SWYW - a fantasy football league oddity
Love football and need your weekly fix of the English Premier League fantasy football team news and random conversations? You're invited to subscribe and join in the weird and wonderful world of the Sing When You're Winning fantasy football league. Join our regular SWYW panelists Jamie, Steve, Lee, Chris, Dan, Stu and Alistair as they guide you through the season as 80 teams will challenge for title wins and promotion across the 4 divisions of SWYW, playing a weekly head to head within the hugely popular FPL fantasy game. This podcast will bring you a weekly round up of the ups and downs of fantasy football, transfer news, injury news and a few random games to keep you amused on your Friday morning commute or wherever else you like to enjoy your pods. Team managers feature names familiar to millions, while others hide away from the limelight looking to plot their weekly head to head game victories. We'll invite our managers to appear as guests each week so you'll hear some fascina...
Episodes
Thursday Jul 25, 2024
Thursday Jul 25, 2024
In this soon to be historic first episode join Jamie, Steve, Chris, Dan and Lee as they introduce you to the weird and wonderful world of the Sing When You're Winning fantasy football league.Find out how the 4 league pyramid has developed over the years and hear about some familiar names (and future podcast guests) who will be bidding for promotion and title glory over the 23/24 FPL season.The panel share their top tips for picking your new FPL squad including Dan's non-negotiable reasons about why some players will never get into his starting line up.You'll also find out all about which U15 football team the league is sponsoring this season as we get ready to follow the highs and lows of football at all levels in the year ahead.Throw a few games in the mix for your entertainment and we've got the perfect pod for football fans of all ages ready and waiting for you.
Friday Aug 09, 2024
Friday Aug 09, 2024
Everyone's new favourite fantasy football league podcast returns for the difficult second episode.Meet new boy Stu before his internet connection sends him awol into the streets of York.Meanwhile the rest of the panel discuss random topics such as their favourite football strip of all time, whether the new features in this seasons FPL are any good, and we waste 10 minutes playing the worst game of Guess Who ever only to find the new manager announces his resignation hours before the pod is released. Play along and see if you can guess the forever unnamed celebrity...Plus don't miss the return of Shoot magazine's finest in depth interviews with 80s footballers.
Friday Aug 16, 2024
Friday Aug 16, 2024
In this week's exciting episode we make the FA Cup draw look good by executing our very own elimination draw to decide which lucky manager gets promoted from the conference league before a ball is kicked.We preview each of the 4 SWYW divisions and see who is lining up as the favourites for titles, promotion and relegation. Plus, don't miss a one off game of Footballers Jives. And finally, listen out for Dan's colourful entrance into the episode following some tech issues.
Thursday Aug 22, 2024
Thursday Aug 22, 2024
In episode 4 of everyone's new favourite FPL podcast join the regular panel of Jamie, Steve, Lee, Chris and Dan as they run the show that was planned for special guest Magic Mod with the extra special guest, manager Chris Duhamel from Jersey.
We discuss the highs and lows of GW1 in the premier league, find out everyone's favourite ever gig, preview the fixtures and FPL hints and tips for GW2
And back by popular demand, we play another round of shooting stars featuring Steve Foster, Brighton skipper from the 1981/82 season
Friday Aug 30, 2024
Friday Aug 30, 2024
This week's pod sees a slightly depleted starting line up. There's no truth in the rumours Chris, Dan and Steve refused to take part in a bid to get a transfer to another podcast.
Stu is back and joins Jamie and Lee to discuss the Oasis reunion - will anyone get tickets to the gigs next year.
We discuss the top 3 talking points of GW2 and look ahead to GW3 including our thoughts on Man U v Liverpool and much more.
With thanks to Mike Bushell who sadly couldn't join us due to technical issues we also introduce a new footballing quiz to honour his appearance on Celebrity Mastermind. Who will win in the battle between Stu and Lee.?
Stay tuned to find out on this week's pod.
Friday Sep 06, 2024
Friday Sep 06, 2024
This week's pod features special guest and Manager of the Month in SWYW, Alistair Griffin.
Don't miss Alistair's fascinating stories of playing alongside Boro legends to win a SKY TV football tournament and why he isn't to blame for Mark Viduka leaving his beloved Middlesbrough to sign for rivals Newcastle United.
We also find out which teams are flying high across all 4 divisions of SWYW and discuss the key talking points from GW3 in FPL.
The new competition SWYW Super Fan returns after a false start last week.
And did we mention Swankers? Yes we said Swankers. Tune in to find out what they are, in this week's pod out now!
Friday Sep 13, 2024
Friday Sep 13, 2024
FPL is back this week and so is everyone's favourite new fantasy football league podcast.
Regular panelists Jamie, Steve and Chris are joined by SWYW and The Bluetones legend Adam Devlin this week from his base in a rainy Dubai...
In a very entertaining episode you can hear why Adam decided to support his beloved Brentford, why he doesn't look at the FPL league tables and find out how he gets on in his quest to be the SWYW Superfan in our weekly quiz.
We'll also be taking a look across all 4 divisions so far this season and previewing some of the big fixtures this coming weekend.
And this week's Shooting Stars looks back at an old Ally McCoist interview from the 90s.
Friday Sep 20, 2024
Friday Sep 20, 2024
On everyone's new favourite fantasy football league podcast this week we're joined by producer, writer and director and Leeds fan Joe Derrick.
Joe joins the regular panellists, Jamie, Steve, Lee, and Dan is back and taking our SWYW Superfan quiz very seriously this week.
Don't miss our round up of GW league fun as well as our preview of some huge games in the premier league this coming weekend.
We also discuss derby day rivalry, what makes a good podcast and find our what Dino Zoff really dislikes!
Friday Sep 27, 2024
Friday Sep 27, 2024
Joining the panel this week is comedy legend Paul Tonkinson with some cracking tales of following his beloved Man Utd while living in North London, life as a stand up comic and the joys of The Big Breakfast.
Plus, birthday boy Stu joins the party again this week with a shocking revelation that you won't want to miss.
All of this on top of our weekly preview of GW6 in FPL giving you the top tips to pick your team for this weekend's action.
Friday Oct 04, 2024
Friday Oct 04, 2024
Don't miss another cracking dose of fantasy football fun in this week's brand new episode featuring the amazing Nigel Clark who shares some hilarious tales of life in the band Dodgy and his love of football.
Listen in to hear Nigel's brilliant new SWYW podcast theme tune - you'll be singing it when you're winning all week long.
Plus our Jersey boy, Chris Duhamel slots straight into the super sub role to share tips ahead of another exciting gameweek in FPL.
And if your name is Chesney Hawkes, the panel have some advice to assist with your fantasy team...