Joey Durso
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first heard Jun 2026
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Odd Lots · How the 1994 World Cup Transformed the Business of Football Forever · 25 Jun 2026
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And Newcastle United is like a very working class club with a really proud history and this sort of quite, you know, town that's had a rough few decades and a very proud, a very amazing institution.
And it's a very clever move for the Saudi Investment Fund to buy it because it has so much sort of authenticity and credibility.
Well, you've teed me up.
That's the whole first chapter of my book.
Which team was that?
That's Schalke in Gelsenkirchen in Germany, where I travel and speak to lots of people.
So yeah, the great thing there was they had Gazprom on their shirts.
And when I went there two years after the invasion of Ukraine, lots of people were wearing blue stickers over the Gazprom logo because they were shamed by it.
But yeah, Russian gas and German politics were deeply entwined for decades.
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exhibited in the shirt of Schalke and politicians and executives would wine and dine there Germany was buying cheap gas from Russia so both sides were getting something out of it because Germany doesn't have much natural resources Russia needed the cash it all came crashing down in 2022 the one team that does still have Gazprom on their shirts is Red Star Belgrade in Serbia who also play in European competitions but of course Serbia is much more pally with Russia than the rest of Europe so they don't see a problem there
Schalke, well, they lost loads of money overnight.
It was like 10 million euros.
And they'd been kind of declining for a while, but it was almost the straw that broke the camel's back.
And they went down to the second division in Germany, which was terrible for them because they're a huge club.
So they took a huge financial hit from losing that sponsorship.
Well, yeah, all these things are just kind of arbitrary judgment calls.
And there's a thing that football associations are constantly grappling with because people that have ripped their shirts off to have something to do with Israel-Palestine.
And I can see why.
But then when the Russia-Ukraine stuff happened in England, the kind of whole football community united around we support Ukraine and flags and whatever else.
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