Essential Football
Featuring extended interviews with some of the biggest names in football and in-depth analysis of the latest talking points with Sky Sports' football journalists, dive deeper with the Essential Football podcast. Follow, like or subscribe today and make sure you don’t miss an episode.
Series Episodes
Essential Questions: Will form go out the window in Premier League's weekend derbies?
Ron Walker, Peter Smith and Sam Blitz look ahead to a weekend of derbies in the Premier League. Everton host Liverpool on Saturday in the last Merseyside fixture at Goodison Park, whilst on Sunday, Arsenal travel to Fulham and Tottenham are at home to Chelsea. Keep across all the football this weekend on Sky Sports.
42 mins
6 December Finished
Essential Questions: Will form go out the window in Premier League's weekend derbies?
Ron Walker, Peter Smith and Sam Blitz look ahead to a weekend of derbies in the Premier League. Everton host Liverpool on Saturday in the last Merseyside fixture at Goodison Park, whilst on Sunday, Arsenal travel to Fulham and Tottenham are at home to Chelsea. Keep across all the football this weekend on Sky Sports.
42 mins
6 December Finished
Essential Questions: Liverpool against Manchester City - would a win for The Reds spell the end of the title race?
Sky Sports’ Ron Walker, Peter Smith and Sam Blitz look ahead to Super Sunday’s big clash as Premier League leaders Liverpool host defending champions Manchester City, a match you can watch on Sky Sports from 4pm and follow on skysports.com.
35 mins
28 November Finished
Essential Questions: Liverpool against Manchester City - would a win for The Reds spell the end of the title race?
Sky Sports’ Ron Walker, Peter Smith and Sam Blitz look ahead to Super Sunday’s big clash as Premier League leaders Liverpool host defending champions Manchester City, a match you can watch on Sky Sports from 4pm and follow on skysports.com.
35 mins
28 November Finished
Essential Questions: Why has Pep chosen to stay, and how does Portugal keep producing top talent?
As Pep Guardiola agrees a contract extension at Manchester City, Ron Walker, Peter Smith and Sam Blitz discuss why he's chosen to stay with the champions and how his decision could affect the Premier League. Plus, in the second half of the episode we're joined by Portuguese football journalist, Miguel Lourenço Pereira - author of the book, "Bring Me That Horizon: A Journey to the Soul of Portuguese Football". Miguel speaks to us about Ruben Amorim's appointment as Manchester United manager and explains how Portugal continues to produce world-class players and coaches.
47 mins
21 November Finished
