Who’d be a football manager?
5 Live's World Football Phone-in
BBC
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2026
⏱️ 150 minutes
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Summary
Dotun and Tim are joined by University Challenge survivor, Mark Meadows in Berlin.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:05.7 | Hello, you're about to listen to a BBC podcast, and I'm Ed Gamble, host of another BBC podcast, The Traitors Uncloaked. |
| 0:12.7 | But my show is available only on BBC Sounds, just like Ellis and John's Saturday bonus episodes, |
| 0:18.2 | The Pop Top Ten podcast with Scott Mills and Rylan, and comedy specials |
| 0:22.2 | from the likes of Harriet Kemsley, Susie Ruffle, and Rommas Ranganathan. |
| 0:25.9 | However, and maybe I'm biased, it's really all about the traitors uncoaked. |
| 0:30.3 | So for a whole bunch of exclusive scoops and podcasts, listen only on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:36.6 | I am a football fan. I am a soccer fan. I came to see my Listen only on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:48.0 | Yeah, the real sounds of Africa to once again kick off our world football phone in. |
| 0:56.5 | We are football fans, we are soccer fans, but we're also up all-nighters because this is the nightclub of BBC Radio 5 Live. |
| 1:03.1 | So let's welcome back as ever, the legendino, Tim Vickery, who is based in Rio, |
| 1:06.8 | take care of any questions and comments you've got on South American football and players from over there playing in our leagues amongst other things. |
| 1:08.9 | Tim, good evening. |
| 1:09.9 | How are you? |
| 1:27.7 | Yeah, very well. 08085-909-693. I've written the number down. I'm glad you don't. No, no, no, no, there is forgetting. Imagine if you mislay that slip of paper you've got there that you've written it on, you know, do you know what I mean? And then I'd have to repeat it again wouldn't I you'd want me to it's there though it's there now but |
| 1:32.0 | yeah is it in your head as well oh yeah me it's in my heart it's in my soul there's no need |
| 1:38.1 | for that it's my Celtic my united as Rod Stewart once so not your you're Celtic, not your Celtic, and you're united. |
| 1:48.0 | Anyway, that's another story, because we have got the one and only all the way from Berlin at no extra cost. |
| 1:56.4 | Oh, yeah, hang on, let me do it properly. |
| 1:58.7 | Let me do it one more time. |
| 2:00.7 | Hit that button. Go on, go on. Okay, let me do it properly. Let me do it one more time. Hit that button. |
| 2:01.9 | Go on, go on. |
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