World Cup | Big Business | 6
How does a country where football is a minority sport end up hosting — and cashing in on — the biggest World Cup in history? What happens when FIFA stops behaving like a sporting federation and starts...
15 Jul 33min
World Cup | The End of the Cold War | 5
How does a country only three decades free of colonial rule end up humiliating the reigning world champions in the opening match? What happens when the last World Cup of the Cold War arrives just mont...
14 Jul 34min
Gary Lineker | Nation, Identity and the Beautiful Game | 2
What does it mean to cheer for the country that once colonised yours? Forty years on from the Hand of God, does one match still define how a nation sees itself? And when Ghana play England, who exactl...
9 Jul 25min
Gary Lineker | The Polictics Of The World Cup | 1
hould football and politics ever really be kept apart? What happens when the host nation is at war with one of the teams competing in its own tournament? And when FIFA hands its brand-new peace prize ...
7 Jul 27min
World Cup | The World of Dictators | 4
What happens when a World Cup final is played a few hundred metres from a torture centre? How does a newly independent nation humiliate the champions of Europe — and still get knocked out by a fix in ...
2 Jul 37min
World Cup | The World Cup and the New World Order | 3
What turns a football team into a country's most powerful weapon? How does a game invented to entertain end up laundering the reputations of dictators? And when seventy years of European control colla...
30 Jun 34min
World Cup | Post Colonial World | 2
What happens when the nations that invented football start losing their grip on it? How does a team representing a country that doesn't officially exist end up touring the world and unnerving an empir...
25 Jun 41min
