The War and Treaty’s Michael and Tanya Trotter grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, and Washington, DC, respectively, but both have family roots in the South. They also grew up in the musical traditions of their churches – Tanya in the Black Baptist Church and Michael in the Seventh Day Adventist Church – where they learned the power of song to move people. After becoming a father at a very young age, Michael eventually joined the armed forces and served in Iraq and Germany, where he took up songwriting as a way of dealing with his experiences there. Meanwhile Tanya embarked on a singing and acting career after a breakthrough appearance in Sister Act 2 alongside Whoopi Goldberg and Lauryn Hill. Now, after a long and sometimes traumatic journey, Michael and Tanya are married, touring, winning all sorts of awards, and set to release their fifth album together, and their fourth as The War and Treaty. Sid talks to Michael and Tanya about the new record, Plus One , as well as their collaboration with Miranda Lambert, what it was like to record at FAME studios in Muscle Shoals, and how they’re blending country, soul, gospel, and R&B. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…
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Football and books, or rather, football books. Hosts Al Bond and Johnny Coughlan read footballers’ autobiographies and discuss them for you. Very kind of them. All episodes available on Spotify, Apple, and anywhere else you get your pods. Music by the wonderful Darragh Fenlon.
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In Episode 33, we review In Search of Duncan Ferguson – The Life and Crimes of a Footballing Enigma by Alan Patullo. The highest scoring Scot in the Premier League, Ferguson is a folk hero on the blue half of Merseyside. As well as Everton, Ferguson had stints of varying degrees of success and failure with Dundee United, Rangers, and Newcastle United. But he is perhaps best known for his brushes with the law and with home intruders. Famously, he went to jail for headbutting Josh McStay of Raith Rovers and consigned a series of burglars to a similar fate. Tune in to find out whether we managed to find Duncan. Please do like and subscribe.…
Join us for our second installment of Injury Time, a prison 5-a-side draft. The quality of players who have been to prison is really quite something, rich pickings indeed. Please do tune in to find out if Al can salvage some pride after his devastating loss in the previous draft. Music by Darragh Fenlon.…
In Episode 32, we take a history lesson with David Bolchover’s book about Béla Guttman, The Greatest Comeback – From Genocide to Football Glory. This is a remarkable and very tragic story, one that is as much about the treatment of Jews in Europe as about Guttman himself. Béla Guttman played football for mostly Jewish teams in his native Hungary and then in Austria and the US. But it’s as a coach that he found global fame, winning the European Cup two years in a row with Benfica in the early ‘60s. Beyond the football pitch, Guttman survived the Holocaust by hiding in a friend’s attic and later escaped from a labour camp as countless friends and family perished at the hands of the Nazis. This is a long way from James Milner’s Ask a Footballer.…
Welcome to our first bonus episode - it's the Ademola Bookmen Podcast Injury Time [insert whistle sound here]. Today, Al and John are competing against each other to pick the best 5-a-side team of historic Irish Premier League players. Much less an idle barstool conversation, this discussion has an outcome. Yes, courtesy of cutting edge Artificial Intelligence technology, we can tell you whose team would have won. Music by that dastardly handsome Darragh Fenlon. Please do tune in to find out whether John knows more than Al about the Irish greats. It's Injury Time...…
In Episode 31, we tackle the autobiography of famous Ruud Van Nistelrooy botherer Martin Keown. A member of The Invincibles, a double-double winner, and the owner of the most elbowed face in Premier League history, Keown played more than 300 times for Arsenal and 43 times for England. In his 2024 book, Keown takes us through a career which brought him to Arsenal, Brighton, Villa, Everton, Arsenal again, Leicester and Reading. For whatever reason, in the audiobook version of the book – which Martin reads – he does the voices of the various people he encounters along the way. A bold choice. Tune in to find out what it was that made Martin tick and to discover whether Al does a better impression of Martin’s father. Please do like and subscribe.…
Was Sócrates the coolest footballer ever? Not only did he complete a medical degree while playing as a professional footballer, captain the Brazil national team, and found Corinthians Democracy, a movement which is credited with inspiring the people of Brazil to overthrow a military dictatorship, he did it all while looking like a stone cold cool motherfucker. In Episode 30 of the Ademola Bookmen Podcast, we review Doctor Sócrates: Footballer, Philosopher, Legend, the 2017 biography of the great man by Brazil-based journalist Andrew Downie. Do check it out and find out if Sócrates was even cooler than Cole Palmer. And please be sure to like and subscribe.…
How do you follow a 5-time Ballon D’or winner? Well, with an 8-time Ballon D’or Winner of course. That’s right, its Part II of the Guillem Balague GOAT saga and our review of his biography of one Lionel Messi. Originally published in 2013 but updated for the Argentina World Cup win in 2022, the book is a long one, covering the descent from heaven of the baby Messi to the unassuming city of Rosario, tucked away on the Rio Paraná, a few hundred miles inland from Buenos Aires. With interviews from various people who touched the hem of his garment along the way, the book very extensively covers how Messi touched the lives of the earthlings who had the privilege of sharing the planet with him. The book also includes references to El Diablo, Cristiano Ronaldo, with a sterling supporting role from arch bean-counter, Jorge Messi. And of course, Messi’s grandmother. As of some day last week, we were just two spots below Balague in the football podcast charts so please do have a listen and give us the chance of leapfrogging the Messi hagiographer. And if you like it, well please do like it……
It’s our 28th episode and we are starting the new year with the first part of the Balague GOAT saga. First up is his award-winning biography of Cristiano Ronaldo. This player certainly needs no introduction but if you insist then 5 Champions League wins, 5 Ballons D’or, and seven straight calendar years in which he scored more than 50 goals will surely suffice. We had initially planned to read Balague’s Messi biography first, but when we learned we had 7 days to get through its 796 pages, we pivoted and decided instead to read the mere 384 pages he wrote on his sworn enemy instead. But worry not dear listener, for Messi is up next (assuming we can finish it in time…). Happy New Year folks. Please do listen, like and subscribe.…
In Episode 27, we take a stroll down memory lane with Ireland’s arch controversialist Eamon Dunphy. Before he became a fixture on Irish television attacking the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo and Rod Liddle, Dunphy was once a footballer. He is remembered more for his work as a journalist and television malcontent than for his performances for Ireland, Millwall, Reading and Charlton. But it was his 1976 diary Only a Game? that launched Dunphy’s media career, starting him out on a road that led him to becoming a fixture on Irish television channels for around 30 years. The book itself is very much a classic of the footballer autobiography genre, described by Nick Hornby no less as the “best book about football I have ever read by someone who has actually played the game professionally”. Join Al and Johnny for Episode 27 and find out if it really was just only a game for Dunphy and his fellow Millwall players in 1973.…
Hungary’s ‘Galloping Major’, Ferenc Puskás was a three time European Cup winner and the winner of ten domestic titles, split evenly with five in his home country and five in Spain. His 1956 autobiography, Captain of Hungary, was written after he led Hungary to the 1954 World Cup final but before his exploits in Spain playing with Real Madrid and a management career that saw him lead teams in ten different countries. The book was also written before the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 with much of the focus on Puskás’ travels on either side of the Iron Curtain with the Hungary national team. To those who do remember him, Puskás was a goal machine, the 7th highest scorer of all time. He was also, on the basis of this book, a damn fine fellow. We really enjoyed this one. Please do have a listen and be sure to like and subscribe. Köszönöm!…
Grab your rollies, your loganberry IPA, and your panini sticker book folks, it's Episode 25 of the Ademola Bookmen Podcast, the hipster's choice, Andrea Pirlo. Tune in to hear Al compare the Italian great's lips to those of James Milner and to find out whether Al and Johnny were cool enough to understand the Italian's cerebral game. Pirlo's 2015 book, I Think Therefore I Play, is another that is not really an autobiography as such but more a series of musings on various topics. Would you like to know how it feels to walk to the penalty spot to take the first kick in a World Cup final shootout or find out which Italian striker stunk up the dressing room before each match with his weird scatological superstition? Well look no further. Please do like and subscribe.…
In Episode 24, we discuss A Beautiful Game by Sven-Göran Eriksson. The book was published on 17 October, less than two months after Sven died from pancreatic cancer at the age of 75. Born in Sweden in 1948, Eriksson lived a remarkable life that saw him working in ten countries in jobs that included national team manager roles on four different continents. Most famous for his five year stint as manager of England, Sven was as much a regular in the country’s tabloid gossip columns as he was on their back pages. Throughout his career, Sven won a shedload of trophies and managed some of the best players of his time. Join Al and Johnny to hear the tale of one of football's great tourists.…
In Episode 23, we discuss Full Time – the secret life of Tony Cascarino as told to Paul Kimmage. Despite having earned 88 caps for them, scoring 19 goals, the book is famed for the revelation that Cascarino did not in fact qualify to play for Ireland. Although was that really the case or were they just try to grab headlines and move copies of the book? Twenty-four years after its publication, with Cascarino’s career highlights long forgotten, the book remains a stalwart of lists of sports books recommendations. Shorn of the empty platitudes of so-many football autobiographies that came before it, the book influenced many that came since. It is a landmark football autobiography of searing honesty. Strap up your earholes friends and join us for a ride down memory lane. Its Tony Cascarino, its Jack Charlton, its Italia 90.…
In Episode 22, we review the biography of Manuel Francisco dos Santos - Garrincha to you and I. In a Dylan goes electric moment for the Bookmen, this is our first biography, as opposed to autobiography. And it's a good one. Garrincha - which means Little Bird - is remembered by Brazil of being even better than Pele. The grandchild of slaves, born with a curved spine, he led Brazil to their first world cups - in 1958 and 1962. '62 was also the year he met samba star, Elza Soares and left his wife and eight daughters, that’s right, eight daughters. And it was the year that his tale turned from triumph to tragedy. Shunned by Brazilian society for his illicit love of Elza, crippled by injury and alcoholism, his career and life fell apart. He died in 1983, a broken man, but not before being stripped naked by the Brazilian military, getting run out of his home country, and even killing his own mother-in-law. It’s a sad story certainly, but it's one worth hearing. Check out Episode 22 of the Ademola Bookmen Podcast – Garrincha!…
In Episode 21, Al and Johnny review With Clough by Peter Taylor, the book that is believed to have created the rift between the two men that ultimately led to them parting ways and not talking for seven years before Taylor's death in 1990. The pair had played together at Middlesborough. When they met, Taylor was a jobbing sub keeper and Clough was being overlooked by a team that found his ego largely outweighed his ability on the field. In Taylor, Clough found a champion, who canvassed for him to play and helped nurture a talent that was eventually realized on the field. But much more famously, Clough and Taylor became the most successful management duo in the history of English football, winning the Football League with lowly Derby and then with Nottingham Forest, where they also managed to win the European Cup twice. But the magic of their footballing romance was equaled in intensity by the acrimony of their falling out. It is such a remarkable story that we take it up here for the second time, having just done Clough’s autobiography in our previous episode.…
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