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...

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Episodes

Friday Oct 11, 2024

It might be international football week but the SWYW panel are back to review what happened in GW7 and pose the question is it time to sell Haaland after 2 poor gameweek returns? 
If you love your music as well as your football then don't miss this week's episode.
We're joined by special guest, Nathan Clark, owner of legendary Leeds venue Brudenell Social Club and director of Brudenell Presents. Nathan shares his highs and lows of life as a Leeds fan including memories of the pie tax at Elland Road. And we also discuss the importance of building a community in the success of the Brudenell.
Find out how Nathan gets on in this week's SWYW Superfan competition. Our VAR review can confirm Lee's on field decision was correct...
And if all that wasn't enough, we play a game of Play Your Charts Right. Do you know how high classic football tracks charted?

Friday Oct 18, 2024

Don't miss this week's new episode of your new favourite fantasy football league podcast featuring England cricket legend Graeme Swann.
Swanny provides a lot of laughs as we discuss his love of Newcastle United and the superstitious things you have to do to as a leading sports star. 
We discover the Iain Dowie scoring method for golf, pitch a new Partridge-esque TV show idea featuring average footy grounds and much much more.
And if you're looking for top FPL tips ahead of GW8, we've got you covered here on SWYW.

Friday Oct 25, 2024

On another entertaining episode of everyone's favourite new fantasy football podcast we're joined by SWYW league stalwart and organiser of El Cashico, Paul Chambers Tonner.
Paul shares his love of Leeds United alongside the quite phenomenal story about the time he sent a tweet back in 2010. 
Jamie, Lee and Chris are on the panel to discuss some top tips ahead of GW9 which has an early deadline this week - don't forget Friday night football is back tonight!
In a sad week where we say RIP to the legendary Geoff Capes, Chris recalls the time as a youngster when he met the great man himself.
And we end the podcast with a game we're calling Trick or Tweet - well it is nearly halloween...

Friday Nov 01, 2024

There's some spooky interventions on this week's episode of your favourite FPL podcast!
The panel discuss their favourite scary movies but more importantly we're joined by Carl Sewell, Director of The Terrace who also happen to be our SWYW league sponsors.
Carl shares a fascinating insight into the world of being a kit supplier to Morecambe FC and what it's like to work across a number of sports.
Listen up to Carl's clear rationale about why he'd appoint Gareth Southgate to replace ETH at Old Trafford. Do you agree?
Find out how well the panel knows the prices of items on The Terrace online shop in our special one-off game.
And as it's halloween week, listen out for a witches curse that plays hell with our show's continuity
 

Friday Nov 08, 2024

We welcome England and Yorkshire cricketing legend Tim Bresnan on to this week's fantasy football pod to talk about his love for Leeds United. 
Brez also shares some of the perks of playing for England and details how the Australian rivalry differs on and off the pitch.
Regular panelists Jamie and Steve are joined by our dependable super sub Chris to discuss the final GW before the international break including whether now is the time for Haaland owners to cash in on the most expensive player in FPL. Brez has a great reason as to why Haaland isn't in his team.
We've also got our usual features SWYW superfan and shooting stars, so what more do you need to stay entertained this weekend while you're waiting for the footy to kick off.

Friday Nov 15, 2024

Does England come before club? Find out what the SWYW panel think on this week's brand new FPL podcast episode.
We're delighted to be joined by Maddox Jones, a brilliant singer songwriter  who in his debut SWYW season has also squeezed in recording his brilliant new album 'Waiting For The World To Turn'.
Maddox joins us from backstage as he supports Will Young this week, and talks about why as a Man Utd fan he isn't a glory supporter (he really isn't)
We also have the usual features including a brilliant Shooting Stars looking back at answers from former Nottingham Forest keeper Steve Sutton.
And don't forget there's no deadline this week so save those transfers!
 

Friday Nov 22, 2024

Football is back after the international break and we're joined by genuine podcast and broadcasting royalty, Alistair Bruce-Ball, to talk FPL and much more.
Ali shares some of his favourite grounds to commentate in and poses the question who would you captain if you have both Haaland and Salah in your FPL team?
Jamie, Steve and Lee plus regular super sub Chris D are your panel to talk through this weekend's games, share some top tips and ponder over which video game they would like to feature in
And this week's SWYW super fan quiz highlights why you should tread very carefully with AI...
 

Friday Nov 29, 2024

It's Black Friday and this week's panel discuss what bargain transfer deals they'd like to see ahead of the early gameweek deadline later today.
Dan is back on the panel too and we're joined by another fantastic guest this week, actress Grace Molony who shares her successful approach to FPL along with her love of Brighton and Hove Albion football club. We also discuss her FPL rivalry at home against fellow SWYW manager George Pearson.
Find out how Grace gets on in SWYW Superfan and there's all the usual features to keep you entertained this GW13. 
It's another must listen episode of your soon to be favourite new FPL podcast...

Friday Dec 06, 2024

Don't miss episode n,n,n,n, nineteen of everyone's soon to be favourite new FPL podcast as this week we focus on a feast of football from the past week. We even have live football updates as it happened at time of recording thanks to our roving reporter Steve.
We're delighted to be joined by our special guest and SWYW original member Tim Ward who discusses his love of Stoke City and Christmas.
Tim celebrates being MOTM two months in a row and battles his wifi connection as well as the questions in SWYW superfan
And we also cover the age old question - is Die Hard a Christmas film? 

Friday Dec 13, 2024

We analyse the cons and pros of the new mystery chip in this week’s brand new edition of your new favourite fantasy football podcast
We’re joined by tv presenter Ben Shires who shares some fascinating experiences of being a Leeds fan. 
We discuss the perils of trusting Wikipedia, and AI comes back to play its entertaining part in another round of SWYW Superfan 
We also celebrate some of the weirdest world records as well as discussing some X-rated ones too… it’s all in this week’s pod for your entertainment ahead of another exciting FPL game week. 

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