Dave Powell
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715 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Aug
Dave Powell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Lenny Johansson back in the 90s.
There's not many people who've been heads of a football governing body and been super popular.
So, I don't know.
It seems...
For the reason you mentioned there with some teams, some countries will think our chances are better with an expanded World Cup.
And I think that idea probably dies if Infantino isn't there to force some of these bold, brash things through.
But it depends how much of a traditionalist some people might look at this and think, yeah, absolutely, football's a modern game now.
Who cares?
It's not...
It's not 1950 or whatever, but it's more what it signals further on down the line.
Because if it's 20% now, it's going to be 40% in a few years' time.
Before you know it, there's a controlling stake of the global game in the hands of private equity funds, which is...
Everything is made as a decision for business, not a decision for the game football.
So that's my issue with it is opening the door to the kind of ransacking of football as we know it in the next 15, 20 years.
No, and I spoke about this the week before.
Initially, I didn't think they'd go to the States because I thought they would see it as a bit of fatigue around interest.
But if anything, given the way, I suppose, the fan sentiment in the US has been around the World Cup, it's been largely positive, I think, on US soil around what the whole experience was like.
Yes, the tickets were pricey, but...
American sports fans are used to expensive ticket prices because that's part of the course.
But I think that there were maybe a little element of fatigue in some of it because they've just seen superstars playing on the highest level and then Liverpool didn't bring out a stellar line-up because a lot of their players, a good number of the stars, are still resting after the World Cup.
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