Set Piece Menu Football Podcast

It's a Seasonal Spectacular from Set Piece Menu, the podcast where four friends talk football over food. The football: The Media, Part One - is the media biased? The food: the beginning of a breakfast triptych, served by Nicky. First course - granola, in cocktail glasses. Parts two and three of our media series will be with you over Christmas and the New Year! Thanks for all your tweets and emails - keep them coming at setpiecemenu@gmail.com or @setpiecemenu Happy Christmas everyone!

The latest Set Piece Menu - the podcast where four friends talk football over food. The football: Are older British coaches stopping younger British coaches progressing in the game? It's a complaint you hear from the more 'experienced' homegrown managers: "Why don't more British coaches get Premier League jobs?" The team discusses whether the thing often standing in a young coach's way... is them. The food: gourmet sandwiches, provided by a local bakery, and conforming to all of the various salad-based prejudices of the group. Thanks for all your emails and tweets, do keep them coming! @setpiecemenu setpiecemenu@gmail.com

This week we celebrate the first birthday of Set Piece Menu - the podcast where four friends talk football over food. It's a (not particularly) special anniversary(ish) edition! The football: Is there always a bigger club? The team discusses the football hierarchy, how it changes, and whether it can be challenged. The food: birthday cake! Get in touch via twitter: @setpiecemenu and email: setpiecemenu@gmail.com Thanks for all your support over the last year, keep telling everyone!

The latest Set Piece Menu - the podcast where four friends talk football over food. The football: Why do so many fans seem so miserable? The team wonders if it's sometimes easier to complain, and if wanting to be right can mean a supporter prefers his club to fail. The food: chorizo and pepper omelette from Steve, and glamorous liqueur chocolates from South Africa (well, Joburg airport duty free) from the returning Hugh. We also reflect on what gives you joy in football, so keep the correspondence coming in: @setpiecemenu setpiecemenu@gmail.com Thanks for all your support, next week we celebrate our one year anniversary!!!

The latest edition of Set Piece Menu - the podcast where four friends talk football over food. The football: What about football gives you joy? Yes, for one week only, no negativity (ok, there's some negativity) as we try to concentrate on those little aspects of the game that fill us with happiness. The food: Steve finds his local supermarket well stocked with pastries for breakfast, but strangely short of healthy accompaniments. Please continue to rate, review and tell your friends. We're @setpiecemenu on twitter, or email is setpiecemenu@gmail.com

The latest edition of the podcast where four friends talk football over food - Set Piece Menu. The football: Youth - Part Three. The conclusion of our discussion on the development of young players. What's next for a footballer after breaking into the first team, and how is early promise sustained to ensure a long and decorated career? The food: we're forced to raid Hugh's kitchen for snacks whilst he continues to gently simmer a chicken one-pot lunch. As always, reviews, ratings and spreading of the word is very much appreciated. Points of contact: @setpiecemenu on twitter and setpiecemenu@gmail.com is our email

The latest edition of Set Piece Menu - the podcast where four friends talk football over food. The football: Youth - Part Two. How does a young footballer make the step from academy to first-team, and what responsibility does a club have to ensure that potential is fulfilled? The food: Hugh continues to over-promise but under-deliver on a chicken one-pot lunch. Stomachs are rumbling. Please continue to rate, review and spread the Set Piece Menu gospel. You can get in touch via @setpiecemenu or setpiecemenu@gmail.com

This is Set Piece Menu - the podcast where four friends talk football over food. The team is reunited for a deep dive multi-parter into one of the game's biggest issues! The football: Youth - Part One. How does a young player (and their parents) navigate those first few, often crucial, steps on the road to becoming a professional; and do academies both help and hinder their development? The food: A chicken one-pot, which is developed and lovingly watched over almost as much as a young footballing prospect's career. Thanks for all your downloads and ratings. Please keep them coming! And tell all your friends. ALL OF THEM. Get in touch: @setpiecemenu or setpiecemenu@gmail.com

Another chance to catch up on Set Piece Menu - the podcast where four friends talk football over food. The football: part two of our paternity-induced clips show takes you through some of the best bits of our Chinch-based technical pods, and revisits the Script. The food: a sumptuous BLT, or for Steve, a slightly less sumptuous BL, as T is one of the things he doesn't really eat. Thanks for all your correspondence, and do keep it coming! @setpiecemenu setpiecemenu@gmail.com The full team are back next week!

This is Set Piece Menu - the podcast where four friends talk football over food, although owing to a couple of happy occasions in the Smith and Hinchcliffe households, and the subsequent granting of paternity and grand-paternity leave, we are down to two. Therefore, the football: a tour through some of the earlier Set Piece Menu best bits to save some of our newer listeners a little time, while we happily take the metrics hit. The food: overnight oats, as Hugh tries to wean Steve off cereal, with a side of medicinal hot drinks. Thanks for all your correspondence, you can get in touch via: Twitter - @setpiecemenu Email - setpiecemenu@gmail.com

The latest Set Piece Menu - the podcast where four friends talk football over food. The football: does actual intelligence help a player, or is football intelligence enough? The food: a platter of delightful Mediterranean mezze, provided by Rory, who admits to making a culinary effort for the first time in a while... Get in touch via twitter @setpiecemenu Email: setpiecemenu@gmail.com We'd love you to review us on iTunes and download the episodes you haven't listened to yet, even if the updated Podcast app on iOS is completely baffling...

This is the latest episode of Set Piece Menu - the podcast where four friends talk football over food. The football: Is it getting easier to play away from home? Warning: includes true facts. The food: a Hinchcliffe special breakfast, not in any way contributed to by the only person on the podcast named Hinchcliffe. Get in touch via twitter: @setpiecemenu Or email: setpiecemenu@gmail.com Don't forget to catch up with all our other episodes, including the bonus show in which we reveal the listeners' Best of the Rest Select XI, and ask Chinch to illustrate them on what turns out to be a depressingly underwhelming tactics board. Thanks for all your downloads and comments!

A special bonus edition of Set Piece Menu - the podcast where four friends talk football over food. The football: we've crunched the numbers on your suggestions and reveal the Best of the Rest XI. Is the team, made up of players from the clubs outside the top 7 biggest spenders, capable of challenging at the top of the Premier League? Chinch produces his tactics board as a visual aid; Hugh, Steven and Rory are deeply unimpressed.... Twitter: @setpiecemenu setpiecemenu@gmail.com Do keep the reviews on iTunes etc coming!

The latest Set Piece Menu - the podcast where four friends talk football over food. The football: The polarising of the Premier League (and others, but they don't alliterate). Is the gap between the 'haves' and 'have nots' getting wider, and might it be because of a dearth of top class strikers? The food: a bag of caramels, both chocolatey and chewy, that, although tempting, we promise to leave until after we're finished... Twitter: @setpiecemenu setpiecemenu@gmail.com Thanks for all your iTunes reviews, and do keep them coming!

The latest edition of Set Piece Menu - the podcast where a presenter, pundit, commentator and writer talk football over food. The football: Segregation - does it work, or does separating fans cause more problems than it solves? The food & drink: Danish & Colombian. Please rate us on iTunes and follow us on twitter @setpiecemenu