The Guardian's David Squires, The World's Premier Satirical Soccer Cartoonist

Planet Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Sports Illustrated

Sports, Sports News, News, Soccer

4.6 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Grant has a lively conversation with The Guardian's David Squires, the world's top satirical soccer cartoonist, about how he creates his biting (and hilarious) weekly cartoons that have focused on the English Premier League, the men's and women's World Cups and soccer in Australia (where the Englishman is based). Squires tells the story of how he got started in the business and why he loves tweaking the absurdities of the modern soccer world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:25.7	Hey there I'm Grant Wall welcome to the Planet Football podcast this week's interview guest is The Guardians David Squires
0:36.0	the world's preeminent satirical cartoonist on the sport of soccer. A quick reminder, if you like
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0:49.4	recommending the podcast to someone you know. Onward! Our guest today is the the every week with his satirical and Whip Smart takes on the global game.
1:05.0	You can see David Squire's work in The Guardian.
1:08.0	And his books include
1:10.0	Goless Draws Illuminating the genius of modern football and two volumes of the illustrated history of football.
1:18.0	You can find him on Twitter at Squires underscore David.
1:22.0	He joins us now from his home base in Sydney, Australia.
1:25.5	David, thanks so much for coming on the show.
1:28.2	Hi Grant, oh thanks so much and thanks for that amazing introduction.
1:32.6	I need to get you to announce me whenever I walk into rooms.
1:36.9	I don't go out very often, but when I go to the coffee shop
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