Adam Crafton

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864 appearances 6 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 17 Aug

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Football Daily · MNC: FIFA's climbdown, Vinicius to Arsenal and Newcastle's new era · 3 Aug 2026 podcast

And that's how he's kind of brushed off a lot of these controversies over time.

I think the guys are right, you know.

For those who were working at the World Cup or fortunate enough to be able to afford the tickets, of course it was fantastic.

If you put all of the best players in the world in one place for 30, 39 days or whatever it was, you're going to get great games, great goals, great memories and great TV coverage.

And commercially, it was the most spectacular success for FIFA.

Yeah, and I guess that is the kind of the image.

I mean, we should remember that, you know, four of the countries who were competing there...

Nationals from those countries, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Haiti, Iran, weren't allowed to travel to America, their fans, for the tournament.

But this is what I mean, sort of the product that is packaged up and so much happens within a World Cup that you kind of... And nobody's kind of wrong to do this.

It's just...

you get swept away with it, right?

We all do to a certain extent.

But I don't think anything that's happening now is a criticism of the product of the World Cup.

It is a criticism of governance and leadership, stuff that's a little bit more dry.

But I think there was quite a lot of outrage over the the Balogun decision.

And then when it emerged that, you know, that Trump had made a phone call, you know, that felt very, very unusual, unprecedented, because normally what we see with kind of

FIFA decisions or FIFA stuff is it's kind of the stuff of like boring executives and money and business and all of that stuff.

It doesn't normally infringe on what happens on the field.

It doesn't normally impact whether a team has a better or worse chance of winning a game.

And actually by allowing certain players to play, it did.

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