This Is Deep Play

A football podcast that's not about football. Punditry in a time of crisis. #ForFutureFootball

Subtitle: A football podcast that's not about football. Punditry in a time of crisis. #ForFutureFootball
Summary: This Is Deep Play is a podcast that looks at football beyond the the rectangular narrative of the pitch and the mundanity of the television studio. As we consider fan culture, finance, politics, surrealism and history we begin to slip towards a great enchantment with both football and wider society. The more we get our heads round leveraged buyouts and definitions of 'Community Value' the more we idly dream of Ballardian conclusions and even supernatural happenings. Amidst football's standard issue knee-jerk opinions of There Is No Alternative and Against Modern Football, we're trying to look to the future. Join us, and join in.
Author: Joe Kennedy & Robert Molloy-Vaughan; Category: Sports; Explicit: No

Track Listing

This Is Deep Play / Episode Zero: Against Modern Football?	0:54:19	128kbps	44100	49.74 MB
In this near-experimental (rough) pilot episode we discuss the slogan/meme/movement of 'Against Modern Football'. We try to ask what modern football is, look the case against it, describe strategies and consider the place of football within the dynamic processes of history. Everything changes. keywords: Football, Against Modern Football, Dulwich Hamlet, Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal, Millwall

This Is Deep Play / Episode ½: The Ticket Price Protest	0:49:07	128kbps	44100	44.97 MB
We attend the recent football ticket price protest outside the Premier League headquarters. Features voxpops with fans and our own thoughts. Can the protest work? Is there scope for a wider political fan movement? And how does English football culture compare to the likes of Germany and, most topically, Istanbul and Brazil? keywords:

This Is Deep Play / Episode 3: What If There Were No Football Counterfactuals?	0:54:29	192kbps	44100	74.83 MB
This week we turn to the worlds of lost possibilities by asking a series of counterfactuals about English football. Expect stuff on Manchester United's Glazernomics, Wimbledon's move to Milton Keynes, the differences between the Football League and non-league and the elite destruction of the game's collective structure. Guest appearance from the X893 supercomputer. keywords: Football, Dulwich Hamlet, Manchester United, Spurs, Glazernomics, Arsenal, Millwall

This Is Deep Play / Episode 4: Tactocracy! The Neoliberalism of Football Tactics	0:53:52	192kbps	44100	74 MB
We look at the current fashion for football tactics amongst fans of the game, arguing that by concentrating relentlessly on this technocratic minutia of a multifaceted sporting culture it ignores the wider social aspects of the game that have been so compromised over the last three decades. Indeed, this cheerleading for efficiency threatens to further accelerate football towards the contradiction of non-competitiveness. keywords:

This Is Deep Play / Episode 5. Revanchist Football: Policing & Control	1:05:37	192kbps	44100	90.12 MB
In this episode we are joined by freelance journalist Harry Stopes to discuss changes in the policing of football fans over the last thirty years. We look at policing's role in the wider changes in football and the representation of football fan culture. Furthermore, we consider the links between this and the policing of political protests and even the gentrification of urban spaces. keywords:

This Is Deep Play / Stadium Redevelopment: Football, Communities & Housing	0:52:26	192kbps	44100	72.02 MB
In this episode we are joined by Mark Panton, who is researching the relationship between big football club's stadium redevelopments and the local communities affected by them. We discuss Tottenham Hotspur's ongoing attempts to build a bigger stadium amidst local protests about housing and facilities, how their plans contrast with Arsenal's earlier development (itself controversial), Liverpool's 'tinning up' of local homes & the issue of 'state aid' in East Manchester and beyond. More deeply, we consider how positive community relations can be a source of pride for a football club beyond the myopic obsession with success on the pitch. keywords:

This Is Deep Play / The Jouissance of Football	0:54:51	192kbps	44100	75.35 MB
Building on Roland Barthes' work on plaisir and jouissance we introduce the terms and place them in the recognisably muddy grounding of association football. Featuring the importance of cheating to the sport, Luis Suarez winning the Jouissance World Cup, meta-game thinking and video game tickling, Darlington FC's world leading absurdist drama productions, the moribundly simplistic pleasure of Manchester United title triumphs, the shift from mob football to public school football, Beethoven wallpaper and a possible RSPCA investigation into animal cruelty. keywords:

This Is Deep Play / Regionalism in Football: Collective Identities & Political Potential	0:54:52	192kbps	44100	75.37 MB
In this episode we speak to Alex Niven, author of 'Folk Opposition', about the political potential of regional identities and how they can center around football fandom. Featuring: neoliberal regeneration, Kevin Keegan's Labourism & Sir John Hall's Thatcherism, supporters trusts, the political activity of Istanbul ultras, a west/east divide in unEnglish regional identities, the lack of a Cornish league club, 'The Year of Dreaming Dangerously', regionalism in Iberian football, Sicilians supporting Argentina, a hyper-conservative bourgeois inauthentic 'London' identity and the indisputable fact keywords:

This Is Deep Play / TiDP Halloween Special	1:04:13	192kbps	44100	88.2 MB
Loss, disappearance, death. A rambling wide-ranging discussion to kick-off series 2. Featuring extinct football clubs such as Nunhead FC and Middlesbrough Ironopolis, the Spectre of Marx, epochs in football, the similarities between squats and non-league grounds, the gothic horror of Roy of the Rovers and how death somehow seems more real in football. Concludes with a call to embrace morbidity in football. keywords:

This Is Deep Play / TiDP 2013 Awards	0:50:25	192kbps	44100	69.25 MB
Awards include: Journalist of the Year, Imaginary Team of the Year, Dead Club of the Year, Non-League Goal of the Year, Gentrifier of the Year, Fixed Capital Football Advancement of the Year and Player of the Year. keywords:

This Is Deep Play / League 3	0:58:51	192kbps	44100	80.84 MB
We are awakened by our slumber to discuss our opposition to the 'League 3' plan to allow elite clubs' reserve sides to enter the Football League system. keywords:

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