Episode 808 - The state of it

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Sports & Recreation, Football, Premier League, Arsenal, Gunners, Soccer, Sports, Sport

4.8 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

In this episode I'm joined by Miguel Delaney to chat about his new book: 'States of play – How sportwashing took over football'. We discuss what sportswashing actually means, and how in this book we come to understand it's a very broad term to quickly describe how football, money and politics have become inextricably linked. We chat about the impact it has had on competitiveness in the game, why Roman Abramovich's arrival at Chelsea in 2003 opened a Pandora's Box, the Premier League's culpability, how FIFA and UEFA have failed to safeguard the game and instead jumped on the gravy train, and lots more. You can also win one of two copies of the book.

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0:00.0	Small Changes
0:02.0	Wherever they take us to
0:08.0	Small Changes
0:10.0	The critically acclaimed new album
0:12.0	from Mercury Prize winner
0:14.0	Michael Kiwanuka is out now
0:16.0	Wanting on
0:18.0	One and on For the days, for the days of here.
0:26.6	One and on.
0:29.6	One and on. Hello and welcome to a brand new arse blog arscast right here on arsblog.com. How are you? Hope you're well.
1:01.0	Thank you very much indeed, as always, for being here. It is episode 808. If you know, you know, am I right?
1:12.8	Sometimes I am.
1:14.0	Not always, but sometimes.
1:16.5	Anyway, we are back after what feels like quite a long interlull, but football begins again
1:23.5	on Saturday when we host Nottingham Forest at home.
1:27.0	At the time of recording, we don't
1:28.7	have any new information, any news. It's been such a quiet week. We don't have any news on the
1:34.4	injured players. How is Leandro Trossard, who went off injured for Belgium during the interlull? How
1:40.6	are Bacayosaka, Declan Rice, Takeakihiro Tomiasu, Ricardo Califiori.
1:47.6	These are questions that we're all desperate to find out the answers to, and right now we don't
1:52.6	have any of that info.
1:54.0	Mikhail Artetta will meet the press on Friday.
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