Game's Gone: The Steve Bracknall Podcast

Steve Bracknall - the self-styled saviour of grassroots football - takes weekly digs at the modern game while trying to hold his shabby Sunday league team, Royal Oak FC, together.

According to Steve Bracknall, the introduction of VAR, billion-pound TV deals and inverted wing backs are all a product of a game that doesn’t represent the average football fan anymore. Seen through the eyes of the Sunday league assistant manager, ‘Game’s Gone: The Steve Bracknall Podcast’, attempts to make sense of the beautiful game and recapture the hearts and minds of the people it claims to represent.

Bracknall’s weekly rants are for anyone who longs for the days when football made sense. Set in the muddied changing room, alongside first team manager Paul Sampson and club “physio” Bob the bucket, Steve will set the footballing world to rights.

Game’s Gone: The Steve Bracknall Podcast is written and performed by Chris McClure. This is a Persephonica production for BBC Sounds.