The People’s Game – Radio Show #12 – 06/18/10

The People’s Game – Radio Show for Friday June 18, 2010

Three games, surprises at every turn – curiouser and curiouser. In the roundtable Jennifer, Alan, Pablo, and Fernando celebrate Team USA’s amazing comeback vs Slovenia and rationalize their support for the Yankee imperialists. Matthew Cobb, a Man City supporter, has a fertile theory about why England stinks that also explains the political economy of soccer. Nick Green testifies that the USA wuz robbed. Hamoud Salhi relates the euphoria in Algeria over the nation’s greatest result since 1982. Serbian Srdjan Ilic contextualizes his home country’s victory over Eurozone powerhouse Germany. Blogger Thomas Michalakos explains the significance of Greece’s first-ever victory in a World Cup Finals to that embattled nation. Lastly, the BBC’s Paul Mason says the chorus of his countrymen calling for Fabio Capello’s head are out of tune – the blame for England’s misery lies elsewhere.

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