The Football Ramble
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| Hosted by |
Marcus Speller Jim Campbell Luke Moore Pete Donaldson |
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| Genre | Sports/Comedy |
| Language | English |
| Length | ca. 50 minutes |
| Production |
Doc Brown (Live shows) Pete Donaldson (Podcast) |
| Debut | 2007 |
| Website | http://www.thefootballramble.com/ |
Doc Brown (Live shows)
The Football Ramble is a podcast, book and website about football, produced in and around London by The Football Ramble Ltd. Originally provided fortnightly, this was increased to a weekly show at the beginning of the 09/10 football season, mainly due to repeated listener requests. In October 2015, the podcast became biweekly with a preview show of the weekends football going out on a Friday followed by a reflective preview show on Monday.
It is presented by Marcus Speller, Luke Moore, Pete Donaldson and Jim Campbell. On the podcast, emphasis is placed upon European (especially the English Premier League), and World Football and to a lesser extent the Italian, German, Spanish and Scottish leagues providing an irreverent viewpoint on the sporting issues of the day.
The podcast began in April 2007, in Luke Moore's kitchen, featuring original presenters Christopher Apples and Chimmers "Chimmers" Chimmers. 2008 saw Apples leave the show, to be replaced by XFM DJ Pete Donaldson. In June 2009, the podcast reached the number 1 spot in the iTunes sports podcast chart, beating off competition from titles from The Guardian and the BBC. It is currently the largest independent podcast in the UK, and one of the largest anywhere in the world.
Each episode begins with the Ramble theme tune playing which is sometimes preceded by famous footballers speaking, for example "I'm Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and you're listening to The Football Ramble". The host Marcus then introduces the panel individually before asking a question based on a recent event which each host answers before Marcus picks the best answer, awarding the winner an unspecified number of points, which are essentially inconsequential.
The main bulk of the show consists of a review of the previous week's fixtures, with the majority of the focus spent on the Premier League and then the rest of the major European leagues, notably the Spanish, Italian, German and Scottish leagues. Alongside this, Marcus picks out interesting and notable stories from the rest of the football world. Regular inclusions in this section include Sven-Göran Eriksson, Diego Maradona, Ronaldinho and Gigi Becali.
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