Hello and welcome to the history of fun where we explore the hidden backstories behind the things you love to do.

My name is Russ Frustick and today I'm joined by Allegra.

Hey, Allegra.

Hey, Russ.

Are you ready to talk about something we don't know anything about?

Always.

Soccer.

And we actually have the perfect expert to talk about soccer.

By far, the most British person on staff.

Colin Campbell, welcome aboard Colin to the show.

Thank you for having me.

I am the most British person in my house as well, which is nice.

One would certainly hope so.

Colin, I wanted Colin to come on because I have very vivid memories of Colin being very

into, I'm sure he calls it football, but I'm going to call it soccer. In various moments as I've worked with him, one of which during E3, it seems like there's always something important happening in soccer during E3.

And Colin, in addition to doing very excellent reporting, is staring intently at a screen and generally looking depressed.

So who better to come on and talk about the World Cup?

Colin, I want to know, when did your fascination with soccer arise? Well, you know, I was brought up in England and you just have to like soccer or football. There's just no way around it really unless you're

kind of middle class and into rugby or one of those sports. So I like everybody that I knew

was into into football. And I remember the 1978 World Cup, which England did not qualify for,

but Scotland did qualify for it. And so for some bizarre reason,

everybody in England was cheering on Scotland. And it was a really entertaining, fascinating World

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