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Today I'm joined by Paul Ansorge to talk about the 1978 World Cup in Argentina,

the controversy surrounding that tournament

and also within that context

how we might look forward

and think about the Qatar tournament

in 2022.

So thanks for downloading the podcast

and I hope you enjoy it.

Thank you. and I hope you enjoy it. Paul, David Winner describes the 1978 World Cup as a tournament that should never have taken place.

He was referring to, as you also refer to in the video, the fact that Argentina was at the time

under the control of a military who had taken force during a coup two years prior.

And as part of the junta, it's estimated that up to 30,000 people were disappeared, mostly young people, political activists, human rights activists,

just other people generally who disobeyed the military, and by disappeared, I think we can not all,

I think there's a consensus that that means that they were murdered. How much of this was known

to the other countries at the time, or at least the public of other competing

countries, because I imagine at the time I'd been a difference between what the government

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