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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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News, Society & Culture, Politics, Government

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🗓️ 17 February 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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From the ownership of Manchester City and Paris St. Germain to motor sport in the Middle East to the Beijing Olympics, questionable regimes are laundering their reputations by association with elite sport. Does “sportswashing” work, and what can fans do about it? Murad Ahmed, Sports Editor of the FT and host of their Business of Football Summit, gives Andrew Harrison the inside track on sport’s dirty secrets. “No fan of a sports team thinks of themselves as a consumer of a global brand. But that’s exactly what marketing directors think.” “The sports market has been completely distorted by ownership by Middle Eastern states.” “The weaponising of fans to go after critics of your country is really worrying.” Presented and produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers: Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Logo and branding by Mark Taylor. Music: Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. The Bunker is a Podmasters production See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:24.6	Paris to Dakar car rally over Saudi Arabia's imprisonment of Lu Jane Al-Hathlul, who, ironically,
1:30.3	had been campaigning for women's rights to drive. Al-Hathlil was released this month in a separate move which was seen as an overjoyed to Joe Biden.
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1:42.0	genocibel abuse of the Uyghurs and the involvement of Qatar,
1:45.3	a country with a catastrophic human rights record in world football, from its purchase of Paris
1:49.7	Saint-Germain to its partnerships with Bion, Munich, Roma and and Real Madrid to its shady acquisition of the
1:54.6	2022 World Cup have all been seen as among the most egregious examples of sports washing.
1:59.9	How bad is this problem and what can we do about it when world sport is so
2:03.0	dominated by money and geopolitics. Here to explain it all to me is Murad Ahmed
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