Jonny Gould's Football Fix
Morning Sports Fans! Welcome to Jonny Gould’s sports channel featuring interviews and reports from the Beautiful Game ansd beyond! Listen to Jonny on Fix Radio with your Fix of sport everyday!
Episodes
April 30, 2025 • 71 mins
Let’s celebrate David Pleat’s long career in football.
Tipped as “the next Tom Finney” as an England Schoolboy, young David rejected offers from a host of clubs to stay at home, finish his ‘O’ Levels and enjoy his mum's home-cooked meatballs!
David's autobiography, "Just One More Goal" tells the story from his upbringing in Nottingham through a successful managerial career at Luton, Tottenham, Leicester and Sheffield Wednesday -...
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July 5, 2024 • 19 mins
This is Part 4 of All For The Love Of The Game, the story of Peter Withe’s memorable football career.
Over these four episodes, it’s been a real privilege to sit down with one of Aston Villa’s most significant history makers.
Scroll back and listen to the three previous episodes as we work our way through his football story played out over four continents.
Part of the England World Cup squad in 1982, followed straight after becomi...
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June 28, 2024 • 16 mins
This is Part 3 of "All For The Love Of The Game", the story of Peter Withe’s momentous football career.
Peter had reached 30-years-old having won two league titles with two different clubs.
But even greater glory was just around the corner.
And amid behind-the-scenes drama at Aston Villa, Peter describes the season he became a European champion despite upheaval at the club.
Coming up in Part 4 of "All for the Love of the Game": the...
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June 21, 2024 • 21 mins
"I had a dream I would play for Aston Villa Football Club!"
Welcome to Part 2 of All For The Love Of The Game, the story of Peter Withe’s memorable football career.
In part 1, Peter took us from his humble football beginnings on Merseyside, all the way to league title glory with Brian Clough’s Nottingham Forest.
And we start this episode with his unlikely departure from Forest on the edge of European glory for second division Newc...
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June 14, 2024 • 26 mins
Hi, this is Jonny Gould. I’m a lifelong Aston Villa fan, born in the city centre of Birmingham.
My first game in 1977, was less than auspicious, a 4-1 midweek thrashing under the famous AV floodlights by a Dennis Tueart inspired Manchester City.
But it got a whole lot better over the coming seasons and a key reason for that was Ron Saunders and his inspired signing of Peter Withe for a hefty half a million pounds from Newcastle in...
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Our two guests today are professional sportsmen from two different continents, cultures and sports, united in countering racism and intolerance in the sports industry.
They’re part of Project Max, who’s MD Eric Rubin was with me in Amsterdam at the European Jewish Association conference, where he moderated a session on fighting antisemitism, racism and intoler...
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December 31, 2020 • 47 mins
This is a wonderful conversation between two Aston Villa fans, who have supported the club through thick and thin for the last 58 years.
Million selling author Lee Child, famous for the Jack Reacher thriller series and Simon Inglis, who’s written authoritative accounts of football stadium across the world.
The conversation covers so much social and football history and is in aid of the Aston and Nechells food bank, which does such ...
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September 15, 2020 • 34 mins
Covid has turned the Premier League on its head. The FFP regulations have hampered some of the rich and powerful and brought some of the lesser lights in midtable back into a powerplay.
Where do Aston Villa fit into this new disruption? There's really only one person to ask: it's Yorkshire AVFC, the one and only FFP professor, Dave Jordan.
⚽️ Dave knows: ▫️How much wiggle room Villa has in the transfer market ▫️Why Arsenal seemed o...
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August 13, 2020 • 60 mins
I reckon Aston Villa fans are as proud of our famous supporters as we are of our players!
From genius violinists to the future king of England, from accomplished authors and actors to prime ministers who mistake us for West Ham!
And an authentic voice of our beloved city. A poet, who over 5 decades has become a household name for his poetry and music.
It’s the one and only Benjamin Zephaniah, also a patron of our Supporters’ Trust,...
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May 12, 2020 • 30 mins
This is the first podcast since our AGM with CEO Christian Purslow and legendary winger Tony Daley - and with lockdown since then, there's a lot to catch up on.
We have a very special guest as Nick Timothy, Theresa May's joint chief of staff at Downing Street and Villa season ticket holder joins me to talk about growing up in Tile Hill and going to school in Aston. Villa's membership of the Premier League hangs on a knife edge.
As ...
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July 31, 2019 • 57 secs
Don’t you just hate those flippant questions from non-Villa fans? I gave it short shrift to sports Johnny on Nicky Campbell’s Breakfast Show.
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July 1, 2019 • 4 mins
There's been a lot of paper talk about Manchester United preparing a £50m bid for Aston Villa's player of the season, John McGinn. "Nonsense!", cried Jonny, who doused the rumours by speaking to Jake on the radio
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Phil Williams' final show on BBC Radio 5 Live was a special occasion; I was part of his regular Team Talk feature, as one of contributors for several years. Alongside others including Ian Herbert, Ian Ladyman, Alison Bender and Conor McNamara, we all came together for one last hurrah.
The conversation moved onto Aston Villa's playoff hopes and reminiscences of Tony Butler and even a cameo appearance by Villa's European hero, Nigel...
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