Lars Sivertsen

speaker

2,657 appearances 22 recordings 5 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 5d ago

Lars Sivertsen’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 22 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 7.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

Football Weekly · Bellingham blunts Norway as England make the semis - World Cup Daily · 12 Jul 2026 podcast

But listen, I want to say two things.

First of all, Norway didn't lose this game because a ball maybe touched a wire.

This is just nonsense.

But...

What I want to say, and I feel this quite strongly now, this is the hole that FIFA have dug for themselves, right?

Because they made this completely unprecedented decision to unban Cristiano Ronaldo so that they could have one of the most commercially attractive participants in the tournament and he could score a couple of goals against Uzbekistan and everyone could be very happy for him.

because they made this completely unprecedented decision with no clear process whatsoever to unban Florian Balogun after very well-documented political pressure from the host nation's president.

Because these things have happened, FIFA no longer have any credibility as a neutral actor here.

No one with an IQ above room temperature believe that FIFA at this point are a neutral arbiter.

And that means like I personally do not think there is any kind of plot to help Argentina going on here.

I think all the decisions the referee made in the Argentina-Egypt game were completely fine.

I absolutely do not believe this business with the wire made an impact on anything.

But here's the thing.

I don't blame the people who do believe this because you can't trust the people running the game right now.

They have had a total and utter loss of legitimacy due to their own actions.

And I don't see how they get it back.

So you're going to have this speculation.

You're going to have these conspiracy theories forever.

And it is entirely FIFA's own fault that this is where we're at.

But that aside... But if we're in Fahrenheit, in fairness, I mean, currently, yeah, I've just turned it off.

Showing 761–780 of 2,657 · page 39 of 133