Alex Bowler acquired world rights directly from the authors, with the book scheduled for publication on 28th September 2023. The publisher says it will contain “all the nonsense jokes, off-the-wall trivia and occasional insightful remarks that draw in millions of listeners to the podcast every month". A woman plays tennis in an empty car park at the Vitality Stadium. Photograph: Kieran Cleeves/PA Madejski Stadium/Select Car Leasing Stadium, Reading

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Max Rushden and Barry Glendenning will be live on stage at EartH in London and via livestream. Think of this as the only preparation you need for the 2022 World Cup*. Join our chair, football commentator and journalist Robyn Cowen, as she invites Rushden, Glendenning and Wilson to talk about their book in this special livestreamed event. The 2023 tour is already set to be a sell out. This comes as no surprise as almost six thousand people came to the first Football Weekly live tour in 2022, which featured Mark Langdon’s Meat Raffle, Barry’s rendition of Call Me Maybe and Steve Claridge eating industrial quantities of fruit. Plus they’re joined by Wales' premier football fan Elis James in this pre-tournament extravaganza. Unfortunately for Lars Sivertsen Norway failed to qualify but it's always nice to have him around anyway. We want our comments to be a lively and valuable part of our community - a place where readers can debate and engage with the most important local issues. The ability to comment on our stories is a privilege, not a right, however, and that privilege may be withdrawn if it is abused or misused.I’m dying to know – how is a Football Weekly panel selected? Please tell me it’s a more exciting process than coordinating schedules. Randall On the podcast today: the panel discusses the upcoming European qualifiers. Can Scotland get under Spain’s skin again and book their finals place? And will Gareth Southgate dare to experiment with his England starting line-up?

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Max: We do. At least I hope we do. As far as I know the audience is 50% UK and 50% worldwide, so we would love to go to as many places as we can. We could do east coast, west coast and then pop to Sydney, finish in Melbourne and then all make our own way home.Swansea’s Liberty Stadium and the Landore Park and Ride (left) pictured in May 2023. Photograph: Leighton Collins/Alamy Huish Park, Yeovil Town Plus: Paul Watson talks about his footballing escapade to Mongolia, and there’s an overdue home game for Pakistan. In part three, Kieran Maguire and Kevin Day join us to talk about their new book, ‘Unfit and Improper Persons: An Idiot’s Guide to Owning a Football Club’. Barry: Of course everyone has the right to support their team, regardless of who owns it because fans have little or no say in who gets to be the custodian of the club they are emotionally invested in. What I find a bit disturbing is the large number of fans who seem happy to excuse, or even condone the often barbaric behaviour of their authoritarian owners for no other reason than that those people have invested money in their football club and might pay for an expensive striker. It’s possible to love the club while holding the owners in contempt, as Manchester United fans, among others, regularly demonstrate. Barry: I have no shame in admitting that I love a good, or even bad, romcom. During the pandemic I developed a hopeless addiction to those Hallmark Christmas movies that all have the same saccharine sweet plot. Elsewhere, the wider implications this has for sport and society, particularly in Spain are discussed plus the alarming detail that Rubiales’ mum is on hunger strike.

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How do you marry the recent anti-gambling rhetoric in the paper and podcast with the constant talk about cheeky bets from Barry? Don’t you feel you should have also held your hands up as part of the problem? John I find the accusations from some that we would cover it differently if it was another club – that this is an anti-Newcastle thing – really frustrating. The media isn’t a monolith. I can’t speak for anyone else but we would do the same if it was Spurs, Stevenage or Shrewsbury Town. Expect nonsense, trivia, filler, too much about The Mighty Cambridge United, not enough about [insert your club here], and very occasionally, an insightful remark. Think of this as the book you probably don’t need, but might as well buy anyway. Guardian Faber has signed the first book from football podcast “the Guardian’s Football Weekly” entitled The Football Weekly Book.On the podcast today; the panel react to Jordan Henderson’s first interview since joining Al-Ettifaq in Saudi Arabia – he spoke to David Ornstein and Adam Crafton of The Athletic. Should a fan’s right to support their football team be dependent upon that club’s ownership? Does Newcastle’s ownership by the Saudi Investment Fund make me morally obliged to stop cheering for them? Can we just accept that our club is our club, regardless of who are running the show? Michael Mand Max: I would be dead after a week of living Barry’s life. But I would do it to see Baz making small talk at soft play about nap times before reaching under the pram to get the wet wipes and pulling out half an old banana and then being vomited on. Fine-tune your publishing strategy and up your game with our well-respected magazine for senior management. Barry: Republic of Ireland 1-0 England at Euro 88. A terrible, nerve-shredding game but a great result and arguably the happiest I’ve ever been after a football match.

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I’ve never been to Australia but I have watched Mad Max and The Castle. Which one is the more accurate description of everyday life there? Ben Plus heartbreak for Celtic, the 2030 World Cup goes to multiple continents and your questions answered. The Football Weekly podcast is available to listen on the Guardian, Acast, Apple Podcasts, Spotify and all other podcast services. Max Rushden: “I wasn't sure this book was going to be any good, but I didn't want to not be involved in case it was.” Photograph: Supplied by the Guardian. On the podcast today; Newcastle begin their first Champions League campaign in 20 years with a possibly fortuitous point in Milan.There were a couple of options for those heading to the Madejski from Junction 11 of the M4 in 2005. Photograph: Rob Read/Alamy Adams Park Stadium, Wycombe Wanderers Max: I find this such a difficult question to answer – and I wrestle with how much we cover it on the pod. I wonder if we’ve sometimes been tougher on Newcastle than Manchester City for example, perhaps as a result of not really understanding sportswashing in the early days when City were taken over (or the fact simply that the Newcastle takeover happened on my watch on the pod) – and then sometimes I think it’s really simple and we’re not tough enough. On the podcast today: Newcastle United thrash a poor PSG 4-1 and take control of the most difficult group in the Champions League. On the podcast today: the panel discusses England’s qualification for Euro 2024 following their 3- 1 win over reigning champions, Italy. Have we run out of superlatives for Jude Bellingham?