Football For Future: How football is responding to the climate crisis

Joe Simpson: Football's relationship with mental health

Joe Simpson is with us to talk about football’s relationship with mental health, opening up about how the sport has helped him process grief following the death of his father. We get into the positives and negatives of the emotional state that is football fandom and discuss how the landscape around mental wellbeing has changed over the last 10 years.  ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Aneesa Ahmed: The importance of representation and community

Music and features journalist Aneesa Ahmed is with us to talk all things football and community. We get into the lack of South Asian representation within the sport, the uneasy relationship with patriotism as people of colour, and the importance of organisations such as Baes FC & Football For Foodbanks. All this an much more. @fc.curva ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Football For Future: How football is responding to the climate crisis

Elliot Worsop, founder and director of Football For Future and communications manager Dan Hall are with us to talk about how football is responding to the climate crisis. We get into the top down and grassroots work FFF does, whether the sustainability targets of the Premier League and FIFA are realistic, the hypocritical and inconsistent messaging by clubs when it comes to climate action, the environmental cost of the unceasing expansion of football, how fans can get involved, plus much more.  @ftblforfuture @fc.curva ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Freddie Feltham: Curva x What's Left?

With us for episode three is Freddie Feltham, founder and co-host of What's Left? a platform exploring how politics has changed, asking the question – what’s left? We get into the current state of UK politics and how football intertwines, the rise of Reform, masculinity in a hypermodernised world and football as the secular man's religion. All this and much more. To hear more from Freddie, head over to What's Left? linktr.ee/wtf.is.left [https://l.instagram.com/?u=https%3A%2F%2Flinktr.ee%2Fwtf.is.left%3Ffbclid%3DPAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaeqOPkgA79xJFsZBrUvaLE_EFWRRFiiCR9d5Hqr2LPGfg32E9HsG0ig0O5vZw_aem_qOyBXH7hjiB7TrS_1aNjLg&e=AT2Fh35EU8tEPibY8Oe5bpsGJ2KJFt6wCIxIi8ZALdIrQ-C-4HSsE60IjwE6DoSIgG_YhXqYQjSs5zENISGZdDr3I07MBWr-M6mesA] ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Vasilis Kostakis: Beyond the Final Whistle

Vasilis Kostakis, author of Beyond the Final Whistle: Football for a Better World is with us to talk about his book and a new philosophy of football. Vasilis' personal journey with football that saw him stop watching the sport for a number of years, the importance of accessibility, the ecological impact of the game, and why football is so important when it comes to social issues are all discussed and more. Published by Pluto Press, you can purchase a copy of Vasilis' book here: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745350738/beyond-the-final-whistle/ ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.