5 Live's World Football Phone-in

Dotun and Tim are joined by Mark Meadows in Berlin this week. After Jobe Bellingham’s transfer to Borussia Dortmund, following a similar path to his brother Jude, the focus was on the greatest football siblings, and football families. Also looking ahead to the Club World Cup and UEFA Women’s Euros and getting reaction to Wales v Belgium, and England v Andorra.

Transcribed - Published: 11 June 2025

Dotun and Tim are joined by Jonny Bentley to talk all things football and settle the argument of the ages! Donny Osmond or David Cassidy? Who is top of the 70s pops?

Transcribed - Published: 3 June 2025

Carlo Ancelotti to leave Real Madrid to coach Brazil? 20 year anniversary of the Glazer ownership at Manchester Utd? Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis confronts Nuno Espirito Santo on the pitch? All of footballing life is here.

Transcribed - Published: 13 May 2025

Tim Vickery and James Young discuss why South America is requesting a 64 team format for the 2030 World Cup?

Transcribed - Published: 15 April 2025

Dotun, Tim and Jonny discuss footballers who have improved with age & enjoyed extended careers, as well as those players who’ve made an instant impact at a young age. Plus memories of Bobby Moore in goal, Sir Alf Ramsey’s response to a transfer request, and tributes to Kevin de Bruyne as he approaches the end of his Man City career.

Transcribed - Published: 8 April 2025

Dotun and Tim are joined by Jibril to discuss club traditions, strange player of the match awards and Brazils downfall.

Transcribed - Published: 1 April 2025

Dotun and Tim are joined from Algeria by African football expert Maher Mezahi. They talk about England’s first matches under new manager Thomas Tuchel, whether style or results are more important and what it’s like for Muslim players during Ramadan.

Transcribed - Published: 25 March 2025

Dotun and Tim are joined by our Berlin footballing "correspondent", Mark Meadows and the team look ahead to England's next games and the national team manager's first squad. Are teams playing too many games? As Liverpool lose two big matches there are questions to answer.

Transcribed - Published: 18 March 2025

Dotun, Tim and Seth talk about the significant financial challenges of Man United ..the roots of football...the merits and demerits of covering songs...(don't ask!)

Transcribed - Published: 11 March 2025

Ollie D joins the select band of Brazilian shirtname holders in this edition. The final adjudication comes from Joe in Cincinatti, Clayton in Leyton and Paul in Cambridge. Another vexed issue resolved by Tim, Dotun and Mark Machado. Also on the menu tonight - interim managers, do they work? What's going on with club budgets and do we need replays in the FA Cup?

Transcribed - Published: 4 March 2025

Footballing heroes, unexpected meets, birthday shares and remembering Roberta Flack.

Transcribed - Published: 25 February 2025

Hugh MacDonald joins Dotun and Tim for lively football conversation. Floodlight failure in the Czech republic, great European comeback nights & Aberdeen turn the tide

Transcribed - Published: 18 February 2025

Carnage for Spurs as loss piles upon loss. Who can Tim and Dotun turn to for comfort? And a day that goes down in infamy as James Young is outed as having forgotten his shirt-name! The horror of it.

Transcribed - Published: 11 February 2025

Has the thrill gone from the transfer window deadline? Dotun, Tim and Mark discuss.

Transcribed - Published: 28 January 2025

Dotun and Tim are joined by Mark Machado to discuss the greatest comebacks in football.

Transcribed - Published: 21 January 2025

Dotun and Tim are joined by Paul Sarahs to discuss Forest, The Club world cup and more...

Transcribed - Published: 14 January 2025

Dotun and Tim are joined by Djibril Diop and callers want to talk about Guardiola’s influence on modern football, Nottingham Forest’s lofty league position, playing Sunday league football, inconsistent refereeing and whether Josh Windass will move to Brazilian club Santos. There’s also time for Scritti Politti’s song Oh Patti (Don’t Feel Sorry for Loverboy) featuring Miles Davis and related jazz discussion!

Transcribed - Published: 7 January 2025

Legendinho Tim Vickery and ‘Viva Mark Vegas’ Mark Meadows join Dotun for the final WFPI of the calendar year. Tim, Mark & callers discuss Southgate’s legacy, after the former England men’s manager is awarded a knighthood in the New Year’s Honours list. Plus Forest fans toast their team’s brilliant start to the season, and referees prepare to announce VAR calls to fans in stadiums for the first time. And are Manchester United really in a relegation battle after losing five league games in a calendar month for the first time in over sixty years?

Transcribed - Published: 31 December 2024

Dotun is joined by Tim Vickery and Maher Mezahi

Transcribed - Published: 25 December 2024

New York’s biggest WFPI fan pays a visit from across the pond, as we talk Man City’s bad luck, Forest on form, and a tour of UK football destinations for our resident American.

Transcribed - Published: 17 December 2024

Dotun and Tim are joined by Paul Sarahs to discuss football and everything in between. Is darts a real sport? Author, Martin Amis had his doubts...

Transcribed - Published: 10 December 2024

Dotun, Tim and Seth discuss football club nicknames and whether they need a rebrand?

Transcribed - Published: 3 December 2024

Dotun is joined by Tim Vickery and James Young

Transcribed - Published: 26 November 2024

Dotun and Tim are joined by Maher Mezahi and Patrick Wetzels to ponder the big footballing question of the day... who replaces Gary Lineker?

Transcribed - Published: 12 November 2024

Dotun and Tim are joining by Jonny B and Mark M to ponder which is better the better defensive strategy: a good aw-fence or a good dee-fence... And what happens when expensive players get a new boss?

Transcribed - Published: 5 November 2024

As Man Utd seek yet another new manager after the sacking of Erik ten Hag: just who is Rúben Amorim and what might the Sporting boss bring to the Old Trafford dugout?Plus: Brazil cries foul as Vinicius Jr is overlooked for the Ballon d’Or in favour of Rodri. But is it a Real shocker or are the complaints unjustified?Paul Sarahs & Portuguese football expert Zach Lowy join Dotun and Tim to discuss the burning issues of the moment.

Transcribed - Published: 29 October 2024

A southern hemisphere flavour tonight as Dotun and Tim are joined by the Springbocca Junior, Mark Gleeson from South Africa. Too much power in too few hands is one of the themes explored tonight. And what about siblings in soccer?

Transcribed - Published: 22 October 2024

Dotun and Tim are joined by our travelin' Manc, James Young. And this time we're talking about potential England managers, the risk of strikes and too much football.

Transcribed - Published: 15 October 2024

Dotun and Tim are joined by Mark M to ponder value for money, the number of games being played and Spurs getting "spursier". And it's a shirt name for one caller to the WFPI

Transcribed - Published: 8 October 2024

Who is the player from your era that you'd want to tell the next generation, about?

Transcribed - Published: 1 October 2024

Dotun is joined by the legendinho Tim Vickery and freelance journalist and broadcaster Hugh MacDonald to discuss what puts your town on the footballing map?

Transcribed - Published: 24 September 2024

This week Dotun is joined by Tim Vickery and Maher Mezahi.

Transcribed - Published: 17 September 2024

Dotun and Tim are joined by Paul Sarahs to talk voices and more. With the death of James Earl Jones - most famous as the voice of Darth Vader - the panel ask; what makes a great commentary voice? Planning? Preparation?

Transcribed - Published: 10 September 2024

Dotun and Tim are joined by the Hallam Brazil, Seth Bennett to talk national and international football. One of the questions tonight; who went on too long? The players who held on long past their prime, why did they do it?

Transcribed - Published: 3 September 2024

In this edition Dotun and Tim are joined by new bug, Jonny Bentley and superfan MIguel in California. Will Jonny make the grade? What will his shirtname be? And with the news of the death of Sven-Göran Eriksson the team look back at his career.

Transcribed - Published: 27 August 2024

Dotun and Tim are joined by the now seriously well travelled James Young. As the season starts rolling we're asking - who's well placed, who's going to do well and how will Chelsea get 40-odd players onto the field? And it's a shirtname for our super Eagles fan, Ovie!

Transcribed - Published: 20 August 2024

Tim and Dotun are joined by Maher for the pre-season lookahead. But who will win the Battle of the Fats Dominoes? Hat-tricks in opening matches - how many can you remember? And whither, Ipswich?

Transcribed - Published: 13 August 2024

Who did it better? Bonanza or High Chaparral? BUT WAIT! Who's that in the distance? Could that be Rawhide? Dotun and Tim are joined by Mark Gleeson to talk Olympic football, the value of a derby and much more!

Transcribed - Published: 6 August 2024

Mark Machado comes off the subs bench as for the first time in decades Tim V is hors de combat. But Dotun's got Jibril in Berlin onside and we're making do. Who is Ovie's "He How Shall Not be Named"? And what shirtname has Jibril nabbed?

Transcribed - Published: 30 July 2024

Now the dust has settled from the Euro’s, Dotun and Tim are joined by Algerian football journalist Maher Mezahi to discuss which phrases you only hear in football, and why there is no Team GB presence at this year’s Olympics in Paris.

Transcribed - Published: 23 July 2024

Dotun and Tim are joined by Marks Meadows and Machado to kick over the traces of Euro 24. Could Southgate have done things differently? Will he survive the next few weeks and months? What happens at the World Cup in Miami in ’26? Callers and the panel have their own thoughts tonight.

Transcribed - Published: 16 July 2024

With the semi-finals in the offing Dotun and Tim are joined by a veritable legion of guests!

Transcribed - Published: 9 July 2024

After England and Portugal have “great escapes” in the Euros games, Dotun Adebayo, the Legendinho, Tim Vickery and journalist Mark Machado look at great football escapes over the years.

Transcribed - Published: 2 July 2024

Dotun and Tim discuss how cruel sports can really be, especially recently in Euro 24.

Transcribed - Published: 25 June 2024

New friends and old friends join Dotun and Tim for a special Euros-eve WFPI. Questions and comment range from one end of the continent to the other. But what does Will think? Find out in this first Euro 24 edition of the WFPI

Transcribed - Published: 11 June 2024

Dotun, Tim and Maher talk how to build an international football team and more

Transcribed - Published: 4 June 2024

The season's not over yet! Ahead of the FA Cup final Dotun is joined by Tim Vickery and Seth Bennett to talk about spellbinding moments from FA Cup finals of the past.

Transcribed - Published: 21 May 2024

Stuck in the middle with you - what do you do when the maths of the league isn't on your side? Rasheed in Bucks, our own Nostradamus, has A Cunning Plan (or seven.) Dotun returns to the fold to talk football with Tim, Mark and James. The gang really is all here.

Transcribed - Published: 14 May 2024

Johnny I'Anson is in the big chair this week and he's joined, of course, by Tim Vickery. New bug, Kevin Young, is de-bagged and radished and Miguelvis - Miguel Espino - IS IN THE BUILDING!The Copa America, Man United's woes and famous faces on the stands all under discussion in this edition.

Transcribed - Published: 7 May 2024

Johnny I'anson sits in for Dotun on the World Football Phone In and joined by Tim Vickery, Mark Machado and Patrick Wetzels to discuss the development of the women's game, VAR and whether you should support the local team where you live.

Transcribed - Published: 30 April 2024