‘Home and Away, Near and Far’ with Statman Dave & Flo Lloyd-Hughes

Live from Spotify, Owen Blackhurst, James Bird, Seb White and Tommy Stewart are joined by a new signing in Matt O’Connor-Simpson to chat the Queen’s relationship with the Beautiful Game, Leeds United, The Banter Years, Seb on the Spot, Oooh Arrggh, Oooh Arrgh Arrgh, tractors, turf respecting, Diego Armando Maradona, little onions, Babel fish, El Pibe de Oro, The Dungeon Master, Sam Allardyce, Robbie Savage, The Gates of Hell, The London Beer Flood, snooping, El Pibe de Weirdo, football origin stories, Cole Palmer vibes, Tim Sherwood doing the celebration, Roberto Soldado, Steve Claridge, Gosport Borough, Dennis Wise, Callum Davidson, Mangotsfield Town, Cider… Cider… Cider, pissed in Bideford, Manish Bhasin, The Football League Show, ‘Down the Mol’, Chim Chim Cher-ee, The Dolphins, SpongeBob SquarePants, play-off final, sniffing for goals, The Double-Decker Bus Stand, not having a nickname, 2 Weetabix 3 pieces of white bread and a tin of baked beans, a pot-bellied dwarf, 6ft 4in jumps 5ft 3in, Green Street, Billy Knot, flat roofs, hoodwinked, The Football Factory, Spirit of Football, Mr McMahon, The Premier League's Attitude Era, Jake the Snake, ‘Would football be better if it was scripted?’, Austin 3:16, Goalie Wars, The manager taking the fifth penalty, 28 Months Later, the post-match debrief, FODMAPs, Boycott The National League Cup, Stone Cold Steve Austin, and somehow so much more.Get the latest issue of MUNDIAL Mag hereFollow MUNDIAL on Twitter - @mundialmagFollow MUNDIAL on Instagram - @mundialmag Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

** This week Owen Blackhurst, Seb White, James Bird, and Tommy Stewart chat about football but also discuss mental health issues. If you are affected by any of the issues discussed, please visit thecalmzone.net or samaritans.org or phone the Samaritans on 116 123 **Live from Spotify, the old gang are back together as Owen Blackhurst, James Bird, Seb White and Tommy Stewart talk Roy Orbison, Ghetts, Joy Guidry, Puressence, Metallica, trainspotters, Francis Bourgeois, MUNDIAL digital, Héctor Bellerín, West Didsbury & Chorlton FC, Owen Blackhurst’s Goal of the Month, trains, Dave and Sharons, Matthew Le Tissier, Seb on the Spot, allies, conspiracy theories, Bill Gates, George Weah, Alan Brazil, Ray Parlour, Pulp Fiction, David Beckham, Arsène Wenger, John Hartson, John Travolta, Les Dennis, Extras, Ronaldo, Xherdan Shaqiri, Barclaysmen, Stoke City FC, Basel, Bayern Munich, Kolkata, vodka & tonics, Liverpool v Manchester United, José Mourinho, Jürgen Klopp, Turkey hair, Goodison Park, David Beckham, Daniel Podence, Charlie Adam, The Masters, Duck magazine, BMX, Marko Arnautović, the Stoke accent, the Black Country, Bojan, BoJack Horseman, hyperbole, Hermione, misled, Elliot Hackney, Seb and the Queen, Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, George H. W. Bush, Tiger Woods, Walt Disney, Colin Montgomerie, blue slacks, World Mental Health Day, talking to your mates and strangers, CALM, Jonny Sharples, Manny Singh Kang, coming out, LGBTQ+ in football, the Rainbow Devils, Old Trafford, NFL, Miami Dolphins, the noise away fans make, pooptracking, “Man on!”, Arne Slot’s outfits, Lee Carsley, the national anthem, Erik ten Hag, LimeBikes, The Avengers, and somehow so much more.Get the latest issue of MUNDIAL Mag hereFollow MUNDIAL on Twitter - @mundialmagFollow MUNDIAL on Instagram - @mundialmag Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Due to holidays, Oasis fever and being too bloody busy, we've got another special episode from the archives for you. At Hotel MUNDIAL, our week-long event during the start of EUROs, we sat down with our mates Statman Dave and Flo Lloyd-Hughes for our series of talks, 'Home and Away, Near and Far', in partnership with Marriott Bonvoy. In the first half of this episode, Statman Dave talks about living with James Bird at university, why he ended up in Dresden because of Football Manager, and watching Manchester United at home and abroad. In the second part, Seb White chats with Flo Lloyd-Hughes about the joys of Loftus Road, planning the perfect away day, and why Manchester is the perfect football city. There’s that and so much more in the following chats that will absolutely remind you why you love football.Get the latest issue of MUNDIAL Mag hereFollow MUNDIAL on Twitter - @mundialmagFollow MUNDIAL on Instagram - @mundialmag Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Owen Blackhurst, Seb White, and Tommy Stewart talk proper listeners, the glory years, oiling Asad up, Machine Gun Kelly and the G-men, background checks, the mechanism of war, The Last Samurai, pouring one out for James, Milan, Wife Swap, a DM from Héctor Bellerín, Jack Grealish’s spiritual advisor, Nuno’s man management, multi-talented Joe Hart finding love and peace at Celtic and Natasha Meikle’s homage to the man, hanging out at the skate park, Grebos and Townies, moths to a flame, a boiled sweet in a garish T-shirt, Sidders, goalkeeping angst, pogoing with a megaphone, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, red nobs and glow sticks, the Mary Poppins for boys, Seb under a spell, Dirty Yellows v True Blues, dodgy Disney videos on YouTube, ostrich Ronaldinho, setting fire to the ref’s boots, Owen the Leonine, beating the Nazis in Dorset, watching a film recorded on a phone on your phone, Inglourious Basterds, buying meat and wellies in a pub, the decline of the meat raffle, Tommy lowering the tone (again), gambling madness in Brisbane, Pachinko and Loot, Paul Tisdale on scouting for Exeter, Brassic, Alan Partridge swimming in the zeitgeist, Big Beacon, Richard Keys and Andy Gray, wearing shorts all year round, The Clothes of Winter by Church Party, Shropshire’s Mordor, parents on the pitch, Owen’s crutch-swinging, The Hot Box Sauna, being bad at your job, standing your ground, the loveliness of Gabby Roslyn and Sandi Toksvig, and somehow so much more.Get the latest issue of MUNDIAL Mag hereFollow MUNDIAL on Twitter - @mundialmagFollow MUNDIAL on Instagram - @mundialmag Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Owen Blackhurst, Seb White and Tommy Stewart discuss awards, good reviews, Elon Musk, AI, texts from Donald Trump, pirates, received pronunciation, little tractors, Jürgen Klopp, adidas Spezial, SPZL F.C, Kevin Cummins, Emi Martínez, Jhon Duràn, Colombian players in the Premier League, Juan Pablo Ángel, Radamel Falcao, Jarvis Cocker, David Seaman, Sheffield, Liam Gallagher, Seb sticking to football, Roy Keane, Gary Neville, Ian Wright, Andrei Kanchelskis, Everton, Sir Alex Ferguson, the Russian Mafia, mucky business, PJ Smith, Algorithm Party, Damien John Kelly House, Lizz Brady, the cold Mersey, Claudio Ranieri, Rangers, Goodison Park, The Horseshoe, “No red s***e on match days”, Slim Charles, Issue 31, supporting MUNDIAL now, Oasis, Liam’s Umbro drill top, Roberto Baggio, Robbie Fowler, The Replicators, wedding bands, systemarosa, World Soccer, Football Italia, making magazines, Microdot, Brian Cannon, fever dreams in pencil, “And, finally…”, Asad and Tommy’s Highlands road trip, blame the bladder, Henry VIII, long drives, 1000 grounds, Scott Barbour, Vietnamese Dragon Balls, Algerian Coffee Stores, Wayne Rooney in Puma Kings, Fantasy WSL, Cristiano Ronaldo, horse s**t, goalkeeping errors, cricket catches, EPL, Alan Partridge, and somehow so much more.Get the latest issue of MUNDIAL Mag hereFollow MUNDIAL on Twitter - @mundialmagFollow MUNDIAL on Instagram - @mundialmag Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week’s episode of Reminding You Why You Love Football, media liberal left-wing elite Owen Blackhurst is joined by James Bird and Tommy Stewart to talk about Waiting for Birdo, John Aldridge capturing Basque hearts and banging in goals wherever he went, Seb’s dinner for two, Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner, Cartman and Butters, Carlos Tazez and other cartoon footballers, James’s uncle MBE, Federico Casotti on the wonder of Wesley Sneijder, Owen’s swazz, being robbed of the Ballon d’Or, Jose Mourinho’s Weirdos, dangerous underdogs, clickbait transfer rumours, a great ghost game, Mario Balotelli, presenting your business card, Dutch caps, triumphant Tommy trouncing James, street football, manscaping your body hair, Tenerife 08, Corporal Cockout’s bellyflop challenge, Dong McEnroe, Asad the Hirsute, questionable tournament formats, Stade Brestois 29 confounding expectations, watching pirates training, Qarabağ Ultras in the Exmouth Arms, the dearth of stardust, they’re not laughing now, achieving your dreams, backflips at Goose Mansions, just play, attic finds, signed certificates, being in the local paper, coconut water v tap water, solicitors, doing your research, and somehow so much more.Get the latest issue of MUNDIAL Mag hereFollow MUNDIAL on Twitter - @mundialmagFollow MUNDIAL on Instagram - @mundialmag Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's episode of Reminding You Why You Love Football, Owen Blackhurst, Tommy Stewart, and James Bird discuss the glory of Carlos Tevez and his bulldog-like approach, awards, lazy producers, the MUNDIAL Army, DOAC, an old-fashioned grifter, Henry VIII holding court, The Sickly Knight, being the best man, a pint-and-a-half of Troll Botherer, Robbie Fowler’s four minutes, hat-tricks, wonderful Wolverhampton, third keepers, bonging on the bus, crap college courses, total recall, false modesty, being blackballed, Seb’s contagious Oasis fever, dog worming tablets, Wojciech Szczesny’s kids, teenage bedrooms, slogans, halcyon days, the power of music, Tevez and Mascherano at West Ham, magic over murk, pipping Chelsea, Jose Mourinho, Rafael Benitez's wheeling and dealing, loving what you do, tearing Manchester United a new one, transfer-window delight, knowing ball, Tom Bird's bedroom, wardrobe incidents, brothers, ripping off your dad, dodgy driving lessons, The Big Match, Bend It Like Beckham, British cinema, James’s dad’s verbal tics, insulting Inzamam-ul-Haq, coming for Kermode and Mayo, Millennial optimism, busking Nessun dorma, Indian weddings, illicit booze, E. coli, a better world, triumph over adversity, startled in Soho, finding new music, PhoneShop, old-school raw-dogging the car, thinking for yourself, gym mirrors, car-hire madness, Roy!, Tommy’s moody audiobooks, and somehow so much more.Get the latest issue of MUNDIAL Mag hereFollow MUNDIAL on Twitter - @mundialmagFollow MUNDIAL on Instagram - @mundialmag Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Listeners to last week’s RYWYLF will know about the ‘studio incident’ and understand that in place of our regular format, this week’s episode is a special we recorded at Hotel Mundial, featuring Owen Blackhurst talking to Elis James about earliest memories, a crash course in football, a round-ball epiphany, seeing a grown man cry, Italia 90, the Kop, Ian Rush and his Sondico shin pads, why Swansea?, an underground oddball, time travelling, true grit, lager, fried onions, fags, terrible owners, being up in front of the beak, five managers in six months, going away, avoiding bricks live on air, a great era, doing the 92, Everton, a stag do sandwich, the Nou Camp bats, beating United twice, 58 years, being within a whisker of qualifying, Gareth Bale the Saviour, Dean Saunders’ parking tickets, taking Wales by surprise, where’s Wales?, Valencia, the best 24 hours in your life, half-time protests, being in a gang, breaking Denmark, the Ki Sung-yueng faithful, fickle fans, the best kept secret in Wales, getting nicked for just being there, chess with a captor, finding your people, Albania's fourth biggest city, going to places you wouldn’t normally go, crying like a baby, having a real passion, and somehow so much more.Get the latest issue of MUNDIAL Mag hereFollow MUNDIAL on Twitter - @mundialmagFollow MUNDIAL on Instagram - @mundialmag Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's episode of Reminding You Why You Love Football, Owen Blackhurst, Tommy Stewart, James Bird, and Asad discuss busking it, double bookings, an SOS to Sicily, broken air conditioning, Saving Private Football, custard, the birth of the WWW, favourite sites, Reddit, Asad’s personal grooming anxieties, the MUNDIAL Discord Photoshoppers, Owen’s birthday (again), candied salmon, dainty headphones, Manchester United Muslim Supporters’ Club, Iftar, disappointing dates, locking your kid in a car and condemning them to Hell, Asad’s funky prayer mat, Old Trafford’s toilets, the dearth of halal food at footy grounds, going for an English, Brother Tommy, disgracing yourself at a free buffet, Owen’s paean to Torres, the gelding of Tal Ben Haim, “Screens please, nurse.”, a barking dog, the wheeler-dealing Benítez, never walking alone, the second coming, conflicting feelings, messy endings, Dan Nicholson: one of the good guys, Seb bursting with brioche and granita, the Torres bounce, knowing where the net is, remembering the good times, losing your superhero powers, two-year-old tyrants, playing with yourself in the car, Reminding Asad Why He Loves London, having a Bear-shaped hole in your life and finding something to fill it, uncool characters, going off script, Tommy’s arse trumpet, breaking the shackles of the algorithm, not being able to bite your tongue, and somehow so much more.Get the latest issue of MUNDIAL Mag hereFollow MUNDIAL on Twitter - @mundialmagFollow MUNDIAL on Instagram - @mundialmag Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Owen Blackhurst, Seb White and Tommy Stewart chat pundits crossing the divide, football pie, Carlos Roa, World Cup 98, David Brent, Zinedine Zidane, Redondo at Old Trafford, Dwight Schrute, Creed Bratton, Steve Carell, the US Office, crossing swords, Henrik Larsson, Manchester United, Sir Alex Ferguson, a touch of the Pruniers, Alan Smith, Wayne Rooney, Cristiano Ronaldo, Louis Saha, Martin O’Neill, Celtic, Helsingborgs IF, the Goosewagon, Eric Cantona face paint, George Weah, Carl Anka, World Cup 94, The Big Match, Eastenders, Queen Vic FC, Barbara Windsor, the Mitchell Brothers, The Sopranos, The Wire, Sad Ricky, Wellard, Bouncer, Lassy, dipsticks, Harrow Borough FC, pub football teams, Harry Redknapp on Albert Square, Sonia Fowler, Danny Dyer, Bobby Moore, West Ham, Harold ten-Pinter, photobombing Billy Mitchell, Gary Johnson, respecting the turf, Steven the squirrel, OtterPilot, Expected Pints, basketball, the Chicago Bulls, Five Guys, milkshakes, Seb shakes, Dumb and Dumber, Nutribullet coffee, Snatch, GRUB in Sheffield, Gilles Peterson, broken ribs, work summer Olympics, therapy twice a week, the wet bandits, CBD gel, arnica, foam hands, pebbly beaches, sand, homemade showers, Hugh Gleave, Gareth Jones, and somehow so much more.  Get the latest issue of MUNDIAL Mag hereFollow MUNDIAL on Twitter - @mundialmagFollow MUNDIAL on Instagram - @mundialmag Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.