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

Because he refereed Brazil against Hungary in the quarterfinal.

It was the Battle of Bern.

It just degenerated into chaos and fisticuffs.

And he gave a penalty against Brazil.

for which Brazil launched an official protest, accusing Uncle Arthur of blowing his whistle in the service of the Kremlin and international communism.

Godless communism.

A quite extraordinary accusation for Uncle Arthur.

And I found on good quality footage, I found the penalty.

It's handball.

And I found it on grainy footage.

You can't see it, but on good quality footage, you can clearly see the handball by, by the Brazilian center back.

I ran into his son, actually the son of the center back the other week, just by clear, clear, clear coincidence.

So finding that, that, that made me feel like a kind of, uh, a Sherlock Holmes of, of, of football.

Um,

Finally, that mystery could be explained.

It was a penalty.

Uncle Arthur was right.

And he wasn't after all.

I can clear him of the charge of blowing his whistle in the service of the Kremlin and international godless communism.

Yeah, 100% record.

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