Where did football come from? Was it really invented in China or is the truth a little closer to home? And what’s the truth behind the history of the women’s game? Greg Jenner is joined by comedian Tom Parry and historian Prof Jean Williams to learn the history of the beautiful game. Produced by Dan Morelle Scripted by Greg Jenner Researched by Emma Nagouse, assisted by Eszter Szabo and Evie Randall Radio edit by Cornelius Mendez A Muddy Knees Media production for BBC Radio 4.
My name's Joe Wilkinson and I've managed to force Patrick Bamford to come on a podcast with me and he's gonna slowly fall in love with me.
Do you go to the tip?
Believe it or not, yeah, I do.
Do you go to the supermarket?
No.
You know when all the shirts started getting tight on the players and they started selling them like that to the general public?
Yeah, yeah.
And everyone looked like sausages.
My mate's a footballer with me, Patrick Bamford and Joe Wilkinson.
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Heya, Greg here.
Hope you're doing all right.
We are making series three right now.
In the meantime, we've been making these radio four versions of the previous episode.
We are putting them in the feed here permanently.
They will be alongside the long versions, so make sure you scroll down and choose which version you want so you can have the shorter, punchier, swear free versions or the long, rambling, sweary versions.
Up to you.
Thanks very much for listening.
Take care, bye.
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