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The Tuesday Club, renamed from It's Up For Grabs Now, is an online podcast mainly based around English association football club, Arsenal as well as football related current events. It is hosted by comedian Alan Davies along with a panel which includes fellow comedian, Ian Stone, Keith Dover and Tayo Popoola.

History
The podcast's name came from being named after the regular heavy drinking sessions by Arsenal players in the 1990's. These sessions were led by Arsenal captain Tony Adams and usually reguarly involved other Arsenal players such as Lee Dixon, Perry Groves and Paul Merson. It became known as the Tuesday Club as the events occured on Tuesday nights as Arsenal had a day off from training on Wednesdays. The Tuesday Club also became known for the antics of some of the participants. These included Adams and Ray Parlour deliberately setting off a fire extinguisher in a resturant and Parlour throwing prawn crackers at a taxi before hitting the driver during an Arsenal tour to Hong Kong. This led to Parlour being fined HK$2,000 by Eastern Magistrates Court and £5,000 by Arsenal.

This Tuesday Club was unofficially ended by the appointment of Arsène Wenger as Arsenal manager as he portrayed alcohol negativly in order to change the culture at Arsenal and was then officially ended after Adams banned alcohol consumption in the players lounge at Highbury.

Recognition
In 2011, The Tuesday Club was awarded a number of awards from EPL Talk. It was voted as the Reader's Choice winner for the "Best EPL Club Podcast" award. Davies was also voted as the Readers Choice winner for "Best EPL Podcast Presenter" with Dover voted as the Reader's Choice Winner for "Best EPL Podcast Pundit".

Hillsborough controversy
In April 2012 during an episode of The Tuesday Club, Davies criticized Liverpool for refusing to play on the date of the anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster and compared Liverpool's attitude to Manchester United's towards the Munich air disaster and Rangers' towards the Ibrox disaster. This led to him receiving death threats on his Twitter account. Davies then apologised and offered a donation of £1,000 to the Hillsborough Justice Campaign, which was refused.