As that improvised terrace chant just said, World Cup 2010 is nearly upon us. With so many different World Cup previews out there we at Last Minute, Second Leg are going to offer you something slightly different.

In this episode we are joined by Brent Atema of www.globalfootballtoday.com. Alongside Brent, host Ross Andrew Gallacher will preview the Football League and Scottish Premier League players likely to feature in South Africa. Unlike B.A. Baracus and Theo Walcott they got on a plane, fool!

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The two share their thoughts on the League One and Two playoff finals. They discuss the implications of promotion and relegation for various Football League teams coupled with “somewhere in the ball park” predictions for next season.

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They bring to the table a rather fascinating iddiot’s guide to Mexican football. Explaining the rather complicated league system, bringing anecdotes and a whistle stop tour of Mexican stadia. The “Little Pork Scratching” (Man Utd newboy Javier Hernandez) is discussed. Discussing whether or not he is one to watch at this years World Cup and if he is actually better than Berbatov?111

This pod lands right before the England vs Mexico friendly tonight. So what better way to build up to the game, than listen to Last Minute, Second Leg.

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Steve Watkins offers us a fascinating background history, on what is likely to be a new edition to The Football League in the coming weeks. Among the topics discussed are manager Graham Westley, the Lamex stadium and Stevenage players to watch out for in League Two next season. Enjoy the interview and our show.

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The two have been the main force behind Swindon’s charge for promotion, via the playoffs or even through the automatic promotion places. Thanks for your show of continued support by downloading the podcast. For more of Scott Munroe check out his posts on www.serieaweekly.com and the League 1 and 2 Football Fancast.

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The Last Minute, Second Leg crew return to you for, with yet another of its fabled UEFA Champions and Europa League preview shows. In our two shows this week we bring you detailed discussion and analysis of the forthcoming European ties that concern teams from the five nations that dominate European Football (Spain, France, Germany, Italy and England). Ross Andrew Gallacher hosts the discussion with punditry from: Kris Voakes of Goal.com, Italian Serie A Football Fancast and World Football Daily fame and Last Minute, Second Leg European correspondent Kristan Heneage.

In part two we move onto to analyse the prospects of the teams from Italy and England. Particularly we focus on the two Milan clubs and their ties vs Man United and Chelsea respectively. Also on the menu is Mourinho’s tribute to Rage Against the Machine, betting tips and we find out who our panel believe will win big in Europe in 2010.

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The Last Minute, Second Leg crew return to you, with yet another of its fabled UEFA Champions and Europa League preview shows. In our two shows this week we bring you detailed discussion and analysis of the forthcoming European ties that concern teams from the five nations that dominate European Football (Spain, France, Germany, Italy and England). Ross Andrew Gallacher hosts the discussion with punditry from: Kris Voakes of Goal.com, Italian Serie A Football Fancast and World Football Daily fame and Last Minute, Second Leg European correspondent Kristan Heneage. In part one of two Spanish, French and German teams are on the menu. With points of interest including “Schteve” McClaren, dodgy Slimfast and former Newcastle United “heroes” playing abroad.

Join us again later in the week, as the panel return with part two featuring the teams from Italy and England.  To get in touch with us, feel free to leave a comment on our website (www.lasminsecleg.com), via email (matthew.lmsl@gmail.com or ross.lmsl@gmail.com), or via our Twitter page (twitter.com/lasminsecleg).  Also, we invite you to join our group on Facebook - To do so, simply log onto Facebook and search ‘Last Minute, Second Leg’.

The show is very much about the financial issues which have dominated the footballing headlines in recent weeks. Four football league clubs who have faced financial difficulties :Crystal Palace, Stockport County, Notts County and Watford are the topics of discussion in this area.

Some of the topics featuring in the discussion are the causes of these four club’s financial problems, the Victor Moses transfer saga and Notts County soap opera.

Some of the non financial based discussions include: Dov give us his two cents on Tom Cleverley and Craig Cathcart, both at Watford on loan from Man Utd.

Kristan reports on Crystal Palace’s recent visit to Newcastle.

The panel discuss the Championship team of the season so far, Forest. In this speaking about on form goalkeeper Lee Camp.

You can catch more of Dov Schiavone on the RedCafe.net and Italian Serie A Football Fancast podcasts respectively. Both are available free from the iTunes store just search for “RedCafe.net or “Italian Serie A Football Fancast”.

As ever, feel free to contact us via email at either msemisch@gmail.com or ross.lmsl@gmail.com, via our Facebook group (search: Last Minute, Second Leg), on Twitter (twitter.com/lasminsecleg), or in the comments sections on our blog at www.lasminsecleg.com. Thanks for your continued support of LMSL despite such a long wait, and enjoy the show!

Later on, Ross chats with Kristian Heneage, a freelance journalist that many listeners will know from his correspondence for World Soccer Daily (now World Football Daily) last season, to talk about Newcastle United’s good fortunes so far in the Coca-Cola Football League Championship.  They also look elswhere in the division, including the Magpies’ neighbors Middlesborough and also Roy Keane’s struggling Ipswich Town side.

As ever, feel free to contact us via email at either msemisch@gmail.com or ross.lmsl@gmail.com, via our Facebook group (search: Last Minute, Second Leg), on Twitter (twitter.com/lasminsecleg), or in the comments sections on our blog at www.lasminsecleg.com.  Thanks for your continued support of LMSL, and enjoy the show!

All kidding aside, there’s a lot to discuss on the new LMSL Podcast, and Matthew and Ross get together to talk about former England defender Sol Campbell’s departure from Coca-Cola Football League Two side Notts County after his first game in what was meant to be a five-year stay at Meadow Lane.  The boys also talk about the goings-on this week in the CIS Cup in Scotland and the Carling Cup in England, and Ross vents about the recently-sacked Davie Irons and what happens now at Ross’s beloved club, Greenock Morton.

Later on in the show, Kartik Krishnaiyer from The Kartik Report (a fellow Own Goal Network affiliate) and Major League Soccer Talk joins us to discuss the state of the United States’s men’s national team as well as American players plying their trade in Europe.  Our listeners in the U.K. and elsewhere besides the U.S. will be particularly interested in hearing what Kartik has to say about what’s going on with the American national team as well as U.S. Soccer in general.  Ever wonder what kind of things have been holding the Americans back in the world of football?  Kartik knows, and he’ll tell you here on the LMSL Podcast.

Finally on this episode of the Podcast, we’ll give you a little teaser on a reader/listener competition we have coming up.  We won’t give too much away here, but keep an eye out for details on the blog over the weekend, and we’ll also give you some more information about the competition on the next episode of the Podcast.

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Thanks for listening!

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Thanks for listening!

Join us again later in the week, as the whole gang returns to preview the UEFA Europa League group stage.  To get in touch with us, feel free to leave a comment on our website (www.lasminsecleg.com), via email (matthew.lmsl@gmail.com or ross.lmsl@gmail.com), or via our Twitter page (twitter.com/lasminsecleg).  Also, we invite you to join our group on Facebook - To do so, simply log onto Facebook and search ‘Last Minute, Second Leg’.

This edition of the podcast features an interview conducted this week by Matthew with Stephen Rea, author of Finn McCool’s Football Club: The Birth, Death and Resurrection of a Pub Soccer Team in the City of the Dead, a review of which you can find at our website, lasminsecleg.com.  In the interview, Rea discusses his upbringing in Belfast, Northern Ireland, as well as the differences between life and the footballing cultures in Belfast and Rea’s current hometown of New Orleans, how the Finn McCool’s pub football team was formed, what life was like for FMFC’s players and their families before, during and after Hurricane Katrina, and much more.

Finally, Matthew and Ross give you a sneak preview of what you can expect next time, but you’ll have to listen to find out exactly what that is.  In the meantime, don’t forget to send your questions and comments to matthew.lmsl@gmail.com and ross.lmsl@gmail.com, our website, or our Twitter page (twitter.com/lasminsecleg).

Enjoy the show, and thanks for listening!