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Tom gives you the TLDR of US football history, offers a bit of political analysis of it, then tells the to-be-continued story of football in Egypt.
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A solo potted history of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and its relationship to football.
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Jeremy Corbyn joins Juliet and Tom to discuss FIFA, reclaiming Englishness, the cultural importance of football, plus 18th century French literature.
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Juliet and Tom catch up to discuss their impressions of the World Cup so far: VAR, hydration breaks, the Consent Manufacturer Christina Unkel, Trump, England and more more.
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Journalist, academic and former professional player Jules Boykoff joins Tom to discuss his playing career, and the climate impact of this World Cup.
Via the link below can read Jules's excellent article for The Nation on the battle to determine the meaning of the World Cup in the US:
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The prodigious Coll McCail joins Tom to discuss the mood in Scotland, Scottish and British politics and the state of the Scottish left.
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Drawing on David Goldblatt, and Philip Dine, Tom tells the story of colonial Algeria's resistance to French rule through the prism of football, and how it specifically impacted last night’s games involving Algeria, France, and a number of very prominent French Algerians.
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Maradona was a comrade, but he was no angel. With Argentina playing this evening, Tom James joins to discuss their first iconic, short, brilliant number ten.
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If you’re investigating injustice in football, under almost every rock you’ll find FIFA. Nick McGeehan from FairSquare joins to talk about their Reboot FIFA campaign.
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Observer sports journalist Jessy Parker Humphreys shares her World Cup highlights, updates us on the current state of the women's game in this country, and reveals who she's hate-watching at this tournament.
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Latin American history expert Bill Booth joins to talk Mexican football culture and how it intersects with the country's politics.
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Australia got a big win over Turkey, so Tom asks Barrie Margetts of the Right To Food Commission about Australian politics, why football is such a small part of Australian culture, and the Right To Food’s roots in football. Then as Uruguay enter the tournament, we discuss Gus Poyet and the infamous poo saga with Tom James.
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Coll McCail joins to talk Scotland’s relationship with its national team, Morgan Ofori tells us why Morocco is the teacher’s pet of African football, and Tom continues to tell the story of Brazilian football. We also have reaction to USA-Paraguay, Qatar-Switzerland and, in real time because this episode was recorded in the early hours of Sunday morning, Brazil-Morocco.
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