#121 Does politics belong in soccer? AKA Why soccer and politics will always be intertwined
Soccer 101
TSS
4.9 • 853 Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode, we're tackling a topic that won’t cause any furor online, never has copious columns written about it in newspapers, and always makes Piers Morgan keep a level head: politics in football!
Does politics belong in soccer? What are the rules about political messages in football? Is soccer becoming more political? What are some of the most notable examples of the intermingling of soccer and politics in the sport’s history?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, everyone to soccer 101, the show that attempts to scratch the soccer |
| 0:19.6 | itches you never New You Had. |
| 0:21.6 | My name is Taylor Rockwell. |
| 0:22.9 | I am hosting today. |
| 0:24.0 | I tried to keep Ryan Bailey's catchphrase, though it sounds a little bit better with that British accent. |
| 0:28.8 | On today's show, we're tackling a topic that won't cause any fear online. |
| 0:33.4 | Never has copious columns written about it in newspapers and always makes Pierce Morgan keep a level head. |
| 0:38.8 | It's politics and football. |
| 0:40.5 | Should be fun. |
| 0:41.5 | Should be spicy. |
| 0:42.6 | To do so, to talk about it, I'm joined by Graham Ruffin. |
| 0:45.5 | Hi, Graham. |
| 0:46.3 | Hi, Taylor Rockwell. |
| 0:47.2 | Yes, if you already think we bring politics into this podcast a bit too often, this might not be the show for you. |
| 0:53.7 | We do get some tweets complaining about |
| 0:55.8 | that, but I think we both think that this is a relevant discussion, particularly this week and |
| 1:01.4 | something worth highlighting. Yes, I think the thing that I will be, people can be most interested |
| 1:07.7 | by in this episode is my attempts to maybe play devil's advocate |
| 1:11.2 | and how quickly I abandon them entirely. I'm going forward to that. I think this is mostly |
| 1:15.0 | just going to be you and me talking about politics in soccer and maybe how they've always |
| 1:19.6 | been there. But we should provide a little bit of context for why we're talking about it this week, |
| 1:23.7 | because this is sort of an ever-present thing. It goes back to COVID and before that, |
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