#158 What are soccer's biggest conspiracy theories?

Soccer 101

TSS

Sports, Soccer

4.9 • 822 Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Graham and Taylor don their tin foil caps to discuss soccer's greatest conspiracy theories, and attempt to determine which ones are completely fictional (most of them) and which ones have some truth to them (some of them). Topics covered include... 1) Nike forced Ronaldo to play the 1998 World Cup final 2) A swimming pool scandal ended Johan Cruyff’s Netherlands career 3) Colombia’s secret service stung Bobby Moore at the 1970 World Cup 4) The 1958 World Cup was faked by the CIA 5) An Arsenal-supporting chef was behind Tottenham’s Lasagna-gate 6) Steven Gerrard missed a penalty to get Roy Hodgson sacked 7) Argentina gave Brazil tranquilizers during a knockout round game at the 1990 World Cup 8) South Korea got favorable treatment to ensure the host nation advanced far into the 2002 World Cup 9) FIFA was bribed to award the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar, respectively (this one started as a conspiracy theory and is now... a little more than that)

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0:00.0	Welcome, everybody to soccer 101. My name is Taylor Rockwell, and on this week's episode, I am very excited, but also skeptical.
0:22.6	Because Graham Ruthven has proposed a topic that I think he did specifically because of the last couple episodes were very...
0:28.2	Graham does the research and explains a complicated topic.
0:31.4	I think this one he wanted to get me into more of the meat of the research, and he has done just that with the best soccer
0:38.3	conspiracies. Graham, was that the thinking behind this or am I already being too conspiratorial?
0:42.6	Hello, Taylor Rockwell. Yeah, possibly being too conspiratorial. I just wanted to see which tinfoil
0:48.7	hat from your collection you would choose to wear for this episode. I have to say, great, great choice.
0:55.5	I love the fairy lights on this one and the drawings.
1:00.3	They're not at all creepy or anything.
1:02.0	They're symbols to protect me, Graham.
1:04.5	It's very clear.
1:05.4	That's how you keep FIFA out, baby.
1:06.8	It's how you keep FIFA out of here.
1:08.1	They can't get in.
1:08.7	They don't know what's going on in there.
1:10.5	I am excited to talk about many of these.
1:12.7	Some of them I do sort of buy into.
1:15.6	Many of them I do not.
1:17.6	Let's start with one that gets talked about a lot, Graham.
1:21.4	Nike forcing the original Rinald though to play the 1998 World Cup final.
1:25.9	Bit of background on this one would be,
1:27.9	and then Graham, I look forward to you filling in anything I leave out,
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