Tim Vickery

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1,032 appearances 5 recordings 4 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 30 Jun

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Indo Sport · World Cup round-up | Awesome Ancelotti, Die Mannschaft denied & Dan's Mexican dispatch · 30 Jun 2026 podcast

where they will boo Allison.

There's no other football culture in the world where that will happen.

And so there are... So you don't take Neymar.

What happens?

Those fans in the stands...

Now, you always would say they're not really football fans.

These are rich tourists, most of them.

It's very, very different from the fans who will follow some of the other teams.

So I think that there has been a huge gap between the people who attend league games, the football fans, and the ones who are watching Brazil in the World Cup.

That gap has closed a little bit because...

There's been a process of gentrification post-2014 in Brazilian stadiums, and it's more wealthy people who can afford to go to the games now.

So that gap is closing a little bit.

But in footballing terms, it's not always a particularly sophisticated audience.

It's an audience that just expects to win.

It's like a light entertainment crowd, right?

And what they're going to do

As soon as things get difficult, they're going to go, Neymar, Neymar, Neymar, Neymar.

And it's going to be used as a stick with which to beat the players and the coach.

So what Ancelotti has done is he's brought that inside the tent.

So he's minimized the possible corrosive effects

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