Never-mind Newcastle Or Ronaldo, There's Something Going On In Non-League...
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
4.0 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Hosts Flo Lloyd-Hughes and Athletic Editor Dan Barnes (filling in for our usual Dan this week) are joined by reporter Michael Walker, to discuss his article on increasing attendances at non-league football...
As Newcastle supporters continue to chant 'we've got our club back', the trio discuss real fan-ownership, a nostalgic match-day experience, out-dated stigmas about supporters and quality of football - all of which, might explain why more and more fans are turning to their local clubs.
Plus, as The Athletic continues to celebrate Black History Month, Dan digests some of the latest articles from the collection.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:14.7 | Hi, I'm Flo Lloyd Hughes. |
| 0:16.5 | Hello, I'm Dan. I'm not that Dan. |
| 0:18.7 | He's off sick, but my name's Dan Barnes. |
| 0:20.8 | I'm an editor from The Athletic, and I'm standing in today for our usual co-host, Dan'm Dan. I'm not that Dan. He's off sick, but my name's Dan Barnes. I'm an editor |
| 0:21.1 | from The Athletic and I'm standing in today for our usual co-host, Dan Bardell. |
| 0:25.2 | And this is the Athletic Football Podcast. Every Wednesday, we pick out one article from |
| 0:29.4 | all the brilliant writing available on the Athletic and put the authors under the spotlight. |
| 0:36.7 | Today we're joined by Michael Walker, whose latest article has really piqued our interest. |
| 0:41.3 | It's called There's Something Going On in Non-League Football, and it talks about the |
| 0:45.0 | really interesting upward trend in the number of matchgoing fans turning away from the |
| 0:49.7 | increasingly detached Premier League and towards their non-league club. |
| 0:54.3 | And yeah, it feels like the perfect time to speak about that piece, |
| 0:57.1 | especially when we're in a week where Newcastle United fans have been chanting, |
| 1:00.1 | we've got our club back after it was sold to a Saudi back consortium. |
| 1:03.8 | So yeah, hopefully there's a lot to unpack there. |
| 1:05.7 | Yeah, definitely. |
| 1:06.3 | And before we chat to Michael, Dan, wondering your thoughts on last night's England game. |
| 1:12.6 | Probably not the result that many would have hoped for. |
| 1:15.7 | And I think Gareth the Southgate was very honest in his postmatch saying he was pretty disappointed with the performance. |
| 1:20.9 | But they're still looking very comfortable in that group. |
| 1:23.6 | Yeah, it's an interesting existence for England at the moment. |
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