The Political Football

Blaise Baquiche & Satya Gunput

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POLITICS

The No1 podcast talking about the inextricable link between football and politics

10/29/2020

Episode 3 - Football Ownership: The Qalacticos

Britannia: First to abolish slavery, first to sell its clubs to countries that still practice modern slavery. The intrepid duo of myself and Satya Gunput dissect the problematic ownership structures of today's megaclubs and what it means for a new era of Qalaticos.

51 min
08/20/2020

Episode 2 - Philosophy in Football, Part 2: Blaise gets Thornberry'd

From Fabio Capello's huge collection of Kandinskys to a Roy Hodgson Swiss team's activism over Moruroa, an atoll in the South Pacific, we prove that football and politics really do mix. Our special guest, Ed Wareham, joins us for yet more analysis. Plus, Blaise recounts a personal experience of how his use of the England flag got him Emily Thornberry'd.

43 min
08/20/2020

Episode 2 - Philosophy in Football, Part 1: Roy "The Renaissance Man"

Throughout his career, "Risorgimento Roy" drew inspiration from a remarkable range of European, South American and Jewish-American academics and philosophers, including Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth. We recruit the services of medieval German historian Ed Wareham to decipher what their works meant for Roy's style of management.

43 min
08/16/2020

Episode 1 - Racism & Football, BLM & BNP in the BPL

We look back at the anti-BLM marches in Parliament Square and identify what role football has to play in the aftermath of the biggest anti-racist and civil rights movement in Britain since the '80s.

58 min

4 Episodes

The No1 podcast talking about the inextricable link between football and politics

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Blaise Baquiche & Satya Gunput
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4
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