#113 Unlikely Sports Stars (Part 2)

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🗓️ 19 May 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed!

This week we’re examining the most unlikely sport stars that history has to offer! We’ve got Pope John Paul II, the goalie. Che Guevara: the rugby years. Plus, Albert Camus, the football obsessive.

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0:00.0	Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to episodes of Oh What a Time early and ad-free.
0:04.9	Join Wondry Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:08.9	Hello and welcome to Part 2 of unlikely sports stars.
0:11.9	Let's get on with the show.
0:28.0	So. So, up next, it's old muggins here.
0:40.4	And I, I'm going to talk to you about Albert Camus and his surprising football career. Now, before we start,
0:46.4	I think it's probably sensible to address this. Are you familiar with Albert Camus? Big time.
0:52.2	Do you know anything about him? If so, what do you know? I know about him because of one of my favourite ones, the Manick Street preachers who are absolutely
0:54.6	obsessed with him. And their records often had Camel Quartz on the inlay. They used to sell
1:02.5	t-shirts with Camel Quartz. Oh, really? Give me an example. There's one from Masses Against
1:08.5	the Classes, which is the slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.
1:13.5	Great quote.
1:14.3	So I, because they were always talking about him and Satra, they were, they were an amazing band, the Manix, because I learned so much through them.
1:24.3	That's interesting.
1:25.0	And I'd read so many novels that weren't on the syllabus,
1:29.3	and I probably wouldn't have read had it not been for the Manix. Okay. So they talked a lot about
1:35.1	La Tranger, the outsider, or the stranger, depending on which publication you have. And I read
1:41.7	The Fall and I read The the fall the band are named after
1:45.3	the fall which is a Camus book interesting well all of these books will be mentioned in this
1:50.2	summation of his love for football so for those you who aren't familiar with Albert Camus
1:54.9	including Mr Chris Scull um Albert Camus was born on the 7th November, 1913.
2:02.0	Winging any bells, Chris?
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