A FOOTBALL PODCAST FROM SYDNEY

The Lion
& Gun.

Arsenal, Chelsea, the Premier League and whatever football has taken over our week.

EP. 01 Before the first whistle. 42:45 · listen ↓

WHO WE ARE

Two mates talking football.

The Lion & Gun is basically the football chat we would be having anyway — match reactions, transfers, predictions, Arsenal, Chelsea and the occasional bit of actual analysis.

UMAIR

Chelsea.

Umair spends a fairly unreasonable amount of his free time thinking about football. He’s been an avid Chelsea supporter since he learned Spurs were shit, but will happily watch, argue about and overanalyse pretty much anything happening in the Premier League.

Outside football, he works, runs for a very long time, and plays futsal on Wednesdays — which he’s not very good at and usually puffs out pretty quickly. The Lion & Gun is a project and hobby, and mostly an excuse to put the football conversations he and Jack were already having somewhere.

In 2026, Chelsea published a piece about him finally seeing the club play live in Sydney.

Read it here ↗

JACK

Arsenal.

Jack spends a fairly unreasonable amount of his free time thinking about football. He’s an Arsenal supporter, but will happily watch, argue about and overanalyse pretty much anything happening in the Premier League.

He and Umair were having the same football arguments long before there was a microphone involved. The Lion & Gun is basically where those conversations ended up — with Jack bringing the Arsenal side, plenty of opinions of his own, and absolutely no interest in letting Umair have the last word.

EPISODES

The first one’s out.

OUT NOW · 42:45 · PRE-SEASON / BEFORE GW1

Before the first whistle.

Our 2026/27 Premier League predictions go on record, opinions about transfers and pre-season, Arsenal and Chelsea, GW1 predictions and the first Lion & Gun fantasy team.

GW1

Bring the receipts.

The first proper matchweek. Reactions from the opening weekend, what stood out, and which pre-season takes already need explaining.