Ian Irving

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542 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 12 Jul

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The Athletic FC Podcast · FIFA, Trump and Balogun: The scandal that shook the World Cup · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

Big talking point, big story list to get our teeth into today.

Keris Jones is with me here in the studio in London and also joining us on the line from the USA are the two men who broke this world-exclusive story for The Athletic.

It's Adam Crafton and Dan Sheldon.

Undoubtedly, this was a

A story that transcended the World Cup, transcended the sport.

It was reported on the front page, we're told, of 35 national newspapers globally.

I mean, Adam, what was it like to break it?

Yeah, absolutely.

And that's what we'll do on the course of this podcast, of course.

I mean, Dan, it's an exclusive for The Athletic, a world exclusive, like I said a moment ago.

It sort of transcended the World Cup and football, though, as well, hasn't it?

I mean, to see the reaction from stateside, again, must have been a very interesting thing to observe, like Adam was saying there.

Yeah look what you've done you two by covering this story the way that you did I mean let's rewind a little bit then Adam let's go back to the start of all of this and just establish the story for anyone who's been living under a rock the last week or so I mean what is this controversy all about fundamentally?

Tarek Meheramovic, if anyone needs to know who was sent off after the challenge from Balogun.

I mean, he's the forgotten element of this story in some way, Keris.

Yes, certainly Donald Trump getting involved, Adam, is where this story becomes much more than a football story.

This is where it cuts through and transcends a little bit.

So what was the first suggestion that Trump or his administration were going to get involved in this?

We'll talk more about the impact of this incident on the future of FIFA, on the future of Infantino, etc.

a little bit later on.

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