For our season 3 finale we've only gone and done something pretty special: please welcome to the pod the award winning author and journalist Elle Hardy!

Elle takes us through one of her latest publications, an essay on the rise of football's latest non-playing star, Fabrizio Romano and then takes us on a journey, charting the rise of the Pentacostal movement across the world and how it relates to politics and football. There's plenty of philosophy in there as well, don't you worry your rolled-down socks about it.

This is easily the best episode we've done to date - good things always happen to those who wait...!

Just like Financial Fair Play, we here at FFP have designed this podcast to be educational. Whether it works is a different matter entirely.

In this week's episode, Jack and I discuss our semi-finalists and then try to work out who wins the inaugural World Cup of Philosophy.

As ever we travel a circuitous route: Jack takes us through the talismanic figures of these great sides and then we promptly throw them back in the mire of World Cup misery but not before Adam discusses how he always goes 'straight for the ballbag.'

Tune in to see who takes the glory. Will it be France, Greece, Austria or Italy?

Just like Financial Fair Play, we here at FFP have designed this podcast to be educational. Whether it works is a different matter entirely.

In this episode, Jack and I get stuck into the last eightinternational teams left in the World Cup of Philosophy here at FFP. For the quarters, lots of teams have brought in some fresh faces too, it’s practically super sub central!

Have you heard about the scientific anarchist, Paul Feyerabend? How about the best-named eco-‘philosopher’/theologian Hildegard von Bingen? Listen: if you’ve not got a scooby who the biggest smartarse in history is – Peter Abelard – where’ve you been all your life?

Come and join us as we delve into their philosophies andmore.

Just like Financial Fair Play, we here at FFP have designed this podcast to be educational. Whether it works is a different matter entirely.