Hanging Out The Blatter it | The History of The World Cup (Part 4/4)
6/18/20261 hr 5 min
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Introducing Chuck Blazer, the man so bad he's good. The World Cup (Part Four)
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Chapters:
00:00 - Hanging Out The Back Of It
05:25 - You May Think So
12:57 - I Am Gay
18:07 - GOAL!
23:00 - Motty Doesn’t Do Chunkies
25:24 - Chuck Blazer
31:43 - Grumpikins Be Grumpikinin
36:48 - Waka Waka
41:01 - Clegmania
44:39 - United Passions
49:40 - Modern Slavery
54:34 - I’m An Ally
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:00
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Fin Taylor· Host0:20
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Speaker 10:23
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Fin Taylor· Host0:29
[upbeat music] Welcome back to Bingosity. It's part four of the World Cup story. Uh, I'm with Horatio Gould.
Horatio Gould· Host0:47
Goal!
Fin Taylor· Host0:49
As we get into the '90s, uh, the Goalato years.
Horatio Gould· Host0:53
Yes.
Fin Taylor· Host0:53
Um, the, the upshot boys have left.
Horatio Gould· Host0:55
Yep.
Fin Taylor· Host0:56
But the corruption is- Stayed here [laughs] ... still here.
Horatio Gould· Host0:58
Yeah [laughs].
Fin Taylor· Host0:59
Uh, we have... What did we, did we end on? We ended on Italia '90.
Horatio Gould· Host1:02
Yes.
Fin Taylor· Host1:02
And now we get to USA '94.
Horatio Gould· Host1:04
Right.
Fin Taylor· Host1:05
Which England did not qualify for.
Horatio Gould· Host1:06
Do we not again? Oh, yeah.
Fin Taylor· Host1:07
No, we don't qualify '94.
Horatio Gould· Host1:09
Even though n- '90 was one of our best World Cups, probably might, might be our best World Cup ever, if you think about it.
Fin Taylor· Host1:14
Yes.
Horatio Gould· Host1:14
Apart from '66.
Fin Taylor· Host1:15
Now, in 1992, the English Premier League had launched, so suddenly- This is Murdoch's doing ... Murdoch. And you've got a young Richard Keys.
Horatio Gould· Host1:24
Yes.
Fin Taylor· Host1:25
Who is dominating the airwaves.
Horatio Gould· Host1:27
A Richard Keys who's, who's sort of honing his sexism.
Fin Taylor· Host1:29
Yes. Yeah.
Horatio Gould· Host1:29
He's,