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FC Curva

FC Curva

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In football, ‘curva’ refers to the stand where the most passionate and vocal supporters, often ultras groups, are situated, usually on the banked end of a stadium. It's a focal point of a club's support, often seen as the heart of the team's fan base.


This project explores how football can be a vehicle for social change, asking whether the sense of community and belonging we have within the game can be harnessed for wider collective action.


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Episodes
  • Joe Simpson: Football's relationship with mental health

    Joe Simpson: Football's relationship with mental health
    Dec 22 2025
    Joe Simpson is with us to talk about football’s relationship with mental health, opening up about how the sport has helped him process grief following the death of his father. We get into the positives and negatives of the emotional state that is football fandom and discuss how the landscape around mental wellbeing has changed over the last 10 years.

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    19 mins
  • Aneesa Ahmed: The importance of representation and community

    Aneesa Ahmed: The importance of representation and community
    Sep 2 2025

    Music and features journalist Aneesa Ahmed is with us to talk all things football and community.


    We get into the lack of South Asian representation within the sport, the uneasy relationship with patriotism as people of colour, and the importance of organisations such as Baes FC & Football For Foodbanks. All this an much more.


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    32 mins
  • Football For Future: How football is responding to the climate crisis

    Football For Future: How football is responding to the climate crisis
    Jun 20 2025

    Elliot Worsop, founder and director of Football For Future and communications manager Dan Hall are with us to talk about how football is responding to the climate crisis.


    We get into the top down and grassroots work FFF does, whether the sustainability targets of the Premier League and FIFA are realistic, the hypocritical and inconsistent messaging by clubs when it comes to climate action, the environmental cost of the unceasing expansion of football, how fans can get involved, plus much more.


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    26 mins
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