddy" Combs, #cultural implications, #legal ramifications, #courtroom sketches, #Goat Farm, #Rui Costa, #Fiorentina, #nostalgic football, #Portuguese league, #Euro 2004, #football legends, #player legacy, #football analysis, #current events in football.

Pre-season plans were thrown into disarray on the eve of the new season and Paulo has been forced to go it alone upfront. But the fans have paid for their tickets and the show must go on. Join Paulo - The Lone Ranger - as he unpacks what he expects from the new season SPOILER ALERT not much except for Ten Hag getting a Ruud awakening. We're waiting for reinforcements ahead of the shutting of the transfer window so hit subscribe for all new Working Title FC!

Where the hell have WTFC been? Well we owe you an explanation. Things have been a bit topsy-turvy lately. Ryan has jetted off to Ireland to explore some exciting opportunities. As for Senzo and myself, well, life has thrown a bunch of stuff our way, making it tricky to stick to our usual weekly recording sessions. But we're not hitting pause forever. Instead, we're taking a break to regroup and come back swinging with something fresh and exciting. In the meantime, we've cooked up a little something called "Working Title FC Presents. You might have already caught "Goat Farm" in your podcast feed – that's just the beginning. We're lining up more episodes, plus special content for big sporting events like the Euros, cricket, and rugby. We're talking deep dives, nostalgic chats, and some awesome interviews. It's all about bringing you something that's truly our own, with a whole gang of new faces joining the mix. We couldn't be more grateful for your support. Seriously, it means the world to us. So hang tight, keep an eye out for "Goat Farm" episodes, and stay subscribed for all the good stuff heading your way. Catch you soon! Warm regards, [Your Names/Working Title FC Team]

As the sun goes down on Bafana's AFCON dream Paulo and Senzo celebrate a run that we both expected. Don't bet against the 9 lives of Ivory Coast and we look at the Over-35 World Cup which may be lying to us.

Quarter Finals beckon in the best tournament we've seen - but it won't be complete until Drogba is on the bench. Every Mali player is 8 out of 10 and plays for Le Havre and only Man United players can get sent off twice. It's been a journey Cabo Verde - but we have to bid you adieu - we're not Bafana-ing here!

The groups stages were wild and we're just getting started. Who will lead Ivory Coast? Is Hervé parachuting in or will there be a last dance with the Touré brothers and Drogba? It's the worst keeper against the best striker when Cameroon meet Nigeria and Paulo and Senzo don't fear Morocco. Finally teams should not be going through to knock-outs with 1 goal, as punishment, should they play in jeans?

The AFCON Group stages are wrapping up so Paulo and Senzo bring you their favourite moments including brilliantly named Mauritanians and wondering what could have been with Bebe.

As the Best Sports Podcast in Africa - thanks to APVA - we had to do a podcast about the biggest sports tournament on the continent. Paulo and Senzo preview AFCON 2023, held in 2024 - hey if it's good enough for Euro 2020 - and are getting behind Bafana early. Join us at key points through the tournament as we hopefully get over the disappointment of not seeing Hervé Renard on the touchline. Will Salah stake his claim as the best African player ever? Will Mané go back to back like the cover of Lethal Weapon? or will Osimhen add another few million to his enormous price tag?

Working Title FC presents GOAT Farm. It’s kind of like our Hall of Fame where we talk about our favourite sports things ever. The video game that started it all, Paulo allows the first iteration of FIFA onto the farm.

Working Title FC presents GOAT Farm. It’s kind of like our Hall of Fame where we talk about our favourite sports things ever. Paulo tells the boys about his uncomfortable obsession with Rui Costa.

Working Title FC presents GOAT Farm. It’s kind of like our Hall of Fame where we talk about our favourite sports things ever. More than just a Galactico Whisperer, Paulo has loved Don Carlo since we was just a normal elite-level midfielder.