Tim Vickery

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Indo Sport · Tim Vickery bumper World Cup preview | Neymar returns, can Messi retain? · 5 Jun 2026 podcast

You know, it's sordid, but we knew it.

What was really a shock to me with what we saw is just how much the extent to which that Epstein class see themselves as some kind of master race.

It's just stunning to me.

And football is a great antidote to that.

It's a fabulous antidote because where does the talent come from?

from the kind of people that the Epstein Files class absolutely despises.

It comes from where people look least.

It comes from the peripheries.

And so our book, I think it's a play in three acts, really.

The opening is when you're waiting for a Pelé figure, and then in comes Pelé, and in the course of...

three World Cup wins in four, transforms Brazil into the country of football, but more than that, transforms the World Cup into the event that stops the planet for a month every four years.

And then, especially because Mexico 70 is the first one that's televised on any grand scale around the world.

And then every World Cup subsequently is kind of in the shadow of Mexico 70.

And our story ends there.

with Lionel Messi rising to the challenge of history in Qatar in what were Pelé's last conscious days on earth.

I mean, that's something you couldn't script it, I think, the way that Pelé is crucial to the arc of the tale that we're trying to tell in Mundiales.

Well, there's one.

This is a little bit niche, I think, because not many people are old enough to remember Uncle Arthur from It's a Knockout and Jeux Sans Frontieres.

Uncle Arthur, Arthur Ellis, he was kind of an avuncular figure who was a kind of official, but he'd made his name as a football referee.

And in 1954, he became the most hated man in Brazil.

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