Winning at Dominoes
Join me for this series of twenty standalone documentaries, taken from the history of the game.
Podcast 190: Winning at Dominoes 20 – For Useful Men Are We: The Battle For Falmer
Good morning everybody, and welcome to the last episode in the series of Winning at Dominoes. This series has been enormous fun to record, and I've learnt a considerable amount myself along the way. I hope that you have too. For the final episode of this series, we...
Podcast 189: Winning at Dominoes 19 – Five Go Searching For El Dorado
We're up to the 19th episode of Winning at Dominoes, the penultimate of this series, and this week we're going back to the years immediately following the end of the Second World War, when players who'd already lost a chunk of their playing careers to war found...
Podcast 188: Winning at Dominoes 18 – Reinventing Coventry, The Jimmy Hill Way
In this week's episode of Winning at Dominoes, we have the story of how one man, with the support of another, reinvented a moribund Third Division football club. Coventry City had one Third Division South Championship and a couple of promotions to show for a little...
Podcast 187: Winning at Dominoes 17 – Football’s One Hit Wonders
This week's 200% podcast is a little different to usual. Rather than telling one story, this week we have six stories. In the 131 years since the formation of the Football League, only six clubs have had one season alone in the top flight of English football. So these...
Podcast 186: Winning At Dominoes 16 – The Life & Death of ITV Digital
We're back into the world of broadcasting for this week's edition of Winning At Dominoes, with the story of how the life and death of ITV Digital, the short-lived competitor to Sky that bet the house on exclusive Football League coverage saving the day for their...
Podcast 185: Winning At Dominoes 15 – United after Busby
This week's 200% podcast is the story of United after Busby. Manchester United's decline from becoming the first English champions of Europe was swift and alarming. From the veryto the summit of European football to the Second Division in ten years. And it was...
Podcast 184: Winning at Dominoes 14 – You Are The Number One
This week's 200% podcast takes us back to the late 1960s and a revolution in football broadcasting. Sweeping changes to the ITV network meant the handing of a crucial contract to a completely untried broadcaster, and with sport at the heart of their schedule, how they...
Podcast 183: Winning at Dominoes 13 – The Union, The League, The City & The Avenue
This week's episode of Winning at Dominoes takes in three branches of the same sporting tree. Association football, rugby union, and rugby league. This week, we've got the story of how the cleaving apart of the game of rugby led to the formation of two association...
Podcast 182: Winning at Dominoes 12 – Charlton Athletic: A Tale of Two Bonfires
This week's 200% podcast tells the story of the club whose supporters set the template for the modern protesting fan. When Charlton Athletic abruptly left The Valley for the wholly inappropriate Selhurst Park, the fight was on to wrestle the club away from a world of...
Podcast 181: Winning At Dominoes 11 – The Two Salutes
This week's 200% podcast feels somewhat relevant at the moment, considering the state of the modern world. We're going back to the 1930s, to take a look at how the salutes, and one man who refused to salute, came to define the failed appeasement of Nazi Germany by the...
Podcast 180: Winning At Dominoes 10 – The Welsh Wimbledon
This week's 200% podcast sees us up to our tenth episode of Winning at Dominoes, and our series of stories from the history of the game this week is our most recent yet. Barry Town were coerced into joining the League of Wales upon its formation by the FAW in 1992...
Podcast 179: Winning At Dominoes 9 – Deepest, Darkest Peru
We're off on a trip abroad for this week's episode of Winning At Dominoes, which takes us all the way to Peru for a look at how two disasters, more than twenty years apart, have come to shape country in this particular country. In 1964 came the worst stadium disaster...
Podcast 178: Winning At Dominoes 8 – Living In The Plastic Age
This week’s 200% podcast is another in our series of historical football stories, Winning At Dominoes. This time we’re going back to the early 1980s and the controversial arrival of artificial pitches, firstly and foremostly at Queens Park Rangers’ Loftus Road....
Podcast 176: Winning at Dominoes 7 – Men Of The Clyde
It's Fitba Week here on 200%, and this week's episode of Winning at Dominoes takes us back to Scotland in the 1960s. The national team may have failed to qualify for three successive World Cup finals during this decade, but the sixties also saw first and only league...
Podcast 175: Winning at Dominoes 6 – The Men Who Built Arsenal
This week's 200% podcast is another episode of Winning at Dominoes. A couple of weeks ago, we had the story of Stamford Bridge. This week, we make a short hop across London to revisit the story of how two managers came to define a football club, Herbert Chapman and...
Podcast 174: Winning At Dominoes 5 – Accrington & Colne, Touched By The Hand of Burnley
It's Tuesday morning, so it must be time for another edition of Winning At Dominoes, our weekly podcast in which I pull a story - or, in this case, two stories - from the history of the game and retell it. Lancashire is one of the ancestral homes of football in...
Podcast 173: Winning At Dominoes 4 – The Almost Complete Story of Stamford Bridge
"You've got no history", they sing, but they couldn't be more wrong. Stamford Bridge is one of the most storied football grounds in the country, and the battle to save it, in an area in which real estate prices are astronomical, has been one of the definiing...
Podcast 172: Winning At Dominoes 3 – (M4) Corridors of Power
Another week, another podcast, and another story. This week we have the story of Thames Valley Royals, the attempt by Robert Maxwell to prove that he could strongarm through a football club based in Didcot from the smouldering ashes of Oxford United and Reading. Cue...
Podcast 171: Winning At Dominoes 2 – Lincoln City & The 9th May 1987
This week's podcast is another episode of Winning At Dominoes, our new series in which I tell a story. This week, the subject is Lincoln City, and the relegation that took the club briefly out of the Football League in 1987. It's a story that takes in the decline of a...
Podcast 170: Winning At Dominoes 1 – Those Feet In Ancient Times
This week's 200% podcast is just me throwing an idea out there, with a view to doing these on a more regular basis throughout next season. This is Winning At Dominoes (if in doubt, crib some words from a jocular Brian Clough quote), a new podcast which is different to...