Hello, and welcome to a new series of podcasts on Unexpected Delirium. This is Winning at Dominoes, a series of standalone podcasts about the history of football. Since our Everton podcast went out at the start of this week rather than the end, I’ve decided to take the opportunity to start something that I’d been planning for a few weeks.
These podcasts were first recorded towards the end of 2019 and tell stories from the history of the game. And where better a place to start off than at the end of the 18th century with William Blake, Muscular Christianity and Tom Brown’s Schooldays, the formation of the Football Association in 1863, the advent of professionalism, the amateur ethos and its wax, wane, and the fairly rapid drop-off of the amateur game from the late 1950s until its abolition as a distinction in by the FA 1974. It’s about class, taking the game to the world and then shying away the world.
This first episode is for everybody. But from Sunday they’ll be going out to paid subscribers only in the evenings. So if you want to hear the rest of them, you know what to do!
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