Rio Ferdinand x The Athletic: Tipping Point
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
4.0 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Rio Ferdinand's 3-part documentary series, 'Tipping Point' aims to find real solutions to the racism, homophobia and mental health crisis which plague our sport... prior to its release, Rio sat down for an honest conversation with The Athletic's Roshane Thomas on the current state of play.
Host Dan Barnes is joined by Roshane and editor Richard Amofa to keep that conversation going. Over the course of this episode you'll hear the interview with Ferdinand, but also from Wilfried Zaha, Romelu Lukaku and Josh Cavallo, as our panel evaluate football's progress.
Rio Ferdinand’s Tipping Point is available on Prime Video from Friday 11 November
Produced by Adonis Pratsides
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:05.4 | Ahead of the release of a fascinating new three-part documentary series investigating football's |
| 0:10.4 | ongoing issues with racism, homophobia and mental health, England legend Rio |
| 0:14.4 | Ferdinand sat down with the athletics for Shane Thomas for a conversation about taking action. |
| 0:19.6 | Today, I'm joined by both for Shane |
| 0:21.3 | and editor Richard Amofa |
| 0:22.6 | to keep that conversation going. |
| 0:24.7 | You'll also hear the interview with Rio Ferdinand |
| 0:26.7 | and from the likes of Wilfred Zaha, |
| 0:28.5 | Romano Lucaku and Josh Caballo. |
| 0:30.6 | I'm Dan Barnes and welcome to a very special episode |
| 0:33.1 | of the Athletic Football Podcast. |
| 0:36.1 | This a day English football had waited more than half a century for. |
| 0:43.5 | Free f***ing lions? |
| 0:45.6 | Free f*** it for us. |
| 0:49.0 | Now, what makes you that angry that you need to do that? |
| 0:51.6 | How'd you go on them and you miss your kids say, listen, dad, how was your day? |
| 0:55.5 | Devastated with the defeat, |
| 0:56.7 | racially abused, that car. No, that went down well. Got nicked for it. I'll be right. I'll get away of it. It'll be fine. It'll blow over. Fancy your takeaway, love. Why is football races? Why am I having to explain this stuff to my kids? |
| 0:53.3 | Are we really here again? Are we really still doing this? |
| 0:56.3 | I'm scared to even... Why is football racist? Why am I having to explain this stuff to my kids? Are we really here again? |
| 1:11.6 | Are we really still doing this? I'm scared to even look at my direct messages anymore because it could be filled with anything. I'm telling it, but yo, this is racist to me, isn't it? I've shut it down from the get-go. Don't even make that a common word here. The end of the day, we're going to practice something that we love to get hammered by millions |
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