Club World Cup Group Stage Reactions with Rory Smith: Men in Blazers 06/25/25
Men In Blazers
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🗓️ 25 June 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Rog and Rory Smith are back to breakdown the most prestigious tournament not named the Florida Cup....the FIFA Club World Cup....including Inter Miami's turn from Nepo Baby entrants to Club World Cup darlings, the dominance of South American clubs, and why the weather could be the biggest takeaway from the tournament heading into the 2026 World Cup. Then, Rog and Rory break down the splashiest Premier League transfer window moves so far this summer.
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| 0:00.0 | Wonderry Plus subscribers can listen to Men in Blazers ad-free right now. Join Wondry |
| 0:05.1 | Plus in the Wonderry app or an Apple podcast. You're listening to the Meninblazers Media Network, |
| 0:13.3 | Suboptimal Radio. One of the things you really need in all tournaments are those subplots. |
| 0:18.3 | Messy don't up against PSG. You can sell that game. You can persuade people who support neither of those teams |
| 0:24.1 | that they might want to watch PSG against into Miami |
| 0:26.2 | for the slender chance that for 90 minutes |
| 0:29.4 | on a sultry night in the American summer, |
| 0:32.1 | Leonel Messi and Sergio Bousquetts and Louis Suarez |
| 0:34.3 | and all the others can roll back the years |
| 0:36.5 | and pull off a shot. |
| 0:43.2 | We back. Like Paul Pogba, we were promised a summer. There was a festival of football and we've got one. |
| 0:50.5 | It's a fire festival of football, but I know I'm having a great time watching the Club World Cup, which is like an old centaur for the days of Greek mythology, half football, half chaos vanity tournament, and our Gold Cup. |
| 1:04.5 | Oh, the spirit airlines of international tournaments as we charge towards a round of 16 and 1. |
| 1:11.3 | The quarter finals are ready or the other to break down all the storylines. |
| 1:14.9 | Check in with all the happenings. |
| 1:16.3 | Ah, your favourite Premier League team of choice. |
| 1:19.1 | My God, Liverpool Football Club, hogging all the players, it is so good, so bloody good, |
| 1:25.1 | to reconnect with my partner in podcast, the Crown Prince of Harrogate, |
| 1:28.4 | the man who at Men in Blazers is known for giving his name to the Rory Smith newsletter. |
| 1:34.6 | Yes, from The Observer. It's Mr. Rory Smith. |
| 1:37.6 | How you doing, Roj? |
| 1:39.0 | Oh, Roar, I am so happy to see you, even happier when I realize that, oh, like this time next week, |
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