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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...

In the aftermath of Euro 96, the Premier League bubble continued to grow as football clubs rushed towards the stock markets. But the new-found wealth within football wasn't  being shared equally, and smaller clubs were being left behind as the biggest grew and grew....

This week on Scorchio! Edward and Ian have been playing Jon Ritman's seminal Match Day series, perhaps the first football simulation game to prove that they don't all have to be just garbage, absolute garbage. As they thrill at its pioneering advances in game physics,...

This week's episode of An Echo of Glory takes us from the period following the Hillsborough disaster to Euro 96. A lot happened in those six years - a World Cup semi-final for England, the collapse of two Football League clubs and one former Football League club, the...