The Dynamo Football Bookclub
Episodes
Episode 58: The Greatest Show on Earth - Andrew Downie
20 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 58, we continue our World Cup series 🌍🏆 with The Greatest Show on Earth - The Inside Story of the Legendary 1970 World Cup by Andre...
Injury Time 27: 1960s World Cup Draft
13 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In Injury Time 27, we continue our draft journey through the World Cups, focusing this time on the tournaments in Chile in ’62 🇨🇱 and England ...
Episode 57: Bobby More - The Man in Full by Matt Dickinson
06 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 57, we take on a seemingly impossible task — getting to know the unknowable ⚽🔍. Bobby Moore was England’s World Cup captain in 196...
Injury Time 26: 1950s World Cup draft
27 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In Injury Time 26 🎙️⚽, we are doing our 1950s World Cups draft 🏆🔥 With the Nasazzi’s baton 🏏 securely in Johnny’s clutches afte...
Episode 56: Pelé - The Autobiography
20 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 56 🎙️⚽ we talk about The King of Football 👑, Edson Arantes Do Nascimento. That’s Dico to his friends and family 👨👩...
Injury Time 25: 1930s World Cup draft
12 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
⚽️ With the World Cup bearing down on us like a busy full back 💨, we are getting into the groove of things 🎧. 🏆 In Injury Time 25, we ...
Episode 55: Once in a Lifetime - The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos by Gavin Newsham
05 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
🗽⚽️🔥 In Episode 55, join us for the story of the New York Cosmos, as told by Gavin Newsham in his book Once In a Lifetime 📖🎙️ The...
Injury Time 24: Sean Dyche look-a-likey 5-a-side
29 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In Injury Time 24, we take Sean Dyche’s advice and play the lookalikey game 👀⚽️ — the game he once said makes the world go round. It may n...
Episode 54: Keith Gillespie - How Not to be a Football Millionaire
22 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
🚀📉⚽️💷🎙️ In Episode 54, we review Keith Gillespie’s How Not to be a Football Millionaire. A Class of ’92 graduate alongside Be...
Injury Time 23: Right v. Left - The Ideology Draft
15 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In our increasingly polarized world, what a tonic it is to think about where the footballers we so admire fall on the political spectrum. We can even ...
Episode 53: The Damned United by David Peace
08 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In our first episode this year, we review our first football novel, David Peace’s The Damned United 📖⚽ Having already reviewed both Clough a...
Injury Time 22: 'Tis the season for a Christmas 5-a-side draft
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To mark the festive season 🎄, we discuss some of the weightier religious and historical topics 📜✝️ such as the cause of Herod’s death ☠️...
Episode 52: Sam Allardyce - Big Sam, My Autobiography
11 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Pour yourself a very very large glass of wine 🍷, sit back 🛋️, and enjoy Episode 52 of the Dynamo Football Bookclub. This week, we are takin...
Injury Time 21: Skin on Skin - Tattoo 5-a-side
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We are skin deep in Episode 21 of the Dynamo Football Bookclub’s Injury Time looking at footballers’ tattoos. 🏉🖋️ From numerology with ...
Episode 51: Marco Van Basten - Basta
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 51, we’re back with the Oranje 🇳🇱 as we dive into Basta, the autobiography of the one and only Marco van Basten. The rather oddl...
Injury Time 20: Ouch - The Injury Time injury special
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s injury time on Injury Time ⏱️⚽️ In Episode 20, we pay homage to all those fine fellows whose careers were brought to a premature end...
Episode 50: Dennis Wise - The Autobiography
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🎉 EPISODE 50! 🎉 We’re celebrating our half-century in style — that’s right, it’s Denis Wise’s autobiography 😏📖⚽️ Wise is ...
Injury Time 19: Scott Gemill nepo baby special - father and son 5-a-side
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🎶 “It’s not time to make a change…” 🎶 It's time to sit back, relax, and enjoy our Father & Son 5-a-side Draft! Welcome to Injury ...
Episode 49: Michael Owen - Reboot
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
⚽️ “Episode 49: Reboot – The Michael Owen Story” Is Michael Owen football’s oddest ball of all? 🧐 From the helicopter highs of...
Injury Time 18: Frank Ilett hair shirt derby - United players versus United rejects
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
☁️ The clouds have lifted over Old Trafford since the weekend with United’s smash-and-grab win down at Anfield — but has the storm truly passe...
Episode 48: A Season With Verona by Tim Parks
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
⚽️ Episode 48: A Season with Verona — Tim Parks and the Tifosi 🇮🇹 After the drama of our last episode, we’re staying in Italy with an...
Injury Time 17: Pig's Head Derby - The real snake draft
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🎙️ Episode Drop: Injury Time 17 – The Pig’s Head Derby: The Real Snake Draft It’s 23 November 2002. Luis Figo trots over to take a corner f...
Episode 47: The Miracle of Castel Di Sangro by Joe McGinness
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🚨 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, because Joe McGin...
Injury Time 16: Dreams of Alistair - TV lineup draft
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
⚽ Injury Time 16 is here! 📺🎙️ In this episode, we choose our greatest television lineups. There may be some personal and national biases ...
Episode 46: Stuart Pearce - Psycho
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🎧 Episode 46 is out now — and it’s the most Alistair-esque episode yet. That’s right, we’re doing our best to distract poor Al from even...
Injury Time 15: The Mayor of Barnet Fair - Clash of the terrible haircuts
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🎧 Injury Time 15: The Mayor of Barnet Fair – Football’s Worst Haircuts 💈⚽ It’s a question as old as the combover: who had football’s w...
Episode 45: Kevin Keegan - My Life in Football
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🎧 Episode 45 is OUT NOW! ⚽🐭 He’s King Kev in England, Mäuserich (Mighty Mouse) in Germany — and everywhere he goes, he’s a two-time ...
Injury Time 14: The Last Shall Be First – The Premier League’s Worst Ever Players
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Matthew Jarvis 20:16 – “So the last shall be first, and the first last.” In this episode, we turn things on their head 🙃. We’re pickin...
Episode 44: The Soccer War by Ryszard Kapuściński
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
📚 Episode 44 is here! This week, we’re diving into The Soccer War by Ryszard Kapuściński 🇵🇱 — the legendary Polish reporter, a writer w...
Episode 29: Messi - The Definitive Biography by Guillem Balague
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do you follow a 5-time Ballon D’or winner? Well, with an 8-time Ballon D’or Winner of course. That’s right, its Part II of the Guillem Balag...
Episode 28: Cristiano Ronaldo - The Biography by Guillem Balague
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s our 28th episode and we are starting the new year with the first part of the Balague GOAT saga. First up is his award-winning biography of Cris...
Injury Time 13: The Steve McMahon Windscreens Shield – a Wrong ’Uns 5-a-side draft
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
⚽ Injury Time 13: The Steve McMahon Windscreens Shield – a Wrong ’Uns draft ⚽ OUT NOW! 🎧 What makes a wrong ’un? Cheating ...
Episode 43: It's Only the Ray Parlour Autobiography - The Romford Pelé
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🎙️ Episode 43 of the Dynamo Football Bookclub is out! 💆♂️ Massage parlour, 💅 beauty parlour… Ray Parlour. That’s right —...
Injury Time 12: African EPL Draft - Danny Invincible 11s v. Orlando Pirates
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🎧 Episode 12 of Injury Time is here! 🎙️ It’s the Great African Draft Showdown — Johnny’s Danny Invincible 11s take on Alistair’...
Episode 42: The Feet of the Chameleon - The Story of African Football by Ian Hawkey
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🎙️ Episode 42 is LIVE! 📘 The Feet of the Chameleon – The Story of African Football by Ian Hawkey ⚽️🌍 An epic journey through the past...
Injury Time 11: The Battle of Brobdingnag - Giant Player Draft
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Having passed out Crouchie in the podcast charts a couple of weeks ago, we've decided to tackle more giants of the game 🤖 In Injury Time 11 🎙...
Episode 41: Do You Speak Football by Tom Williams
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 41, we move beyond biographies and autobiographies for the first time and into the wonderful world of the language of football with Do You ...
Injury Time 10: Kanye's boots - more football music
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🎧 Once more into the football-musical breach… 🎤⚽ We’re back with one final (for now) dive into the weird and wonderful world of footbal...
Episode 40: Flight to Bogota - England's Football Rebel Neil Franklin by John Leonard
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we dive into Flight to Bogotá by John Leonard — the true story of Neil Franklin, the England defender hailed by Tom Finney as the fines...
Injury Time 9 - The Grace Jones World Series - North American Soccer League Draft
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 8...
Episode 39: Di Stefano by Ian Hawkey
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
⚽ The Dynamo Football Book Club Podcast — Episode 39: Di Stéfano We kick off our rebrand as The Dynamo Football Book Club with a book about a rea...
Injury Time 8 - Rappers' Highlights
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It is our 8th edition of Injury Time, and we return to the football musical canon. This time round, we are listening to football’s greatest rappers....
Episode 38: The Three Lives of the Kaiser - the Franz Beckenbauer Biography by Uli Hesse
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 38, we discuss the life – or rather The Three Lives – of the Kaiser Franz Beckenbauer by Uli Hesse. Another of the faces on football...
Injury Time 7 - The Lance Armstrong Cup - Party boys and Drug Cheat draft
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For the 7th edition of Injury Time, we are picking the best and most interesting players who have received drug bans. From party boys like Diego to yo...
Episode 37: Gazza in Italy by Daniel Storey
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 37, we visit the captivating story of Gazza in Italy. This rather short book by Daniel Storey really packs a punch. Having read so man...
Injury Time 6 - Top of the Football Pops
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In our sixth edition of Injury Time, we take times in a different direction, with something of a Football Top of the Pops. Do you know which player...
Episode 36: Francesco Totti - Gladiator
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 36, we discuss Gladiator, the autobiography of Francesco Totti. With nicknames such as The Eight King of Rome, Totti had other much better ...
Injury Time 5 - the Greatest Players Never to Win the Premier League, 5-a-side draft
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the 5th episode of Ademola Bookmen Injury Time and this week we are choosing 5-a-side teams of the best players never to win the Premier League...
Episode 35: Matt Le Tisser - Taking Le Tiss
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In continuation of God month on the Ademola Bookmen Podcast, we travel to the south coast to check on in folk legend Matt Le Tissier and his autobiogr...
Injury Time 4 - Matchday Special - all-time Forest versus all-time Manchester United
31 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Let’s see what our cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence machine has to say – can a team of legendary Forest players beat the mighty United? Ahe...
Episode 34: Eric Cantona – The Rebel Who Would Be King by Philippe Auclair
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 34, we review Philippe Auclair’s book about arguably the greatest of all Premier League players and certainly the coolest – Eric Canton...
Injury Time 3: Ginger Spice - The Red Hair 5-a-side draft
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In our third instalment of Ademola Bookmen Injury Time, we are doing a 5-a-side draft of red hair footballers. Yes folks, its Ginger Spice, the Red Ha...
Episode 33: In Search of Duncan Ferguson by Alan Patullo
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 33, we review In Search of Duncan Ferguson – The Life and Crimes of a Footballing Enigma by Alan Patullo. The highest scoring Scot in ...
Injury Time 2 - Prison 5-a-side draft (the Joey Barton Cup)
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for our second installment of Injury Time, a prison 5-a-side draft. The quality of players who have been to prison is really quite something, ...
Episode 32: Béla Guttman - The Greatest Comeback by David Bolchover
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 32, we take a history lesson with David Bolchover’s book about Béla Guttman, The Greatest Comeback – From Genocide to Football Glory. ...
Injury Time 1 - Irish Premier League 5-a-side smackdown
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to our first bonus episode - it's the Ademola Bookmen Podcast Injury Time [insert whistle sound here]. Today, Al and John are competing aga...
Episode 31: Martin Keown - On The Edge
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 31, we tackle the autobiography of famous Ruud Van Nistelrooy botherer Martin Keown. A member of The Invincibles, a double-double winner, a...
Episode 30: Doctor Socrates - Footballer, Philosopher, Legend by Andrew Downie
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Was Sócrates the coolest footballer ever? Not only did he complete a medical degree while playing as a professional footballer, captain the Brazil...
Episode 27: Eamon Dunphy - Only a Game?
18 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 27, we take a stroll down memory lane with Ireland’s arch controversialist Eamon Dunphy. Before he became a fixture on Irish television a...
Episode 26: Ferenc Puskás - Captain of Hungary
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hungary’s ‘Galloping Major’, Ferenc Puskás was a three time European Cup winner and the winner of ten domestic titles, split evenly with five i...
Episode 25: Andrea Pirlo - I Think Therefore I Play
19 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Grab your rollies, your loganberry IPA, and your panini sticker book folks, it's Episode 25 of the Ademola Bookmen Podcast, the hipster's choice, Andr...
Episode 24: Sven Goran Eriksson - A Beautiful Game
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 24, we discuss A Beautiful Game by Sven-Göran Eriksson. The book was published on 17 October, less than two months after Sven died from pa...
Episode 23: Tony Cascarino - Full Time
23 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 23, we discuss Full Time – the secret life of Tony Cascarino as told to Paul Kimmage. Despite having earned 88 caps for them, scoring 19 ...
Episode 22: Garrincha - The Triumph and Tragedy of Brazil's Forgotten Football Hero
08 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 22, we review the biography of Manuel Francisco dos Santos - Garrincha to you and I. In a Dylan goes electric moment for the Bookmen, this ...
Episode 21: Peter Taylor - With Clough
24 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 21, Al and Johnny review With Clough by Peter Taylor, the book that is believed to have created the rift between the two men that ultimatel...
Episode 20: Brian Clough - The Autobiography
11 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After a couple of technical glitches, it's Episode 20 of the Ademola Bookmen Podcast. And to mark this (kind of) milestone in our podcasting journey, ...
Episode 19: Robbie Fowler - My Autobiography
13 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 19, the Ademola Bookmen Podcast takes an ecclesiastical turn with our review of God’s book – Robbie Fowler’s, My Autobiography. Ko...
Episode 18: Johan Cruyff - My Turn
30 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s Episode 18 and its Johan Cruyff’s My Turn for the Ademola Bookmen Podcast. Join us as we take a trip through the life of arguably the best in...
Episode 17: Mark Noble - Boleyn Boy
17 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s Episode 17 and we are reading Boyeln Boy by Mr. West Ham himself, Mark Noble. Having been released in November 2022, this is by far the most re...
Episode 16: Robbie Savage - Savage!
02 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 16 focuses on the life and times of that most overlooked of the Class of 92, Robbie Savage. Less famous for his time as an underweight and und...
Episode 15: Neil Warnock - The Gaffer
19 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With a career in English football going all the way back to 1967, Neil Warnock has traveled to every corner of the country. In his 2013 book, The Gaff...
Episode 14: James Milner - Ask a Footballer
04 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
James Milner's first appearance in the Premier League was as a substitute for Manchester United's new technical director, Jason Wilcox. He is that blo...
Episode 13: Patrice Evra.- I Love This Game
22 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 13 we read about the life and times of the chicken licking, Marseilles fan kicking, Patrice Evra. Born in Senegal, one of 24 children (n...
Episode 12: Arsene Wenger - My Life in Red and White
02 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Arsene Who? In Episode 12, we review our first book by a manager. He may have been a stranger when he arrived in England in 1996 but he is no strang...
Episode 11: Steve Claridge - Tales from the Boot Camps
17 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Who better to follow Diego Maradona than the Aldershot Hotshot Steve Claridge? Probably most famous for scoring the goal that got Leicester up to the ...
Episode 10: Diego Maradona - El Diego
03 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 10, the magic and mayhem of Diego Maradona. In this episode, Al and Johnny slalom their way around flailing defenders and through the life of ...
Episode 9: Neville Southall - The Binman Chronicles
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 9, we take a tour on an open top bin lorry with Neville Southall's The Binman Chronicles back to a time when Everton FC were riding high at...
Episode 8: Peter Crouch - How to be a Footballer
05 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 8, Al and Johnny visit the first literary work by Peter Crouch, the all volleying, sometime header-ing, everyman of English football. At 6f...
Episode 7: Paul McGrath - Back from the Brink
20 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the introduction to his Back from the Brink, his 2006 autobiography, Paul McGrath is described by his ghostwriter, Vincent Hogan, as "undeniably Ir...
Episode 6: Didier Drogba - Commitment
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Ademola Lookman plotting a course to the final of the African Cup of Nations where he may (fingers crossed) find himself taking on Ivory Coast, t...
Episode 5: Joey Barton - No Nonsense
23 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 2016, as his playing career was coming to an end, Joey Barton published his autobiography. Titled "No Nonsense", the book takes us through Joey's t...
Episode 4: Ian Wright - A Life in Football - Part II
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
South London icon and Arsenal/Palace legend Ian Wright's book has such heft that it took us two episodes to get through it. Join Al and Johnny as they...
Episode 3: Ian Wright - A Life in Football - Part I
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
South London icon and Arsenal/Palace legend Ian Wright's book has such heft that it took us two episodes to get through it. Join Al and Johnny as they...
Episode 2: Zlatan Ibrahimovic - I Am Zlatan
21 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"It was a fairytale and I was Zlatan". These are the final words of the Zlatan book, described by the Guardian as the greatest ever football biography...
Episode 1: Jamie Vardy - From Nowhere, My Story
21 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the first episode of the Ademola Bookmen Podcast, hosts Al Bond and Johnny Coughlan tackle the literary heft of the Jamie Vardy story. The skittle ...