Ultimate Football Heroes Podcast

Bonnier Books & Stripped Media
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Welcome to the Ultimate Football Heroes Podcast! The official show inspired by the Ultimate Football Heroes books! Hosted by Issy (goalkeeper, West Ham superfan) and George (striker, Forest loyalist, and a fountain of football trivia), we’re here to celebrate everything brilliant about football on the pitch and in your own garden. Every Tuesday, we’ll bring you fresh football stories, weird facts, games, and plenty of laughs. From your favourite teams and legendary players to the matches you play and the birthday parties you celebrate, this podcast is all about you the fans, the dreamers, and the heroes making football special. Got a cool match report? Birthday shoutout? Something brilliant, bonkers or just downright football you want to tell us?  Drop us an email at ufhpodcast@gmail.com we could feature your story in an upcoming episode! Fancy even more football goodness? Check out our website for the books, bonus content and more at https://heroesfootball.com/books/podcast/. Subscribe now and let’s kick off together, the Ultimate Football Heroes Podcast is your place for the beautiful game!

  1. 3d ago

    Hull Are Unbeaten and Arsenal Are Perfect | Ultimate Football Heroes

    Hull City were in the Championship last season. Three games into the Premier League they have not conceded a single goal. Issy and George open with a bumper catch-up on the prediction game, settling four matches in one go and revealing the table for the first time this season. Chelsea's 5-2 win over Real Sociedad, Hull's win at Coventry, the Women's Super League opener, and Arsenal against Chelsea. One of them called two exact scores in the same week. Then the Weekend In Three: Hull's three clean sheets, Arsenal on nine points out of nine after beating Chelsea, and the Women's Super League returning with London City Lionesses winning the opening game and Crystal Palace beating Everton. There is also a brand new game. Name the Nation is the quickest one they have played. Six players, one word each, just shout the country. Erling Haaland, Mohamed Salah, Virgil van Dijk, Son Heung-min, Luka Modric and Sadio Mane. Plus predictions on a Manchester Sunday: Manchester United Women against Chelsea Women at midday, and the Manchester derby in the afternoon. CHAPTERS00:00 Welcome back00:12 Predictions catch-up: four games scored and the table revealed04:05 The Weekend In Three: Hull City unbeaten, Arsenal perfect05:26 Name the Nation: the quickest football quiz we have played07:22 The answers: Haaland, Salah, van Dijk, Son, Modric and Mane08:54 Predictions: Man Utd Women v Chelsea Women, and the Manchester derby Ultimate Football Heroes is the podcast for young football fans, based on the bestselling Ultimate Football Heroes book series. New episode every Tuesday. Who is your ultimate football hero? Grab an adult and send us a voice note or an email: ufh@stripped.media Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  2. Sep 1

    Lamine Yamal: World Cup Winner at 19 | Ultimate Football Heroes

    Lamine Yamal is 19 years old. He has won the Euros and the World Cup, and he holds more records than most players manage in an entire career. Issy and George go deep on the Barcelona and Spain forward: youngest player ever to play for Spain, youngest ever to score for Spain, youngest ever to start a Champions League match, youngest ever to play in El Clasico, and youngest ever to appear at a European Championship. All of it before he turned 18. They also look at the summer that surprised everyone, when he played 8 games at the World Cup, scored once, and still ended up a world champion. There is also a brand new game. Higher or Lower gives you a number, then asks you about something else. You say higher, lower, or the same. Six questions on the Women's Super League, England's women and men, the World Cup, Wembley, Alan Shearer and Harry Kane, and one sneaky one that catches everybody out. Plus predictions on the opening weekend of the Women's Super League, with London City Lionesses hosting Manchester United after signing Mary Earps and Alexia Putellas, and Arsenal against Chelsea on the Sunday. CHAPTERS00:00 A new season of football chat01:24 Higher or Lower: our brand new football game04:59 The answers: Wembley, Harry Kane and the WSL08:48 Lamine Yamal: every record he has broken12:24 Predictions: London City Lionesses v Man Utd, and Arsenal v Chelsea Ultimate Football Heroes is the podcast for young football fans, based on the bestselling Ultimate Football Heroes book series. New episode every Tuesday. Who is your ultimate football hero? Grab an adult and send us a voice note or an email: ufh@stripped.media Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  3. Aug 25

    Hull SHOCK Man United on Day One! | Ultimate Football Heroes

    The Premier League is back, and so are we. Hull City were not even in this league last season. On day one they beat Manchester United 2-0, and both goals came from defenders. Issy and George pick through an opening weekend that also saw Pep Guardiola leave Manchester City after ten years, Brighton score four past Aston Villa inside 31 minutes, and Liverpool rescue a point at Newcastle with a penalty in the 99th minute. Then it is game time. Football By Numbers is brand new for this season: six questions, every answer is a number, three options each. Play along at home and see if you can beat Issy and George. The prediction competition starts again from nothing and runs all the way to February. This week: Chelsea against Real Sociedad in the Women's Champions League on Wednesday, and Coventry against Hull on Saturday. One for the diary: the Women's Super League is back on Friday 4 September. Tell us who your ultimate football hero is, and why. Grab an adult and send a voice note or an email to ufh@stripped.media Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  4. Jul 24

    Jude Bellingham: How a Non-League Dad Built England's Record-Breaker (Exclusive Audiobook Chapter)

    Issy and George share an exclusive chapter from the Ultimate Football Heroes audiobook on Jude Bellingham. One of the five best players of the 2026 World Cup. First, the numbers. Bellingham scored seven goals and got an assist across 616 minutes at the tournament, the most an English player has ever managed at a major finals. Gary Lineker and Harry Kane both stopped at six. Alan Shearer got five at the Euros. Even the Lionesses' record-setters, Ellen White in 2019 and Beth Mead at Euro 2022, topped out at six. Jude got seven. Then comes the chapter itself: "Hagley's Next Football Hero." Long before the Bernabeu and the World Cup, there was a five-year-old boy on a muddy touchline in the West Midlands, watching his dad. Mark Bellingham was a policeman Monday to Saturday and a goal machine on Sundays, a sharp-shooting non-league striker who banged in 47 goals in 47 games for Leamington, firing the club into the Southern League Premier Division for the first time in 24 years. This is the story of how young Jude went from a boy who would rather pick the ball up and throw it, to a boy who had well and truly caught the football bug. Want the rest of the story? The full audiobook, Ultimate Football Heroes: Bellingham, is out now on all major platforms, including Audible and Spotify. And you can still buy the book the old-fashioned way, from all good bookshops. The Ultimate Football Heroes books are the bestselling football biography series for kids, over 50 titles covering everyone from Messi and Ronaldo to Aitana Bonmati and Lauren James. Find them wherever you buy books. Got something to say? Send us a voice note or an email at ufh@stripped.media. Name, age, who you support, joke if you've got one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  5. Jul 21

    World Cup 2026 Final: Spain Win It, England Take Bronze!

    That's a wrap on the World Cup! Spain are world champions after beating Argentina in the final, which means Lionel Messi's last World Cup ends just short. England didn't quite make it, losing a nervy semi-final to Argentina, but Issy and George celebrate a bronze medal and England's best World Cup in 60 years after a bonkers 6-4 win over France in the third-place play-off. They crown Kylian Mbappe's Golden Boot, salute Cape Verde's 40-year-old goalkeeper as the story of the tournament, and finally finish their Ultimate World Cup XI - Barcelona's young star Pau Cubarsi takes the last spot, with Bukayo Saka on the bench for "UFH United". The prediction game finished dead level, so the whole series comes down to rock, paper, scissors. Thank you for every prediction and voice note all summer long. Who's in YOUR Ultimate XI? Send it to ufh@stripped.media (ask a grown-up first!). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  6. Jul 14

    England vs Argentina: We Put Messi in OUR Team! | World Cup 2026

    England are into the World Cup semi-finals! Issy and George look back at the win over Norway, hear how a festival gave Issy a new lucky superstition, and level the prediction game at 4-4 with two games left. The Golden Boot race has gone bonkers: Mbappe and Messi both on eight goals, Harry Kane and Jude Bellingham one good night from an England record. Then things get cheeky: the Ultimate World Cup XI switches to three at the back so Youri Tielemans AND Lionel Messi can squeeze into midfield... days before England face Messi's Argentina for a place in the final. Plus both hosts back France against Spain, just with different scores, so the prediction game could still swing. There's an Ultimate Football Heroes audiobook up for grabs: send your score prediction to ufh@stripped.media (ask a grown-up first!). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  7. Jul 7

    England vs Norway: Can ANYONE Stop Haaland? | World Cup 2026 Podcast

    England are into the World Cup 2026 quarter-finals, Haaland knocks out Brazil, and the Golden Boot race has never been closer! Issy and George relive an all-time classic against Mexico and look ahead to Saturday's quarter-final against Norway. In this episode: - England 3-2 Mexico: one of the best games we have ever seen - Norway knock out Brazil: how do you stop Erling Haaland? - Golden Boot: Mbappe, Messi and Haaland all on seven goals (a World Cup first) - Cape Verde, heroes of the World Cup - Build the Ultimate Team: Haaland AND Kane join our XI (that's 8 of 11!) - Predictions: France v Morocco in the quarter-final Send us your predictions and voice notes: ufh@stripped.media Find the Ultimate Football Heroes books: https://heroesfootball.com/books/podcast/ New episode every Tuesday. Hosted by Issy and George. Produced by Bonnier Books and Stripped Media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  8. Jun 26

    Mbappe & Declan Rice Join Our Ultimate Team, Plus Messi Makes History!

    Declan Rice and Kylian Mbappe join our Ultimate World Cup Team, Messi makes history, and it's prediction time! Issy and George are back for World Cup 2026, building the best XI in the world one pick at a time. In this episode: - Build the Ultimate Team: Issy picks Declan Rice in midfield, George takes Kylian Mbappe on the wing (that's 6 of 11!) - Messi makes history: Leo turns 39 and becomes the all-time World Cup top scorer - England 0-0 Ghana, and Scotland fall 3-0 to Brazil - Predictions: both hosts call Croatia v Ghana Send us your predictions and voice notes: ufh@stripped.media Find the Ultimate Football Heroes books: https://heroesfootball.com/books/podcast/ New episode every Tuesday. Hosted by Issy and George. Produced by Bonnier Books and Stripped Media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Welcome to the Ultimate Football Heroes Podcast! The official show inspired by the Ultimate Football Heroes books! Hosted by Issy (goalkeeper, West Ham superfan) and George (striker, Forest loyalist, and a fountain of football trivia), we’re here to celebrate everything brilliant about football on the pitch and in your own garden. Every Tuesday, we’ll bring you fresh football stories, weird facts, games, and plenty of laughs. From your favourite teams and legendary players to the matches you play and the birthday parties you celebrate, this podcast is all about you the fans, the dreamers, and the heroes making football special. Got a cool match report? Birthday shoutout? Something brilliant, bonkers or just downright football you want to tell us?  Drop us an email at ufhpodcast@gmail.com we could feature your story in an upcoming episode! Fancy even more football goodness? Check out our website for the books, bonus content and more at https://heroesfootball.com/books/podcast/. Subscribe now and let’s kick off together, the Ultimate Football Heroes Podcast is your place for the beautiful game!

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  • Creator
    Bonnier Books & Stripped Media
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    39

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