Jonathan Liew
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187 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 4 Aug
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And I just think, where was this energy?
when the US was trying to ban a referee from coming to the World Cup?
Where was this energy over Iran?
Where was this energy over Qatar or Russia or Palestine, Israel, or any of the thousands issues in football that frankly should have put an instant end to the Infantino reign on the spot.
But people just kind of nodded along and sort of made noises.
And so he was allowed...
to think himself unimpeachable impregnable like a kind of messianic figure who could do whatever he wanted and you know it may well be that he survives this and is strengthened and and and wins another election and rules football for another four years yeah we can't rule that out so i think
It is encouraging that we've seen this groundswell of opinion against FIFA, but I just wish some of it had been crystallised and harnessed a little bit earlier when a little bit of the damage that's been done to football could have been averted.
Yeah, thank you.
This is The Guardian.
This is The Guardian.
For England to go into their shell, for Tuchel to choose to set England up like that, I find that personally quite devastating.
Tuchel never believed in us.
He never believed in our capability to do anything but defensive rearguard our way to victory.
That, I think, is going to sting for quite a while.
It's like finding out that daddy doesn't love you.
You know, frankly, I'm incredibly disappointed because I believed right up until the 85th minute that they had enough to... that they had the players and the tactics and the coach to be what I think was an inferior Argentina side.
But what happened is, you know, a lot of... there will be a lot of...
Emphasis put on Thomas Tuchel's substitutions.
I think what happened in the rot set in a little bit earlier, England were dropping and dropping and dropping far too deep, far too early.
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