Billionaire ball game

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

James Montague, award-winning author of the The Billionaire’s Club, tells the story of how the super-rich bought English football and Chelsea FC became a sanctioned asset. From Putin’s oligarchs to hyper-capitalist Americans and oil-rich Middle Eastern royal families, James explores the concerns, crimes and crises that large waves of cash have brought to the home of the beautiful game.

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0:00.0	I had this secret.
0:02.8	I robbed banks in my spare time.
0:06.3	Lives less ordinary from the BBC World Service.
0:09.6	This is not a good thing to do because police are after you.
0:14.8	Find out more at the end of this podcast.
0:19.2	Before we talk about the game itself,
0:21.2	we have a big breaking story this evening concerning the Chelsea Onut Roman Abramovich.
0:26.4	Roman Abramovich, the Russian owner of Chelsea Football Club, is among seven more oligarchs
0:31.9	sanctioned by the British government.
0:33.9	Despite his previous denials of direct links with Vladimir Putin,
0:37.7	he described him as a pro-Cremlin oligarch.
0:41.9	We focus first today on Stamford Bridge.
0:44.8	As Britain imposes sanctions on the owner of Chelsea Football Club, Roman Abramovich.
0:50.3	It was clear.
0:51.1	You may have noticed that a certain football club owner hit headlines recently.
0:55.2	Roman, a Cardiavitch, a Bramovich, sanctioned.
0:58.5	And Chelsea Football Club placed into crisis.
1:02.3	How on earth did we get here?
1:04.4	And maybe more importantly, why?
1:07.5	My name is James Montague.
1:09.4	And this documentary is the billionaire ballgame for the BBC World Service.
1:14.3	For the past eight years, I've been trying to answer just that.
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