UK · 2025–now
The England Pod
A show for England football fans, by England fans. Ali Maxwell, George Elek and David Walker have all travelled across continents to watch England play, and loved covering the team during Euro 2024. The England Pod believes that supporting England should be fun, and this show sets out to make it a reality for the millions of English football fans. Expect passion, humour, and plenty of debates about squad selection.
Mar 2025
earliest episode we have
150
episodes
12
parent shows
1
shows descended from it
Lineage
- ●The World Cup Show 2006
- └Football Weekly 2006
- └The England Pod 2025
Also descends from The Athletic Football Podcast, Not The Top 20, The Totally Football League Show, Football Clichés, Tifo Football Podcast, Transfer Talk, The Athletic's US soccer pod, The Offside Rule, The Totally Football Show with James Richardson, Women's Football Weekly and Premier League All Access.
Why these parents?
- The Athletic Football Podcast
- Ali Maxwell — host, 1 appearance from Mar 2023 (before this show launched in Mar 2025)
- Robyn Cowen — guest, 1 appearance from Sep 2022 (before this show launched in Mar 2025)
- David Walker — guest, 1 appearance from Sep 2022 (before this show launched in Mar 2025)
- George Elek — co-host, 76 appearances from Aug 2021 (before this show launched in Mar 2025)
- Football Weekly (The Guardian)
- Ali Maxwell — guest, 21 appearances from May 2019 (before this show launched in Mar 2025)
- Robyn Cowen — host, 72 appearances from Nov 2021 (before this show launched in Mar 2025)
- George Elek — guest, 42 appearances from May 2019 (before this show launched in Mar 2025)
- Not The Top 20
- Ali Maxwell — host, 257 appearances from Oct 2018 (before this show launched in Mar 2025)
- David Walker — co-host, 13 appearances from May 2024 (before this show launched in Mar 2025)
- George Elek — co-host, 226 appearances from Jan 2018 (before this show launched in Mar 2025)
- The Totally Football League Show
- Ali Maxwell — co-host, 26 appearances from Dec 2017 (before this show launched in Mar 2025)
- Robyn Cowen — co-host, 11 appearances from Dec 2019 (before this show launched in Mar 2025)
- George Elek — host, 24 appearances from Dec 2017 (before this show launched in Mar 2025)
- Football Clichés
- Ali Maxwell — co-host, 3 appearances from Nov 2023 (before this show launched in Mar 2025)
- David Walker — co-host, 260 appearances from Oct 2023 (before this show launched in Mar 2025)
- Tifo Football Podcast
- Ali Maxwell — guest, 3 appearances from Jul 2019 (before this show launched in Mar 2025)
- George Elek — guest, 3 appearances from Jul 2019 (before this show launched in Mar 2025)
- Transfer Talk (Sky Sports)
- Ali Maxwell — guest, 1 appearance from Jul 2024 (before this show launched in Mar 2025)
- George Elek — guest, 4 appearances from Jan 2019 (before this show launched in Mar 2025)
- The Athletic's US soccer pod (TBC)
- Ali Maxwell — host, 217 appearances from Nov 2019 (before this show launched in Mar 2025)
- The Offside Rule
- Robyn Cowen — co-host, 5 appearances from May 2019 (before this show launched in Mar 2025)
- The Totally Football Show with James Richardson
- Robyn Cowen — co-host, 2 appearances from Jun 2021 (before this show launched in Mar 2025)
- Women's Football Weekly (The Guardian)
- Robyn Cowen — co-host, 17 appearances from Jul 2022 (before this show launched in Mar 2025)
- Premier League All Access (talkSPORT)
- David Walker — co-host, 41 appearances from Mar 2018 (before this show launched in Mar 2025)
4 weaker links (a founder made a one-off appearance before launch)
- Football Daily (BBC 5 Live)
- Ali Maxwell — guest, 1 appearance from Oct 2019 (before this show launched in Mar 2025)
- George Elek — guest, 1 appearance from Mar 2020 (before this show launched in Mar 2025)
- Upfront — A Women's Football Podcast (Stak)
- Robyn Cowen — guest, 1 appearance from Feb 2025 (before this show launched in Mar 2025)
- Kathryn Batte — guest, 1 appearance from Mar 2023 (before this show launched in Mar 2025)
- OTB Football (Off The Ball)
- Kathryn Batte — guest, 2 appearances from Sep 2023 (before this show launched in Mar 2025)
- The Game (The Times football podcast)
- George Elek — guest, 1 appearance from May 2019 (before this show launched in Mar 2025)
What it led to
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