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Libero 026: Hate-Watching The Club World Cup

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Libero

Sports, Soccer, Society & Culture

4.9867 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

It’s Club World Cup time, and Libero are just as excited as you are. Today, Miguel Delaney, John Brewin and Rory Smith discuss how this tournament came to be, and what its existence tells us about the power (im)balance of world football. In the second half (38:18), they discuss what the tournament might bring as a sporting spectacle: for all the misgivings over how it came about, will it produce any football worth watching? And is part of the problem that most football, no matter how artificial and commercialised, is worth watching? Produced by: Tom Bassam Email in at liberopodcast0@gmail.com Follow us on X @podcast_libero Follow us on Bluesky @liberopodcast.bsky.social Follow us on Instagram @liberopod Subscribe to our YouTube channel @liberopod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi there. I'm going to try and do this with the puppy dog enthusiasm of Rory Smith here, if that's

0:06.8

possible. And just to say, we continue to enjoy putting the show together. It's been great fun so

0:13.8

far, and we think it can be great fun for quite a while. However, to keep that going, to keep

0:19.7

liberal flowing as it is, we need your help.

0:23.8

And we need your help with liking, subscribing, recommending, even throwing in a few ideas.

0:30.6

We've got comments under the YouTube page.

0:32.5

We've got an email account.

0:34.0

That's Libero Podcast Zero at gmail.com. We'll go back to that at the end of the show.

0:39.7

And like, subscribe, tell your friends, let's just keep this show on the road. As I say, this has been

0:45.5

great fun for all of us. We're finding a lot about each other, actually, most of all. And that's

0:50.7

the kind of journey we're on. That's what we're doing it for. Is that enthusiastic enough for you, Rory?

0:55.5

Anyway, on with the show.

1:00.2

Hello, welcome to episode 26 of Libero,

1:06.1

the podcast about the most important of the least important things,

1:10.7

as I think it was Bobby Robson once said.

1:12.8

So as you probably heard, I'm here with Rory Smith,

1:16.6

Chief Football Writer of the Observer,

1:19.0

and also a man in a blazer.

1:20.9

He's from the County of Yorkshire.

1:22.6

And Miguel Delaney, award-winning author.

1:25.3

I think you can get his magnumopus on audiobook, can't you?

1:28.5

Cheaprifice. It did well on Audible, so Audible have put it on sale.

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