Pro Revolution Soccer

A consortium including Amazon’s billionaire founder Jeff Bezos has bought 40% of Liverpool Football Club. We asked Neil Atkinson- host of the Anfield Wrap podcast and author of Klopp, the Revolution of a Club and Culture about the ramifications of the deal, as well as the identity of his club and the city of Liverpool.

You can order Neil’s book here (not on Amazon): https://www.waterstones.com/book/transformer/neil-atkinson/9781837262953

The Anfield Wrap podcast is here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-anfield-wrap/id456906266

Friend of the show Morgan Ofori returns to discuss whether Johnny Baby is knackered, why UEFA are not the good guys and why, as an Arsenal fan, he’s “scared of everyone”.

All Morgan's excellent Guardian stuff is here:

https://www.theguardian.com/profile/morgan-ofori

Juliet joins Tom to discuss two weeks in which it seemed two decades happened with regard to Gianni Infantino and FIFA and try to apply a materialist analysis to it all. There's also a quick preview of the new Football League season.

After 103 matches played by 48 teams in 16 different cities, over 40 days, Juliet joins Tom at the end of Pro Revolution Soccer World Cup project to discuss the action, the mix and sometimes clash of footballing cultures, and, of course, the politics of the tournament (Tom is now going for a long lie-down).

Tom previews the football and the politics of the biggest game in global sport.