English Premier League Podcast: Eplpod

Manchester United draw West Ham United to pull up to third in the table. Even though Liverpool have nothing to play for, they still crush Chelsea who very much has everything to still play for. Paul's beloved Arsenal lose to Aston Villa! LOL.  Paywall will be back up August 12, 2020 JOIN OUR FPL   Deadline: Midday 8 August 2020   The rules are going to be as follows: The league will be closed off on August 8th, 2020, at noon EST. The entrance fee has two components: A $4/monthly patronage throughout the season on Patreon (patreon.com/eplpod) and a $20 USD buy-in sent via PayPal (to macdonald.mikemacdonald@gmail.com). Patreon: Support independent media! Many of you are currently or have been Patrons in the past. Thank you! Patreon makes this a painless process and we really appreciate the support (a contribution of $4 per month equates to 50 cents per episode). The podcast is 100% listener funded and we’d like to keep it that way for now. Link to our Patreon: patreon.com/eplpod PayPal instru

After David De Gea's performance against Chelsea at Wembley, the jury is now out on whether or not he should stay at the club or make way for Dean Henderson. Mike and Paul discuss.  Paywall will be back up August 12, 2020 JOIN OUR FPL   Deadline: Midday 8 August 2020   The rules are going to be as follows: The league will be closed off on August 8th, 2020, at noon EST. The entrance fee has two components: A $4/monthly patronage throughout the season on Patreon (patreon.com/eplpod) and a $20 USD buy-in sent via PayPal (to macdonald.mikemacdonald@gmail.com). Patreon: Support independent media! Many of you are currently or have been Patrons in the past. Thank you! Patreon makes this a painless process and we really appreciate the support (a contribution of $4 per month equates to 50 cents per episode). The podcast is 100% listener funded and we’d like to keep it that way for now. Link to our Patreon: patreon.com/eplpod PayPal instructions Select ‘Pay or send money’ Select ‘Send money to f

The Legend chats with The Totally Football's James Richardson about Financial Fair Play, the new five substitution rule, and how to effectively learn a language.  Paywall will be back up August 12, 2020 JOIN OUR FPL   Deadline: Midday 8 August 2020   The rules are going to be as follows: The league will be closed off on August 8th, 2020, at noon EST. The entrance fee has two components: A $4/monthly patronage throughout the season on Patreon (patreon.com/eplpod) and a $20 USD buy-in sent via PayPal (to macdonald.mikemacdonald@gmail.com). Patreon: Support independent media! Many of you are currently or have been Patrons in the past. Thank you! Patreon makes this a painless process and we really appreciate the support (a contribution of $4 per month equates to 50 cents per episode). The podcast is 100% listener funded and we’d like to keep it that way for now. Link to our Patreon: patreon.com/eplpod PayPal instructions Select ‘Pay or send money’ Select ‘Send money to friends of family’

Spur manager, crusty old Jose Mourinho, says "it means the world" to beat Arsenal in his first North London derby. Well, he has the many blunders of David Luiz to thank for that as The Legend and an inebriate Special Guest Paul discuss.  The Inbetweeners James Buckley stops by the pod and reveals one of Paul's deep, darkest medical secrets.  In part three, The Legend chats with Lee Hemmings who is the Managing Director and Co-founder of Player LENS.  Paywall will be back up August 12, 2020 JOIN OUR FPL   Deadline: Midday 8 August 2020   The rules are going to be as follows: The league will be closed off on August 8th, 2020, at noon EST. The entrance fee has two components: A $4/monthly patronage throughout the season on Patreon (patreon.com/eplpod) and a $20 USD buy-in sent via PayPal (to macdonald.mikemacdonald@gmail.com). Patreon: Support independent media! Many of you are currently or have been Patrons in the past. Thank you! Patreon makes this a painless process and we really appreciate the

Burnley's hopes of European qualification were boosted by completing the double over West Ham with a 1-0 win which owed plenty to some fine goalkeeping from Nick Pope at the London Stadium. Maybe Moyes should have made more than just 2 out of allowed 5 substitutions? With the second substitutions coming in the 85th minute... Yikes!  Paywall will be back up August 12, 2020 JOIN OUR FPL   Deadline: Midday 8 August 2020   The rules are going to be as follows: The league will be closed off on August 8th, 2020, at noon EST. The entrance fee has two components: A $4/monthly patronage throughout the season on Patreon (patreon.com/eplpod) and a $20 USD buy-in sent via PayPal (to macdonald.mikemacdonald@gmail.com). Patreon: Support independent media! Many of you are currently or have been Patrons in the past. Thank you! Patreon makes this a painless process and we really appreciate the support (a contribution of $4 per month equates to 50 cents per episode). The podcast is 100% listener funded and we’d

Mason Greenwood scored two brilliant goals in a 5-2 hammering of relegation-threatened Bournemouth. Greenwood is widely considered one of the most exciting prospects to emerge from United's academy in recent years which begs the question: what's he worth?  Paywall will be back up August 12, 2020 JOIN OUR FPL   Deadline: Midday 8 August 2020   The rules are going to be as follows: The league will be closed off on August 8th, 2020, at noon EST. The entrance fee has two components: A $4/monthly patronage throughout the season on Patreon (patreon.com/eplpod) and a $20 USD buy-in sent via PayPal (to macdonald.mikemacdonald@gmail.com). Patreon: Support independent media! Many of you are currently or have been Patrons in the past. Thank you! Patreon makes this a painless process and we really appreciate the support (a contribution of $4 per month equates to 50 cents per episode). The podcast is 100% listener funded and we’d like to keep it that way for now. Link to our Patreon: patreon.com/eplpod

A calamitous display from Chelsea at West Ham now put them only two points above God's team, Manchester United. Mike and Paul discuss.  Paywall will be back up August 12, 2020 JOIN OUR FPL Deadline: Midday 8 August 2020 The rules are going to be as follows: The league will be closed off on August 8th, 2020, at noon EST. The entrance fee has two components: A $4/monthly patronage throughout the season on Patreon (patreon.com/eplpod) and a $20 USD buy-in sent via PayPal (to macdonald.mikemacdonald@gmail.com). Patreon: Support independent media! Many of you are currently or have been Patrons in the past. Thank you! Patreon makes this a painless process and we really appreciate the support (a contribution of $4 per month equates to 50 cents per episode). The podcast is 100% listener funded and we’d like to keep it that way for now. Link to our Patreon: patreon.com/eplpod PayPal instructions Select ‘Pay or send money’ Select ‘Send money to friends of family’ Insert email address: macdonal

The Legend and Special Guest Paul talk about a wild weekend in the FA Cup, the new “Wagatha Christie” twist as Becky launches a lawsuit against Coleen Rooney, and Watford's lockdown bad boys.  JOIN OUR FPL Deadline: Midday 8 August 2020 The rules are going to be as follows: The league will be closed off on August 8th, 2020, at noon EST. The entrance fee has two components: A $4/monthly patronage throughout the season on Patreon (patreon.com/eplpod) and a $20 USD buy-in sent via PayPal (to macdonald.mikemacdonald@gmail.com). Patreon: Support independent media! Many of you are currently or have been Patrons in the past. Thank you! Patreon makes this a painless process and we really appreciate the support (a contribution of $4 per month equates to 50 cents per episode). The podcast is 100% listener funded and we’d like to keep it that way for now. Link to our Patreon: patreon.com/eplpod PayPal instructions Select ‘Pay or send money’ Select ‘Send money to friends of family’ Insert email

Special Guest Paul chats with Retexo founder Charles Gould about how off-field-qualitative-data-driven decision making can improve the bottom line at your club every bit as much as on-field variety.   Follow Charles at @ckegould and check out @retexo_insights newly minted podcast, Retexo Exchange.

Sir Ben is back to sit in with Special Guest (turned host) Paul to wade through the weekend that was in the Premier League.

Joe Devine talks about running and producing Tifo Football. What makes a great football video? How long does it take to put together one of his videos? And just how important is the transfer window to the football media landscape. All of that and so much more on this episode of EPLpod!  JOIN OUR FPL Deadline: Midday 8 August 2020 The rules are going to be as follows: The league will be closed off on August 8th, 2020, at noon EST. The entrance fee has two components: A $4/monthly patronage throughout the season on Patreon (patreon.com/eplpod) and a $20 USD buy-in sent via PayPal (to macdonald.mikemacdonald@gmail.com). Patreon: Support independent media! Many of you are currently or have been Patrons in the past. Thank you! Patreon makes this a painless process and we really appreciate the support (a contribution of $4 per month equates to 50 cents per episode). The podcast is 100% listener funded and we’d like to keep it that way for now. Link to our Patreon: patreon.com/eplpod PayPal instructions Select ‘P

The UK health secretary, Matt "numb nuts" Hancock, has said he may have had “Harry Potter on the mind” when he mistakenly praised “Daniel Rashford” for his work on free school meals. Either way, Marcus Rashford is a top bloke for getting BoJo and his clowns to take a U-turn and feed hungry children in Britain. Also, the football resumes! Mike and Paul chat about the rousing 0-0 (even though there WAS a goal) between Villa and Sheffield as well as City's mauling of poor old Arsenal.  JOIN OUR FPL Deadline: Midday 8 August 2020 The rules are going to be as follows: The league will be closed off on August 8th, 2020, at noon EST. The entrance fee has two components: A $4/monthly patronage throughout the season on Patreon (patreon.com/eplpod) and a $20 USD buy-in sent via PayPal (to macdonald.mikemacdonald@gmail.com). Patreon: Support independent media! Many of you are currently or have been Patrons in the past. Thank you! Patreon makes this a painless process and we really appreciate the support (a contribution

Mike and Paul discuss Marcus Rashford and his efforts to feed the children of the greater Manchester area, potential summer transfers, and the return of Messi.  NOTE: Zoom chat on the 16th at 9 p.m. EST with the EPLpod boyz.  Support the pod Love Tiger Beat Magazine? Sure you do. Well, here's a link. 

On-loan Blades keeper Dean Henderson is due to back at Old Trafford on June 30, 2020, but his club would be subject to questions if they enforce it now, right? Mike and Paul discuss whether or not Manchester United would lose all of their good will they built up during the pandemic by recalling the keeper.  SUPPORT EPLpod

The Legend talks to Ed Aarons who is a sports journalist for The Guardian and an all-around expert on African football. Ed wrote a new book title Made in Africa: The History of African Players in English Football which details the enormous contribution African players have made to the English game.  SUPPORT EPLpod Buy Ed's book  NOTE: Zoom chat on June 16th at 9 p.m. EST until 9:45 p.m. EST with the pod boyz. You gotta be a Patreon supporter to join, so... see the top link and get on it already.  

After giving cars to the NHS, food parcels to vulnerable families, Rashford raising 20 million Pounds, and having no Covidiots (Rojo doesn't count because he's on loan and will never return), Manchester United clearly are the kings of the lockdown in the Premier League! All hail Manchester United! Hooray!    Support the pod

Why does Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman want to buy Newcastle United anyhow? And when will it happen exactly? Paul chats with James Montague.  Support EPLpod  Buy 1312 (James Montague's last book) Follow James on Twitter

David Luiz’s future at Arsenal is very much in question with the club yet to extend his contract beyond the end of next month. So what next for the 33 year-old Brazilian? Back to Chelsea?  Support the pod

Boris Johnson has refused to sack Dominic Cummings, standing by his embattled chief aide despite a growing scandal in the UK over his reported decision to break lockdown restrictions multiple times. Meanwhile, it seems as though the Premier League is getting their act together despite the lacklustre leadership from the top.  Support the pod

The Legend talks to the sports correspondent for the Financial Times Murad Ahmed about the economic impact of the Coronavirus on the English Premier League.  Support the pod