The Ademola Bookmen Podcast

Injury Time 7 - The Lance Armstrong Cup - Party boys and Drug Cheat draft

For the 7th edition of Injury Time, we are picking the best and most interesting players who have received drug bans. From party boys like Diego to your boring performance enhancing types like Stam, we take a tour through the players who were caught with their hands in their wife’s medicine cabinet. This is also our first episode to feature an alleged war criminal.
 
Grab your methylephedrine and tune in to find out whether Alistair can narrow that growing lead of Johnny’s…

Episode 37: Gazza in Italy by Daniel Storey

In Episode 37, we visit the captivating story of Gazza in Italy. 
 
This rather short book by Daniel Storey really packs a punch. Having read so many of these books by now, this one highlights the most important element of all - an interesting protagonist. Gazza is one of the most interesting of all - gifted, haunted and poor entertainment gold.
 
Have a listen to hear about him slapping an elderly Agnelli on his bald pate, faking motorbike accidents, and sending poor old Jimmy Five Bellies to Rome via Cambodia. Good man Gazza. 
 
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Injury Time 6 - Top of the Football Pops

In our sixth edition of Injury Time, we take times in a different direction, with something of a Football Top of the Pops.
 
Do you know which players have had songs in the UK charts? We give you a blast of the Top 5 and this is not according to our own tastes but on the basis of where they charted in the British charts.
 
Check it out, with songs from a Ballon D’or Winner, two European Cup winners, and of course Hoddle and Waddle…
 
But who is Top of these Football Pops? Have a listen and find out!

Episode 36: Francesco Totti - Gladiator

In Episode 36, we discuss Gladiator, the autobiography of Francesco Totti. With nicknames such as The Eight King of Rome, Totti had other much better possible names for this book. And yet he went for Gladiator…
But what a career the man had, 251 goals in 619 appearances for his hometown team, Roma. He played his first game for the Giallorossi when he was only 17 years old. After becoming captain at the age of 22, he kept hold of the armband for 18 years.
With a World Cup Winners medal in his pocket to go with one eternal Scudetto for Roma, he had a brilliant excellent career and an amazing life.
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Injury Time 5 - the Greatest Players Never to Win the Premier League, 5-a-side draft

It’s the 5th episode of Ademola Bookmen Injury Time and this week we are choosing 5-a-side teams of the best players never to win the Premier League. To keep the golf theme of the week going, it's the Colin Montgomerie Derby. 
 
With Johnny having won the previous three encounters of these 5-a-sides (as well as the Forest-United one), Al’s pride is really what is at stake most in this particular encounter, him never having won one of these drafts. Oh the irony...
 
With thanks to listener Barry for the suggestion for this episode. Please do have a listen folks and if you have ideas for other drafts, be sure to let us know.

Episode 35: Matt Le Tisser - Taking Le Tiss

In continuation of God month on the Ademola Bookmen Podcast, we travel to the south coast to check on in folk legend Matt Le Tissier and his autobiography Taking Le Tiss
The famous one-club Le Tissier scored some cracking goals in his 16 years with Southampton. This book was written in 2009 so before Matt went off the deep end a bit with conspiracy theories and the likes. 
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Injury Time 4 - Matchday Special - all-time Forest versus all-time Manchester United

Let’s see what our cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence machine has to say – can a team of legendary Forest players beat the mighty United?
 
Ahead of the Nottingham v. Manchester United game tomorrow night, Al and Johnny are picking draft 5-a-side teams for either club. It’s Al’s all-time Forest team versus Johhny’s all-time United.
 
This one is personal. We bought it out a day early, such is our excitement.
 
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Episode 34: Eric Cantona – The Rebel Who Would Be King by Philippe Auclair

In Episode 34, we review Philippe Auclair’s book about arguably the greatest of all Premier League players and certainly the coolest – Eric Cantona.
 
French football’s enfant terrible washed up on the shores of British football seeking refuge from the tyranny of the French FA’s capricious officials. Driven from his home country due to his uncontrollable temper, Cantona left behind Marseilles, Auxerre, Nimes, and the various other clubs he played for in France, arriving in Sheffield a desolate but still proud figure. A trial there and a brief (league winning) stint at Leeds later, he found himself in that golden city on the hill, Manchester United. There he found a home, he found a family, and he remade English football in his own divine image. Then he fucked off to go acting…
 
Tune in to find out all the things he did when he wasn’t kicking that Palace fan.

Injury Time 3: Ginger Spice - The Red Hair 5-a-side draft

In our third instalment of Ademola Bookmen Injury Time, we are doing a 5-a-side draft of red hair footballers. Yes folks, its Ginger Spice, the Red Hair Draft. Tune in to find out if Al can save some blushes and finally get a win.

Episode 33: In Search of Duncan Ferguson by Alan Patullo

In Episode 33, we review In Search of Duncan Ferguson – The Life and Crimes of a Footballing Enigma by Alan Patullo.
 
The highest scoring Scot in the Premier League, Ferguson is a folk hero on the blue half of Merseyside. As well as Everton, Ferguson had stints of varying degrees of success and failure with Dundee United, Rangers, and Newcastle United. But he is perhaps best known for his brushes with the law and with home intruders. Famously, he went to jail for headbutting Josh McStay of Raith Rovers and consigned a series of burglars to a similar fate. 
 
Tune in to find out whether we managed to find Duncan. Please do like and subscribe.