Jonathan Wilson

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3,871 appearances 25 recordings 7 series first heard Oct 2025 last heard 1 Sep

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OTB Football · FOOTBALL DAILY: 'No accountability at FIFA' | Bohs beat Ballkani | Derry and Shels in European action · 23 Jul 2026 podcast

And all this nonsense, oh, he's got terrorist links.

I mean, even if that were true, which I really don't believe it is,

In the confined environment of being a referee, where things like his phone calls are monitored to prevent match fixing, how big a threat do you really think that is?

So, you know, if the US had a problem with him, then why was that not flagged earlier?

Why is that suddenly flagged by some border control guy in Miami who then detains him for 11 hours?

If it really was a major issue, that could have been sorted out way in advance.

It seemed to depend country to country exactly what the percentage was, but roughly...

African fans and journalists who applied for visas, 80% were rejected by the US and by Canada.

I mean, Canada seemed to get away with this, but I mean, they were just as bad.

Mexico was a bit easier.

So, you know, the DR Congo fan who dresses as Patrick Lumumba, he was such a feature of a couple of nations.

He went to one game, which was the game in, was it Guadalajara where they played?

I think it was Guadalajara, yeah.

But he didn't get to do the two games, the three games only played in the US, which is just, again, who gains by that?

This guy's famous.

Surely if there's a problem, you can check that in advance.

But there was a load of Scotland fans had their Estes cancelled at the last minute.

So it was a whole load of examples of individuals sort of being crushed by the bureaucracy and system of the US and Canada, I guess, probably to a lesser degree, Mexico.

Well, compare that to 2017 when Infantino is telling Putin that if a match ticket does not guarantee you a visa, then we will take the World Cup off you.

Yeah, that sort of, that change of approach for sort of the sense that fans are simultaneously this sort of unit that you squeeze for cash, but also actually just an inconvenience.

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