Podcast

Wake up and smell the coffee. The ScoutCast returns to jolt us back into life and get us ...

One hundred up. Some achievement for two miserable so-and-so’s, confined in a room or hours on end, griping and gloating about Fantasy football. This special podcast includes a clip from the very first pilot show, Granville’s first, and some would say, last, attempt at ScoutCast humour....

One man’s personal battle to mastermind his beloved Fantasy Football team through extreme adversity steals the show in this week’s episode of the ScoutCast – and we’re not talking about Granville struggling with his BAFTA award-winning hangover....

The ScoutCast emerges from under the duvet, coughing and spluttering after a two-week break. The full crew are assembled as Granville joins me to celebrate his Gameweek victory, Professor Chris Atkinson charges up his “Rate My Team” computer and Jonty chips in with another “Full Jonty”...

Better late than never, our ninety seventh episode of the ScoutCast delivers another 45 minutes of mirth, plus injury time. With the Professor otherwise engaged, it’s left to Jonty to provide backup to myself and Granville, arriving to deliver another “Fully Jonty” – the first to feature a community victim.

The ScoutCast gets a facelift as both “Professor” Chris Atkinson and his “Rate My Team” computer, plus long-time community member and contributor, Jonty join the ranks to freshen things up...

Rush. The best form of goalkeepers for the playground. A long-haired Canadian prog-rock outfit. A mustachioed goal sniffer and, sadly, a description of how Granville and myself had to approach this latest episode of the podcast. With our studio slot limited, we had to skinny things up...

Back for 2013, fully refreshed, slightly rusty and balancing the same chips on our shoulders, Granville are I make a return to the podcast studio. The New Year presents my beleaguered co-host with a 51-point gap to bridge as I spent Christmas “ho-ho-ing” about three midfield hat-tricks...

Possibly the most un-Christmas-like Christmas Podcast we’ve ever recorded, thanks mainly to Granville being banned from editing in the entire MP3 of Dean Martin’s “Let it Snow” but also because neither of us had time to sort our pressies. To be fair, I’m surprised that Granville felt an ounce Christmas spirit after Santi’s showing at Reading opened up a 40-point “chasm” in our min-league...

While I was “driving home for Christmas”, Granville was recovering from a breathless double Gameweek that left him ...

Granville loves a double Gameweek. He circles them like a fly around honey, so often falling for their hollow promises and duplicitous charm. Will Gameweek 16 be any different? Certainly my esteemed rival has the momentum; after closing our mini-league gap to just three points, Granville is in confident mood as we chew the fat on the this week’s double header...

Maybe I underestimated Granville. Maybe his throwaway comment made at 10.32 on a weary Wednesday evening wasn’t throwaway. Maybe Granville is a Fantasy football mind games genius. Regardless of whether his plan was pre-meditated and devious, it certainly worked as you’ll find out in this episode...