Show notes: Podcast 652

Sound of Football Podcast 652 - Losing focus

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The BBC is to ditch Football Focus at the end of this season after 52 years on our screens. Was the Saturday lunchtime magazine show’s demise simply down to a failure to evolve?

With Graham Sibley, Jan Bilton and Terry Duffelen.

Duration: 38.53 | Filesize: 44.9MB (MP3)

Previous podcast | Season 17

Links

• Guardian: BBC blows final whistle on Football Focus as show scrapped after 52 years
• Sky Sports: Chelsea 1-0 Leeds: Enzo Fernandez heads Blues into FA Cup final just days after Liam Rosenior’s exit
• Sky Sports: Man City 2-1 Southampton: Pep Guardiola’s men make FA Cup final for fourth consecutive year after mighty Saints scare
• BBC: Neville’s Overlap buys Goldbridge’s YouTube channels

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FA Cup 2025/26 semi-finals

English league positions at time of recording: Premier League | Championship | League One | League Two | Women’s Super League | Women’s Super League 2