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About Marc White Fixes Football
Right. Football's broken. I've been thrown into the mix to sort it out, and I'll be honest with you - I'm the man for the job. Big names, straight answers, stories you won't hear anywhere else, and a fair few laughs along the way. The game's for the people. I'm here to represent you.
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5 Nov 2026
4: Why Jimmy Bullard LOVES VAR
Jimmy Bullard loves VAR. He knows almost nobody else does - and that’s part of why he loves it. That’s where this one starts. Jimmy Bullard’s episode of Marc White Fixes Football. Gravesend & Northfleet, £6 a game, working on a building site with his old man - who’d give him the day off before an evening game because he believed his son could still make it. Then a three-week trial at West Ham, 12 members of his own family watching his first session from the side, one-on-one against Frank Lampard, and a three-year pro deal signed the same day as Paolo Di Canio. Three weeks off a building site he was sat on the bench at Anfield. Peterborough under Barry Fry. Wigan from the first division to the Premier League - 2,000 watching when he arrived, 5th by Christmas when they got there. Fulham, Hull. Three England squads and no cap. Then six years presenting Soccer AM. In just over an hour, Marc and Jimmy get into: ⚽️WHY HE LOVES VAR - he’s in a minority and he enjoys it. “I love it how the fans get stressed out.” What he actually wants is ex-players and ex-managers in the room, because “some of them haven’t played the game, they don’t know the dark arts.” ⚽️ THREE SQUADS, NO CAP - on the bench with Peter Crouch and David Bentley, doing the can-can behind Fabio Capello to get himself noticed. Capello afterwards: “Jimmy, no cap? Why didn’t you tell me?” ⚽️ THE PRANKS - fire extinguishers when three games had gone by and the place had gone flat. A convertible filled with water to gear-stick height. Ralgex in a teammate’s Colgate. A TENS machine. Half a session in Chris Coleman’s suit on his first day at Fulham. ⚽️ THE MAN CITY TEAM TALK - the famous one happened the year before he got to Hull. The year he was there they did it again, at the same ground, and Jimmy was in the middle of it. ⚽️ SOCCER AM - how it actually happened, why he preferred it out the back with the football. ⚽️ WHAT THEY’VE DONE TO THE GAME - you can’t celebrate in front of away fans who’ve spent 90 minutes slaughtering your family. You can’t take your shirt off. You’ve got to cover your mouth. And the FA Cup semi-finals at Wembley, which he thinks have killed the final. ⚽️ QUICKFIRE - best he played with, best he played against, hardest opponent, best manager, worst trainer, best atmosphere, and the prank that went too far. 🎧 Enjoying the show? Follow Marc White Fixes Football wherever you get your podcasts so you never miss an episode, and leave us a rating and review - it really helps new listeners find us. CHAPTERS 00:00 - Jimmy Bullard: Welcome to Marc White Fixes Football 03:55 - Why he likes VAR, and who should be in the room 06:19 - The referees, the rebrand, and the dark arts 08:41 - “I’m a really nice guy. But I bite.” 11:00 - Sack them or back them? 13:23 - Wigan, and the chairman who back-paid him six months 15:42 - Gravesend, the building site, and the potatoes in his shoes 17:55 - Golf, mindset, and sifting through the crap 20:13 - His son, and getting out of the way 22:39 - West Ham, Harry Redknapp and the bench at Anfield 25:00 - What it actually takes to get to the Premier League 27:23 - The changing room as a job of work 29:41 - Phil Brown, Hull, and the team talk on the pitch 32:04 - Playing hungover, and the fittest team he was ever in 34:30 - The biggest characters he played with 36:53 - Fire extinguishers, the TENS machine and the gaffer’s suit 39:14 - Chris Baird, a broken nose and Danny Murphy’s peanut 41:32 - What managers get wrong 43:40 - England, and the can-can in front of Capello 45:53 - Guardiola, Spain, and having the ball 48:19 - Leatherhead, and how Soccer AM happened 50:40 - Out the back with the football 53:04 - Paolo Di Canio 55:28 - The best players he played with 57:47 - The aliens 01:01:39 - Why messing about brought out his best football 01:05:20 - You can’t celebrate, you can’t take your shirt off 01:07:45 - The FA Cup semi-finals, and what else they’ve changed 01:11:59 - Quickfire 🚨WIN money-can't-buy sporting experiences at OLBG Prizes 18+ | UK Entrants Only | T&Cs apply | Free Entry Route Available Enter at 👉 https://www.olbgprizes.com (https://www.olbgprizes.com) 🎙️ABOUT THE SHOW Marc White Fixes Football is hosted by Marc White, owner and manager of Dorking Wanderers FC. Marc is in the game every day - he owns a club, he manages a club, and he's not guessing. Every week he brings in someone who knows the game and they take on what's gone wrong with it: refereeing, VAR, ownership, ticket prices, academies, fan culture. 📲 FOLLOW THE SHOW Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mwfixesfootball (https://www.instagram.com/mwfixesfootball) TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@marcwhitefixesfootball (https://www.tiktok.com/@marcwhitefixesfootball) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61560737653806 (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61560737653806) X: https://x.com/MWFixesFootball (https://x.com/MWFixesFootball) Thanks to our partners at Canon, Sennheiser and Pro Light Direct for the kit behind this show. And a special thank you to Iconic Studios, who built the Marc White Fixes Football set from scratch. If you want to see what they could create for you, visit https://www.iconicdisplay.co.uk/ (https://www.iconicdisplay.co.uk/) Ad | Brought to you by OLBG Prizes #Football #JimmyBullard #PremierLeague #FootballPodcast #MarcWhiteFixesFootball
29 Oct 2026
3: David Bentley Said No to Arsenal's Patrick Vieira. He Was 16.
Patrick Vieira told a 16-year-old David Bentley to get out of his seat. Bentley said no - and Vieira went and sat somewhere else. That's one story from David Bentley's episode on Marc White Fixes Football. Wormley Youth, Hertfordshire. Family from Rochdale, a dad who'd played a bit and who refused to let him join a club early - "you ain't going to a club, they're ruining you." Then a Saturday game at twelve where he whipped his shirt off and threw it at his own manager in front of scouts from Tottenham and West Ham, and his dad decided it was time. Arsenal from thirteen. Scholarship at fifteen, a one-year YT and a three-year pro deal, and a changing room with Tony Adams, Ray Parlour, Jens Lehmann, Pirès and Bergkamp in it. England at every level - under-15s, under-16s, captain of the under-18s, under-21s and the full squad. The first Englishman to score at the new Wembley. Arsenal, Norwich, Blackburn, Tottenham, West Ham and the Russian Premier League. Then he stopped at twenty-nine, announced it live on Sky News, and went to Marbella. In a full hour, Marc and David get into: PATRICK VIEIRA - first day of pre-season in Austria, sixteen years old, sat at the French table with Wiltord and Pirès. Vieira taps him on the shoulder and says move. What happened next cost him six months of nights out and a beating in training every day. MIKEL ARTETA'S FRIDGE - a charity game at Arsenal's training ground, a Tottenham shirt with CHAMPIONS on the back, and the beers he took out of the manager's office. Arsenal asked him to delete it. "They're so boring, aren't they?" ARSENAL FANS - why he thinks they need to be more likeable and a bit more fun, from someone who came through their academy and calls himself an Invincible. Marc isn't sure he qualifies. HARRY REDKNAPP - the bucket on his head the night Spurs qualified for the Champions League, the Christmas party the club had two days before Harry told the press there wasn't one, and the £16,000 night out nobody paid him back for. THE ENGLAND CONTRABAND - McDonald's through the flip-out windows at the Grove under Capello, and the £40 he charged internationals for a tenner's worth of burgers with cheese and chips. BOOED ON HIS OWN DEBUT - pulling out of the under-21s after a sixty-game season, Stuart Pearce saying he'd let his country down, and what happened when he finally walked out at Wembley against Israel. Plus why he doesn't blame today's players for doing the same thing. RUSSIA - Rostov-on-Don, getting paid in cash, needing a plane to bring it home. THE SNIDES - his word for what's wrong with football. The people making money off the narrative, the players who go to the manager behind a teammate's back, and why he'd rather never play again than be one of them. MAN CITY - what he'd do about it, why the Premier League has damaged its own product, and the number that stopped Marc in his tracks: 66% of clubs couldn't last thirty days without the owner putting money in. WHY HE STOPPED AT 29 - the knee, the twins arriving the week his Tottenham contract ended, and announcing his retirement live on Sky News with a quote that followed him around ever since. QUICKFIRE - best player he played with, best he played against, the manager who couldn't do his jacket up, the best player everyone's forgotten, and the biggest ego he ever shared a dressing room with. ⏱️ CHAPTERS 00:00 - David Bentley: Welcome to Marc White Fixes Football 04:41 - Arsenal, Tottenham, and the Invincible question 06:55 - Carrick, United and foreign managers 09:05 - Nicking Mikel Arteta's beers 11:26 - Man City and what the Premier League has done 15:54 - Wormley, the shirt, and the day his dad changed his mind 18:17 - Inside the Arsenal academy 20:34 - Telling Patrick Vieira 'NO' 25:09 - Spurs, the bucket, and the £16,000 night out 27:26 - Blackburn: the best football of his life 29:26 - Running contraband into the England camp 33:57 - The mavericks: Cherki, Palmer and Kinkladze 36:17 - Stuart Pearce, the under-21s and getting booed at Wembley 38:35 - The Russian Premier League 45:20 - The managers who couldn't handle him 47:45 - Bellingham, and being proved wrong 52:34 - Ashley Cole, Kolarov and the best game he ever played 54:55 - Why he stopped at 29 57:48 - Quickfire Questions 1:02:30 - Falling out of love with the game 🚨WIN money-can't-buy sporting experiences at OLBG Prizes 18+ | UK Entrants Only | T&Cs apply | Free Entry Route Available Enter at 👉 https://www.olbgprizes.com (https://www.olbgprizes.com) 🎙️ABOUT THE SHOW Marc White Fixes Football is hosted by Marc White, owner and manager of Dorking Wanderers FC. Marc is in the game every day - he owns a club, he manages a club, and he's not guessing. Every week he brings in someone who knows the game and they take on what's gone wrong with it: refereeing, VAR, ownership, ticket prices, academies, fan culture. 📲 FOLLOW THE SHOW Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mwfixesfootball (https://www.instagram.com/mwfixesfootball) TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@marcwhitefixesfootball (https://www.tiktok.com/@marcwhitefixesfootball) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61560737653806 (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61560737653806) X: https://x.com/MWFixesFootball (https://x.com/MWFixesFootball) Thanks to our partners at Canon, Sennheiser and Pro Light Direct for the kit behind this show. And a special thank you to Iconic Studios, who built the Marc White Fixes Football set from scratch. If you want to see what they could create for you, visit https://www.iconicdisplay.co.uk/ (https://www.iconicdisplay.co.uk/) Ad | Brought to you by OLBG Prizes #Football #TomCairney #Fulham #PremierLeague #FootballPodcast #MarcWhiteFixesFootball
22 Oct 2026
2: You Should HAVE to Support Your Local Team! | Tom Garratt
If you're a Man United fan from South London, Tom Garratt would like to hear your connection to that club. And he doesn't just think it's a bit much - he thinks it should be a rule. That's one argument from Tom Garratt's episode on Marc White Fixes Football. Born and bred Black Country. First game at five, a 1-0 defeat to Grimsby in 2001, and he sat and watched the whole thing while every other kid looked at the sweets. West Brom home and away for ten years after that, until men's football got in the way. A scholarship in America that he's honest about - "anyone who goes to America is because you can't make it here" - and one training session against a 39-year-old pro that told him everything he needed to know about the level. Then TikTok in 2021, a take on Virgil van Dijk and Nemanja Vidic that went off, and a job at Pitch Side. He's got no dog in the Big Six race, and that's exactly why people listen to him. In a full hour, Marc and Tom get into: ⚽️ MIKE DEAN - Garratt loves that a referee finally admitted to playing games during matches. Marc thinks he's lying, and says so four separate times. Neither of them moves an inch. ⚽️ GLORY HUNTERS - why he thinks supporting your local club should be compulsory, what he makes of United fans in Bristol and South London, and the one exception he'll allow. ⚽️ SHOULD REFEREES HAVE A PERSONALITY? - Marc wants them seen and not heard. Garratt reckons humanising them is the best thing that could happen to the game. Plus the Geordie referee in the Isthmian who winks at managers before kick-off, and the lad Marc coached who's now overturning VAR decisions in the Premier League. ⚽️ THE NEW RULES - five-second countdowns, throw-ins, substitutes, and the referee who started counting down a Wigan player who was a goal behind with two minutes left. ⚽️ CONTACT - Garratt's theory that letting players create contact is quietly ruining the game, why grappling at corners would stop within a week, and what it would take from a referee to do it. ⚽️ THE LEVEL - the gap between a good non-league player and a Premier League one, found out in a single session. Plus Conor Gallagher's brother on why four of them still can't get near him in the park, and a story about Brighton Pier that explains the whole thing. ⚽️ BELLINGHAM - he called him overrated and said he shouldn't start at the World Cup. He was at the Mexico game. "How stupid was I?" ⚽️ RONALDO - why he's never been a fan, and the players who stop teams winning. ⚽️ THE MONEY - agents stalking players on social media, million-pound deals in League One, and how clubs like Bury and Macclesfield go to the wall in the same week somebody moves for £120m. ⚽️ WOKE NONSENSE OR NOT - hydration breaks, goal music, half-time shows, five subs, set-piece coaches, referee cams, and yellow cards for taking your shirt off. ⚽️ PREDICTIONS ON RECORD - Arsenal by ten points, where he thinks Manchester United finish under Michael Carrick, why he can't call Spurs, and the three clubs he's putting down. All of it dated and timestamped for when the season ends. 🎧 Enjoying the show? Follow The Jeff Stelling Show wherever you get your podcasts so you never miss an episode, and leave us a rating and review - it really helps new listeners find us. ⏱️ CHAPTERS 00:00 - Tom Garratt: Welcome to Marc White Fixes Football 03:10 - The Mike Dean confession 05:40 - Should referees have a personality? 08:35 - Five-second countdowns and the new rules 10:36 - Contact, grappling and what's ruining the game 13:45 - Growing up a West Brom fan 19:25 - Tamworth, America and knowing when you're not good enough 25:29 - How Tom got into content 26:55 - Calling Bellingham overrated 33:20 - Mbappé, Ronaldo and players who stop teams winning 35:13 - Woke nonsense or not? 38:54 - Football Hates 39:12 - VAR and the over-analysis of everything 47:56 - Where the money should actually go 52:16 - Glory hunters: support your local team 54:34 - Predictions: Arsenal, United, Spurs and the drop 1:00:20 - Agree or Disagree? 🚨 WIN money-can't-buy sporting experiences at OLBG Prizes 18+ | UK Entrants Only | T&Cs apply | Free Entry Route Available Enter at 👉 https://www.olbgprizes.com (https://www.olbgprizes.com) 🎙️ABOUT THE SHOW Marc White Fixes Football is hosted by Marc White, owner and manager of Dorking Wanderers FC. Marc is in the game every day - he owns a club, he manages a club, and he's not guessing. Every week he brings in someone who knows the game and they take on what's gone wrong with it: refereeing, VAR, ownership, ticket prices, academies, fan culture. 📲 FOLLOW THE SHOW Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mwfixesfootball (https://www.instagram.com/mwfixesfootball) TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@marcwhitefixesfootball (https://www.tiktok.com/@marcwhitefixesfootball) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61560737653806 (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61560737653806) X: https://x.com/MWFixesFootball (https://x.com/MWFixesFootball) Thanks to our partners at Canon, Sennheiser and Pro Light Direct for the kit behind this show. And a special thank you to Iconic Studios, who built the Marc White Fixes Football set from scratch. If you want to see what they could create for you, visit https://www.iconicdisplay.co.uk/ (https://www.iconicdisplay.co.uk/) Ad | Brought to you by OLBG Prizes #Football #TomGarratt #WestBrom #PremierLeague #FootballPodcast #MarcWhiteFixesFootball
15 Oct 2026
1: A Premier League Player HATES Modern Football. Marc White & Tom Cairney Know Who
A Premier League player told Marc White he hates football. Still playing, still brilliant at it, and counting down the days until he can stop. That's one story from episode one of Marc White Fixes Football with Fulham captain, Tom Cairney. Leeds had him from the age of seven. At sixteen they released him for being too small - "we haven't got time for him to grow" - while keeping a lad a year above him down a year to develop. His mum was arguing with the coach in the car park at Newcastle, and crying by the time she picked him up. His dad told him: as soon as you become a man, it goes back to who can play football again. Two and a half years later he was in the Premier League. He's now twelve years and 300-plus appearances into a career at one club, with three promotions and a Wembley winner in it. In a full hour, Marc and Tom get into: ⚽️ REFEREEING - whether ex-players sitting with officials would stop the big clangers, why a split-second read from someone who's played the game spots the acting, and whether old-school referees handled players better than the modern ones are allowed to. ⚽️ THE TITLE RACE - why Cairney thinks Arsenal's is theirs to lose, what it's actually like trying to get a shot off against them, the size of their back line, and why the peak Guardiola City side was the hardest he's faced: "if you won a corner, it felt like you'd scored." ⚽️ PROMOTED CLUBS - sack or back the manager who got you up? How many players can you sign before you break the dressing room that just won promotion? Why Fulham, Brentford and Bournemouth worked out how to stay and so many others don't. ⚽️ BEING RELEASED AT 16 - the full story, the coaches who put him forward anyway, the contract offered over the phone by a manager who said he didn't need to see him, and going from elite academy football to getting changed in a hockey goal outside the stadium. ⚽️ PHIL BROWN - the manager who gave him his pathway, what he was like in training, and why Cairney still mentions him every time he's asked. ⚽️ THE DRESSING ROOM - what captaincy actually involves, taking the armband off Scott Parker, helping foreign signings settle, why a squad without a proper core struggles however talented it is, and why Cairney reckons the changing room is the thing he'll miss most. ⚽️ JIMMY BULLARD - what it was like turning up to training every day as a 17-year-old to see what he'd done next. ⚽️ THE MODERN GAME - set-piece coaches, throw-in coaches, long throws, what it's like being the midfielder asked to block James Tarkowski, and why so much of it is "killing me a little bit." ⚽️ THE NUMBER NINE PROBLEM - nobody wants to be a striker anymore, kids aren't allowed to head it, and who exactly is going to be England's centre-forward in ten years. ⚽️QUICKFIRE AND VALUATIONS - best player he's played with and against, the toughest opponent, the loudest ground, and what Gazza, Gerrard, Scholes, Shearer and Henry would be worth in today's market. Plus what Cairney puts on himself. 🎧 Enjoying the show? Follow Marc White Fixes Football wherever you get your podcasts so you never miss an episode, and leave us a rating and review - it really helps new listeners find us. ⏱️ CHAPTERS 00:00 - Tom Cairney: Welcome to Marc White Fixes Football 02:30 - Pro Ref and the calls they keep getting wrong 03:05 - Should ex-players sit with the officials? 06:55 - "Arsenal's title is theirs to lose" 10:08 - Promoted clubs: sack or back the manager? 11:25 - Released by Leeds at 16 17:30 - Phil Brown and the first-team pathway 19:50 - Captaincy, the armband and playing Premier League football 29:15 - Inside a Premier League dressing room 30:26 - The Premier League player who hates football 40:20 - Jimmy Bullard at Hull 48:43 - Set-piece coaches and long throws 56:30 - Captains swapping ends 58:50 - Quickfire questions 1:03:00 - What would they cost today? 🚨WIN money-can't-buy sporting experiences at OLBG Prizes 18+ | UK Entrants Only | T&Cs apply | Free Entry Route Available Enter at 👉 https://www.olbgprizes.com (https://www.olbgprizes.com) 🎙️ABOUT THE SHOW Marc White Fixes Football is hosted by Marc White, owner and manager of Dorking Wanderers FC. Marc is in the game every day - he owns a club, he manages a club, and he's not guessing. Every week he brings in someone who knows the game and they take on what's gone wrong with it: refereeing, VAR, ownership, ticket prices, academies, fan culture. 📲 FOLLOW THE SHOW Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mwfixesfootball (https://www.instagram.com/mwfixesfootball) TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@marcwhitefixesfootball (https://www.tiktok.com/@marcwhitefixesfootball) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61560737653806 (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61560737653806) X: https://x.com/MWFixesFootball (https://x.com/MWFixesFootball) Thanks to our partners at Canon, Sennheiser and Pro Light Direct for the kit behind this show. And a special thank you to Iconic Studios, who built the Marc White Fixes Football set from scratch. If you want to see what they could create for you, visit https://www.iconicdisplay.co.uk/ (https://www.iconicdisplay.co.uk/) Ad | Brought to you by OLBG Prizes #Football #TomCairney #Fulham #PremierLeague #FootballPodcast #MarcWhiteFixesFootball
12 Oct 2026
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