Horatio Gould

had been banned from the 1950 World Cup.

Why had they been banned?

Well, I don't think... Was it because of the Holocaust?

Yes.

I don't think it's a long enough ban, personally.

It was banned for one tournament.

Because presumably... The problem is that they win in 54.

And the problem is that you look at what the generation of politicians were doing before that and their racial laws, and it's icky, isn't it, in the post that they win.

As an amateur eugenicist, I'm saying it's an icky result for the post-war consensus.

It's a culmination of my theories.

Yes, for the weak, lily-livered average Joe, the fact that Germany win in 54, having pursued a 20-year policy of racial sterilization.

And now we're back on track.

1954, everything clicked into place.

Okay.

So how long is the ban?

Six matches.

Genuinely, it seems that... So there's not a tournament for... So end of World War II, 1945.

Then the next tournament is 1950 in Brazil, which we'll deal with shortly.

But yeah, Germany and Japan are banned for one World Cup cycle for committing the Holocaust.

Yeah.