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It Started With A Kick
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About this Podcast:
“It Started With a Kick” is hosted by renowned football writer and author Richard Foster. In each episode a well-known guest will delve into their memory bank to talk about the first football match they attended. The focus is less about the match itself and more on all the circumstances surrounding that pivotal experience. The sights and sounds, the fans and the kits, the stadium and their companions on that all-important day when a lifetime love affair with football began. WATCH THIS SHOW ON YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvSsjD3e_NeWotY3GETtbWA FOLLOW THE SHOW ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/iswakpodcast/ FOLLOW THE SHOW ON X: https://twitter.com/ISWAKPodcast FOLLOW THE SHOW ON FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61558248779779
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What is It Started With A Kick about?
“It Started With a Kick” is hosted by renowned football writer and author Richard Foster. In each episode a well-known guest will delve into their memory bank to talk about the first football match they attended. The focus is less about the match itself and more on all the circumstances surrounding that pivotal experience.
What has It Started With A Kick covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Johnny Nicholson - Part 2" (29 October 2026, 28 minutes), "Johnny Nicholson - Part 1" (27 October 2026, 29 minutes), and "Rolf Hessbruegge - Part 2" (22 October 2026, 29 minutes).
How often does It Started With A Kick publish?
It Started With A Kick publishes roughly a few times a week, with episodes averaging 34 minutes across 241 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on It Started With A Kick?
Booking probability for It Started With A Kick is 36%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. It Started With A Kick requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. It Started With A Kick's contact route on record: verified email.
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It Started With A Kick is a sports podcast with 241 episodes published.
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It Started With A Kick
Johnny Nicholson - Part 1
Oct 27, 202629 minJohnny Nicholson, who recently announced he was calling an end to his time at F365 after 26 years of weekly columns. which amounts to over 3,000 pieces. His last column called for the abolition of the Premier League and...
It Started With A Kick
Rolf Hessbruegge - Part 1
Oct 20, 202640 minThis week's guest is the first German we have had on this podcast, football journalist, Rolf Hessbruegge. Rolf is a Schalke fan and his father took him to his first match against bitter rivals Borussia Dortmund with the...
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Ady Packham - Part 1
Oct 13, 202636 minThis week's guest is Ady Packham, who is one of the Albion Roar podcasters and yes he is a Brighton fan but It Started With a Kick is a broad church and everyone is welcome inside, even infidels and Seagulls.
It Started With A Kick
David Arrowsmith - Part 1
Oct 6, 202638 minThis week's guest is the first Colombian to appear on this pod with the very un-Colombian name of David Arrowsmith. He has written a couple of books about football in South America including 2024’s NarcoBall - Love...
It Started With A Kick
Marc Higginson - Part 1
Sep 15, 202629 minThis week's guest is Marc Higginson a senior journalist manager at BBC Sport who has a book coming out in October entitled “Falling for Manchester City”, which covers a period in which City were going through some...
It Started With A Kick
Luis Miguel Echegaray - Part 1
Sep 8, 202632 minToday’s guest is the very first Peruvian on this pod and I think I’m right in saying the first person born in South America. Welcome Luis Miguel Echegaray and although Luis has been a football writer, broadcaster and...
It Started With A Kick
John Roder - Part 2
Jun 11, 202631 minThis week’s guest is John Roder joins a glittering list of commentators on this pod, which include Guy Mowbray, Peter Drury, John Helm and most recently Mike Minay. John has been at the chalk face of commentary with a...
It Started With A Kick
John Roder - Part 1
Jun 9, 202629 minThis week’s guest is John Roder joins a glittering list of commentators on this pod, which include Guy Mowbray, Peter Drury, John Helm and most recently Mike Minay. John has been at the chalk face of commentary with a...
It Started With A Kick
Mike Minay - Part 2
Jun 4, 202633 minMike Minay, a commentator and reporter who has become a regular voice on 5Live and also Match of the Day recently and Mike will be part of the BBC’s World Cup team which starts in just over a week’s time, so exciting...
It Started With A Kick
Mike Minay - Part 1
Jun 2, 202632 minMike Minay, a commentator and reporter who has become a regular voice on 5Live and also Match of the Day recently and Mike will be part of the BBC’s World Cup team which starts in just over a week’s time, so exciting...
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Luis Miguel Echegaray
Sports Illustrated
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Steve Hill
President/CEO, Las Vegas Convention and Visitor Authority, Las Vegas Convention Center and Visitors Authority
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Jim Daly
Head of Deal Pursuit for the US Mid-Atlantic, South East, & Shared Services team at Google, Focus on the Family USA
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Anthony Richardson
associate professor of microbiology and molecular genetics, Process Management International
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