26 episodes

Football and politics have been inseparable since the sports' creation, but how do they interact in the modern world? And what happens when countries with different domestic and international agendas meet in the ultimate clash of nation v nation conflict... the World Cup?! Starting with the Russia 2018 World Cup, Awful Commentary brings you: 'Who Watches The World Cup?' a podcast about the intersection of football and politics that aims to predict the results of matches through both the teams skill with a ball and political motivation.

Our theme music is 1930s Seedy Street Music (Harmon Trumpet) by astrofreq/Dan Carlton and can be found for free at: https://pixabay.com/music/traditional-jazz-1930s-seedy-street-music-harmon-trumpet-2920/

Who Watches The World Cup‪?‬ Awful Commentary

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Football and politics have been inseparable since the sports' creation, but how do they interact in the modern world? And what happens when countries with different domestic and international agendas meet in the ultimate clash of nation v nation conflict... the World Cup?! Starting with the Russia 2018 World Cup, Awful Commentary brings you: 'Who Watches The World Cup?' a podcast about the intersection of football and politics that aims to predict the results of matches through both the teams skill with a ball and political motivation.

Our theme music is 1930s Seedy Street Music (Harmon Trumpet) by astrofreq/Dan Carlton and can be found for free at: https://pixabay.com/music/traditional-jazz-1930s-seedy-street-music-harmon-trumpet-2920/

    EURO 2020 - The Final

    EURO 2020 - The Final

    55 years of hurt and counting! A heartbreaking end to an amazing tournament leaves Dave and Dom with lots to talk about. Is this a country that even deserves football to come home? As the joke goes that if it did, Priti Patel would have it deported, and that pretty much sums up the episode. The boys debate Gareth Southgate's competency, the players of the tournament and where England goes from here, both football-wise and spiritually. Italy are the well-deserved Champions of Europe, thank you for joining us during this incredible tournament!

    • 2 hr 7 min
    EURO 2020 - Semi Final

    EURO 2020 - Semi Final

    COVID STRIKES AGAIN! So Dom does a quick solo-episode about the Semi-Finals! Italy v Spain, England v Denmark! How did the games go and how does it set-up the EURO 2020 Final at Wembley Stadium?!

    Kasper Schmeichel, Leonardo Spinazzola, Raheem Sterling, Gareth Southgate, and Boris Johnson... it can only be Who Watches The World Cup!

    • 21 min
    EURO 2020 - Quarter Finals

    EURO 2020 - Quarter Finals

    Goodbye to the Heroes! The tournament didn't throw up many surprises in the quarter finals but it did deliver some bloody good football! From the epic penalty shootout between Switzerland & Spain, to the England squad finding that extra gear against Ukraine, EURO 2020 delivered again and so it's only right that the boys go through it all and also evaluate a controversial policy enacted by the Ukrainian Defence Minister requiring female cadets to parade in high-heels! Bread & butter, peanut butter & jelly, football & politics... what could be better?

    Switzerland v Spain
    Belgium v Italy
    Czech Republic v Denmark
    Ukraine v England

    • 44 min
    EURO 2020 - The Round of 16

    EURO 2020 - The Round of 16

    England v Germany.... well that can only mean... THREE LIONS ON THE SHIRT! TWO WORLD WARS! ONE WORLD CUP! EURO 2020's round of 16 contained some absolutely incredible football and even more incredible results! Europe's superstars were on display and JEEZ LOUISE A LOT OF THEM HAVE LEFT EARLY! What's COMING HOME? It might not be football, but it sure is Cristiano Ronaldo, Kylian Mbappe, Paul Pogba, N'Golo Kante, Gareth Bale, Manuel Neuer and Mats Hummels...


    ...Oh, and former Health Secretary Matt Hancock. He got caught cheating on his wife and now the UK has to replace its health secretary in the middle of a pandemic, not because 128,000 people died, but because he technically broke social distancing rules by kissing somebody else's wife... unbelievable Jeff...

    Wales v Denmark
    Italy v Austria
    Netherlands v Czech Republic
    Portugal v Belgium
    Croatia v Spain
    France v Switzerland
    England v Germany
    Sweden v Ukraine

    • 1 hr 24 min
    EURO 2020 - The Losers

    EURO 2020 - The Losers

    The group stages have finished and that means it is time to say goodbye! Some nations performed admirably (North Macedonia), some disappointed (Turkey & Poland), some did exactly as well as we had expected them to do (Russia) so it is time for the boys to lay it all out!

    ... And then for some reason Dom talks about Captain Scarlet for 5 minutes at the end

    • 54 min
    EURO 2020 - Group F

    EURO 2020 - Group F

    France, Germany, Hungary, Portugal. The world's a mess, and it's the Group of F. Orban's a dick, we might agree with a lot of the mayor of Munich's politics but he's a prick too, let's hope the football is good. Why have we run out of motivation? It's weird, because we've been loving the EUROs so much. Maybe it is the England results always being so disappointing, but I think some of sports purity has been lost (if it was even there to begin with) and it is disheartening to watch people deliberately manipulate it. Have a listen, or don't. We're tired.

    • 1 hr 11 min

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