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

And Thomas Tuchel said he wasn't going to even engage with any football today.

And I think they've earned that.

And I think we'll all come away from Mexico City thinking this was a once-in-a-lifetime moment to be able to do this.

It's definitely being able to cover these two games at the Aztec against Ecuador and England.

I think they've been the best things I've done in my career, quite honestly.

Not the best work I've done, the best things I've done.

It's just been absolutely magical.

And I think it's a bit of a scandal, really, that Mexico doesn't get...

much further presence in this world cup i mean we we can talk about where the final should be i think the aztecs should at least have a quarterfinal or semi-final um but there may be maybe less is more maybe scarcity is good maybe it makes things that bit more magical and rare and joyful when you do experience them but no it's it's it's been honestly a

a lovely and quite overwhelming experience for a lot of us.

And one of those things that is everything that it's cracked up to be.

And obviously the, the result, um, uh, Mexico to England three, uh, was also a very, um, very pleasing one for a lot of people.

Sure, yeah.

I was covering the earlier stages of the World Cup in Houston, Texas, and about 100 miles east of there is a city called Port Arthur, and it's an oil refinery town.

There's these three, well, more than three, but three major refineries there.

One of them is run by a company called Motiva that is a wholly owned subsidiary of Aramco.

Now,

You may subconsciously know that Aramco, the Saudi state petroleum company, gets pumped into your eyeballs every time you watch a World Cup game because it's a major partner of FIFA, probably their biggest sponsor, I think.

So they essentially own this massive, massive plant.

And in short, Port Arthur has an awfully bad cancer rate, like the highest in Texas, one of the highest in the U.S.,

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