The Sweeper - A World Football Podcast

Lee Wingate and Paul Watson

The Sweeper is a world football podcast telling fascinating stories from the global game – from the World Cup and Champions League to the most obscure and overlooked competitions on earth. Hosted by Lee Wingate and Paul Watson, the show covers all 211 FIFA nations and beyond, touching on geopolitics, geography, politics, history, culture, travel and identity. Join us for an ample supply of chaos, cross-border clubs, underdogs, ultras, away days, players with unusual day jobs and football in places you didn’t know had teams! 🎧 Weekly episodes ⭐ 5-star rated 🌍 Listeners in 180 countries

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The Sweeper - A World Football Podcast

Episodes (95)

Tuesday Brazil’s rainforest rivalry, Myanmar’s unbeatable powerhouse & Bougainville’s push for independence
Tue Feb 10th Viktor Orban’s football powerplay, Copa Libertadores expansion & Chinese Super League sanctions
Tue Feb 3rd Qarabag’s Champions League heroics, Benfica’s goalkeeper goal & Kazakhstan’s Borat arrests

The Sweeper - A World Football Podcast

Feb 17, 2026
34¼ minutes
31 MB

The most-played match in world football has been contested nearly 1,000 times – yet most fans have never heard of it. Join us on a journey to a tropical corner of the planet as we uncover a rivalry first played in 1914… and still being contested today. Who are the two teams involved? Why have they faced each other so often – an average of seven times a year for over a century? And what could finally slow this extraordinary fixture down in 2026? Next, we explore the remarkable story of a top-flight club who have not lost a leag...

The Sweeper - A World Football Podcast

Brazil’s rainforest rivalry, Myanmar’s unbeatable powerhouse & Bougainville’s push for independence

Lee Wingate and Paul Watson

00:00 -34:12