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The Political Football

  • Episode 3 - Football Ownership: The Qalacticos

    29 OCT 2020 · Britannia: First to abolish slavery, first to sell its clubs to countries that still practice modern slavery. The intrepid duo of myself and Satya Gunput dissect the problematic ownership structures of today's megaclubs and what it means for a new era of Qalaticos.
    50m 53s
  • Episode 2 - Philosophy in Football, Part 2: Blaise gets Thornberry'd

    20 AUG 2020 · From Fabio Capello's huge collection of Kandinskys to a Roy Hodgson Swiss team's activism over Moruroa, an atoll in the South Pacific, we prove that football and politics really do mix. Our special guest, Ed Wareham, joins us for yet more analysis. Plus, Blaise recounts a personal experience of how his use of the England flag got him Emily Thornberry'd.  
    43m 25s
  • Episode 2 - Philosophy in Football, Part 1: Roy "The Renaissance Man"

    20 AUG 2020 · Throughout his career, "Risorgimento Roy" drew inspiration from a remarkable range of European, South American and Jewish-American academics and philosophers, including Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth. We recruit the services of medieval German historian Ed Wareham to decipher what their works meant for Roy's style of management.
    42m 36s
  • Episode 1 - Racism & Football, BLM & BNP in the BPL

    16 AUG 2020 · We look back at the anti-BLM marches in Parliament Square and identify what role football has to play in the aftermath of the biggest anti-racist and civil rights movement in Britain since the '80s.
    57m 52s
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