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Worldly

Bonus: The Super League

Worldly

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.41.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Twelve of Europe’s richest soccer teams tried, and failed, to create their own elite tournament in a naked money grab. Worldly’s Alex Ward, arguably Vox’s top soccer fan, explains why the move angered basically everyone and the scheme failed — for now. References: Alex wrote an explainer on the Super League and how the fans killed it. Support Worldly by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

So, this is a very special bonus episode of Worldly.

0:04.2

This is our show on global politics and global affairs, and now this week, we've been doing

0:07.9

our Earth month episode, which is about climate change specifically using Nigeria as an example

0:12.9

for a lot of the big problems.

0:14.3

Very interesting, very important, but you're not here to hear about Nigeria.

0:17.5

You are here to hear about the super league, a very short experiment in soccer governance

0:24.0

that made a lot of people very, very angry and a lot of people very confused.

0:29.2

So here we have our resident, European resident, someone who was actually incredibly angry.

0:35.8

Yes, thank you, Jim.

0:37.8

Alex Ward, one of the extremely angry people, is here to rant about it and explain why he's

0:45.7

so angry.

0:46.7

Alex is our co-host and he wants every episode to be about soccer, but now he really,

0:52.6

really, really wants to talk about soccer.

0:54.4

So go ahead, Alex.

0:55.6

Go talk about the super league, explain what it is and explain all of your feelings.

0:59.2

Oh, yeah, okay.

1:20.2

So here's what we're going to do.

1:22.0

For those listeners who want to hear me talk for five to ten minutes, just about the super

1:26.3

league.

1:27.3

It's going to be great.

1:28.3

Please stick with me.

1:29.3

I basically just ran my way through this because I'm still pretty darn mad about this whole

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