Today we look at the *English* hero Harry Kane, and thesecret to how he has become England’s top goalscorer. Jack and I discuss stoicism, the Greek and Roman philosophy all about how to achieve the best life and age like the fine wine Ronaldo certainly doesn’t drink.

Stoicism accounts for all of the great footballers’ nous:knowing when to track that runner, knowing when to switch the play, and, if you’re Ryan Giggs, knowing when your brother’s not in the house.

Stoicism tells us that the most active of us are those of uswho exercise our brains. They do say the first 3 yards are in your head, after all!

Here at FFP, we've designed this podcast to be educational — though, much like Financial Fair Play, whether it actually works is another matter entirely.

In today's (late) episode, Jack and I discuss hypercollectivity and how it is an indescribable 'thing'. It's like seeing your crush dance with the boy who can actually play football, it's the taste of your first after-work pint, and the delirium of winning the Lincoln Sunday League Division 2 title. Experiencing football is experiencing these things we call 'qualia': its the 'supra-feeling' you get from doing something - why is that first sip of a pint the best? Why did you just *have* to be there for that funny event? This is qualia - the atmosphere, the feeling, the joy, the agony and the hypercollectivity that encompasses the beautiful game.

For good or for bad, some footballing experiences will last a lifetime. They're timeless, they're with us forever. Jack tells us this is kairotic; the Greeks called what we call 'deep-time' Kairos, the opportune time to do something, the feeling of living in the event, that timeless feeling where it seems like time stands still.

So what happens when you put the first sip of beer and the feeling of timelessness together? You get football, it's a simple equation. Listen to us show our working.

Here at FFP, we've designed this podcast to be educational — though, much like Financial Fair Play, whether it actually works is another matter entirely.

In this episode, Jack and I offer you either the red or the blue pill. Take the blue pill, and you carry on festering in your mum's basement playing your FIFA. Take the red though, and you'll experience football as it's supposed to be experienced.

This first-part episode describes the philosophy of Jean Baudrillard, who claims that reality has become far too complex, and as such, we've created a hyperreality: a distorted simulation of the 'real' thing. He claims this hyperreality becomes more important, more real, to us, than the real.

Can maps feature themselves? Can FIFA stop being corrupt? Can you really experience football sitting on your settee, feet up, dressing gown on?

Here at FFP, we've designed this podcast to be educational — though, much like Financial Fair Play, whether it actually works is another matter entirely.