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The formation of the Football League in 1888 proved to be an immediate success, and this success meant that there would be competition throughout its early years. This week on Strength In Depth, we look at the first quarter century of the non-league game. The Southern...

​It's the start of a new season, so it's time for the start of a new podcast series. And this one is, in many respects, the most ambitious project that I've yet taken on. Welcome to Strength In Depth - A History of Non-League Football. This is the third series of...

In this week's season finale, Edward and Ian play International Super Star Soccer Deluxe, the plucky cousin of the Winning Eleven Series of games that have long since cornered the market along with their FIFA counterparts. Much resolution is reached, too, with the...

This week, Edward and Ian forgo the usual rigmarole of playing old video games and instead have been playing brand new ones. Ian has been gawping in wonderment at all that FIFA 20 has to offer, leading him to curate an increasingly impressive selection of balls,...

This week, Edward and Ian have been playing Striker on the Mega Drive, one of a number of Striker games that were available during a period of the early-to-mid-1990s now known to historians as The Striker Era. It's an all-encompassing arcade-style football game which...

So, we've come to the end of the line. The last episode in this series. Thanks for listening to this series, we'll be continuing to put Scorchio out every Friday, and I'll make a decision on what to do next at some point in the future. This week brings us to 2010, and...

This week on Scorchio, Edward and Ian give their thumbs a rest and their brain holes a workout, each coming up with some football video games that they would like to see made. Chiefly because they would like to play them. What happened next was potentially...

It's time for the penultimate episode of An Echo of Glory, our series of the history of football in England & Wales. This week's episode takes us into the 21st century, to corporate wrestling at Manchester United and the formation of FC United of Manchester, Roman...

This week, Edward and Ian continue to be cockteases of the worst possible kind, playing a football game programmed by Sensible Software that isn't Sensible Soccer, while you all sit around on tenterhooks. Vinegar strokes or no, World Championship Soccer II on the Sega...