Episode 3432: FIFA’s World, Celtic In Crisis, Nancy’s Profile, AFCON 2025, Salah’s Mission
After a week of criticism surrounding their extortionate World Cup ticket prices, FIFA have announced the prize money for participating teams will be increasing by around 50%. Truly these are great times for football, if by football you mean specifically football associations.
Oluwashina Okeleji joins us to look ahead to AFCON 2025, which gets underway in Morocco this weekend. Why do many African journalists claim that FIFA has “colonised” African football over the last eight years? What are Salah’s chances of a Messi moment in what could be his last AFCON? And are Oluwashina’s Super Eagles really going to bully their way into the World Cup via the courts?
Plus there’s Celtic in crisis, Nancy’s profile, and further quiz controversy.
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