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S4 EP3: Sporting politics, protestation, and polyamory

Jon Richardson and the Futurenauts - The Book of Revelations

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What Do You Think About the One Love Armband?

I'm not watching the World Cup because I think sport only matters when it's for everyone. And in this country, we're having that debate so clearly now about including girls in football. Then I put out a little tweet about the decision not to wear the rainbow armband. Now I literally cannot watch it because I've made a big deal of saying I'm not going to watch it. It has become inherently political as what you're saying is football is not for gay people and we are happy to take the world's tournament to a stage where a number of football fans are not included. That is political. Playing there is political. So I'm very clear on how I feel about

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