Pubcast #91: Lend us a Tenor?

With the close season starting to wear a bit thin, and just Olympic Football, pre-season friendlies and transfer rumours to keep us going, the Pubcast team were understandably distracted this week – not least by Dan’s striking likeness to a certain deceased Italian opera star! Nevertheless, the boys still managed to find plenty of talking points, including a dubiously named new rising star section (more of which in coming weeks), and Dan’s very own “aria” of expertise – dodgy beards! Also in this week’s show:

• The various incarnations of the “new Maradona” • Mexican wrestling • Olympic reaction • Usain Bolt’s Theatre of Dreams • Good news from Stiliyan Petrov • England’s highest ever ranking • Kendall Town’s new sponsor • Danny Wellbeck’s heroic father • Yeovil Town & Playford FC’s naked ambition • Violent family days • Foul Hajduk Split fan comes clean • Senegalese Olympic footballer goes AWOL • Dukes of Hazard • Ashley Cole winds up Arsenal fans on Twitter • Sami Khedira faces the goal • AFC back to Wimbledon? • Plus plenty more from the boys in the Wharf

Maradona, Olympics, Pavarotti, Usain Bolt, Man Utd, Stiliyan Petrov, England, FIFA, Kendall Town, Danny Wellbeck, Yeovil Town, Playford FC, Blackburn Rovers, Hajduk Split, Tottenham, Eden Hazard, Ashley Cole, Sami Khedira, AFC Wimbledon,