• Episode 22: Diversity Off The Field with Brian Deane, Monique Choudhuri and Delroy Corinaldi
    Oct 2 2025

    At a time when football clubs are using data to make more and more decisions, there are some statistics that are clearly not being noticed or addressed.

    In men's professional football, 43% of players are black and yet only 4% of the former players employed in the game are black, revealing a lack of diversity among decision makers and people with significant influence.

    On this episode, we talk to:
    Monique Choudhuri, a former non-executive director at Brentford and currently Managing Director of Versify Consulting,
    Delroy Corinaldi, co-founder of the Black Footballers Partnership,
    and Brian Deane, former England international striker, the man who scored the first-ever Premier League goal in 1992, and former manager of Norwegian club Sarpsborg 08.

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    48 Min.
  • Episode 21: Can the football regulator drive the sale of Sheffield Wednesday?
    Aug 14 2025

    Many Sheffield Wednesday supporters missed the kick-off as the team played their opening fixture in the Championship last weekend, because they were staging a protest against club owner Dejphon Chansiri, who says he is willing to sell but hasn't taken any significant steps towards a sale.

    The bills haven't been paid and the players haven't received their wages. Wednesday had a transfer embargo over the summer and there is a likely points deduction to come but home attendances are still around 25,000 and the club regularly sells out its allocation at away games.

    In November, the football regulator will have the power to appoint a trustee to expedite a sale in these circumstances but in the meantime Sheffield Wednesday and the supporters continue to suffer, watching their club deteriorate.

    Our guests on this episode are Clive Betts MP for Sheffield South East, Mark Johnson from the Sheffield Wednesday Supporters Trust and Fair Game CEO Niall Couper.

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    43 Min.
  • Episode 20: Will the sale of Morecambe FC be completed?
    Mar 4 2025

    While Morecambe have recently been to Stamford Bridge to play Chelsea in the FA Cup, and moved into a new stadium in 2010, there have been frustrations and protests at the club. The current owners are struggling to finalise a sale, a situation that has lasted two-and-a-half years so far.

    Profits generated by the club in some recent seasons have since been cancelled out by losses, highlighting how difficult it is for clubs in League One and League Two to remain sustainable.

    We discuss the club's present situation, fighting relegation from the Football League, the potential difficulties to challenge for promotion from the National League, and the future with:


    Lizzi Collinge, MP for Morecambe and Lunesdale,

    James Wakefield, one of the directors of Morecambe Football Club,

    Dave Salmon, commentator on Morecambe matches for 'Shrimps Live',

    and Niall Couper, CEO of Fair Game.



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    48 Min.
  • Episode 19: The impact of the financial problems at Bolton Wanderers and Bury
    Feb 23 2025

    In this episode, we hear the emotional stories of Bolton Wanderers and Bury, clubs that have both suffered financial problems over the past ten years.

    Our guests are:
    Yasmin Qureshi MP for Bolton South,
    James Frith MP for Bury North,
    Author and journalist David Conn,
    Martin Parnell from the Bolton Wanderers Supporters Trust,
    Mo Dickson, a member of the heritage committee at Bury AFC,
    and Fair Game CEO Niall Couper.

    David Conn reminds us that the founders of the Football League were concerned that clubs in the big cities would have a financial advantage, so the competition was set up on the principle of shared gate receipts, and that principle was in place for nearly 100 years, up to 1983.

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    1 Std. und 5 Min.
  • Episode 18: The Uncertain Future of Reading
    Feb 17 2025

    Just 12 years after playing in the Premier League, Reading are in League One, attendances are falling and the latest financial figures showed a loss of over £17m for the 2021/22 season. The club has had problems paying staff on time in recent seasons, and there have been points deductions, fines and transfer bans. So far, all attempts to buy the club from Dai Yongge have fallen through.

    Our guests joining Graham Miller on this episode are Yuan Yang, MP for Earley and Woodley, Sarah Turner, chair of STAR, Supporters Trust at Reading, James Earnshaw, sports reporter for the Reading Chronicle and John Mayes, the chair of Fair Game.

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    43 Min.
  • Episode 17: A Crucial Week For Football
    Jan 14 2025

    The Football Governance Bill is about to be debated in the House of Lords, with speeches to be made and amendments suggested.

    In this episode, Graham Miller is joined by David Bernstein, the former chairman of Manchester City, the Football Association, and the current chairman of Wembley Stadium Limited, and Fair Game CEO, Niall Couper.

    The Bill will have huge consequences for all clubs in the pyramid and even small changes this week could have a massive impact.

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    52 Min.
  • Episode 16: Question Time - Football Special
    Jun 27 2024

    Exactly one week before the 2024 General Election, Fair Game brings together a Question Time-style panel to discuss the future of football:

    - Clive Betts (Labour), former chair of the all-party Parliamentary Football Group, and member of the Football Supporters' Association.
    - Paul Athans (Conservative), Everton season ticket holder.
    - Dominic, Lord Addington (Liberal Democrats), previously sat on the National Plan for Sport and Recreation Committee.
    - Dr Christina Philipou, one of the country's leading experts on footballing finance and a senior lecturer at Portsmouth University.

    The new Government will probably have a closer relationship to football than any before if the Football Governance Bill is enacted and the panel takes questions from some invited guests.

    You can watch a re-run of the full live video version of the debate on YouTube.

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    58 Min.
  • Episode 15: Shaka Hislop - Show Racism The Red Card
    Jun 20 2024

    Graham Miller speaks to the former Reading, Newcastle, West Ham and Portsmouth goalkeeper Shaka Hislop.

    Shaka enjoyed a great career, playing for Kevin Keegan's 'Entertainers', the team that finished second in the Premier League two years running. He also played in memorable play-off and FA Cup finals for Reading and West Ham, and at the World Cup finals for Trinidad & Tobago. He tells us about his experience and observations of racial abuse in public, and even in the dressing room.

    Shaka is the honorary president of Show Racism The Red Card and explains how the inherent diversity in football shows how teams are stronger when they working together. He also says Alan Shearer would be a terrible left-back!

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    43 Min.