Pro Revolution Soccer: Coming This Friday

Novara Media

Politics, News, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2022

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

On Sunday, the World Cup kicks off in Qatar. How did a tiny dictatorship with a dismal human rights record, deadly summer temperatures and barely any football infrastructure end up hosting the world’s biggest tournament? And what’s a leftwing fan going to do about it? Keir Milburn (Leeds United) and Tom Williams (Southampton) tackle the […]

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Kea Milberg, and I'm Tom Williams, and we have some complicated feelings about
0:07.0	the World Cup in Qatar.
0:08.5	We love World Cups and can't wait to follow the drama that unfolds.
0:11.6	But this tournament is being held in Qatar, a Petra estate with an appalling human rights
0:15.6	record, daily temperatures so deadly that they had to play the World Cup in November.
0:20.0	Look, FIFA is a real cesspool of corruption, but the Qatar World Cup is only one example
0:25.2	of the hypercapitalist economics that batter the game week in, we care.
0:29.3	So we've decided we're going to enjoy the World Cup.
0:31.7	The matches, the tactics, the suspense, the spectacle, but we're also going to probe the politics
0:35.9	and economics behind the game and ask what would a left-wing football fan do.
0:40.2	Join us on Pro Revolution Soccer, a World Cup forecast on Navarra Media.
0:45.1	Pro Revolution Soccer kicks off on Friday, November the 18th.
0:48.7	Find it wherever you get your podcasts.

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