L ike many middle-aged men struggling to let go of the past, I was gutted earlier this year to hear that Quickly Kevin, Will He Score? was coming to an end. Launched in February 2017, it provided an irreverent, joyous and outright hilarious look at football in the 1990s across more than 300 episodes. It was a huge success and is, quite simply, my favourite ever podcast.
As such, I felt compelled to talk to the hosts Josh Widdicombe, Chris Scull and Michael Marden about doing the show, as well as about 90s football in general. To paraphrase Quickly Kevin’s regular sign-off: Robbie Slater, see you later, lads. You’ve been great.
SN It’s been a few weeks since Quickly Kevin wrapped up; how are you guys feeling about that - England levels of sad after Euro 96 ended? Josh Widdicombe Well, for a start, we did it more on our terms than England did at Euro 96! I think, ‘Quit while you’re ahead’ is a good way to go about things and overall I’m delighted with what we created. You can’t often say that. Chris Scull There’s not many British creative projects that have famously ended early.
I can only think of Fawlty Towers and The Office ...
and now Quickly Kevin. In all seriousness, it’s rare for creative projects to end on their own terms, and that’s the great thing about podcasts in general; you can start them and end them when you choose to do so. SN You went out with a bang with your final live show at the London Palladium last month.
Being there, it was clear h.
