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The Price of Football

Interview: Simon Lock, reporter at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and author of 'Roman Abramovich may owe UK £1bn in unpaid tax'

The Price of Football

Guy Kilty

Business, Sports

4.92.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Kevin and Kieran speak to Simon Lock, reporter at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, who has been looking in detail at the finances of former Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich. Follow Kevin on X - @kevinhunterday Follow Kieran on X - @KieranMaguire Follow Producer Guy on X - @guykilty Follow The Price of Football on X - @pof_pod Send in a question: [email protected] Join The Price of Football CLUB: https://priceoffootball.supportingcast.fm/ Check out the Price of Football merchandise store: https://the-price-of-football.backstreetmerch.com/ Visit the website: https://priceoffootball.com/ For sponsorship email - [email protected] The Price of Football is a Dap Dip production: https://dapdip.co.uk/ [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the price of football, the show that looks at the money behind a beautiful game with me, Kevin Day and Luke University's Keirn McGuire.

0:19.1

Kieran, this platform we're recording on playing games with us now

0:23.6

because it's so excited that my script can stay up on the screen

0:27.6

and this is one where I don't really need a script.

0:30.6

Thank you, Pod, Kean.

0:33.6

It's the Illuminati, Kevin. It's the Illuminati they're after us.

0:37.8

That's what it is.

0:39.9

Absolutely.

0:41.5

My friend Mark Thomas, political comedian of this parish, who I've done a lot of stuff in the past, who I probably shouldn't love as much as I do.

0:52.6

But I can remember his disappointment where several years ago we met somebody at a party

1:00.3

who seemed to be a genuine.

1:02.7

He showed us his credentials.

1:03.8

He told us he worked for MI5, although people who say he worked for MI5 quite often don't.

1:10.1

But it's like when you're in a pub in Hereford and every single person in that though people who say they work for MRI-5 quite often don't.

1:13.4

But it's like when you're in a pub in Hereford and every single person in that pub was in the SAS apparently.

1:17.9

But Mark was very disappointed to learn from this high-ranking person

1:21.6

that there was a list of seditious people that they kept,

1:26.8

that he wasn't on it. He was really upset to discover

1:30.8

that he wasn't on it and to discover that if the Illuminati does exist, they'd probably not

1:35.3

that fuss about Mark doing a gig in Gillingham, basically. But I'll tell you what, if the

1:42.3

Illuminati does exist, Kieran, this chap we've just interviewed would probably know about it

1:47.4

because we spoke to Simon Locke,

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