Colin Shindler

Right, I'm ready to go.

Hello everyone, this is Colin Shindler and Jim White welcoming you back to another edition of Football Ruined My Life.

And today we'll be looking once more at the emails you've sent us since we did our last postbag at the end of last season.

And once again the tone is almost entirely positive.

Please keep doing it.

You can get to us via footballruinmylife at gmail.com.

So until the next time we meet on the air, this is Colin Shindler saying thanks for listening.

Cheerio! I'm going to mention just one particularly because it drives me crackers.

Why? Why? Can't she stay out there till we've finished? [snort] [instrumental music] Hello, everyone.

This is Colin Shindler and John Holmes welcoming you back to another edition of Football Ruined My Life, and this week we're going to be talking to the author Dave Tomlinson about his book Doing The Leeds.

[instrumental music] Now, even by the standards of traditional football chaos, what happened to Leeds United between 1996 and 2005 constituted a financial, football, and psychological rollercoaster.

The Elland Road club ascended a breathtaking pace to the Champions League semifinals and plunged almost immediately into a nightmare of bankruptcy, relegation, and a fire sale of the outstanding players who had got them to the top of the table of Premier League and European football.

Dave, and thank you as ever to John Holmes.

Thank you to Mr. Indefatigable, our producer, Mr. Paul Cobrag.

So until the next time we meet on the air, this is Colin Shindler saying thanks for listening.

See you all next time.

Right, shall we commence? All right, can you hear the sound of music in my ears? One, two, three.

Hello everyone, this is Colin Shindler, along with John Holmes and Patrick Barclay, welcoming you back to another edition of Football Ruined My Life.

And this week we're going to be talking about the contrast between the old home internationals, when England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland played with themselves, and the current desperation to fill in the off years, when the sudden realisation that there was no World Cup or European Championship And UEFA, as a consequence, went into a blind panic, feared that nobody would ever watch international football again if there was a summer without a tournament covered extensively by television.

And so the Nations League was born.

whether you enjoyed listening to Paddy again, because we'd be very happy to repeat it.

But for next week, we're back to Grim Reality, a football room in my life, Towers, and we'll be talking to the author of a number of books on Needs United about everything to do with that Yorkshire club from the days of Don Revy up till today.

This is Colin Shindler saying goodbye.

Thanks for listening.

Um, uh, and, and, and that's what City fans...

I mean, I know some of them decided, Colin Shindler, who wrote quite a lot, who wrote books about City back in the '80s or '90s, he, he went away.

He started watching non-league football, I believe, and he's sort of looking forward to going back to watching City when they play against Altrincham, is I think what he said in the newspaper the other day.

Do you think a sizable number of Arsenal fans would've, would've turned away, uh, if our owners, if we'd been taken over by, um, by the Abu Dhabi Group?

[laughs] [upbeat orchestral music] Hello, everyone.

This is Colin Shindler, along with John Holmes and Jimmy Mulville, welcoming you back to another edition of Football Ruined My Life.

And this week, we're going to be talking about one particular phrase and its meaning within football.

Never go back.