Episode 3267: Nations League Finale, The Ronaldo Reign, Lux Redux, Godwin Author Joseph O’Neill In Studio
The Nations League final four turned out to be pretty good but it’s clear that what international football needs right now is to reverse the FIFA diktat to make every emotional stadium moment sound the exact same.
We talk about Ireland’s draw with Senegal and look ahead to tomorrow’s season-closing friendly in Luxembourg, before the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author Joseph O’Neill joins us in studio to speak about his 2024 novel, Godwin, a New York Times Best Book of the Year.
The novel, partly set in the world of football scouting and agency, explores both the exploitation of young African footballers and a particular brand of ineffective 21st century American liberalism, something Joseph has also written about in his essays for the New York Review of Books. And that is what you call a veritable smorgasbord of a football show.
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