Nick Ames

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377 appearances 4 recordings 3 series first heard May 2026 last heard 7 Jul

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Football Weekly · USA fall asleep in Seattle and it’s tchau Ronaldo: World Cup Daily · 7 Jul 2026 podcast

If I can, sorry, just go to the non-football side again very quickly, although it is all about football.

This episode shouldn't be forgotten and it could easily be whitewashed now and wiped under the carpet because the US didn't win, Balogun didn't score, you know.

Nothing to see here.

But the fact is that we've seen not even a failure of process, we've seen a trampling over and brushing aside, riding roughshod of process here.

that could on another day have influenced the biggest football tournament, the biggest sports tournament in the world.

I mean, but Balogun had a decent second half chance that he didn't score, didn't he?

It could have been different.

So the important thing is that this is now not forgotten.

And I think it was very, very key, interesting today that, you know, we saw Trump basically

dump Infantino in it by saying, yeah, I called him.

And what was interesting after that was that FIFA, that normally to get a reply out of them, a substantive reply about a controversial topic, it's like blood from a stone.

And there they were churning out the explanations from Infantino, a very wordy screed later from a disciplinary commission, I think it was.

You know, they knew they were on the rack here and they know they're still on the rack.

And the fury that...

I was hearing from contacts all over football, various ends of the scale.

It was very, very real, but there is always a danger, especially these days when we're so dopamine hit that we move on to the next story and the next scandal and the next sugar rush and everything, that it just gets forgotten and becomes another silly soap opera thing that happened.

That cannot happen here.

This was really serious.

And I think it is a bit of a bullet dodge, maybe, that the US didn't win, frankly.

I think it's a very good thing for football, unfortunately.

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