Society & Culture

World Cup Cupidity

The LRB Podcast by London Review of Books

Jun 24, 202651:11Society & Culture

‘The beautiful game has never looked more beautiful on the pitch, or more ugly off it,’ Simon Skinner writes in the latest LRB. Each World Cup seems more tainted by corruption than the last, but is that a nostalgic illus...

About This Episode

World Cup Cupidity is an episode from The LRB Podcast by London Review of Books. ‘The beautiful game has never looked more beautiful on the pitch, or more ugly off it,’ Simon Skinner writes in the latest LRB. Each World Cup seems more taint...

Podcast

This episode belongs to The LRB Podcast.

Listen Online

Use the player on this page to stream the episode online.

Episode Details

Published Jun 24, 2026, 51:11 long, audio available.

World Cup Cupidity

About This Episode

Related Episodes