CS-Aye Football: Recent Episodes
CS-Aye Football
CS-AYE performs the research and forensically analyses a season or campaign in a footballer's career, in an informing and witty manner.
Hosted by Ian Steven, a journalist with 20 years experience in Scottish football, CS-AYE are joined every episode by a prominent guest from the world of football, usual with a tartan tint, for a podcast that is unrivalled in its level of detail.
This week we meet a man who outshone Paolo Futre and Marco Van Basten on the international stage before becoming a cult hero at Chelsea. From calculating how many records he could buy with his wages to stealing cutlery from Pizza Hut - it's the wing wizard himself - Pat Nevin.
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This week, we meet a man who blew away Bayern Munich in The Olympiastadion before stewarding St Mirren to League Cup success.
Find out why John Lambie always carried a microscope, what the worst excuse was for a player not turning up to training and terrifying trainees in a German army camp with former St Mirren and Clyde manager Danny Lennon.
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This week we meet a player who won countless individual awards and also the FA Cup and UEFA Cup with one of English football's smaller teams.
Find out about swapping shirts with Zico, having a few beers ahead of an important European fixture and Holywood disagreeing with your accent with John Wark.
This week we head to Eastern Scandinavia to meet a man who escaped a nine-year custodial sentence at Tannadice - before overpowering opponents in Lancashire as Bolton made their way into the Premier League.
Find out why Jim McLean kicked him in the dressing room, the emotions of winning a play-off final at Wembley and why the Hibs squad all shaved their heads in pre-season with Finnish legend Mixu Paatelainen.
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This week we meet a man who was known for his cup final heroics for Airdrie and his eagerness for paparazzi placation.
Join us on an exploration of how to relieve one's self on the pitch to brushing shoulders with the Hollywood elite - it's the bar-swinger himself, John Martin.
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This week we meet a man who transitioned from practising football to practising law, with a Scottish cup win and a busman's holiday to Iceland thrown in.
Find out why Campbell Money had half a pie on his head, why Frank McAvennie spent time in peppermint corner, and what does Tynecastle smell like with former St Mirren and Aberdeen defender David Winnie.
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In this episode - we meet a striker who joined George Graham's revolution at Leeds United before finding his way back to Scotland and onto the scoresheet in the League Cup Final.
Find out which manager got trapped in the kit hamper, why Charlie Miller is a nightmare for estate agents and how the kit man got a manager sozzled with Derek Lilley.
This week we meet a man who travelled the length and breadth of the UK to forge his career with Scottish Cup Finals and promotions in his locker.
Find out why the Livingston squad spent one month in a hotel... in Livingston, has Derek Adams ever uttered a profanity, and lining up against a Brazilian international on your European debut - it's Gary Miller.
We cross the North Sea to speak to a reverse-Viking - a Scotsman that's invaded Norway to talk about all things Challenge Cup.
Find out what's like to run out at Hampden every week, what it means to win a trophy with Falkirk and why pretending to be in Baywatch lead to an injury as we chat with David Weatherston.
Join us on a journey from the Dutch building sites to a glorious cup double versus the Old Firm at Hampden.
Find out how Man Utd were hoodwinked in his signing for the Dons, why Brian Irvine walked 80 yards backwards at a penalty shootout and rubbing shoulders with Van Basten and Gullt in the Dutch Team of the Year - it's Paul Mason.
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This week we chat to a man who generated something gorgeous in Govan before prancing with a pole - and we don't mean Lewandowski.
Find out why Jim Duffy had his own helicopter, if John Hughes kidnapped children for prank-related purposes and what heavy machinery Alex McLeish was towing behind him on the pitch.
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This week we are seduced by the sultry salutations of BBC commentator Paul Mitchell.
Find out about his fracas with French security guards, who his worst co-commentator was and how he became the face of a major multinational company.
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This week we embark on a journey of Scottish Cup success to the southernmost winners of the famous trophy - with local lad Ray Montgomerie living the dream by captaining Kilmarnock to glory over Falkirk.
Find out how Ray had to force his hand to move from Dumbarton to Killie, what life was like under Tommy Burns at Rugby Park and the advice received from a European Cup winner in his kitchen on the day of the final.
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This week we revisit one of the greatest cup shocks of modern times as striker Ally Graham leads us through the journey that Raith Rovers embarked upon to lift the League Cup against Glasgow giants Celtic.
Find out about Ally McLeod's contract negotiation techniques, what it takes to defeat the Old Firm in a cup final and the experiences of taking on Bayern Munich in Europe.
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We're back after an extended hiatus with plenty for forensic nonsense scheduled for the coming weeks and months.
This week we cross the Atlantic to meet one of the fastest-growing content creators in the football sector. The Football Manager series has opened up the world to the great game with Zealand being able to travel the globe to follow his passion.
Why does he have a unique name? Why was he reading out the team line up in German in front of a packed stadium? And what is his take on attending a match at the world's oldest stadium?
Zealand streams daily at https://www.twitch.tv/zeaiand and his YouTube channel is at https://www.youtube.com/@ZealandonYT.
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This episode could not be recorded in person due the coronavirus lockdown, so apologies for the reduced audio quality.
This week we brace ourselves for the indescribable lows of being pipped to the league title on the last day of the season, only to right the ship and blast through the playoffs towards the delirium of promotion.
East Fife winger Danny Denholm relives his memorable promotion escapades at Forfar Atheltic and recounts how the spectre of Dick Campbell will tenderly haunt him to his dying days.
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This episode could not be recorded in person due the coronavirus lockdown, so apologies for the reduced audio quality.
This week, we drench ourselves in promotion champagne as Livingston captain and Nico Hulkenberg-lookalike Alan Lithgow takes us on an epic fairy-tale pilgrimage into the top flight of the Scottish League.
Find out how serendipity intervened just as Al was about to put pen to paper with Airdrie, what are his real feelings of playing on Livingston's infamous artificial pitch, what was the impetus to Livi's 11-game unbeaten run after Christmas.
Find out all this and more including insight into how Livingston paid their promotion heroes more than they were entitled to in bonuses.
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This week, we cower in the corner of the Ibrox dressing room as Graeme Souness and Walter Smith burst in to kickstart the Rangers revolution, with a teenage Derek Ferguson loving every minute of the Liverpool legend's arrival.
Find out how Derek received an Old Firm baptism he was not prepared for from a Celtic legend, why was Ray Wilkins the ultimate gentleman, what was the issue Trevor Francis had with wind and discover what really happened during The Battle Of Easter Road.
Find out all this and more including insight into what makes his son, Lewis Ferguson, tick with the Ibrox midfield maestro that is Derek Ferguson.
This week, we check out what it's like be Scotland's top scorer and not make it into a Scotland squad. We find out that it has advantages, and disadvantages, to be one of the rare players to be signed by Fergie twice. Why did Gordan Durie's time at Hibernian end in bad blood? And what is life like when you have had three major knee operations by the time you are 22.
Find out all this and more in our first ever episode with the gentleman and Hibs legend that is Stevie Cowan.