It's preseason, the football's on pause (well the proper stuff we mean), but there's never a shortage of things worth talking about at Beans!.

At Give 'em Beans!, we've always believed the fanzine is about more than just what's happening on the pitch - it's about the town, the people, the culture and the stories that make Barrow what it is.

So for this special episode of Spillin' the Beans!, we did something a little different.

Jonny sat down with Barrovian artist John Duffin - a man whose paintings of the town have found their way into the hearts and homes of Barrovians across the world, paintings that come back to the streets, the docks and the soul of the place he grew up in.

So tune in to hear them chat about his childhood in Barrow, his years working in the shipyard, his move to London to pursue his art and what his relationship with the town looks like today - plus his recent exhibition at the ⁠Dock Museum - Look North ⁠

That was the season that was, it’s over… let it go.

Fraser and Dave join Jonny to go over the last knockings of a dismal campaign and react to the first outputs of The Great Reset. Managerial options are pondered and we discuss whether or not many of the current squad could be a force in the National League.

Join us for one last dance with the EFL badge our sleeves…..

“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o’er-fraught heart and bids it break.” - King Claudius, Hamlet

We’re more Slim Pantatellas than Hamlets at Beans HQ but the sentiment remains!

Steve and Dave join Jonny in facing the final curtain with brief reflections on the meek surrender to Cambridge (on the pitch at least), embrace the grim inevitability of the Newport game and make the initial cuts for the autopsy of the twitching corpse that has been the 25/26 season.