It’s trebles all round as we come to the final episode in our 1990s odyssey. There’s the usual mix of weird transfers, weirder kits, and in depth look at the Premier League season in particular. But in the end, it all comes down to Manchester United winning the treble. Football. Bloody hell. 

Gary Thacker quizzes another member of the  team about the team they support. Why, best and worst moments, favourite players and those they’d like to forget plus the nuclear question: could you ever support anyone else? It’s a grand old podcast with Paul Mc Parlan. 

In a quick break before our final seasonal episode of the 90s, we are joined by TV producer and author Jonathan Grade to discuss one of the biggest cultural elements of that decade: Channel 4’s Football Italia.

Bring Me That Horizon: A Journey To The Soul of Portuguese Football is the subject of this Centre Circle pod as author Miguel Pereira discusses his epic tome with Rhys Richards, Steven Scragg and Aidan Williams.

Young managers, five subs, sky high ticket prices, no concessions, eight grands worth of fireworks and the end of the Saturday 3pm live TV blackout. Are we entering the second era of 21st century football?

Arsene Wenger’s revolution at Highbury means everyone starts loving Arsenal. Except Alex Ferguson that is, who sees his Manchester United side beaten to the title by them. Manchester City slump to the third tier – that’ll be them finished – and Paul Merson shares a house with Gazza. There goes the neighbourhood.

Another title for Manchester United; Newcastle  splash the cash on Alan Shearer; Middlesbrough reach two cup finals, don’t reach Blackburn, can’t reach Emerson and do reach relegation. All human life is here in our look back at 1996/97. 

Gary Thacker quizzes another member of the team about who they support. Why, best and worst moments, favourite players and those they’d like to forget plus the nuclear question: could you ever support anyone else? Matthew Gibbs keeps right on with Birmingham City. 

Taking a leaf from David Bowie’s book, we are looking into the next five years, but for Manchester United alone. What would represent success for them over that period, will they return to the summit, or will there still be five years left to cry in? From an ice-cream parlour, drinking milk shakes cold and long, Rob Fletcher and Alex Ireland look for the answers.

Do you reckon that you can’t win anything with kids? Would you love it if the entertainers came through and took a first Premier League title back to Tyneside? Are you in raptures at the arrival of some Ruud sexy football? Do you want to hear everything you ever wanted to know about Juninho but were afraid to ask? Then you’ve come to the right place.

There seems to be a stat for everything those days, but are they truly helpful or is it just a case of lies, damned lies and statistics? And is the fascination with numbers turning football from an art form into a science? Rob Fletcher and Matthew Gibbs have their spreadsheets to hand.