Simon Cooper
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334 appearances
5 recordings
4 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 10 Jul
Simon Cooper’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And then the third thing I say is football provides this alternative global hierarchy.
It's a hierarchy where China doesn't exist, where the U.S.
is also ran, and where Argentina is currently number one in the world.
You know, where else do you get that?
What other global hierarchy could give you that outcome?
Yeah, I mean, the US has three quarters of the games.
It has all the good games.
I would say this is a US World Cup with kind of small franchises in Canada and Mexico, which the Canadians and Mexicans are understandably very excited about because they're never in the spotlights of the world, and now they briefly will be.
The US doesn't really care because it's always in the spotlights of the world, but because it's such an isolated country geographically, emotionally,
It doesn't really care about being in the spotlights of the world.
So I think this has almost no impact on the American story.
You have the fastest moving news cycle in modern history.
So 47 minutes after the World Cup ends, there will be a new news cycle story that everyone's grasping over.
This World Cup, almost all World Cups will fade like a dream, leaving no impact on the host country.
But of course, Trump is going to make it into a Trump show where he comments on the action, not from the stadiums, but from the White House nonstop.
I mean, I'd cite two moments.
One is not at the World Cup.
It's when December 2nd, 2010, they vote on the host of two World Cups the same day, 2018 and 2022.
And everyone, including me in a long piece in the FT, is predicting Russia will get 2018, the US will get 2022.
But for 2022, guitar is pulled out of the envelope by Sepp Blatter.
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