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Pitchside with Toby Reynolds is your weekly deep dive into the world of sports, where each episode brings a fresh topic to the forefront. From the latest headlines to untold stories, Toby sits down with a new expert guest every week, offering listeners a unique perspective on a wide range of sports. Whether it's analyzing tactics, exploring major events, or uncovering the deeper issues in the world of sport, Pitchside delivers insightful, in-depth discussions that go beyond the surface.
Join Toby every week for interviews with athletes, pundits, journalists, and industry experts as they break down the stories shaping the sports world today.
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In this episode, Toby is joined by Sam Sheppey from Blues Focus to discuss Birmingham City's dominant return to the Championship.
Together, they look at Birmingham's fall from Premier League survivors to Championship relegation contenders, their terrible owners throughout the 2010s and how The Blues fell into League 1 under the Knighthead group, as well as their commanding return to the second tier of English football.
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On this epsiode, Toby is joined by Henry Ollis-Brown, a writer for TBR Rugby, to discuss the decline of Wales within the world of rugby union.
Together they discuss the success the team had under Warren Gatland in the 2000s and 2010s, why they have declined so significantly since the Kiwi's first tenure and the issues domestic rugby has caused to their national side, as well as touching on Louis Rees-Zammit's move to the NFL.
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In this episode, Toby is joined by Mike Johnston, host of the Ealing Road Podcast, to discuss the impressive football formula Brentford have pioneered.
Together, they look at how crucial Thomas Frank is, Brentford's fantastic recruitment policy and what newly promoted clubs can learn from the Bees, as well as what the future looks like in West London.
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In this episode, Toby is joined by Emma Seligman, from the Sports Gazette, to discuss the state of women's Test cricket and its struggles within the game.
Together, they look at the major differences between the men's and women's Ashes, whether there needs to be more Test cricket in the women's game, and the sport's growth and success due to the shorter format, as well as previewing the upcoming women's Ashes.
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In this episode, Toby is joined by Yas Rana, from Wisden.com, to discuss the success of England during the Baz Ball era.
Together, they look at the switch from Joe Root and Chris Silverwood to Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum, the ruthlessness of England's selection policy and Ben Stokes' leadership during his tenure as England captain, as well as what could be defined as a triumph for their upcoming year against India and Australia.
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In this episode, Toby is joined by Adam Hill, a sports analyst, to discuss Manchester United's decade of decline and their future under Ruben Amorim.
Together, they look at United's struggles since Sir Alex Ferguson left the club, the troubles caused by the ownership and boardroom and the summer sacking saga that ended the tenure of Erik ten Hag, as well as how Ruben Amorim might fare going into the future.
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In this episode, Toby is joined by Julia Andersen, a freelance sports journalist, to discuss the Premier League title fight and whether it is already over.
Together they look at Liverpool's brilliance under Arne Slot, Manchester City's fall from the top and whether anyone can catch Liverpool, as well as whether Arsenal and Chelsea are actually involved in the title fight.
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In this episode, Toby is joined by Felix Gralton, a semi-pro referee, to discuss the biggest talking points and challenges to refereeing in football.
Together they look at how referees manage dissent from players, the positives and negatives that VAR has on the game and how referees can handle time wasting, as well as Felix's reaction to a few outlandish new rule suggestions.
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In this episode, Toby is joined by Sam France, from The Tennis Gazette, to review the 2024 ATP and WTA seasons ahead of the Davis Cup.
Together they look at whether anyone can break into the duopoly of Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz, the brilliant rise of Jack Draper and Aryna Sabalenka's dominance on the women's circuit, as well as Sam's end of season awards.
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In this episode, Toby is joined by Gemma Cockrell, host of Down to the Tyre, to discuss how the current crop of F2 and F3 drivers will fare in Formula 1 over the coming seasons.
Together they look at the biggest differences between F1 and the feeder series, whether Gabriel Bortoleto and Isack Hadjar will survive in F1 if they receive a call-up and how Andrea Kimi Antonelli, Ollie Bearman and Jack Doohan will fare in F1 next season, as well as how F2 and F3 prepares young drivers for Formula 1.
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In this episode, Toby is joined by Dom Allin, host of Over the Trent, a Nottingham Forest podcast to discuss Forest's remarkable start to the 2024/25 Premier League season.
Together they look at their brilliant defensive record, Chris Wood's excellent goal scoring and Forest's interesting owner as well as how they might fare for the rest of the season.
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Series 3 will be back very soon...
In this episode, Toby looks back at the previous two series of Pitchside with some of the best clips from the first 24 episodes of the show.
In each episode of the podcast, we take a deep dive into a different sporting topic with a new guest. So far Pitchside has covered topics ranging from Premiership Rugby’s salary cap to the revamp of English women’s domestic cricket to British basketball, and even some MMA.
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⚽ Euro Special ⚽
On this episode, Toby is joined by the editor of the Sports Gazette, Ed Dowling to discuss England's loss in the Euro 2024 final and Gareth Southgate's resignation.
Throughout this episode, we look at how England were outplayed by Spain, Harry Kane's struggles throughout the tournament and Southgate's eight years managing England, as well as some of his possible successors.
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⚽ Euros Special ⚽
On this episode, Toby is joined by the Sports Gazette's Sam Sheppey to discuss England's defeat of The Netherlands to qualify for the Euro 2024 final.
Throughout this episode, we look at England's dominant first-half performance against the Dutch, the effect Kobbie Mainoo has playing alongside Declan Rice and how Gareth Southgate's proactive substitutions affected the game, as well as England's chances against Spain in the final.
There will be a Euros special after each of England's matches throughout the tournament.
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⚽Euros Special⚽
In this episode, Toby is joined by the Sports Gazette's football editor, Jonny Coffey to discuss England's victory over Switzerland in the quarter-finals of Euro 2024.
Together they look at how England's change of formation affected their play, Bukayo Saka's man of the match performance and Harry Kane's lacklustre tournament so far, as well as how the rest of the competition might pan out.
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On this episode, Toby is joined by Jonny Coffey, the Football Editor at the Sports Gazette and recent winner of Pitch Magazine’s Young Sports Journalist Competition, and Julia Andersen, the Editor at the Sports Gazette, to discuss England's squad for the Euros and their chances in the competition.
Through this episode, we look at England's makeshift defence, how Trent Alexander-Arnold might fit best into the team and the major players left out by Southgate, as well as our predictions for the competition.
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On this episode, Toby is joined by Ed Dowling, the Editor of the Sports Gazette, to discuss the Premier Leagues' Profit and Sustainability Rules and the breaches of them.
Through this episode, we look at how the rules work, the breaches by Nottingham Forest, Everton and Leicester and the claims against Manchester City, as well as the loopholes found by Chelsea.
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On this episode, Toby is joined by Laura Howard, a freelance journalist and presenter on All For Women's Football, to discuss the 2024 Women's Super League season.
Together they look at the title battle that went right down to the wire, Emma Hayes' legacy in the WSL and Arsenal Women announcing that they are moving to the Emirates full time, as well as some of Laura's end of season awards.
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On this episode, Toby is joined by Katya Witney, a cricket writer at Wisden and Jo Gardner, a professional cricketer for the Sunrisers and a co-host of ourCRiCKET, to discuss Project Darwin and the revamp of English women's cricket.
Together they look at why the ECB are changing women's domestic cricket in England, whether the counties selected are the best options and what the players think of the changes, as well as their predictions for the future.
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On this episode of the podcast, Toby is joined by Cameron Ponsonby, a freelance sports journalist, to discuss the eventful Women's T20 World Cup.
Throughout the episode, they talk about the remarkable tournament for New Zealand, which saw them claim their first T20 title, how the West Indies' tactics might have changed women's T20 cricket forever and the disappointing conclusions to England, Australia and India's competitions, as well as Cam's awards for the best players and moments of the tournament.
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