The Blue Room - Everton FC Podcast

Matt is joined by Rob and Les for the latest transfer show. We discuss Everton's fondness for bringing back former players and the links to a host of ex-Toffees as of late. We also look at the midfield options in the squad and whether Carlo Ancelotti can potentially revive any of their Everton careers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Matt is joined by author and historian Rob Sawyer for the latest BWAB. Rob tells us what he's been painting in lockdown, the challenges of writing a book about Harry Catterick, how an Everton player helped change the corner rule and what he's got planned in the future. For Rob's Harry Catterick book: https://www.decoubertin.co.uk/harry-catterick-the-untold-story-of-a-football-great/ For Rob's Toffeeweb articles: https://www.toffeeweb.com/season/19-20/comment/editorial/index.php?authorfname=Rob&authorlname=Sawyer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Matt, Dave and Mark are in for the Weekly show, as they wrap up their 2012-13 season review, with the focus on David Moyes' departure. They also discuss the latest reports that Leighton Baines has been offered a new deal by Everton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Matt has a chat with Rose about the latest Toffees news. There are fresh injury problems in the form of JP Gbamin and Yerry Mina. Rose also tells us her thoughts on Everton's midfield and gives us the background on her YouTube channel. Subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb6gSDGWXEpUbVOtPKbrFew Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Professor Christopher Brady, the co-author of Carlo Ancelotti's Quiet Leadership book, joined Matt for today's chat. Chris speaks about his love for the Toffees and how he followed the team from the south. We also talk about Ancelotti's time at Everton, his decision to take the job and how Carlo will fare with the Toffees post-pandemic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Rob is joined by Kate and Hannah for the latest episode of Kick About. This week, the discussion takes new twists, with artificial crowd noise, Operation Goodison Exercise and OG WAGS on the agenda. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Matt catches up with Everton physio Mick Rathbone. Mick talks about how the physiotherapy industry will change post-pandemic, the focus on mental health in football, working under David Moyes and the excitement at Everton when Wayne Rooney burst onto the scene. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Matt and Dave continue their review of the 2012-13 season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dave is joined by football agent Neil Sang to discuss the ever-changing football landscape and how his role has changed post-coronavirus. Neil also tells the story of how he brokered the deal for one of the hottest young prospects in world football, Alphonso Davies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The week's first Brew With A Blue sees Matt chat to Alan Myers of Sky Sports. Al tells us about his reporting in the Football League and his two spells working in the Everton communications department. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Matt, Dave and Rob are back to talk about the latest Everton transfer stories. The prospect of a summer of free transfers and loan deals is discussed, and whether this will hinder Everton. We also talk about the weekend's golfing action. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Rob is joined by Les and Kate for the latest Kick About. There's a big discussion of the recently released ESPN/Netflix documentary on Michael Jordan and the 90's Bulls, The Last Dance, what it reveals about the road athletes take to greatness and how different the environment is today. We also chatted about other documentary recommendations Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Everton legend Bob Latchford joins Frank McKenna for an exclusive interview. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Matt, Dave and Mark get stuck in in a busy show. They talk 1995, the new kit deal with Hummel and do a bit more of their 2012-13 season review. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Matt, Rob and Dave are back for the latest Transfer Show. The lads chat about Everton's squad makeup, Adrien Rabiot rumours and think back to the summer of 2005. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Matt catches up with author and the creator of EvertonResults.com, Steve Johnson. Steve tells us about jigsaws, collating the history of the Toffees and what he thinks of the team's direction under Carlo Ancelotti. Get Everton: The Official Complete Record here: https://www.decoubertin.co.uk/Everton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Matt chats to the Labour Mayor for Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham in our latest Brew With A Blue. They talk about Andy's piece in the observer, the differences between being an MP and a mayor, and the Toffees in the 1980s. Read Andy's piece on the government's approach to the pandemic here: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/16/are-we-all-in-this-together-it-doesnt-look-like-it-from-the-regions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Rob, Mike and Hannah get together for a chat on this week's Kick About. They talk about being around live people again, enjoyable things during the lockdown and fill you in on what the Kick About actually is. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Matt and Dave continue their review of the 2012-13 season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Matt catches up with the Liverpool Echo Sports Editor, Dave Prentice. Dave tells us about his book in the pipeline, what it's been like covering the Toffees down the years and what he thinks of Mike Tyson's potential comeback. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Matt chats to former England international Sue Smith for the latest BWAB. Sue tells us about the different types of training she's been doing in lockdown, being on Wayne Rooney's Street Soccer programme and how she's carved a path through the punditry world. To donate to Sue's 100k in May, click here: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/sueandlea Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Matt and Rob are joined by Mike for a chat about the latest transfer stories. Southampton's Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg is reportedly a name in the frame. We also discuss the state of the transfer window after the pandemic and get Mike's one-in-one-out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Matt catches up with the CEO of Downtown In Business, Frank McKenna. Frank tells us about how local businesses are adapting to the lockdown, whether Bramley Moore can help the city recover economically and why Everton could have won the league in the 1970s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Matt has a chat with Everton's most successful captain of all time, Kevin Ratcliffe. In addition to the team's success in the 1980s, Matt chats to Kev about The Sopranos, what he's been watching recently and what he's up to during the lockdown. For more than 20 hours more Everton content a month, sign up to The Blue Room Extra: https://www.patreon.com/TheBlueRoomExtra Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Matt and Dave start their review of the 2012-13 season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's *almost* that time of year again. Transfers. Matt, Rob and Dave get together for a talk about Everton's transfer strategy going forward and where it's fallen down in recent years. We also preview two new features on the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Matt chats to Hannah to start off this week of content. Hannah gives us an insight into early starts, working on the radio and why there should be more scouse accents in wider media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Matt speaks to author James Corbett on the latest Brew With A Blue. James tells about his longing for match day experiences, his work in Qatar ahead of the World Cup in 2022, the Newcastle Saudi takeover and the future of Everton writing. Here's James' report on Qatar: https://www.theblizzard.co.uk/article/building-dream Follow James on Twitter: https://twitter.com/james_corbett Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Matt and Dave reconvene for the second part of the 2010-11 season review. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Matt takes a dive into football history with Paul Mc Parlan. The guys talk Everton's perception since the 1960s, the footballing culture in Madrid and loads more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Matt starts a new week with a chat with comedian, writer and Chasing The Stigma founder Jake Mills. For more details about Chasing The Stigma, click here: https://chasingthestigma.co.uk/ To donate, click here: https://t.co/m4zcW4o2PR?amp=1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Athletic's Greg O'Keeffe is our final guest of the week on Brew With A Blue. Greg tells us about the changing face of journalism, pre-season tours in the States and personal hairdressing in the lockdown. Check out Greg's work for The Athletic here: https://theathletic.co.uk/author/greg-okeeffe/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Matt catches up with Everton author and statistician Gavin Buckland on Thursday for a chat. We talk drinking in the lockdown, Everton nostalgia, Adrian Heath against Southampton and the joy of last minute goals. Follow Gav on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/GavinBuckland1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Matt, Mark and Dave take a look back at one Everton's more eventful campaigns in recent years, the 2010-11 season. The lads go through August to February, reflecting on both a fragile and fantastic Toffees outfit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We dive across the Atlantic again today, as Matt catches up with actor and Evertonian Chris Mason for a chat about the Toffees. Chris gives us an insight into his life in isolation as an actor, how his body changes for different roles and meeting Roberto Martinez in a curious setting in Miami in 2013. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Matt catches up with Lyndon Lloyd from Toffeeweb for a the latest chat. The development of the website, San Francisco and the Superbowl and the early days of Marco Silva's tenure are on the agenda. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Matt catches up with Matt Cheetham for our first BWAB this week. The lads talk about facial hair in lockdown, the development of date in football and the FIFA World Cup in 2014 in Brazil. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Matt and Dave chat to former Everton defender Joleon Lescott about his time with the Blues and his controversial exit from the club to join Manchester City. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Rob welcomes Paddy and Mike to the Kick About this week. The lads discussed in-depth the new Strokes LP, The New Abnormal, as well as their career arc and reception. Movies and TV being enjoyed during the lockdown are also on the agenda. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

There's Everton shirts everywhere on Friday, as Zuzu and Munkey Junkey join us for a chat. We speak about being musicians in isolation, deconstructing songs, strumming patterns and two class kits. For Zuzu's latest LP: https://t.co/Gv6dbJUAKN?amp=1 For Munkey Junkey on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/31wKUW6VKgNrqY4SVpM95E Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Paddy from The Athletic is the latest guest on the feature. Paddy defends his performance at Goodison Park after some criticism from Adam Jones—Twitter spat anyone?—, talks yoga, Chang soda and the 2010-11 season. Check out Paddy's work for The Athletic here: https://theathletic.co.uk/author/patr... For more than 20 hours more Everton content a month, sign up to The Blue Room Extra: https://www.patreon.com/TheBlueRoomExtra Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Matt, Mark, Adam S and Ben run into some technical difficulties in the early part of the show, although eventually managed to cobble together a podcast. We speak about Allan rumours, Andre Gomes and which current player would likely smell the best. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ryan joins us from Down Under to talk Toffees, Tim Cahill, The Test and the lack of sport. For more than 20 hours more Everton content a month, sign up to The Blue Room Extra: https://www.patreon.com/TheBlueRoomExtra Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Laura joins Matt for a chat about hamsters, photography and shirts Everton didn't wear much. Check out Laura's photography here: lauragatesphotography.co.uk For more than 20 hours more Everton content a month, sign up to The Blue Room Extra: https://www.patreon.com/TheBlueRoomExtra Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Matt speaks to Sarah Halpin for our Easter Monday edition of BWAB. Sarah speaks about her isolation so far, the perils of indoor exercise, missing Everton and swapping signed shirts out of frames. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's Mark's turn to feature on Brew With A Blue. We talk life in a pharmacy, easter eggs, not missing Everton that much and amber kits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Liverpool Echo's Adam Jones joins Matt for the latest Brew With A Blue. Adam tells us about covering sport in a pandemic, player rating interactions, a Bundesliga affinity and playing at Goodison Park with Jamie Carragher. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dave and Matt are joined by the legendary Joe Royle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dave Downie is joined by Hannah Farrell, Connor O'Neil and Paul McParlan to discuss the latest football news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices