Wait It Out Or Bring Back Football Behind Closed Doors?
Bring back football behind closed doors or wait it out until normality resumes? That’s the question Wise Men Say contributors Joe Owens and Jim Reay attempt to tackle.
Episode 556 – Part One 2013/14 Season Review
A season that requires two lengthy parts tells you a lot. The season of 2013/14 was packed with incident: Di Canio, Poyet, penalty drama, a cup final, a relegation battle…
Episode 555 – “Roker Park’s Final Years – Part Two”
Lee Howey joins the lads again to talk about the season of 1996/97. We all know how it ended up, it is the Sunderland way after all, but there were…
Episode 554 – “The Wise Men Say Pub Quiz – FINAL!”
Quizmasters Rory Fallow and Matthew Keeling host the showpiece finale of the hotly-contested Wise Men Say Pub Quiz between Gareth Barker and Tom Walsh. Here’s the picture round if you…
Episode 553 – “Wise Men Say Film Club – Football Factory”
Tom Walsh is joined by Matthew Keeling and Craig Clark to discuss the seminal masterpiece Football Factory, starring Danny Dyer, which includes resurrecting two classic number ones of 2004 from…
Episode 552 – “Roker Park’s Final Years – Part One”
Stephen, Gareth and Craig are joined by Lee Howey who was part of the dressing room in the final seasons at Roker Park. In Part One of two parts, the…
Episode 551 – “The Pandemic Podcasts – Favourite Non-SAFC Matches”
Craig Clark is joined by Rory Fallow and Tom Walsh in their isolation station to discuss their favourite matches attended that have not involved Sunderland AFC, including trips to Germany…
Episode 550 – “Wise Men Say Film Club – Green Street”
In the first of a new series, Tom Walsh and Matthew Keeling look back at a classic of the football hooligan genre and review 2005’s Green Street, starring Frodo Baggins…
Episode 549 – “The Wise Men Say Pub Quiz – Second Semi-Final”
Rory Fallow and Matthew Keeling return to the Wise Men Say Idiots’ Suite to host a second semi-final of their pub quiz, this time with WMS’ founding fathers Stephen Goldsmith…
Episode 548 – “STID2 Review”
Richard Easterbrook is joined by Chris Weatherspoon and Rory Fallow to review the second series of Sunderland Til I Die as well as discussing the EFL’s plans to restart football…