Why Does Fandom Always Have to Be So Biased? | Stadio Podcast
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4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Musa and Ryan are back to catch up a bit before discussing Real Madrid’s win over Eintracht Frankfurt in the European Super Cup (08:31), plus some transfers since the last episode, including Timo Werner’s return to Leipzig (16:05) and Musa reacts to seeing Georginio Wijnaldum’s announcement video for the first time. Then, in a week when the Benjamin Mendy and Ryan Giggs trials began, with the backdrop of allegations against another current Premier League footballer, they discuss the dangers of football tribalism in response to troubling allegations or criticism of clubs (20:35). Content warning: This final segment contains references to cases containing accounts of sexual assault, domestic violence, and rape.
Hosts: Musa Okwonga and Ryan Hunn
Producer: Ryan Hunn
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| 0:00.0 | The press box is here to catch you up on the latest media stories hosted by Brian Curtis and |
| 0:04.6 | David Schumaker. These guys have the insight on the biggest stories you care about. |
| 0:08.6 | Check out the press box on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:30.0 | Hello and welcome back to the study of podcast and ring our C. I'm Miss Alkwunga. |
| 0:42.9 | I'm Ryan Hunt. Brian, how are you doing? |
| 0:44.6 | I'm alright, thanks man. How are you? |
| 0:46.1 | I am good. I know I'm very good actually. I'm relieved. |
| 0:50.8 | Yes, relieved. Why? I managed to secure a British passport. |
| 0:55.8 | I already had one. I'm a British citizen. How does that sound? |
| 1:08.0 | I'm a British citizen and I had to get a new one because the old one was expiring. |
| 1:12.6 | It was a bit of a nightmare. It took ages to get an appointment and that happened to come |
| 1:17.2 | back to the UK and then just stay online for like weeks, just refreshing the same website. |
| 1:23.2 | And then the appointment I got was in Glasgow, went up there, and the Q's are wild, |
| 1:28.1 | Ryan. The Q's are wild. Yeah, even at that time of day, bless them. They are completely |
| 1:34.7 | overwhelmed with demand and they are doing their best. They're just overwhelmed. |
| 1:38.7 | There's just so much because it's post-COVID, so a lot of people want to post-loc down. |
| 1:43.3 | So a lot of people are still very much in the pandemic. COVID policy. |
| 1:46.7 | Yeah, post-COVID policy. Exactly. Post-loc down. A lot of people want to go traveling. |
| 1:51.6 | A lot of people's passports expires. It's a bit of a toxic storm. |
| 1:56.4 | But yeah, they did their best and got my passport at long last. |
| 2:01.1 | So I will be returning to Germany soon enough. Oh, yay. |
| 2:09.2 | Oh, what a small of their faces. |
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