On The Continent: Making sense of the turmoil in Turin

It appears that Gianni Infantino's own hubris has been the weakness in FIFA's Death Star. After a quite ridiculous week of events, the plan to sell off stakes in the World Cup has self-destructed in FIFA's own faces, leaving big Gianni fighting for his future. Pete, Luke & Jim are here to throw more fuel on that fire. Plus, Chelsea given a mere flick on the wrist for their cheating, an update on Pete qutting energy drinks, and a cashier gets a run out against Bayern Munich. Get your Football Ramble x Admiral kit here. Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: [email protected]. Sign up to the Football Ramble Patreon for ad-free shows for just $5 per month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble. ***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!***  The Football Ramble, the original and best football podcast. Brand new podcasts every single weekday throughout the Premier League season and every day throughout the 2026 FIFA World Cup. No cliches. No ex-pros like Peter Crouch or The Rest is Football. Just the funniest football conversation out there. Your guardian for the season, daily not weekly. Stick to the Ramble, totally. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Losing someone close to you can be hard. Please listeners, allow Pete Donaldson this time to grieve the loss of the Wham! hoodie-wearing, handshake-gazumping, limelight-stealing LEGEND that is Jason Tindall. He’s joined by Jim and Vish to react to Jason and Eddie Howe’s departure from Newcastle. But before that, Gianni Infantino comes up with a plan to decimate the soul of football... again. Plus, Pete proposes privatising the United Nations, Barry Scott is found alive, and the Scouse Bagpuss signs for Tranmere. Get your Football Ramble x Admiral kit here. Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: [email protected]. Sign up to the Football Ramble Patreon for ad-free shows for just $5 per month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble. ***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!***  The Football Ramble, the original and best football podcast. Brand new podcasts every single weekday throughout the Premier League season and every day throughout the 2026 FIFA World Cup. No cliches. No ex-pros like Peter Crouch or The Rest is Football. Just the funniest football conversation out there. Your guardian for the season, daily not weekly. Stick to the Ramble, totally. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

That’s right, folks: Pete’s broken into the abandoned Blockbuster on the seafront and grabbed another harrowing selection of football films for the other lads to hatewatch and you to enjoy! First up, the autobiographical tale of German PoW turned Manchester City goalkeeper, Bert Trautmann. Straight out the gate, Pete’s heart sunk at the prospect of authentic, intimate on-screen love – though it is spiced up by plenty of forward rolls and extensive wartime anti-German sentiment. It Was A Different Time™, of course. It’s basically a two-hour version of Heartbeat with some diving goalkeepers and offensive accents. But, worryingly, it’s actually… decent?! Let’s get into it! Get your Football Ramble x Admiral kit here. Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: [email protected]. Sign up to the Football Ramble Patreon for ad-free shows for just $5 per month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble. ***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!***  The Football Ramble, the original and best football podcast. Brand new podcasts every single weekday throughout the Premier League season and every day throughout the 2026 FIFA World Cup. No cliches. No ex-pros like Peter Crouch or The Rest is Football. Just the funniest football conversation out there. Your guardian for the season, daily not weekly. Stick to the Ramble, totally. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

So that’s it! We’ve suckled on the fruitful teat of the 2025/26 season and produced some absolute Ramble magic. Pete’s been on the hunt and has gathered some classic Football Ramble moments for you to enjoy, because you deserve it. On today’s show, we look back on when we finally broke the Ramble Curse, Ian Holloway came back in full force, and Pete finally became a winner! Let us know your favourite moments from last season in the comments on Spotify, YouTube or on our socials. Get your Football Ramble x Admiral kit here. Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: [email protected]. Sign up to the Football Ramble Patreon for ad-free shows for just $5 per month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble. ***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!***  The Football Ramble, the original and best football podcast. Brand new podcasts every single weekday throughout the Premier League season and every day throughout the 2026 FIFA World Cup. No cliches. No ex-pros like Peter Crouch or The Rest is Football. Just the funniest football conversation out there. Your guardian for the season, daily not weekly. Stick to the Ramble, totally. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The new season is bearing down on us at an alarming rate, but before it gets here we wanted to reflect on the very best of last season. Pete’s been rifling through the archives yet again and has picked out some of his favourite Football Ramble moments from 2025/26! Let us know your favourite moments from last season in the comments on Spotify, YouTube or on our socials. Get your Football Ramble x Admiral kit here. Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: [email protected]. Sign up to the Football Ramble Patreon for ad-free shows for just $5 per month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble. ***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!***  The Football Ramble, the original and best football podcast. Brand new podcasts every single weekday throughout the Premier League season and every day throughout the 2026 FIFA World Cup. No cliches. No ex-pros like Peter Crouch or The Rest is Football. Just the funniest football conversation out there. Your guardian for the season, daily not weekly. Stick to the Ramble, totally. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.