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Fantrax and Football

Fantrax and Football

Draft Academical 121 Episodes Aug 20, 2026

A casual fantasy football podcast focused on draft Premier League leagues. The hosts discuss strategy, banter, and share questionable takes without claiming to be experts. Expect a light-hearted, laddish tone rather than professional analysis. Episodes cover player picks, trades, and matchweek previews.

Episodes

LIVE Fantrax Gazette: Draft Review, Mailbag and a League Drafting in Real Time
LIVE Fantrax Gazette: Draft Review, Mailbag and a League Drafting in Real Time Aug 20, 2026 4446 A big first for the podcast: this one's recorded live, on video, with the community watching and chatting along. Tim and Karl (faces finally attached to the voices) run a season-opening Gazette while the last of the seven listener leagues drafts in real time in the background.They go league by league through the six drafts already done, armed with ruthless verdicts sent in by each commiss
Draft Review & Plant Your Flag 2026/27
Draft Review & Plant Your Flag 2026/27 Aug 18, 2026 4622 The season is days away and the drafts are done, so the lads sit down to review how their own boards played out and plant their flags for the year ahead. Gary's back in the UK and can't join live, but he's sent voice notes with his draft, his plant-a-flag pick and his fade, which the crew react to in real time.First, a quick word on last-minute moves, including the deadline-day injury tha
Mailbag: Reaches, Avoids and Your Draft-Day Questions
Mailbag: Reaches, Avoids and Your Draft-Day Questions Aug 13, 2026 4178 The first mailbag of the season lands fresh off the back of twenty club episodes and the best part of twenty hours in the recording chair. Fifteen listener questions, answered raw with no prep, as the lads and the community count down to draft weekend.They dig into the questions that matter before you draft. How to play the turn and whether you sweat positional balance early, the Nico O'R
Club x Club: Tottenham Hotspur
Club x Club: Tottenham Hotspur Aug 13, 2026 2310 The Club x Club series takes on the summer's second-biggest spenders, Tottenham, and it's a minefield: a raft of new signings, a pile of injuries and returning players, and a stack of transfer rumours the lads have no answers to yet. Lots of question marks, and a De Zerbi side that could go either way.They work the board. The one defender all three would break their rules for and take in
Club x Club: Nottingham Forest
Club x Club: Nottingham Forest Aug 13, 2026 1606 The Club x Club series turns to Nottingham Forest, and Karl, who volunteered for this one, thinks their assets are about to be badly undervalued. Glasner ball at Forest, with better players than he had at Palace, sets up a wing-back-and-defender goldmine that the lads reckon most drafters will sleep on.They map it out. Where the first-round midfielder lands and the live debate over whethe
Club x Club: Fulham
Club x Club: Fulham Aug 13, 2026 1386 The Club x Club series gets to Fulham, and Tim doesn't hide the sarcasm: this is a squad he fancies for the drop, now run by a rookie manager fresh off a rough Real Madrid stint, having lost their set-piece taker, their striker and more. Not a lot to work with, but the lads go hunting for value anyway.They run the handful of names actually being drafted. The unproven Real Madrid striker w
Club x Club: Sunderland
Club x Club: Sunderland Aug 13, 2026 1874 The Club x Club series reaches Sunderland, and with three Newcastle fans on the mic, Sean draws the short straw of researching the enemy. Last season's surprise package are back in the top flight and into Europe, and the big question hanging over the whole episode is whether a squad that punched miles above its weight can do it again with two games a week.The lads work through the assets
Club x Club: Newcastle United
Club x Club: Newcastle United Aug 12, 2026 2100 With Gary safely absent, the podcast becomes a fully biased Newcastle fans' cast, and resident Geordie Karl leads the way through a summer of upheaval and, somehow, renewed optimism. Eddie Howe gone, a young high-press manager in, Tonali, Gordon, Trippier and Bruno all out the door, and a raft of young signings in. Fast, direct, heavy-metal football that the lads think could reshape a lot
Club x Club: Manchester United
Club x Club: Manchester United Aug 12, 2026 2118 The Club x Club series takes on Manchester United, with Sean leading a squad he calls the most confusing to line up of any team he's researched. A first full season under Carrick, a settled roster on paper, and yet almost no certainty about who plays where once you get past the top three names.The lads work through it. Where the world's-best-when-he's-on midfielder goes at the very top of
Club x Club: Bournemouth
Club x Club: Bournemouth Aug 12, 2026 1949 The Club x Club series answers a flood of Discord requests and gets to Bournemouth, a side with another Iraola-style presser in Marco Rose picking up where the old boss left off. A quiet squad rebuild, a key injury in midfield, and European football all factor into how the lads value a team that keeps producing Fantrax bargains.The central debate is price versus value on the shiny new att
Club x Club: Leeds United
Club x Club: Leeds United Aug 11, 2026 1778 The Club x Club series turns to Leeds, and the framing question is simple: is Harry Wilson a must-draft or not? Tim says yes, Sean says no, and that split runs through the whole episode. A quiet window, a settled Farke setup, and a set-piece picture that could make or break a couple of valuations give the lads plenty to chew on.They dig into the disagreements. Whether the free-transfer cr
Club x Club: Liverpool
Club x Club: Liverpool Aug 11, 2026 1944 The Club x Club series heads to Anfield, with Karl on research duty for a Liverpool side he genuinely thinks could be special under Iraola. A first season without Salah, Robertson and a raft of old leaders, a busy-but-unfinished window, and the intensity of Iraola-ball across two games a week set up a squad the lads are excited about but wary of.They map the board. The three back-end-firs

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