Where did football come from? Was it really invented in China or is the truth a little closer to home? Why was knife crime such a problem for football hundreds of years ago? And what’s the real truth behind the history of the women’s game? Public historian Greg Jenner joins comedian Tom Parry and historian Professor Jean Williams to teach you the true history of the beautiful game. It’s history for people who don’t like history! Produced by Dan Morelle Scripted by Greg Jenner Researched by Emma Nagouse, assisted by Eszter Szabo and Evie Randall 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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Hello and welcome to you're dead to me, a history podcast for people who don't like history, or at least people who forgot to lend any at school.
My name's Greg Jenner, I'm a public historian author, and I'm the chief nerd on the BBC comedy show Horrible Histories.
I put the lols in the Lollards, alright?
Just look them up, alright?
Google it, you'll find it.
In each episode, I'm joined by an expert historian who knows their clock from their copy and a top comedian with more creative flair than David Silver.
Today, we are rolling down our socks, popping our collars and launching a two footed cantonal lunge into the face of the history of football.