Funny Old Game Podcast

With calls for a Christmas break becoming louder in England, it's time to take a look at when festive football wasn't just played on Boxing Day and New Years, but on the big day itself...

The first episode of the Funny Old Game podcast explores the story of how the England national football team were made to succumb to power of propaganda. On the 14th May 1938, England played Germany in Berlin, with the match itself taking a back seat to the preliminaries. The build-up was focused on the tense relations between the two countries as Germany began to re-mobilise and re-arm, conquering lands in Europe. Would the English players heil Hitler? Even if it meant starting a war?