Winning at Dominoes

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

"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...

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...