Listen here | Nottingham Forest fans are enjoying themselves right now and rightly so after a good start to the new season and with an exciting new team instantly clicking. But are they right to be getting so giddy so early on? Rish, a season ticket holder and creator of the Forest fan-site Eighteen-sixty-five joins us on […]
PADCAST: Mark Ogden on the Manchester battle and United winning in ‘Fergie time’
Listen here | This week Mark Ogden, the Northern football correspondent from the Daily Telegraph joins the Padcast to give us his insight into the two Manchester clubs, how they’ve started the Premier League season and their dealings in the transfer market. Mark looks closely at Manchester United’s midfield, the evergreen Paul Scholes and the importance […]
PADCAST: Can the Premier League learn from the Olympics?
Listen here | The Olympics are like a drug. Living in Britain this last fortnight, you would think that there’s not only nothing wrong with the country, but the world. We’ve landed on Mars, there are thousands dying in Syria and it’s been lost completely because the Olympics are on. Every four years it seems […]
PADCAST: PSG can win the Champions League at 14/1
Listen here | The arrival of Ancelotti in January was a good thing because he had six months to get used to the team, the club and the mentality of the French League. Depending on the draw of the group stages they could easily get through to the last sixteen and go on to surprise a […]
PADCAST: Who will have a golden summer at London 2012?
Listen here | ‘She’s the face of 2012, the face of Team GB and she hasn’t let it get to her’, says the Olympics editor for the Guardian, Owen Gibson. ‘But you can’t afford to have a weak event in the heptathlon and she’s got two very tough challengers. It won’t be easy but she’ll win a […]
PADCAST: McAteer on why Liverpool need a big name signing
Listen here | ‘I’d love to see a big-name signing come to the club. We’ve got the basis of these young players at Liverpool now lets go and buy someone like David Villa. Go and give us a big name that slots into the team, has plenty of experience, has got the quality, got the […]
PADCAST: Champions League is the minimum for AVB
Listen Here: ‘Finishing fourth is a huge ask for Spurs and Daniel Levy has made it absolutely clear that Champions League qualification is the minimum or you get sacked’, says David Hytner. Football correspondent for the Guardian David Hytner joins the Padcast this week as London is hit by two massive announcements. Firstly Andre Villas-Boas […]
PADCAST: Rory Smith on why the three lions failed to roar
Listen here Rory Smith is one of the top football writers in the Times and joins the Padcast to dissect where it all went wrong for the three lions. From grass-roots level to Roy’s tactics, Rory tells us what needs to change if England are to start producing the goods on the big stage. He […]
PADCAST: England and Ireland on the Euro 2012 roller-coaster
Listen here After waiting ten years to be involved in another major tournament Ireland failed to deliver in spectacular fashion. This week the Padcast takes an in-depth look at where it all went wrong for Trap’s army. We speak to Ciaran O’Raghallaigh in Poland about spending the last couple of weeks with the boys in green and […]
PADCAST: Robbie Fowler writes off the Irish
Listen here: It’s all about England and Ireland on the Paddy Power Padcast as Josh Powell and Barry Lenihan look at the contrasting fortunes of both teams after the opening round of Euro 2012. Robbie Fowler joins the Padcast to reflect on a disastrous start for the boys in green against Croatia. Robbie gets stuck in to […]
PADCAST: Aldridge, Houghton and the best Euro 2012 bets
Listen here: The Padcast has gone bananas with Euro 2012 fever and this week’s show is jam-packed with the best tips ahead of the tournament. Irish heroes Ray Houghton and John Aldridge took time out from fuelling fans vans to discuss how Ireland and England will fare in their opening group matches, if they can qualify for the knock-out stage and […]







