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Footy Prime The Podcast mixes Canadian soccer specificity with wider football culture, from CanXNT form and Whitecaps uncertainty to Premier League relegation and World Cup ticket anger. It is loose, knowledgeable, and happiest when a tangent turns into a real soccer point.
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Footy Prime The Podcast is a fast, messy, soccer-literate panel show built around Canadian football’s almost-daily arguments. It rarely walks straight to the point. A sponsor read, a joke about breakfast, a production mishap, or a stray hockey comparison can appear before the real subject snaps into focus. Once it does, the show has teeth. Recent episodes move through USMNT and MLS questions with Marcelo Balboa, CanXNT form on The BroadsCast, Mark Schwarzer on goalkeeping evolution, and pointed talk about World Cup pricing, Whitecaps uncertainty, Canada Soccer outreach, and Premier League relegation anxiety. The best moments come when lived experience sharpens the analysis. Talk of Mexican stadium conditions becomes a lesson in grass, altitude, smog, heavy legs, and tactical exposure. A discussion of Ralph Prizo’s injury leads into center-back pace, international speed, and what a player can show in only a short spell. Goalkeeping nostalgia becomes practical history, with the back-pass rule and footwork demands explaining why the modern keeper role changed. The show can be blunt. It can also be warm. The panel treats listeners as already fluent enough to keep up with callbacks, quick corrections, and jokes that interrupt without emptying the room of meaning. The Canadian women’s national team gets serious attention, especially around depth, positional pressure, and the problem of good players pushing better players. The men’s side gets hope, frustration, and tactical worry in equal measure. Club football matters too, from Spurs and the Championship to MLS, TFC duty, Vancouver, and the Whitecaps’ civic weight. Footy Prime is not a tidy explainer. It is a lively soccer room with real memory, real opinions, and enough chaos to keep the analysis from feeling packaged.
Made for: Built for soccer fans who already enjoy the culture around the match as much as the match itself. It especially suits listeners tracking Canada Soccer, MLS, CanXNT, the Premier League, and World Cup buildup from a Canadian angle.
What sets it apart: The show’s edge is its mix of former-player perspective, Canadian specificity, and loose panel chemistry. Tactical points often arrive through anecdotes about fields, injuries, travel, and what the game feels like from inside it.
Hosted by James Sharman, former football pros Craig Forrest, Jimmy Brennan & Amy Walsh, and producers Jeff Cole and Dan Wong Your Almost Daily Footy Fix!Follow us on socials @:X @footy_primeTikTok @FootyPrimeThePodcastYoutube @FootyPrimePodcastIG Facebook: Footy Prime The Podcast Email: [email protected]
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Footy Prime makes Canadian soccer clearer through candid debate, tactical detail and close attention to the national teams and MLS.
Footy Prime turns Canadian soccer into a lively group argument, with James Sharman, Craig Forrest, Jimmy Brennan and Amy Walsh moving between the national teams, MLS and the Premier League.
James Sharman's group chat turns Canada's lineup into your argument, then somebody mentions West Ham.
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A loose, sharp chat about MLS, Mexico, and the small details that can tilt a match.
Footy Prime lets Marcelo Balboa settle into MLS, Mexico, and the tiny details that still swing results. The strongest passages are the concrete ones: thicker grass in Leon, a water-starved Santos surface, and the altitude and smog around the Azteca.
A compact, sharp Canada women's team conversation with real selection tension.
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A scrappy Canada Soccer and MLS conversation that keeps its edge.
Footy Prime opens by giving the long-running Canada Soccer CBA dispute some overdue attention, then moves into a guest segment on the U.S. men’s national team and MLS.
A lively CanMNT segment that balances banter with a clear look at Flores, David, and Canada's finishing problems.
Footy Prime spends its opening stretch on banter, then settles into a clean CanMNT read on Marcelo Flores and Jonathan David. Flores's first minutes and 30-minute cameo get the most attention, along with the case for using his tighter-area skill on the left to open up more…
Loose, lively, and strongest when Craig Forrest's keeper talk turns the pressure discussion real.
Footy Prime stays loose and conversational while moving through a clear set of football pressure points: Maxime Crepeau getting peppered, Orlando conceding chances for fun, Nashville's ugly numbers, and the open question of who Jesse Marsch will name in goal for Canada.
Canada roster talk, Dubs' depth chart, and the Cornelius question.
Footy Prime spends this hour on Canada men's roster talk, with Dubs putting together a starting squad and depth chart while watching her kids at hockey practice.
A jersey conversation that shows how Canadian soccer fandom starts small.
Footy Prime spends much of the episode on the Canada jersey and the slower work of building soccer culture in Canada. The conversation stays grounded in ordinary details: a holiday gift, a childhood shirt, a national crest, and the first small loyalties they can spark.
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The hosts discuss upcoming matches and a new offside rule experiment in the Canadian Premier League.
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This episode discusses MLS derbies, EPL set pieces, and includes sponsor promotions and casual banter about tanning.
The hosts discuss Casey Stoney's appointment as Canada women's national team coach and her press conference, with humorous banter.
The hosts welcome two colleagues who covered the Olympics for CBC, discussing their experiences and praising their work, while also promoting upcoming Paralympic coverage.
This episode of Footy Prime features an interview with Matt Doyle to discuss Major League Soccer, his new Substack Tactics Free Zone, and recent events like the CPL champions' loss in the Champions Cup.
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