Nicky Bandini
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16 recordings
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 15 Sep
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Which is even worse.
The problem with all of this is when you start throwing these sorts of uh ideas around is that fair and should it be that what's your alternative?
And I think it's worth reminding ourselves that if we want to talk about confederations and how they act uh i UEFA is no beacon of moral purity.
We have we've had plenty of of of issues with how that's been run down the years and and I'm I'm certain if uh
my attention was more focused on the different uh confederations, I'd probably find similar things elsewhere.
It's you know, my my work is mostly in and around European clubs.
What is certainly true with the the current setup is when you have this wild disparity in
not just the size, but frankly just the the wealth and the earning potential of different nations, uh representatives, it does leave open the possibility um uh on the nefarious side and and to be clear for our lawyers, I'm not suggesting anything specific in this case.
Say corruption, but it also leaves open the possibility for
things that are short of corruption, such as when Infantino is talking about, well, if we sign this private equity deal, we get to give everyone X amount of money.
Well, that amount of money means a huge amount more to a poor, uh, small country's uh football confederation than it does to a rich country's confederation.
And therefore you can certainly manipulate people's intentions much more easily.
when there are less wealthy uh representatives who have an equal vote to the uh wealthy representatives.
No.
And that's a very complicated thing and that's why I'm trying to dance around it a bit is 'cause I don't think that equally I don't think that it should be Mike makes right, it shouldn't be, Oh, well you're the rich country, so you get to speak loudest.
That's not how it should work either.
Yeah,
This is the real romance of the game podcast here, isn't it?
We're we're going straight in for the things that make everyone love football.
Yeah, Jonathan Wilson's been writing has me about the the end of the
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