The Socially Distant Sports Bar

Welcome to Pint-Sized Distant Pod.We've been back through our archive of episodes and we've selected our favourite stories, anecdotes and funny bits.If you're new to the pod, then feel free to use these as a jump off point to find your way around our earlier episodes.This clip is taken from "Episode 120: That's Earnie From the Two Ronnies"🛍️ NEW MERCH ALERTWe’ve launched a brand new merch store — mugs, hoodies, prints and more!If you fancy supporting the pod that way, head here 👇🛒 sdsb2025.myshopify.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tom Craine is still hereWhich is excellent news for us and slightly less good news for anyone hoping this podcast might eventually become a tightly controlled discussion about sport.This is Part 2 of our guest episode with the comedian, writer and co-host — with Elis James and Chris Scull — of Oh What A Time...Tom has also launched Last Match Then Bed, a new podcast dedicated to the game responsible for millions of people knowing far too much about obscure Scandinavian footballers: Championship Manager.Having got ourselves warmed up in Part 1, the conversation continues through football, the 1990s, sporting nostalgia and the moments that seemed completely normal at the time but become increasingly peculiar the further away from them we get.Including:Kinkladze v Southampton, 1996https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fkVWNB0Vt3QDiana Ross’s World Cup penalty, 1994https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAKsGT9-XB0World Cup Balloon Keepy-Uppieshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r-gedgyZXIIf you haven’t listened to Part 1, start there first. This will make slightly more sense.And if two parts of Tom Craine still aren’t enough, we kept some of the conversation back for Bonus Club on Apple Podcasts.Go and find Last Match Then Bed wherever you get your podcasts.🛍️ NEW MERCH ALERTWe’ve launched a brand new merch store — mugs, hoodies, prints and more!If you fancy supporting the pod that way, head here 👇🛒 sdsb2025.myshopify.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We’ve got a guest in The Socially Distant Sports Bar this week as comedian, writer, podcaster and Elis James’ other podcast friend Tom Craine joins Elis, Mike Bubbins and Steff Garrero.Tom already spends a significant amount of his working life with Elis on the brilliant history podcast Oh What A Time..., alongside Chris Scull. Now he’s launching another podcast based around one of the great threats to productivity, relationships and exam results of the late 1990s: Championship Manager.Last Match Then Bed sees Tom return to the legendary Championship Manager 97/98 database, attempting to manage his way to glory with the help of a different celebrity assistant manager each week.So naturally, we get stuck into football, nostalgia and the sporting moments that live permanently in your brain.Across our chat with Tom:Kinkladze v Southampton, 1996One of those goals that seemed perfectly reasonable when you were playing Sensible Soccer, but considerably harder when attempted by an actual human being.https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fkVWNB0Vt3QDiana Ross at the 1994 World Cup Opening CeremonyAn enormous stadium. A global superstar. A penalty. A goal designed to split apart. What could possibly go wrong?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAKsGT9-XB0World Cup Balloon Keepy-Uppieshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r-gedgyZXIThis is Part 1 of our chat with Tom.Part 2 follows on Friday — and if you want the extra material we kept back from the conversation, Bonus Club subscribers on Apple Podcasts can hear that too.🛍️ NEW MERCH ALERTWe’ve launched a brand new merch store — mugs, hoodies, prints and more!If you fancy supporting the pod that way, head here 👇🛒 sdsb2025.myshopify.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to Pint-Sized Distant Pod.We've been back through our archive of episodes and we've selected our favourite stories, anecdotes and funny bits.If you're new to the pod, then feel free to use these as a jump off point to find your way around our earlier episodes.This clip is taken from "Episode 123: The Party Line"🛍️ NEW MERCH ALERTWe’ve launched a brand new merch store — mugs, hoodies, prints and more!If you fancy supporting the pod that way, head here 👇🛒 sdsb2025.myshopify.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Special OneIn this week’s The Socially Distant Sports Bar, Elis James, Mike Bubbins and Steff Garrero have a documentary and book which take us into two very different stories of coaching, leadership and sporting history.Documentary of the WeekElis: MourinhoElis chooses Part 1 of the new Netflix documentary about José Mourinho, tracing his journey from working alongside Bobby Robson at Barcelona to announcing himself to English football with that extraordinary first spell at Chelsea.Before the fallouts, sackings and rather more complicated chapters that would follow, there was the young Mourinho: ambitious, charismatic, tactically obsessive and rapidly becoming The Special One.https://www.netflix.com/title/81762073Book of the WeekMike: Rugby’s Forgotten Black Leader by Tony CollinsMike brings in Tony Collins’ fascinating account of Roy Francis, one of the great overlooked figures in British sporting history.Born in Cardiff and raised in Brynmawr, Francis went on to play rugby league for Wigan in the late 1930s before moving into coaching. At Hull, he became the first Black professional head coach in British sport, pioneering new approaches to coaching and training while confronting the racism of the era.It’s a remarkable Welsh story, a rugby league story and an important piece of British sporting history that deserves to be far better known.https://link.amazon/B0azGPvXtTwo very different coaches. Two very different eras. And plenty for Elis, Mike and Steff to get stuck into.Thanks for listening.🛍️ NEW MERCH ALERTWe’ve launched a brand new merch store — mugs, hoodies, prints and more!If you fancy supporting the pod that way, head here 👇🛒 sdsb2025.myshopify.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.