Introducing...Game's Gone: The Steve Bracknall Podcast
Football Daily
BBC
4.3 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Hello Football Daily listeners... we'd like to introduce you to Game's Gone: The Steve Bracknall Podcast.
In this episode, you'll get some of the best bits of the series so far, as Steve Bracknall takes a deep dive into the murky world of the modern game whilst desperately trying to hold his ramshackle Sunday league team together.
Listen weekly to Game's Gone: The Steve Bracknall Podcast on BBC Sounds or watch on YouTube.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Steve Bracknelly, are the assistant manager of Sunday League team, the Royal Oak FC. |
| 0:12.0 | Are you sick of changes to our beautiful game? |
| 0:15.0 | Five minute stoppages for VAR checks. |
| 0:17.0 | VAR, the talking point again after a five minute plus delay. |
| 0:20.0 | Cryotherapy ice chamber. |
| 0:22.9 | Olls in back at socks. |
| 0:25.3 | XG double pivots and inferred wingbacks. |
| 0:28.2 | The game's well and truly gone and I'm here to bring it back. |
| 0:31.9 | Games gone. |
| 0:32.9 | The Steve Bracknell podcast. |
| 0:34.9 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:36.7 | I don't know. Steve Bracknell podcast. Listen, on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:47.2 | Hello Football Daily listeners. I'm Steve Bracknell, assistant manager of the Royal Oak FC and you're listening to Games Gone, the Steve Bracknell podcast. As assistant manager of the Royal Oak FC in the fifth tier at Sheffield Sunday Imperial League, |
| 0:57.9 | you may have seen me going vital online with my rant about Sunday league football. |
| 1:03.6 | I'm on a mission to get the footballing world back onto the right track, |
| 1:07.7 | direct from our changing room, helped by first team manager, Paul Sampson, |
| 1:12.4 | and Bob the Bucket, Club Physio. Our podcast is on BBC Sounds, but our first team manager, Paul, |
| 1:19.4 | has made a backroom deal with the bosses of Five Live to showcase some of our best |
| 1:23.8 | face of the podcast so far. You can listen to all of our previous and future episodes on BBC Sounds |
| 1:30.5 | and you can watch us on YouTube. |
| 1:39.1 | Steve, do you want to provide a little bit of background about how we ended up here? |
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