Gary Lineker speaks his mind on Qatar
The News Agents
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4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Gary Lineker tells us about the burger he shared with David Beckham in a hotel bar in Zurich the night before England was knocked out of the bid to host the 2018 Football world cup.
What happened next, he says, was unbelievable. Qatar - against virtually every single odd - was chosen to host the 2022 tournament. The REST, as they say IS HISTORY. Fast forward 12 years and Gary speaks of his responsibility to tell it like it is when he's out there - even if it annoys his Qatari hosts. We talk gay rights, UK gov response, Elon Musk and yes, even a bit of football.
Alicia Kearns, the new Chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, joins us in the second half to talk about the importance of taking a burner phone to the World Cup. And she gives her thoughts on the controversial reinstatement of current Home Secretary Suella Braverman.
And Lewis brings us up to date with the Brazilian eletion result - a knife edge result that sees the 'Trump of the Tropics' removed from power.
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Executive Producer: Dino Sofos
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.2 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.6 | The winner to organise the 222 FIFA World Cup is Qatar. |
| 0:22.9 | That was Settlatter speaking 12 years ago in December of 2010. |
| 0:29.1 | When he announced that Qatar, no less, would be hosting this year's Football World Cup. |
| 0:37.0 | And it's now upon us. It's happening in three weeks' time. |
| 0:40.3 | And it was an extraordinary moment, which took both the political world and the sporting world by surprise. |
| 0:45.4 | Because not only was this a country with very little history of involvement in the World Cup or football generally, |
| 0:51.6 | but also a country with a pretty appalling human rights record, |
| 0:55.8 | particularly in areas like LGBT rights. So today we've invited Gary Lineker on to the news agents. |
| 1:04.3 | He is going to be covering the World Cup for the BBC. And we just wanted to know how far he was prepared to go to speak out. |
| 1:13.3 | If you piss off your hosts... |
| 1:15.2 | I'm not worried about that, not the slightest. |
| 1:17.8 | You'll just say what you want. |
| 1:19.6 | Yeah, absolutely. |
| 1:20.9 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:25.6 | It's Emily |
| 1:28.2 | And it's Lewis |
| 1:29.0 | And John is still not with us |
| 1:31.8 | The East Asia Bureau can't run itself |
| 1:34.3 | We're wondering whether |
| 1:35.4 | I think it's the Australasia Bureau |
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