Gadsby's England: Recent Episodes
Gadsby's England
The all-new Gadsby's England podcast, from the only show in the world dedicated exclusively to the England football team. Gadsby and Gadsby Jr. bring you England news, features, stories, special guests, and, well, anything you want to know about Gareth Southgate's new young team. With new recruit, show producer Lisa LeRoux.
Gadsby reviews England’s final World Cup qualifying week. Plus, one year away, who’s in, who’s out, who’s maybe? Gadsby looks at the current state of play on the road to Qatar.
(Smokey and the Bandit still courtesy of Universal Pictures)
Gadsby and Carlos review a mixed week for England following World Cup qualifiers against Andorra and Hungary.
As you won't be able to see video footage, the audio you'll hear is of David Beckham, listening to the commentary of his Greece goal 20 years later, having never heard it before.
I know, it seems like only yesterday, but EURO 2020 is really over--and now it's time to look forward to that little tournament, the World Cup. Gadsby and Carlos preview England's three qualifiers, away to Hungary, at home against Andorra, and away to Poland.
Gadsby, Goldster and Goldster Junior say goodbye to arguably the greatest European Championships of them all, reviewing England's heartbreaking penalty shootout loss to Italy in the final. But what a part England played in this tournament. Three of the most passionate England fans there are look back on these four weeks of exhilaration, emotion, surprise, and pure drama.
Make sure you stick around for the montage at the end...
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(Days, by The Kinks with The DR Symphony & The DR Vocal Ensemble, appears courtesy of Sanctuary Records.)
The Euro 2020 final: Gadsby and Carlos discuss a devastating night for England - but look forward to a bright future.
Gadsby is joined by Carlos, our GE team's longest-suffering England fan, to talk about the end of the dark era, how it happened in the nerve-jangling epic against Denmark at Wembley, and look forward to a final - yes, a final - against Italy.
Former England defender Danny Mills is our very special guest. He joins Gadsby, Carlos and Keith after England’s quarterfinal demolition of Ukraine.
Many thanks to The Smugglers Tavern in Fitrovia, London, where this was recorded.
Gadsby and Carlos reflect on a defining moment for England, and one of the finest days Wembley has ever seen.
BBC Chief Football Writer Phil McNulty joins Gadsby to preview the biggest game at Wembley since 1996.
Gadsby is joined by special guest John Murray, BBC 5 LIVE Chief Football Corespondent, and main England commentator at EURO 2020
England and Germany will meet at Wembley at the third major tournament on home soil. As they always have. Gadsby is joined by Carlos to discuss what will surely be another defining moment in English football.
Gadsby has waited for the Scottish dust to settle. He discusses England's current state leading into the final group game against the Czech Republic.
Well, he’s back. One of the Gadsby’s England stalwarts, Carl “Carlos” Gregory, dressed in Euro ‘96 penalty-heartbreak grey (a kit disposed of right after that match) joins Gadsby to discuss England at Euro 2020, and preview the Scotland match.
Gadsby, Goldster and Golding review a fine afternoon at Wembley in every way as England write the first page of a new script.
The unimportance of England’s disappointing but decent final matchweek in the world’s unimaginable year. Gadsby and Gadsby Jr review England’s final matches of 2020.
Gadsby reviews England's shock defeat to Denmark at Wembley and looks back at an eventful week on and off the pitch for the Three Lions. With guest Nik Goldman, a.k.a. The Goldster.
From The Tap In, South London, Gadsby and Gadsby Jr discuss England’s 2-1 victory over Belgium.
Gadsby, alone and abandoned, previews England’s home matches against Belgium and Denmark in the Nations League—plus the Wales add-on.
From Copenhagen, Gadsby reviews England’s tepid draw with Denmark. The Goldster joins from Leeds with his take on Kalvin Phillips and this troubled week for England.
And even though the world was not what it once was, they returned... That’s right, like an old gunslinger rolling back into town with one last score to settle, England are back... (Except it would be more of a gunslinger with a good balance of youth and experience going to a few towns, but I digress). Gadsby and Gadsby Jr. preview the second Nations League tournament as England prepare to take on Iceland.
Gadsby is joined by the ever-changing hairstyle that is Gadsby, who finds his way back into the season-less new Gadsby’s England football reality. A Premier League review (parts one and two), the Champions League’s mini-tournament format—do we like it?, and wait a minute, is that the sound of lions roaring in the distance..?
What it means to Liverpool fans around the world as, from Tulum, Mexico, Englishman Gadsby talks to honourary American Scouser, Arash Majdi, about his beloved Reds, Premier League champions at last. Arash picks out his favourite English Liverpool players and offers some forthright views on England from a unique outside-the-bubble perspective. Plus, the latest on how and when international football resumes in this new Covid world, a provisional schedule for Euro 2021, and a continuing look at players who have the extra year to impress Gareth Southgate.
On day 7,829 of lockdown, Gadsby and Gadsby Jr discuss a different, strange new distance between fans and their teams. Believe it or not, Sven-Goran Eriksson admits he got it wrong—even that he should have turned down the England job. Plus, football will return, but just how different will it look? And the Gadsbys’ favourite-ever England goals.
Gringo Gadsby and Grumpy Gadsby Jr, so far straitjacket-free, review the latest lockdown news and look back at two classics against an enemy far away in space and time...
Gadsby and Gadsby Jr come up with an ingenious response to zero football by looking back at great football matches in England’s history—and who else would’ve thought of that at this current time?! Each of them picks an England game played before either of their arrivals into this fraught penalty area we call life. Plus, as the the world remains in pause, what should players and clubs be doing with their toilet paper right now (we used to call it “money”)?
Gadsby Jr finally turns up after three weeks. Luckily not much has happened in that time.
With Euro 2020 postponed, with the domestic season hanging by a thread, Gadsby and Gadsby Jr discuss all the implications, scenarios, and monumental challenges that now face world football in an unprecedented—and unreal—moment in history.
Has it even got to the point where both players and fans might have to do the unthinkable—read a book?!
For the third week running, Gadsby Jr is kept in quarantine. Gadsby is joined in Los Angeles by our show editor—and proper football pundit—Marshall Ingham (yes, of THAT Ingham stock), to talk about the probable end of football in 2020; are the European Championships now a goner? If so, when else would they be held? With not much to look forward to, we look back at Marshall’s favourite England players, best and worst England memories, and the current (well, pre-corona) state of Southgate’s team. Watch—but don’t sneeze.
Gadsby manages to hold off Gadsby Jr for another week and is joined—and about darn time, too—by stateside’s Chelsea stalwart, Connor “American Take” Tibbetts. This week: the Gadsby’s England mid-season-injury masterplan begins to take shape as Kane and Rashford hit the road to recovery. Foden—surely it’s time. The Nations League—England fans in dreamland with first away trip to Iceland. And all the other Chelsea news...wait, Chelsea? Leave the podcast description alone, Connor...
This week, Gadsby’s England veteran Keith Golding is the guest, knocking Gadsby Jr off his perch. On the show, the injuries: are England now in crisis? The shambles of VAR: what should—or can—UEFA do to improve it for Euro 2020? Plus the latest on the Manchester City saga and the Blues’ England players, and of course a roundup of all other England news.
Gadsby and Gadsby Jr discuss Manchester City’s stunning Champions League ban, Jordan Pickford’s “why is it always me?” and how an Indiana Jones-type stunt on an electric scooter in Stockholm is also news.
Touching tales of England old and new feature on this week’s Gadsby’s England. Plus all the news and views from Gadsby and Gadsby Jr in the countdown to Euro 2020.
Once again, it’s injury watch. Gadsby and Gadsby Jr discuss the continuing England-striker crisis...before talking potions.
Gadsby and Gadsby Jr discuss the England player injury crisis. Who are England's striking alternatives should the worst happen? And is there still a chance this could be a crisis only for the clubs--but a gift for England? Plus all the latest from your first-stop shop for all England news in the leadup to Euro 2020.
Gadsby Jr kicks off the new decade with a new look—for those of you not watching on YouTube, think Sergio Aguero combined with a Blade Runner super-replicant—and joins a stunned Gadsby to talk about Harry Kane’s injury and England’s Euro 2020 striking options should the dreaded happen. Plus, a tribute to Germany’s ‘66 goalkeeper from his nemesis-turned-friend, and who’ll cost you the most right now?
Gadsby and Gadsby Jr journey all the way back to the 2010s with some help from the Gadsby’s England inner circle. An epic ten years for England, an epic end-of-decade show.
With Carl “Carlos” Gregory, Nik “the Goldster” Goldman, and from the US, Connor “ConnorStats” Tibbetts.
From a festive London, Gadsby and Gadsby Jr are reunited despite all the effort. This week, as Gadsby has to be told that impeachment is not something you eat with cream, some holiday period reflection: where does football fit in a mixed up muddled up shook up world? Or is it the world trying to fit into football? Plus, more on England’s Euro 2020 prep and the Premier League team of the decade.
After Kosovo last month, Gadsby travelled to Istanbul for a chat with a left-back legend, the former Arsenal, Manchester City and France player, now with Başakşehir, Gaël Clichy. Gaël offers a revealing insight into life in the Premier League, playing in the cauldron of Turkish football, and experiencing the greatest stage of all, the World Cup. There’s also some MLS hints in there, too...
Gaël gives his forthright views on why England have failed where France have succeeded, and what the Three Lions can learn from Les Bleus.
For anyone interested in the game, as a player or fan, this is a masterclass on the relentless physical and mental dedication it takes to reach the pinnacle of world football.
(A huge thanks to Gadsby’s England’s guest pundit NIKKI GOLDMAN, the Goldster himself, for helping make this happen.)
From Pristina, Gadsby, Adam, Carlos and Dukesy review England’s final Euro 2020 qualifier—and say goodbye to the friendliest place England have played.
England put seven past Montenegro to qualify for Euro 2020. Gadsby and Gadsby’s England’s football writer Adam Williams discuss.
With Gadsby Senior not even phoning it in, Gadsby Junior leads us on a quickfire roundup of England's latest issues, including brawling players, a world-weary manager, and imminent qualification for Euro 2020. He also talks us through his all-time England XI to mark the national team's 1,000th match against Montenegro on Thursday.
Gadsby and Gadsby Jr, now oceans apart, discuss England's final squad of the Euro 2020 qualifying campaign, a wacky week in Europe, and, with the Montenegro game at Wembley being England's 1,000th, memories of the hundreds that came before...
In an interview recorded in Sofia before the Bulgaria match, Gadsby talks to one of the most well-known, distinguished and influential figures in football journalism, The Times' Henry Winter.
Trust us, this one is a cracker.
Gadsby rolls up at Gadsby's Jr's manor to talk World Cup 2022 winter madness and an outstanding week for English players in the Champions League, with Chelsea's English contingent, especially, continuing to perform beyond expectations under Frank Lampard.
Gadsby and Gadsby Jr discuss the shameful events in Sofia with guest Seb O’Driscoll, owner of one of London’s best football pubs.
Gadsby can’t even face Gareth as he and Gadsby Jr discuss what went wrong for England in Prague. Is this just a wobble or real trouble?
Not quite a podcast as Gadsby, back at the airport where he belongs, and Gadsby Jr, in London with his feet up where he always is, preview Czech Republic vs England.
Gadsby sits down with our outstanding new football writer, Adam Williams. They met in London for the first time last week for a good old pub chat, but much more importantly Adam out-drank Gadsby by three pints to one. His job is safe. (Thanks to The Cricketers in Richmond for allowing us to sneak to the quieter room upstairs not to talk cricket.)
The team discuss the England squad to play Czech Republic and Bulgaria away.
Plus, what’s in a fan chant? This week’s special guest comes to us from Nashville, Tennessee—legendary singer-songwriter Larry Weiss. Larry helps us answer that question in a wonderfully-wide-ranging, bending and shaping conversation.
We welcome a special guest, a major figure in English football. Alex Fynn, a former FA adviser, was one of the architects of the Premier League - before becoming one of its biggest critics. His new book explores the history and culture of Tottenham Hotspur, in part through classic match reports, culminating in last season's pulsating Champions League run. His views on English football and the England team are forthright, outspoken, and deeply held, and he shared them with us in an absorbing conversation.
In the epic brotherhood rivalry that is Gadsby's England, Gadsby Sr. returns to London to wrench the reins from Gadsby Jr. and an almighty...cordial chat follows. The two ask what's with all the England and Premier League defensive meltdowns of late, whether England only feel home at Wembley, and if Lampard's Chelsea could finally be the beginning of an English revolution.
Gadsby Jr, Lisa, and Gadsby in New York, look back on a stunning night in Southampton and ask just how different England's two faces are. Plus, some other game at Wembley, and a roundup of a cracking few days of qualifiers.
As England prepare to take on the mighty Bulgaria and Kosovo in the knife-edge Euro 2020 Qualifying Group A...well, we tried. We preview England's upcoming qualifiers and ask what's happened to Bulgarian football since the days of Stoichkov and Berbatov. Plus, we discuss a new greatest footballers list, but only because Gadsby Jr. hates lists. And wedding crashers, of the footballing kind! Available now.
The gang discuss the England squad to face Bulgaria and Kosovo as Southgate aims to slow down the aging of the cells. England cricketer Ben Stokes becomes eternal - but what can the footballers do to fix their cells to such a state? Plus a review of the accidents of last weekend's Premier League games and preview of the crimes of this one's. Also, ConnorStats and Cantona, the only two people who truly understand the universe.
Gadsby and the team break down what to watch for in Matchweek 3, as well as discussing crucial topics like recent racism, retirements, the squad to be named next week, and how some of the recent transfers and acquisitions are getting along thus far. With Gadsby, Gadsby Jr, and producer Lisa.
Gadsby and Gadsby Jr. discuss the first week of the new season, including seven goals for England's frontmen, plus the Supercup, Euro 2020 tickets and upcoming games.
Gadsby and Gadsby Jr. look at England's extraordinary Cricket World Cup Triumph and ask what the football team can learn from it.
Gadsby and Gadsby Jr. dissect yet another semifinal exit, this time as England's unlucky Lionesses fall to the US at the Women's World Cup, plus - a real stunner - Frank Lampard becomes the new Chelsea manager!
Our special guest, new FWA chair Carrie Brown, steals the show, covering more football ground than the box-to-box midfielder England badly need.
From Lisbon, Gadsby, Gadsby Jr., and Connor review England’s 3rd/4th place playoff match, Portugal’s Nations League victory, and discuss what’s next for England.
Post-match broadcast from Villa Fiori right outside the Guimarães stadium, breaking down England’s defeat at the hands of the Netherlands. With Gadsby, our producer Lisa, Connor, our media chief, and special guest Carlos.
From Porto, we are delighted to be joined by BBC Chief Football Correspondent John Murray ahead of England's Nations League semifinal against the Netherlands.
Gadsby Jr. continues at the wheel, leading a review of the all-English Champions League final between Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool, and associated England team subplots. Was it a penalty? Did Spurs deserve more? Did Harry Kane pick himself in a pique of ego-led madness? Just how weird is it to see Jordan Henderson lifting Old Big Ears? We looked back to a bizarre Europa League final in Baku, won by Chelsea against Arsenal. This sets up the first ever all-English Super Cup. And then, with eyes on the big prize, we look to England’s big game with the Netherlands on Thursday in the inaugural Nations League Finals. We put a potential England side out there and borrow some novel ‘marketing’ ideas from the Champions League final. Gadsby Sr. joins on the line again from afar, like a distant circling planet, and Producer Lisa was in the studio.
Summary: Gadsby Jr. leads us through England's uncertain preparations for the Nations League showdown with the Netherlands on 6 June. With just two weeks to go and two major club finals in between, how is the squad shaping up? We also take a look at the latest on the Dutch - with some of their players also involved in the Champions League final, are they any better off than England? In light of Asamoah Gyan being ordered to reverse his international retirement, we ask which player, present or past, we would hypothetically restore to the England side this summer. We close with a look at the positive advances English football is making in respect of mental health. With Producer Lisa in the studio and Gadsby Sr. on the line.
Gadsby Jr., mounting a full fraternal coup, takes the reins again as Southgate announces his preliminary squad for the Nations League semifinal. Chelsea manage to shoot both themselves and England in the foot in New England with a single shot, while Leeds only shoot themselves, though with the helping hand of Frank Lampard and the brilliant Mason Mount. It's the Nations League three-week countdown on the new Gadsby's England podcast!
Gadsby Jr. takes the reins to look back on one of the most extraordinary and epic weeks in the history of English football! With Gadsby in Los Angeles, and producer Lisa LeRoux with Gadsby Jr. in London.
Episode 3 with special guest Hugh Dennis, star of Outnumbered, Mock the Week, most recently seen in Fleabag, joins us in the studio to say, among other things, that he doesn't like international football very much!
Gadsby and Gadsby Jr. talk England players of the year, England’s pre-tournament injury curse, plus all the other latest news, complete with Connor-stats. Plus show guest Carl “Carlos” Gregory with a classic Cold War England tale.