Alistair Campbell
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first heard Jan 2026
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Go for 34 if I were you.
Well, anecdotally, I know quite a lot of people.
Look, the World Cup is the biggest sports event in the world, even bigger than the Olympics in terms of viewership around the world.
But I think this one is going to be horribly political for all sorts of different reasons.
The reason I mentioned 1934 is that was in Italy, and it was at the time that Mussolini was really kind of on the march, as it were.
But I think this one is going to be pretty horrible for all sorts of reasons.
Yeah.
Well, it's going to be very different in lots of ways.
First is it's the first time they've ever done a World Cup across three countries, USA, Mexico, Canada.
The first game is going to be in Mexico, between Mexico and South Africa.
And it's been expanded so they can make even more money in TV rights and the rest to 48 countries.
So it's going to be longer than previous World Cups as well.
But it's really interesting.
You remember Qatar.
I bet you don't remember this, that on the day that the Qatar World Cup started.
The BBC, I think, did not cover the opening ceremony.
Instead, they did a documentary on human rights in Qatar.
And then Russia, you had Russia, the World Cup, and a big part of that debate was sport washing, Putin using sport to kind of brandish a different sort of image to the world.
And also another big story is the corruption in the bidding process.
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