Sport, side roads and dry despair.
Hawksbee and Jacobs Daily is a brisk sports chat show built from sharp exchanges, strange side roads and regular Premier League misery. Football leads the way, but sandwiches, retro shirts, pop culture, golf, rugby league and fruit flies can all get dragged onto the pitch.
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Hawksbee and Jacobs Daily is built around the pleasure of sport being slightly ridiculous. Football is the main current running through it, from Premier League weekends and relegation dread to Arsenal in Europe, Chelsea troubles, La Liga retro shirts and the next Brazilian wonderkid being discussed before he is even a first-team player. The show knows its sport, but it does not worship at the altar of seriousness. It would rather arrive at a point through a complaint, a shirt, a sandwich or a game that may be either brilliant or awful. That is the charm. It feels quick, dry and companionable, with exchanges that can turn a small aside into the actual subject before anyone has formally announced a segment. Guests broaden the pitch. Tim Vickery brings South American football context. Katarina Johnson Thompson talks through injury rehab with lived detail. Mike Pickering connects Manchester music and City fandom. Paul Walter Hauser arrives as an actor and wrestler, which is about as on-brand a crossover as the show could hope for. There are also visits to rugby league in Toulouse, American sports, golf frustration, boxing setbacks, screenwriting, pop culture around Euro 96 and racing at Aintree. The show can be daft, but it is not careless. When a guest has a serious story, the questions become plain and respectful. When the subject is a birthday spread or the correct sandwich, it gives the matter exactly too much attention. The daily format helps: it has the rhythm of people catching the sport while it is still warm, then wandering off just far enough to make it fun. Listeners get football chat, guest insight and a steady supply of odd little detours. The result is a sports podcast for people who like the game best when it is mixed with bad luck, strange news, old jokes and someone taking a very ordinary thing far too seriously.
Made for: For football-first listeners who like their Premier League chat loose, funny and well-stocked with digressions. It also suits sports fans who enjoy guest stories from boxing, athletics, rugby league, golf, racing and American sport.
What sets it apart: The show’s edge is its ability to move from proper sporting insight to deeply unserious tangents without changing gear. It treats a sandwich preference, a relegation panic and a guest’s career story as parts of the same afternoon conversation.
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
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