Please Don't Take Me Home

Football journalist, author and broadcaster Iain Macintosh joins Piers and Jim for a trip through his life supporting Southend United.Iain explains why he chose Southend over Colchester, remembers the terraces and smells of Roots Hall and reflects on how working in football journalism eventually made him fall out of love with the game.There is also an extraordinary afternoon spent with Pelé, a theory about how Michael Owen survives long-haul flights, Paul Sturrock’s disastrous Southampton breakfast and a goal celebration that left Iain dribbling down his coat.Follow @pdtmhpod on all platforms.Follow Please Don’t Take Me Home:InstagramTikTokX/TwitterFacebookEmail: [email protected] by Piers Hewitt and Jim DalyMusic by Chris 'Woody' WoodProduced by Will NicholsA Lock It In Studio production Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Piers and Jim open the postbag for the first ever Please Don’t Take Me Home Correspondence Special.Listeners provide further evidence in the increasingly troubling Dave Benson Phillips and Chessington mystery, Piers takes a stand against football goals with wheels, and the boys attempt to assemble the ultimate Bald XI.There are also contrasting away days at Worthing, Beşiktaş and a lower-league game in Mallorca, plus is Jobe Bellingham is “the Phil Neville of the Bellinghams”?Follow Please Don’t Take Me Home:InstagramTikTokX/TwitterFacebookEmail: [email protected] by Piers Hewitt and Jim DalyMusic by Chris 'Woody' WoodProduced by Will NicholsA Lock It In Studio production Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

IDLES bassist and lifelong Newcastle supporter Adam "Dev" Devonshire joins Piers and Jim to celebrate football shirts, famous goals and the beautiful madness of following a team from the opposite end of the country.Dev reveals how he amassed a collection of around 1,000 football shirts before giving them all away, remembers seeing Tony Yeboah score one of the greatest goals of the 1990s and explains why he wears Newcastle shirts on stage. He also talks about watching football while touring the world, being related to West Ham legend Alan Devonshire and flying from Bristol to Newcastle for home games.Plus, which footballer would fit into IDLES, Sir Bobby Robson’s similarities to Dolly Parton and the surreal afternoon Dev spent learning modular synths at Steve Davis’ house.Follow Please Don’t Take Me Home:InstagramTikTokX/TwitterFacebookEmail: [email protected] by Piers Hewitt and Jim DalyMusic by Chris 'Woody' WoodProduced by Will NicholsA Lock It In Studio production Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Comedian Annie McGrath joins Piers and Jim to talk about supporting Arsenal, playing up front for Clapton CFC and appearing in Ted Lasso.Annie remembers Arsenal winning the league while she was backstage at a gig, watching England win the Euros at Wembley with her mum and getting a football tattoo alongside Jill Scott. She also reveals her phobia of half-time oranges and the former coach who compared her to Alexis Sánchez.Plus, which England manager would make the best James Bond, the footballers Annie would choose as her maid-of-honour and best man.Follow Please Don’t Take Me Home:InstagramTikTokX/TwitterFacebookEmail: [email protected] by Piers Hewitt and Jim DalyMusic by Chris 'Woody' WoodProduced by Will NicholsA Lock It In Studio production Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Comedian, actor and musician Doc Brown joins Piers and Jim to talk about his lifelong love of Crystal Palace.Doc remembers Wayne Routledge denying him a goalscoring moment in a charity match, meeting Ian Wright at the end of his street and seeing John Barnes at his first ever football game. He also explains how Three Lions influenced the song he wrote for Palace’s FA Cup final and nominates Stoke as one of football’s most miserable away days.Plus, the perfect time to score a goal, “Gherkin’s in a pickle” and an important update on the "Akabusi effect."Please Don’t Take Me Home is a football podcast about the day, not the game.Follow Please Don’t Take Me Home:InstagramTikTokX/TwitterFacebookEmail: [email protected] by Piers Hewitt and Jim DalyMusic by Chris 'Woody' WoodProduced by Will NicholsA Lock It In Studio production Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.