Show overview
The Indy Football Podcast has been publishing since 2017, and across the 9 years since has built a catalogue of 178 episodes. That works out to roughly 120 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a monthly cadence, with the show now in its 4th season.
Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 34 min and 46 min — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. It is catalogued as a EN-language Sports show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 4 days ago, with 20 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2018, with 68 episodes published. Published by The Independent.
From the publisher
The 2026 World Cup will be the biggest ever for so many reasons, so we are launching the Copa Independent podcast to give you the full picture on every angle of it: not just the football, but the politics, the history, the debates and of course the nostalgia. Going out every week, it won't just get you feeling the World Cup but thinking about it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Latest Episodes
View all 178 episodesWhy England’s issues are mounting – and who could be the next Scotland manager?
The new World Cup format is broken
What England MUST change against Panama after drab Ghana draw
Messi v Ronaldo? The debate was always absurd
The Tuchel team-talk that fired England to beat Croatia
Three superstars, one World Cup: Messi, Mbappé and Haaland shine
Germany, Brazil and a tornado at the England camp
Why World Cup water break ads are a disaster
Gianni Infantino's World Cup opener: Today I feel... chill
The big World Cup preview
The 10 greatest World Cup players of all time
Why Tuchel axed England's big names before World Cup
How to win the World Cup
Weight of the waistcoat: Is England manager really ‘the impossible job’?
I saw the Spain down in Africa
The great World Cup rip-off
Born in the USA: 1994's great American World Cup
Will Donald Trump win the 2026 World Cup?
S2 Ep 2The other World Cup England should have won
Since England won the World Cup in 1966, they have not been back to another men’s final, appearing in only two semi-finals in 1990 and 2018 in their closest attempts at repeating the feat. So, as the 2026 World Cup approaches, on the 60th anniversary of that famous Wembley win, should England have won more tournaments with the talent and resources at their disposal? And can Thomas Tuchel finally end the wait this summer? In the second episode of The Independent’s World Cup podcast, sports writers Lawrence Ostlere, Miguel Delaney and Kieran Jackson discuss which past tournaments England could have won, why they’ve underdelivered and whether the neurosis of 60 years of hurt can ever be overcome. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
S2 Ep 1Jules Rimet still dreaming: how the World Cup became the biggest cultural event in history
For the first edition of our weekly Copa Independent podcast, we are looking at the very meaning of the World Cup itself, and the two sides of the biggest cultural event in human history. But why has it got to that level? Why does it feel like nothing else in sport? Has it fulfilled the ideals of its creators? What would Jules Rimet, who envisioned a competition to bring mankind together, think of how it is now politically used? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.