All Out Football Podcast

Happy St Patrick's Day to Ireland!

To mark the occasion we've got regular AOF contributor Kevin Bannan to talk through his own All-Time Irish starting XI including subs and a chosen manager. From goalkeeper to attacker, who has Kevin picked?

Drop us a line in the comments if you agree or disagree with Kevin's picks.

Congratulations to Middlesbrough who produced the shock of the FA Cup fifth round. 19-year-old Josh Coburn scored the winner in extra-time and now Chris Wilder's side will face Chelsea in the Quarter-Finals.

To discuss Boro and how poor Spurs were at the Riverside, Will and Paul, our excellent Premier League picks writer, talk the cup and Premier League action. We also have time to talk VAR controversy after THAT decision against Everton last weekend. An apology was given to Frank Lampard and the club as a whole, but how unacceptable can you get! The standards have clearly got to improve.

Wolves are having a brilliant season, some teams cannot get too complacent and in the relegation fight, do Burnley have any hope?

To discuss the latest Premier League talking points is Will, Kevin and Ollie. We also talk Steve Bruce at West Brom and who away from the Premier League, who are the top teams in Europe to look out for?

Senegal are the champions of AFCON 2022, their first-ever title! Egypt left as runners-up, Cameroon finish third and Burkina Faso take fourth overall. Who were the players of the tournament? What was the best moment from AFCON 2022?

What an enthralling set of semi-finals! Burkina Faso did themselves immensely proud to make it all the way to the final four, Senegal just too strong from them eventually. The host nation Cameroon are out after losing on penalties to Egypt. How on earth Cameroon or Egypt didn't score in the 90 minutes was unbelievable!

So it's Burkina Faso V Cameroon for the third/fourth play-off and Senegal, looking for their first-ever Nations Cup triumph, against seven-time champions Egypt. We have a tasty Sadio Mané V Mo Salah Liverpool head-to-head final to look forward to!

A first-ever appearance in the FA Cup fourth round lies in wait for National League club Boreham Wood. Championship Bournemouth stand in their way for possibly creating even more history for the Wood! 

For this latest AOF podcast episode, we are delighted to be joined by Brett Lewis, supporter and reporter for the Non-League Paper on all things Boreham Wood. Brett has also written a book called Amazing Journey: From Ryman League Division One North to the National League Watching Boreham Wood FC 2008-2015.

As well as the FA Cup, we also talk about the club's promotion prospects in the National League. The club have made the promotion final before but fell to a 2-1 defeat at the hands of Tranmere in 2018. Can the Wood make the final again and reach the Football League?

Hull City have new owners and what are Coventry City's chances of making the play-offs come May? 

The round of 16 and quarter-finals are complete as the Africa Cup of Nations moves forward onto the semi-finals.

Burkina Faso, Senegal, Cameroon and Egypt are our final four, but who will make the final? Stories of shock, the underdogs holding their heads high and what next for Gabon's Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang after moving to Barcelona from Arsenal?

Claudio Ranieri has become the latest in a long list of managers axed at Watford under the Pozzo's. Roy Hodgson is back in management with one simple aim - keep the Hornets in the Premier League but can he do it?

The All Out Football podcast has ambition to go beyond the football and this latest episode is a first for something different. The science is there for all to see. Climate change affects all of us, so how can football play it's part in tackling the environmental problems we face? 

With January being #Veganuary we are delighted to welcome Jade Crawford, head chef at Forest Green Rovers, to talk what role she plays at the club, vegan diets for footballers and fans, plus the environmental impact football has. Our conversation includes the role of community at the New Lawn, ambitions for the football club under owner Dale Vince, how we can persuade fans to try vegan food plus one simple recipe we should try?

Our thanks to Jade for coming onto the pod as guest.

The Africa Cup of Nations round of 16 has arrived! The group stages are over with some shocks, plenty of goals and some unexpected minnows overcoming the odds. One week of competition done, what can we expect next?

Join Will Luker and Sam Oni to talk all things AFCON after Nigeria and host nation Cameroon found themselves safely through but defending champions Algeria and Ghana found themselves dumped out. 

The Africa Cup of Nations, delayed from 2021, is underway in Cameroon. After a week of competition, the group stages underway, what are the main talking points? 

Join Will Luker and Sam Oni to talk all things AFCON after host nation got off to a winning start against Burkina Faso, three-times winners Nigera edging out Egypt and defending champions Algeria held to a goalless draw against Sierra Leonne. 

We also talk what the Africa Cup of Nations means to Africa and fans in the UK.

One of the best FA Cup third round weekends ever? Cambridge United, Nottingham Forest, Boreham Wood and Kidderminster Harriers causing upsets, Premier League sides Arsenal, Newcastle and Burnley dumped out plus Everton fans unhappy at Rafa Benitez despite progressing through to round four at Hull City's expense. 

To discuss a magical weekend, Will, Kelan and Ollie talk through the results, whether the cup still has magic left, VAR, crowd numbers and there's also time to discuss the current COVID restrictions on sporting venues in Wales.

Happy New Year! 2022. A new year which means some fresh predictions! Joining Will on the pod is Kevin Bannon and Sam Organ to talk through their predictions. Can Liverpool and Chelsea catch-up with Manchester City? Who makes the top four? Is there any hope for Norwich in the relegation battle? Which two teams will make the Champions League final? Plus the World Cup? Expectations for England, France to bounce back from a surprise defeat at the Euros or maybe Lionel Messi to get his hands finally on the ultimate prize in world football for Argentina?

On the latest episode of the All Out Football podcast we've got 30 minutes of round-up, with Will Luker, Sumit Haldar and a new guest Tom Brill joins in the chat! New COVID-19 measures are being brought in because of the new Omicron variant and of course they might be necessary as many clubs are suffering outbreaks internally. We also talk the Champions League as they eventually made it to the right conclusion and where does Dele Alli go next from Spurs? Europe or maybe Newcastle? Where he moves next will be interesting.

With Christmas approaching now is a good time to talk the Championship! Fulham and Bournemouth look like they're running away with automatic promotion but they have stuttered a little bit in recent games. West Brom managed to pull off a big win at Coventry, plus Sheffield United under Paul Heckingbottom are now two wins from two under his management. Slavisa Jokanovic has gone, so can Heckingbottom lead the Blades to a play-off finish come May? 

Joining Will to talk about the Championship is current All Out Football writer and Peterborough fan Kelan Sarson. It's Kelan's podcast debut and because he supports The Posh, of course we have to talk how they're getting on in the second division. It's not been great with Peterborough in a relegation fight after earning promotion from League One last season.

Midweek Premier League games are always a feast of drama and entertainment. All broadcast on Amazon Prime for the third season in a row, we saw Chelsea not at their best despite winning at Watford, Newcastle still waiting for their first win of the season and Rafa Benitez under huge pressure as Everton were thrashed by Merseyside neighbours Liverpool. 

Ollie is back in presenters' chair to talk all the midweek top flight action alongside Kevin.

It's no secret that Oldham Athletic have been struggling in League Two ever since the club were relegated down to the fourth tier in 2018. The struggles have gone on for such a long time and despite a few romantic FA Cup runs over the last decade, Oldham fans have had hardly anything to cheer about. The current owners are treating the club in the worst possible way and fans have had enough. Managerial departure after managerial departure, protests and an upcoming boycott, times are tough for the Latics with relegation out of the EFL a now inevitable threat.

Joining Will is Oldham supporter Andy Halliwell, one half of The Boundary Park Alert System! Podcast, to talk club history, results on the pitch and the state of the club off it. 

With all four English clubs now qualified for the knockout stages of the Champions League, it's time for a review of the latest round of fixtures and some predictions for what happens next. Thomas Tuchel's Chelsea look unstoppable, Thiago's cracker for Liverpool, Manchester City outperformed PSG and it's near enough a done deal that Manchester United will confirm Ralf Rangnick as their new interim manager. There's also a chance to discuss Bayern, Barcelona's fall from grace and we touch on the Premier League at the end of this episode.

There's also a little change in the host for this one. A warm welcome to a previous guest, as Ollie Goodwin takes on the role of presenter alongside Jude Hope and Kevin Bannon.

Ole Gunnar Solksjaer has reached the end of the road at Manchester United. He's no longer at the wheel, so who comes next? Mauricio Pochettino is being talked up as a potential replacement as is Zinedine Zidane and Brendan Rodgers. 

To talk what happens next at Old Trafford, Will Luker and Sumit Haldar discuss potential managers, plus we talk about Arsenal's 10-match unbeaten run coming to an end at Liverpool and what can Antonio Conte realistically achieve at Totttenham? Trophies are on offer, the quest for a top four finish isn't out of the question either.

Joining Will on the podcast this time is Jude Hope, sports journalism student at Liverpool John Moores University and West Ham fan. There's a discussion to be had as to what West Ham fans expect of their team this season. Challenging for the top four or maybe a trophy? We also discuss new managerial appointments as Steven Gerrard is the new Aston Villa manager, Dean Smith moves onto Norwich and in the Championship Chris Wilder is back in management at Middlesbrough. 

We also have time to talk about two clubs in the Championship who have suffered from points deductions, one not so bad (although inconvenient) for Reading and another which looks set to see Derby County down into League One.