The Non League Football Show

I’ve listened when you was on five live and you still have not done much if anything from the non league in the Bristol area

Really liked this show with Caroline & Dave (not so much Swampy) - it was quick, witty and informative. Not so much nowadays sadly, it often feels like going through the motions and really doesn’t help when Tim and his cup “factfile” man pair up - all the über-British stuttering and stammering means it can take the two of them 5 minutes just to say hello to each other! That being said, it’s not a bad podcast, it was just better presented by a team rather than an individual and has lost some personality as a result.

Moan moan moan moan moan moan moan - repeat

Trying to provides service to so many clubs and so many leagues is a tall order. Spending 15 to 20 minutes every episode on Dave Anderson’s latest anecdote doesn’t help matters either. There is an overbearing London dominance in their reporting. This makes sense as the budget and time constraints demand it but there doesn’t seem to be any effort into changing that. Worse than that it feels like they don’t make much of an effort when they do. Harry Williams the Chairman of Ramsbottom United for almost 60 years was called Harry Wheeler for the duration of the segment. An honest mistake but are you a good media production to repeatedly get the name of the subject wrong? The pod should be simplified. If they want to do the London based non league football show then go ahead and do that and interview the England Futsal captain all they want. But trying to be an umbrella for all underrepresented forms of football is too big a task for a single podcast to achieve and interviewing your mates creates resentment for those of us on the outside. I’d love to see this expand to be a network, regionalised perhaps and that would give everyone a better chance to be represented and heard.