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Murdoch And you've got a young Richard Keys Yes, ain who's sort of honing his sexism Yes., you know, this is this is he's young, he's agile. he's is physically he's not like an expert like he becomes. He has not yet reached The Rushmore Yes of whoo's an exciting winger of sexon Every week, he's hanging out the back of it. He's not yet reached that maral That's a cultured finish of a thirty four year old. That's Harry Cane and the Bunders Leag He's lost the pace, but still At the moment, he's front footed That's knuckerball. That' I mean, there's a glorious strike I also I want to highlight the sheer amount of slouch this guy is operating Yes. theard. I don't anyone has ever slouched harder. Let's take a look. Denis R man. then Richard Keys with his feet up sideide eye, Jamie Radap Every week he's hanging out the back of it Everyone's so uncomfortable. What was it about? was They're talking about a woman, maybe Louis's Red nap Give me up You turn out Do' what he wants Iind, that' a stupid question. If you were anywhere near it, you definitely smashed it. Okay, J br. There he goes. You're going around there any night, found Rednaapppanging out at the back of it. just an alpha, you know, an alpha in the jungle. H luck, go back go back onto that. What is the outfit? This is a man who feel so comfortable in his position in Pondatry. I feel now, apart from maybe Neville Carriga It's such a competitive game being a pundit. It jeans and shoes. This is a guy who this is like fucking Jacob Rehese Morgan in the House of Commons. Yeah you know You know what I mean? It's more like, I run this shit I'm never going to lose my job. The world's never going to change. St. L washed jeans Yeah. Cardigan Cigan. And also the idea of saynding stupid question to your own question. J smash it? Stupid question hang out the b R I's hanging out the back of it A phenomenon Sry can we get What's Richard Keyses? Where did he grow up? What's his story? Richard Kees, Friend of the pod. A life. A life. lifeife well lived. He married his first wife Julia in nineteen eighty two. They had two children together. Julia filed for divorce in twenty sixteen due to Richard Kees alleged infidelity.ang out the back of her. In november two thousand Key was heard to make a racially motivated comment about footballer David Johnson while broadcasting live Oh Sy T. I just I've just read this letter. Oh my Godd. I' discuss Where is it be saying that, Richard Richard Cook me there. Now that's not as bad as the other friend of the p Ron Atkinson who I I mean, I watched that happen live. What did Ron Atkson say? Ron Atkinson he well he he went or Mark Furman, shall we say on Marcel Desa after a Champions League he basically went to an ad break Yeah Chelsea were playing C meember Monaco M went to an ad break. And Bon Akinson thought his mic was off, but the mic carried on live over the ads for five seconds. and he calledught Dessii a lazy N word U and then they talk friendly banter I think I know I think it iss pnditry Atkon's salty earth. I' pretty bad. I mean, Keys, do you want to say this one Kys describes describes someone This is Kys this is a quotation. In his words as a Choco Joco w. I've never heard that before. I don't know what it means sounds awful. What does it mean? I think you could work out what it means. Well, yeah, I know what the first bit means. What does the second bit mean I guess a Jke is a sporting player. Right, okay Anyay he's one out for Richard Keys. I mean, he's a man who As soon as the mics are off, It's just fucking hell for leather. So. Men should not wear microphones.razy It's amazing that it's literally like he'll be doing and that's all we've got time for Skyports. Anywways, what I was saying about this guy' justking Yeah he's hanging out the back of it Super suay and it's live.ucking hang out the back of that smash that fuck smash In june, twenty twenty three, Richard Kees married Lucy Rhodose, a lawyer thirty two years, his junior. Oh It hass been alleged that Lucy was his daughter's best friend. Yeah ultimate toxic dad. Wh is like, if we talk about ultimate toxic dads, should we get up the new Erol Musk clip Oh, yes. So I got sent this. Yeah, you sent it to me. Shall I send it to Charlie? Yeah, ye, yeah. This have pretty exceptional. We mightenomenal. We will get back to the ninetighties World Cup but S Sings is part four and we're we're in the era of Richard Keys being a toxic dad. So this is still sort of relevant. It is relevant. We need to talk about Errol Musk, friendriend of the pod Pretty exceptional to be honest It's from the same interview So hang on, well, just to make sure this is relevant for us. I a great wagu beef And it's just the smelt in the mouth. It's just but it's from the same cow. These cuts are very expensive, rich So the nineteen ninety four USA World Cup is just as Richard Kees is starting to broadcast. it is before Erl Musk has started cooking. Yes. now, just saying, pause, before we go into this, it's more like the idea of the toxic dad or the idea of the ignorant dad, the scumbag dad The scumbag White Dag, I guess, is quite specific This is kind of like the boss final boss level, I guess. is kind of Every stereotype at its most extreme all than one man. Yes Keys can only wish of being this talk. Yeah, I mean Key's blown out the water. He's got nothing on Erl Musk o. This is like when English Hooligans met the Russ hilliganss Yeah and It's just a different level. It is. Okay. Players now just for context, the caption of the clip is Erl Musk on having a child with a stepdaughter. Okay? Take a look Erl And she stayed here for three weeks and we got on very, very well. She was now a grown woman of justant thirty. How old were you at that time? So I was seventy. It was just forty years different, say? Whatty years different? Yeah, roughly. Yes. A couple of months later, she called me and said, She needs to see me. So she came and she sat there and she showed me a mammogram or not mmog a mammogram. I think it's a scan, right Were you not th about for your ex wife to find out that she had a baby with her daughter. No, she was remarried. Yeah, I know that, but it's still unconventional, you know? No no, she was living with someone else. In That case I should have beenalking around Outside her house say What are you doing with this other man? So but do not think that's strange at all? No One woman's another woman. M Rondan, two thirds of the world right now Marriageable age is twelve. Yeah, that's wrong though. Well, you may think so. If you look in the third year, a man won't take a woman in second hand Right, there's a lot going on there. Yeah. And what's phenomenal firstirstly is the toxicity where you're challenged and you just knock off Yeah. That's. No, it's not you may think so common knowledge. I think it's once again, I think the most same the most appealing thing about Erl Musk is his The intensity of his opinions. Yeahount he believes in his own truth, I do find quite inspiring. Yes. When question, do don't you think that's at least weird? He goes No. One woman's Another woman. So that's one of his ph. What does that mean? philophy. So one thing he believes is one woman's another woman, which basically means all women are fair game. Yeah. One woman's another woman. o Age is just a number, daughter' just a word And then brings up I don't know why that's weird that I'm shagging my ex wife's daughter because she's now shaging a new guy. Yeah. So it'd be like me going around to her house and saying what the fuck you doing with this guy? Yeah No, it's not all. No That's not your That's not your son And in the thir in the third world, most two thirds of the world, the manenageable agge twelve. No, it's not though. You may think so I might haveit a reality with that. That's true. But also but also Why is he bringing up the age ofcent being twelve He' trying to put his decision to contxt. But the woman the problem is she's thirty. I mean, actually surprisingly old from what I imagine from Eerl I don'tag. She's thirty years old. I don't know why the twelve year old stuff's been brought up. It implies that he's trying to justify something el. What's hilarious is that even though he's a man who's had several children. Yeah, he's like and she shows me somewhat but she shows me some kind of mmogram or something. that's the scam women haveving their breastc. But also N not an ultrasound. Yeah, but it's also because he's so horny. he's thinking about her breast. Oh, you may think so It's so funny that the first thing com to aroundround is mammogram becausecause it's just in mammory.. That's a daughter, right? It it's a woman. woman What does that mean? One woman is another woman? What does it mean I mean he does seem kind of at piece of himself, though in a way. Woody doesn feel wpp. Woody Allen had the South African accent You know what you mean It's a difference between a Soufrican Protant and a New York Jew, isn't it Oh I know' technically wifes. one woman' another woman It's Con knowledge.'s coming back. Everyone else. What the iss up leaning forward going No, chease. Yeah. And he's like off front foot. Yeah are you talking about?, One woman's another woman. 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Yeah, On september first in the Union Chapel, London, come join us there for a night of laughs, maybe a few tears, and just a general feeling of moral vindication. There's a link to my tickets in the show notes, and the good news is if you're a patron, you get a fairly substantial discount. So if you've been thinking of signing up, now's a good time We'll see that Anyway Premier Lague is kicked off. Sorry, long tangent. The Premier Lague is kicked off case is about Gray' about and in the nineteen ninety four World Cup It's taken to America which is obviously controversial because you know, they don't like football Yeah. But this is the beginning of the nineties with football as a billion dollar product. But the ninety four thing it sort of failed and what they're trying to do now, the current World Cup this summer is really trying to achieve what ninety four It's we're trying to achieve. Yeah Nightice fourall failed, right? Yes. because it didn't take off. Nighticeball was a disaster. So the domestic audience views the sport with hostility. is like an imperial It's not that immperial hang up. Also Americans have this idea of sport where like there can be no sport that exists that American didn't invent. Yes. They have an incly blink they also think it's sort of third world sports Yeah. they view football as like It like poverty basically. The notion that like cricket is the biggest sport in the world, they find baffling. Yeah But through was third worldorld sports. An American newspaper article said Americans were right not to care about the World Cup. describing it as the biggest sport in Cameroon, Uruguay, Madagascar.. So But FIFA think it's this market there's right exploitation. Now the opening ceremony is an absolute disaster. one thing that is instrument for football is the most global sport. feels the World Cups feels the biggest global event. The three biggest countries in the world, none of them play football It's kind of weird that China, India and America All of them don't have any football culture that's like the three most populated countries in the world. China have a football culture. Do they? Yeah. what? Little fellows, b fucking the L Chinese superague they' buying Yeah, which has collapsed. Yeah, Oh has it? Yeah. I spend loads of money on it. it didn't work and it's collapsed now watches what people watch snaker than football You've got forks, chopsticks, football, ping pong. All right, you had to say two nill to the West You may think so. That's common knowledge. C common knowledge Obviously, yeah, obviously. So the opening ceremonies in Chicago there is a match between Bolivia and Germany. What is it? I think it does to the pod if we get Er Skyck Skyckets. Absolutely Shing this pod might need. I don't think we're lost at the moment, but if we were ever lost, we might need to find our North star man with the most seing clarity of all Erl Musk. Yeah. I think we'd have to only deploy him once we feel like we're in the woods and a bit of foggy. Yeah. Erl, please clear this up for us Yeah That's what we get going on. I think we probably do the Holocaust with Eel Musk Just to clear things up once and for all obviously all obvious iss it's hundred thousand None of they were pretending to be. Obviously all right Yeah. One Jew's another Jew. what do you mean? U six million do, you may think so Oh my Godd, if Holocaust denial as a team ever signed El Musk the toilet. We don't think so. We're absolutely done. So Germany are competing as a unified nation for the first time since nineteen thirty eight because it's nineteen ninety four. Now the only ceremony is hilarious. Orah falls over on stage and twists aroundle Diana Ross is famous She has to take a to kick a mass football from three yards And she still fucks it Hilariously bad. yep, the gold falls away anyway. Germany win an awful game She just runs. Germany wins an awful opening game, one nil, but I didn't fucking know this The whole thing is overshadowed. I had no idea. Well on the same day, the LAPD are in televised pursuit of OJ Simpsons. But it shows how small a deal the World Cup is. Yeah that when we're doing all of our OJ research, it didn't come at once th No I had no like so this is competing for the most exciting the live GTA that's ever This is the problem we try to do foot inmerica. And as we recall, we must just say that friend of the Pod Mark Fermman has passed away it's time for record minutes. He's not yet been resurrected. We must have a minute we've just said we've done this's about fifteen minutes in. We've said Eron Musk Puges are M f at all fronts of the M a Mount Rushmore and they are Mount Rushmore Charlie, can you make an AI about Rushmore and Grock? Mark Richard Keys.el Musk. Yep, this is the thing about history aboutount Rushmore. It's been yeah,' Ciani in Fantina, I think we did. Gay, I am gay So yeah, but is that I think that's part of the reason though, culturally as to why America can never maybe we'll never have the love for football that European nations do is that Its news cycle is just much more entertaining than likes any sport can be. Yeah. I mean, no sport could compete with that with OJ. Yeah. The only equivalent we have is Ral Mo.. And that was not OJ. And we could not there was no like visually I didn't work on TV as well. yeah, I guess it would be him running through a bog or like running left. Yeah. R I'm chased by guys's ched by gu Ram is icking up grass and smelling it. It's not the same Yeah. best thing about ninety four, which I think is quite a turgid tournament because Brazil too hot. It's too hot, but also Brazil. are not that Good that. O, what's that? Oh, that's looking very nice. That's nice I like how Grock's like, ye Lovely. So just punch in on that, please. That's glorious. We're just looking now at a photo of F friends of the pod, Mount Rushway Furman, Keys, Musk, and Infantito Minutes out of the place. Imag it so I made a rush more of those four What the fuck is going on? Right a new unveiling Yeah. We made some We've adapted the original Mount Rel Go rid of George Washington But also so funny it's so funny that it's on obviously it's on Native American land, isn't it It isn't because that's what they did with like sitting Ball and people as they made But to make the most toxic white white dad Mount Rushball You know, you got the obviously the N word tapes, then youve got but you smash it, then you've got obviously you core knowledge. And you got today I feel disabled. Heres the lot of them. They might be the soundbike kings, to be honest. They probably It's a Mount Rushmore of the greatest soundbikes of all time. Yeah I don't think we should make a thumbnail for this episode. I think should just put that out and see what happens U glorious. G man a lot of them. Anyway. So it's a pretty turgred tourent ninety four on the pitch. I think Brazil aren't that They mean they have Romario, but they also have Dungo and it's quite. I don't remember thinking that there's that much good football in Nigeria quite a good at this point. they felt like You got Tamibo West, who's got more organized Brazil, less. Yeah That's fun. But the main sort of political thing that happens is that obviously in Colombia, which is o fuck now, man, what's going on here? There's drug cartels. The national team are funded by people like Pablo Escobar. Yes. And so they're under immense pressure do well and Columbia aren't a bad team. In the nineties they get quite good.'re just maybe Vilderamaass around. They've always been in and aroundeter. Yeah Anyway, so they beat Argentina five and qualifying. So expectations are quite high, but then Andres Escobar, a defender scores an own goal a defeat to the US And as soon as he gets home, he is shot six times. Yes. So I think this is probably and sorry, as he's murdered, after every shot his killers are rumred to have shouted G G I don't think that surely that's not true. It might be like S I think that's too silly for how angry they were it sound silly to us, right? Gold goold, go go Obviously, South American commentary sounds stupid to us But to them That's like mo. Go go. Yeahirl go G gol. D someone go go, go. doesn't do Junkie. G go, go, go go. But to so in Liam Neson film starring Charlie Moss. Motsy doesn't do. You have thirty minutes to make your decision. of it but my point is that for South Americans, that doesn't sound stupid. So You know, G' to them. it's moving,' exciting.'s not's telling, Charlie, canan you make a thriller poster with John Matson? your thirtyut fig decision, him holding Viragra and then the quote saying Mots he doesn't do chunkies, sorry So I actually think that you could goneone gone lot be aggressive We read it as cartoonishly because of the Simpsons. But he should be showing own gold Oh no no goal I go No if he was doing that he'd be shooting himself. Yes, but he's angry at the own goal. That's why he's getting shot. But he's scoring goals with I see I see. Anyway, showing him what he should have been doing. But I guess the way that we talk about the British id culture around World Cups being super toxic. I guess this is the Yeah nothing on This is the endpoint. Yeah Someone scores their own goal. They get shot six times. Yeah, Rob Green than you lucky stars and wasn't playing for Columbia. Yeah. because when the ball went over his foot You know, Yeah, now it's to winge talk sport all the time It's reported that the killer shouted goal after every shot once re each time a football commentator had said it V easy C go then the drive away to as a pick up truck Footnoted, accurate. Wow, amazing Amazing. So there's also Maradona's last World Cup and we should I think we touched on it slightly, but we should mention so he's How does he this point? thirties early sixty I think Yes, we say four Thank you Charlie. So of you don't. So he, the before The tournament He had fired an air rifle at journalists camped outside his house, causing minor injuries to people. Despite this, he goes on to play against Greece in their opening match. Now he scored a goal And then we this phot just scroll down on the script, Phoebe. And there were suspicions that maybe he was on drugs possible He's dent tests positive for Eidrine. I don't think he's on weed No, he's on downers. and you have we have to explain because we touched this on this on Patreons, you have to explain what this means. So if you if you turn to video There were two stories about John Motson that the upshot boys told us on the patreon Sorry, yeah. We talked about this on the podcast before though. John Watson, I calling m to the day commentator turned out to be John Gotson, Johnny Grotty. He was was very horny. had a lot of prostitutes turning up to allegedly turning up to BBC with unpaid checks, but also met an intern for what she thought was like a career dinner, but was actually a date, held up a Iigra, said, Do you know what this is? When she said, yes, he swallows it and goes, You have thirty minutes to make your decision, Yeah right? And then also his match ritual is at halfime he has a four finger kit cat. and once an intern hearing that he likes kit cats got a kickut chunkie, and he lost it. he said and he screamed apparently, Moty doesn't do chunkies. So anyway, we're now looking at a poster that Charlie's made an AI of Moty doesn't do Chunkies. H holding a blue pill saying you' thirty minutes to make your position. It's a sort of edgy kind of gritty You can see the You can see the BT tower in the distance. I mean, look it's a gritty UK thriller, really. It's maybe a guy Richie type of film Yes, do My doesn't do. Id say it's more like Jason Statham's crank. Y it's about about Moty and catchunkies. So anyway, I send that to the upshop boys. Anyway. So Maradonna gets led away by a nurse for a random drug test and this becomes a kind of iconic image to signal the end of it It looks like he's being led away by his, Yeah? I mean, it's very sweet because it looks like he's skipping. Now in here. This is in two thousand four He's one hundred and thirty kilograms. Now Charlie, could you just get up the photo of me with Emma Watson? because I I think remember, he's five five And I'm six too. But how tall were you then? I'm probably'm I'm taller than five I'm probably five, five. when you were that eleven' twelve. Wow So you think that's the most Marada, That that's the most similar you tou. I've seen photos of me where I'm But remember, I'm coming onto the fields and impact subub in Kam Predators as a Kream bun predator. Yeah o. So I'm like I'm like Maradonna. Maradona But I'm doing it at that weight Right, I see. And he wasn't. No, he was thin. He was great You know There you go side by side Your is more depressing, still, isn't it Yes because I'm in a fun shirt. So it more is more.'s the darkness. Y. Yeah, I guess the fun shirt does adds a level of like Forced Joy being sad in a fun shirt, I thinkarie. I look like a whale in seaworld that has been made to do tricks. That's why there's a sadness Do you think this noble beast is it's got like a bow on its head Yeah It's like a party hat. Yeah, this is wrong. This should be let free to just eat fish That's you the Mint pies. That's you go to your room with the Mints pies you. Yeah. Anyway. So Maradonna there's also a great moment in the twenty is eighteen World Cup where Messi schools are brilliant golers Nigeria, Marador's in the crowd. There's almost a callback The call backack to ninety four where TV cameras pick him up going no like in the crowd doing a kind of wakanda like was that twenty eighteen? I'm pretty sure it twenty eighteen But a lovely little callback to the ninety four. Yeah, and he starts fucking flipping the bd so he just he's just he's gacked off his nut in the stance watching, Messi. Anyway. Now that's ninety four. Brazil win ninety four. Roberto Balgio misses a penalty nineteen ninety eight My first World Cup.ure. I collected TescoO's, commemorative World Cup coins for this. Now this is where suddenly there is a new era of international football because thirty two teams are now in the tournament. And this is also where the expansion has to be covered by sponsors, which paves the way my head, this is the first mododel World Cup Yeah the way that I do it No ninet eight, it feels like 's got a lineage to the Wor Cup here, most distinct. Yeah, I think I probably agree because the expansion means that they need they need money to fill a biger product theyre putting it on. So there's more space for corruption. So this is the start of the road that takes us to SEP and Chuck Blazer. Now Chuck Blazer is a US delegate on FIFA. love Chuck admits to taking a bribe from the Morocco bid for the World Cup Let's have a look at this. I mean, this is this is putting your weight to shame actually. Yes. I mean this is you maybe if you this is me dressing up with Santa Claus. Or maybe this is you when you're older when you've given up like because I mean this is you do have maybe have this in your locker. it's amazing to look like that in my locker. You got that in No in your locker. if you if you had some fucking Blls I'd sack Tyrek and I'd just go for a truck pase Yeah, the amazing thing is that Blaze was your personal trainer. How do I acquire that body? He's looking at the photone of me and Watson and going, you had it, man. You had it. You were on a great This is a great era for FIFA because everyone is so hilariously corrupt. It's an international corruptness that maybe has not been seen before, where it's like national borders don't mean anything It is the kind of globalized economy means we're all brothers in corruption Well, I think the st because the story of the World Cup is that it's always been corrupt It's been corrupt because it's been done through local Fascist regimes or military dictatorships, A a golden age. A golden age. But this is where FIFA for the organization becomes nakedly corrupt. Yes, I think. And the people at the top. O obviously you've always had like An institution that's asked you to trust it is the least trustworthy thing. Yeah. But you've had Sir Stanley Rouse in sixty six saying that all the Africans and Asians have to compete for one spot But's a gentleman' coruption.'s a gentlem's coruption Yeah. But that's still That's one country're like That's like benefiting itself. Yeah, right This level of corruption is it's about the institution, not the countries necessarily. Yes, it's about the people It's also personally lining your pockets still way that's not really been seen. So who is Chuck Blazer? So he's one of the many delegates who conquer Kaf. Yeah different. Every country and every like continent has certain delegates and they decide where the World Cup goes. So they obviously taking huge bribes from countries because their votes are so important. Yes There's Jack Warner, there's lots of other different people, but my favorite is Chuck Blazer who just, I guess being that corrupt American and that fat, it's just a level of Gutony on all parts of your life that is just to be visually that just like Guttterous just it's consuming so much. Let's look at some of the stuff. So Blazeell was a colorful cat who lived a life of excess. He rented a six thousand dollars a month apartment in Trump Tower just for his cats After been caught by the IrS for a decade, unpaid taxes base became a triple agent. so like he sells everyone down the river. not's not an agent.'s a double agent. tell you what He's a triple agent. He's like the guy in the OJ story who finally get him. This he's a Vegas guy. Yeah, yeah. A triple agent is like such a level of corruption. it's like it's the first guy saying that yeah, I fuck it again P de chess. Yeah does not stand for anything but personal gain During the twenty twelve London Olympics we went to FF meetings with a recording device hidd in his keure. He's also brought down FIFA well just to benefit himself We'll get to that but he comes into the story in ninety eight Yeah But that's ultimately how he links us to Blatter let's go back to ninety eight quickly. So geopolitically There's an interesting moment where Iran are drawn against America in the group stage. Obviously they don't have diplomatic relations being only twenty years after Dr. Grumpkins has taken power. So they don't know what to do about the handshakes at this beginning because Ayatollla Kamini instruct his team not to shake their hands. S. Grumpy kids be grumpy kidding.. So instead, the US players approach the Iranians and they hand them white roses, whichich is even gayer than shaking hands. So I don't know what I't know says What you've done there? Because also the American players are smiling They're like, it seems like they they don't view this as a threat is not very It's not a great snub, is it? Iran win two won Which, you know, you're looking at where we are geopolitically feels quite like a similar look I always thought people oververestateated around I thought they paper Tiger,. B now F play. They love it U And then obviously the big story in the final is the Ronaldo original Ronaldo, Fat Ronaldo. So this is and he's this is early as career.ay sensation where I have to say, I mean, I remember watching I used to watch Golazzo, the James Richardson Yeah Channel for four show, Serial our highlights in the nineties. him him at like inter Milan I mean, it's I Miland Europa League final highlights, some of the craziest shit. I think Generally viewed Its not Europa League No yeah, was one of the most amazing because it's an intoward in the Europa Lague I think Yeah, you it you away for over for up. Yes. not you don't want to it that., that's your obliquak. you want to call it You want to do Ronaldo into Milan, you way for c I think for natural talent, there's an argument that he's probably apart from Messi and Maradona, maybe the best ever because He didn't put the numbers of Christiana Ronaldo But it's because he had such a short burst, he got fat. He got injured, but just burst onto the scene as a teenager, probably the most talented. But also this tal it was getting to the last the last sort of high point of individualism in the game. Well, yeah, this is this is era of it. Well, this is the beginning of what I feel currently is viewed as the Glden age. people don't talk about the eighties, the fifties, sixties, the Glden Age. We talk about our youth and it must be a nostalgia thing I think it peaks actually in two thousand six for me When that probably has the most stars Yeah When you reach thousand six, if you think about the stars, you got Zedan, Ronaldo, Christiana Ronaldo Messiino that Ronaldino fucking Sulls, Lampard Geralard Rooney. It's like every team comp Yeah like every team is the most stat with individual talents Yeah. ye, it's it's but it's before that kind of pp two thousand eight system Stock sts just ye. Do you think that there'll be any nostalgia for now ten years. I mayaybe don't know if it gets worse. It depends because because it's just the road of football is becoming more and more apppperately aligned It's like winning Like losing is so high stakes in a business way now. It's becoming more like American sport where peopleeople are fired because they're putting the company under financial risk. rather than just losing I mean, that's why this's absolly ridiculous watching Ronaldo H. I mean, that's why the Super League they try to make the Super League because it's interesting listen to Americans talk about British sport where it's like from a financial if it's crazy to have relegation Yeah You can't run a business like that. No like T, if they go down, they just bought a massive stadium. The about people who lose their jobs, everyone loses it so high risk Yeah that they that's why American you don't get relegated. you just keep it in a Yeah. But it's better for the spectator but it is far worse for It is a business. So France end up being Brazil three nil because we'real on the day of the final wakes up, having had some kind of seizure was always there Yeah food poisoning I think it was a stress induced fit. I remember watching it and getting the news from Des Line and Ronaldo wasn't starting he came on and wasn't really himself. France So what's like you now In nineteen ninety eight. Siz? Oh in nineteen ninety eight. U Yeah, no, I'm terrifying. No I'm getting towards terrifying. Is' concerning. Iserc. Is this your prime? It's the beginning of your prime Uh Is prime the fatest? Yes. We're on the way. We're on the way down R. Yeah. No, I'd say I'd say prime is kind of eleven, twelve. Right. It look messy two thousand nine. He's just about to head into Yeah. ye I' Alex Ferguson is looking at me going, this is terrifing with these guys We've got no answer to how fat this guy is But have you not yet become the monolith? Sort then I will be When I'm Gavin Plumbing behind Em Watson in a cave. Anyway For France, this is a huge political success because Gavin Plumb is a fucking adjective. is incredible's a verb ver. stalking behind a film star as a huge fat lump to Gavin Plum.. Charlie, could you get Gavin Plum on the Mount Rushmore please? him and him as our fifth member. Anyway So this is a huge deal in France, I think because it's It's this is also the around the time that Laen the film was made. So it's like The whole Paris race Y tension the but the Boner or suburbs. Yeah This is probably now the greatest U creative talent in football in the world probably. Yeah ring around Paris R around Paris. But this is the first time. So all those stars Bappee and Dembell They all grow up in the shadow of watching. team it's like Rainbow teeam where you've got Viera, Da Henri Sedan Henri You you got Dugy, edan's Algerian hereritage. So the Rainbow Nation. Now speaking of Rainbow Nations, let's we can skip the kind of early nauies turn two obviously South Korea That's quite a good, World Cup. Yeah. twenty ten is the next big one Yeah because this is the first and only time today date the World Cup has been on in Africa, but there's also the real start of the downfall for FIFA's architects because this is the fruition of Set Blatter, who we haven't introduced yet. Yeah. When he becomes president in ' ninety eight, right And he u He It's sort of inlatant corruption. he offers delegates a hundred thousand dollars for votes. the night before the election Delegates are offered briefases containing fifty thousand gound in cash. and he wins one hundred and eleven of the hundred ninet. And I think that that's suspicious. Yes.. Something seems a bit fishy. I feel like there's a related, It's not just a random gift.. So let's get to twenty ten. So now FIFA had given after all this money, this is the first time I remember hearing the phrase white elephant was that South Africa would spend it all on stadiums that they would never use again. Yeah. Like it was in remote areas of the country that you know, they didn't need a stadum and they needed like infrastructure. Just this sort of news just bumming you out as well just in tely So the strategy of the Africa project setlatus Africa project is a strategy to solidify his power within FIFA by expanding the game's reach and therefore making all the other developing regions of the world kind of beholden to him Yes. guess the only way that you could sell both Sb Blatter and Gianni is having any sort of standing for anything. I guess the only positive spin is that Well how they were justified, It's all about expplanding the game's global reach. Yes. That's why they w to w in the Middle East, they want to w in Africa, they w I guess thats that would be their argument because that's what this whole period is about is about really pushing it to as many corners as the worldbss. Yeah But you can do that in a way that you don't Pe fifty g don't give you grand cash. You can do that. You can If you actually meant that You maybe wouldn't need the brifcasees full of fifty grand. Yeah. The South African Bid Committee payid ten million dollars to the head of Conker Caf Who is Chuck Blazer or not No Jack Warner I mean he's Jack W's Caribbean.aybe that's J Jack Wner which is a donation to support the African diaspora in the Caribbean. Yes, he's justonn his Cibbean. So It's reparation, I supped Pfa. Now politically, South Africa is meant to showcase the rainbow nation Um, you know, The best the most important tunes in the run up to twenty ten of all World Cups. Do you think? Yeah, the most important like songs made specifically for it, you had Waka waka waka waka E That aftern It's time for Africa You must This is common common knowledge. Charlie, this is common knowledge Wacka Wacka Africa. It's time for Africa. Then there was that James Cordon Dizzy Rascal song. Fight, fight, let it all out So don know what we're all about Yeah that was but that wasn't even our official song. We had another one fucking Shout Well even flag, they basically had so many might w flag A Kelly. Yeah. sign of a victory. Yep. And that's the official anthem by our also it's coming home started coming back into the c R Kellley did the official FIFA sanction song Idrain What deorious? Now the main issue with it from a corruption standpoint is that it's kind of a fantasy project because none of the money gets spent on the needs of the nation. sureure alsoso the fucking vooboo Zilers ruin ruin every TV coverage. Yeah Uh What they like sort of hornets. Yeah basically. just these air trumpet, these air horns. I did Iunist it was a crap woke up on the pitch Um, Spain, Spain Hudson I also had the fuckking. There he is. P in the middle ofash moreore. Give it up for Plum. They look like Plum's bodyguards. They Plum looks like Jesus his apostles. I want to say it, but I'm sort of mogging them to be honest we're getting plump plum. He's like D. Yeah. yeah. he's got the most Chisma of all of them Firman Erl Musk. Richard K probably not the best stoneemasonry and he doesn't look close enough to Richard Keys A I like him Yeah U Gorious Turn to the pod on Mat much more Anyway, was crazy. I think it was a shit tournament and then I't find it was a lot. I thought added attention to the watching the game It's like watching a Christopher Nolan film where the sound comes on I quite like that drone It made me feel like there's a feeling of dread and anxiety That's the brown sound. I need to go to the tourt the whole time. So Russia bid for the World Cup in twenty eighteen In also bit Now this is where the corruption starts to unravel Jack Warner, who's the president of Concaaf, he controlled a unified voting bloc that essentially makes him a kingmaker within the organization. So England think they've got a support, but then ultimately they all go for Russia and Qatar. Blatter it buil built into England's myth as well. Be as we stand gentlemen's game and we do a handshake and I think that's it. and then a corrupt European official bureaucracy have worked out something behind our back. But also this whole you promised this shut my hand Like the whole thing of England and Britain staying out of FIFA at the start. Yeah, that we think they're better than it. Yeah. There's an arrogance there that's still will be we getting punished for our arrogance and being proven right in our arrogance but being punished at the same time. Both are right. Yes, you're right. It's kind of win win actually. So Blatter made this unprecedented decision to vote on the twenty eighteen and twenty two Wor Cups at the same time, which means if you're bidding for twenty eighteen, you can trade your vote with su of twenty two, so you can basically do a swap vot. Right. So also, Putin wants to reassert Russia as well power. Has he's invaded the Crimea at this point. But again, who I mean, that doesn't master feIA, given that they've given it to Mussolini in the past. Now an MI six gu spy Christopher Steele uncovers all the rumors including Vanable paintings from the Hermitage Museum are offered to FIFA executive committee members in exchange for votes Allegations Russia had provided computers to FIFA officials that were later destroyed, which means that the investigation was impossible. And in twenty ten in Zurich, Russia and Qatar are announced as the winners of the votes I remember this, I was at Uni, student protests, Ct. This is Cleg. This is Cleg years. The optimism of Cleg is vanishing Cleg's in power, Cleg Mania is wearing off. We're waking up after Cleg Mania. Right. It The hangover after Clegmania. And guitar I remember it was allin, What the fuck you mean? what do you mean guitar? Yeah? What do you mean guitar? Charlie Monday morning? after a weekend bender on Clg Mania. What do you mean guitar? What mean we're doing guitar at the park Qatar win every single round of voting. Right. So let's get to twenty fifteen This is pretty unanimous to me. The FBI raids U so They then because of Chuck Blazer, Who also Chuck Blazer just for a fat corrupt American to be called Chuck Blazer. Which also what's so funny he looks so fucked and y he' wearing a suit's what's funny.'s wearing blaz and's called fucking Chuck. Yeah Weighs over four hundred pounds, a boisterous New Yorker was often seen riding a mobility scoot just through Manhattan I do kind of love. I mean Blazer should probably get on the man Rushmore. Jo Blazer might even get on. On Rushmore? ye. I mean he does look like someone who sort of just bombs aroundound read Regional England and the ability to goot to fighting seagulls for chit he basically because he's a turn a double turncoat or triple turn turn co, he had once been Blatter's right hand man He's so corrupt he's a good guy Yes. It's like it's likes he's fucked over with so many people that he's accidentally ended up doing the right thing. Yes. Yeah But through no through no justition. Well was the cropt thing I could do. D it did deious. ended up. Oh, did do the right thing Oh What? He's turned left seven times to turn right. onnce. So they so they storm a hotel in Zurich. U And so it's Swiss plate Swiss plain cllothes police officers who are acting on behalf of the FBI, they arrest basically all the head of FIFA, the officials. This is all on Chuck Blazer's kind of testimony U two days before the presidential election Because what's about to happen is that blatter going up against Michell Platiniy, who's the head of UAFS for the new head of president They find some money in a bank account or a transaction two billion Eururos from Baster of Platiny And he has also decided to stand down, basically making it a coronation for blatter. Is that right? Yeah. So basically it all stinks It that's become to known as the disloyal payment. FIFA claim' from back payment for consultancy work. Great. I love Vag. Soarious, bllazers on the wall. Who have we lost We've lost someone. We lost Gianni and Patino. We've losthnian Patino. Yeah. Charlie Charlie, the whole mountain should be chop bllazer So can you make it so it's all Chuck Blazer's body? They're all attached to Chuck. Yeah, and Chuck is the kind of the the actual. Wh's the jub of the hart He's good with six heads The the cerbrus of the fot. I think no, it's his mobility scooter. Yes. He's on a mobility scooter. he's got six heads and that's Mount Rushmore. No, it's him lying down and that's the mountain, The mobility scooters has crashed. Yeah. Anyway U it was paid nine years late. Essentially, both Platiny and Blata get banned from football by the FIFA Ethhics Committee. I'm gl it doesn't for ethics. I' such a thing forist. Where have they been this whole hundred years Where are the FIF or E Cittee? N anti genenocide commommittee. Yeah, exactly. Where have they been Where were they in nineteen thirty eight, nineteen seventy eight? Anyway, so Blatter is originally banned for eight years and then a Swiss courught a C. Sorry. Do you remember the film Blatter made about himself that he b? Oh yeah.ering. U who's the actor? U Do blter film I don't know how this actor got to want to United passion is about cannot believe this film Soam newew from Jrusp Park Tim Roth You'll know Tim Roth. Yeah, I know Tim Ross Good actor So it's just a complete A the A the noble who paid a finance by FIFA Its a corpate propaganda film It's absolutely incredible. So it's basically just corporate PR. Former president said about to play by Tim Roth's position as the primary hero leading a misunderstood organization Wow In the middle of this, by the way. Yeah. So when does it come out? When does that The box office numbers? The budget was twenty seven million dollars. Yeah, let's see. And I guess's you get tax breaks when you make. Famous commercial No. It took nine hundred eighteen dollars in its opening weekend in the US So, how much is a ticket in the US to see a movie? It must be like twenty bucks or something? fifteen dollars, twenty Yeahah, twenty dollars. Sory, I mean, maybe three hundred people saw it some? four hundred people If that, if that No less than thatbsolutely. Let's go nght percent on rotten tomatoes Wow phenomen. Not enough people talk about United Passioners. We we need to bring that back into shouldould we doing it should have a film Cub should a film club with United Passion. nine hundred and sixteen dollars. But then so this is what stinks as well A Swiss court, which again, that's like saying for Ethhics commommitt. What does that? What do you mean a Swiss court? The country is a fucking tax. The country is an illegal operations un. Swiss court acquits Blato and Platinine of criminal fraud in twenty twenty two and they' cleared again on appeal in march twenty fiveth So it's recently fuck. Yeah U I said then you have the Russian Wor Cup. which Obviously just before obviously you've got common Llly Crimea, there's all three poisonings, Pussy Riot get involves. I mean, I suppose I think there's never been a World Cup that has not had some sort of kind of u Dread in the build up over the geopolistical contxt. O obviously now this is Trump's World Cup Trump Wld Cup Trump is at a war with Iran U, you know, it's similar, it's similar to Eurovision. isn't it? you know, Israel and Eurovision it's it's clouding. It should be a celebration. the gay World Cup. you So the fact that like it it does change the fact we've brought Mussolini up and I'm calling Mussini's World Cup it does keep them in history in a way. Yes like they attached to something that's kind there's a purity and something good about football and there The Qatar World Cups is one of the World Cups From a football perspective football Absolutely. No matter what, you're like, your emotions attached to the football Okay. I mean that's pretty good. That's pretty good is Gavid Gavin's got good. Gavvin's got so chucks looking good. Chucks wizard So we're just just again, if you're listening, we've finally got the Mountain Rushmore we want, which is a huge chuck bllazer And almost in his kind of his blazer pocket, you've got Richard Keys, Erbusk, Gavin Plumb Mark Fermman and Jenny Fantino. Now we should end we should end with some Maradona Ged F an eightating cup. That's where he dies. He has a heart attack somewhere just after that A journalist in a Twitter post wrote the while Mara Donna a blah o fuck So in the twenty eighteen World Cup Mariadona was seen making racist gestures to South Korean fans. He made did the eyes. I forgive him Yeah Do you know like he's on Coke, It's Maradononna. It's Michael Jackson's albums. They're too good. I don't care. Yeah. I'm not denying he did it. Yeah. I'm saying the music's too good he doesn't get. if have as much cooke as him, I'd be doing it. Yeah, I'll be doing it. I'll be doing it without halvf much cooke. I can't play football. I'll be doing it. I don't take cooke and I'll do it His excuse was he was trying to tell the Asian boy who was wearing an Argentina jersey how nice it seemed that even the Asians cheer for his country And how did you decide to do that? Did it Oh yeah That's just my culture's way of saying thanks He passes away in twenty twenty at the age of just sixty And obviously everyone in N Aapaloli and Argentina go fucking man Gental. similar to the way the messy there's a religious feeling. He's one of saints. Yeahes Three days of national mourning. that's like when the Queen Isn' there a religion that actually has Maradonna as an offshoot? In Naples, there there is a sort ofic thing. Yeah, they have like shrines to them. We should end with the Qatar World Cup. Cor is it? Cathern. Annoying when people make you say that. Which I to say? There are people who say Choritho. Yeah. Fak Fuck off it's a painish sho lot. You want a croiant Yeah It's a crat on. Why do I to become a different count? Yeah, I I. Yeah I want to identify as gay for the for a word. . Yeah so it's being hosted in Qatar. Yeah And you also the cutter it means you have to like , you know, fucking got the the work up Yeahah. just her. It's hard to express yourself. It changed the rhythm you your sent. Yeah, it does. Anyway, It was fucking Qatoris. Yeah, the Wor Cup in Qatori Now obviously, you know, modern slavery, migrant workers, people are dying building stadiums. Mern slavery is like being on social media, isn't it? Th these days What Instagam' a fucking log into pornub I'm a slave kid. think that's the point of That's the point I'm m I'm to take a phot myself social media addiction being trapped in mur't? I take phot myself if I can lo into Pornub, I'm a slave. I'm a slave to Shadi. endn. Unite the Kingdom, end Mern slavery. Get rid of this work nonsense. Anyway six and a half thousand migrant workers deaths, they think. Now those people will be Indian mainly Imagine Indians are going to Qatar Qar The Qatari government claimed only thirty seven deaths, which okay. Well if they say that? Well you know I will take the government's word. The guard is six and a half thousand, I think that's blow. I question those numbers. Now the main cultural frictions are obviously firstly it's the desert, so they have to move the World Cup too Christmas Yeah whichich I suppose is the endpoint of that started in Mexico in nineteen seventy where you're making players play in midday heat for television audences. They move the whole fucking tournament December. So when people said, o, this is an aberration, it's been going this way the entire time LGBTQ community. They're like, well we can't go there. And then I think Janny Fantino goes Don't be gay for a month. Yes, I. Which is good advice, you know,ust take a month Just dry January it for a month. Can youly? You can just have a month off the cock for You you know what I mean? It's a football tournam You know? Just pretend you like fanies for ath, Th think go about you to doing whver you' doing, All right? Anyway So they threaten yellow cards I'm gay out good way today I am gay. but in June I am straight. I'm doing dry June. So FIFA said they're going to show yellow cards against captains planning to wear the onene loveo Well love arm bands. and also you can't wear the one love raster hats either. Yeah. So there's a big thing about Harry Cane Do he wear the armand and gets booked doesn't he Doesn't get booked for? I mean, I'd rate him a lot if he did actually. Maybe didn't.be because there's always thatt about thing you see your stself about Jordan Henderson What was more that it just showed this era Tr and tray Jonah Henderson was an advocate for LGBT rights. Yeah at the height of wokeness. Not the hero they want? Yeah they hero they got. You know, we need to talk about, you know, Yeah. And then he signed with the Saudi club Right? Yes. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. As soon as the money came in. If the moral bastion Jordan Henderson can fall. And what good is there in the world? He's my lodestar. You should have changed the name of Jordan Venderson that would have meant a lot And lining up for England, they captain Jordan Benderson and they can't even say his name. that is that's a true ally. Yeah. If you change your name to Jordan Benderson, I think there'd be like, I don't know if this helps I don't like the word bender. shut up. I'm doing it for you I'm an ally. I'm an ally, whether you like it or not. I And then obviously the whole thing aboutoo obviously common knowledge, the whole thing about booe Qatar had agreed with FIFA and its seventy five million dollars sponsor Budweiser that they would allow beer to be sold in the country Um Be is it it a dry Qatar? It is forty eight hours before the opening match. they just fuck it they fuck it off Why do they do that Well because obviously it's that tension of like we're a Muslim country versus FIFA's commercial sponsors And they just decide to maybe there's I don't know, did they have to pay fee for the money back oratter? This don't give a fuck Yeah It's like they're not want to move the World Cu somewhere else No two days before. Exactly what were they' doing it. Yeah. So again, that wealth is seven hundred sixty five billion. Yeah do what you want we got that. Wh there' nocohol at the World Cup No. And you can't be gay for a month What's theame?'s the? What's the point to go? N not fucking chuck down Daquaries and go down on sar and knock off all the players.? What even is football about that? And so Ultimately, yet again There's accusations of sports washing. Although you could say, as you said that you've made you brought the game to the Middle East. But again, it's a tiny country for one of the benefits of guit is a Geographically, it being in one city, everyone was like, this is brilliant. Yes, that is Well they do it across because they mes across the continent and It's like if you're being a pundent on that, it doesn't really work For Qatar they had all these c stagations in one city. But yet again, the final Argentina France, did it finish four three? four three three all and then pens One of the greatest finals, one of the greatest games ever. The greatest game of all time probably Oh my Godd, great Did you see how Gararyinica' sign off on So you know, Gary, he had this period where he'd try and end on like a pun. Oh yeah. And it was the most historic game and I was just in shock watching it. It was yeah, probably the greatest sporting event I've ever seen. With that all the Istanbul Yeah. But right at this end is historic thing Gary, after having all this, they've had this punetry they're like in shock about Messy and all of this inccredible tournament His sign up for the whole World Cup is It's beginning It's beginning to look Chris messy Thank you I mean, it was so stupid After all that, the signider And thank you folks. believe it's beginning to look Christmasy It's beginning to look a lot like Christmasy would have been something like that. What was this pun at the end? It's so funny Well he's passast his pick it up, ona. Yeah. So I suppose to wrap it up, you know, we're now the World Cup is now underway in America All I've actually in doing the series, I've It's been kind of comforting. Yeah. almost to know that the World Cup has always been in the gutter. what I've learned is setet Blatter is a high point in the anti corruption of FIFA doing this and I want to watch that film now to see a brave man who stood up to a corrupt organisation trying to the King of football Set Blatter. I'm And I look forward to seeing what he does, in't it? Yeah. And Chuck Blazer as well. fing out for Chuck. I think he died die? must He's four hundred pounds. Oh He died at age seventy H. Good inning. F that f. First bllazer then Firman. Oh, it's a sad day. sad day for us here at Fiversus History. Well thatkss Gavin Plumg. If Gavin Plumg goes, we will take a week off broadcasting out of respect. I hope you're sitting down where you are And all I'll say for me, it's good night from him and from me and from all of us here from R history. It's beginning to look a little Christmasy Goodbye Goodbye