The People’s Game Radio Show for Friday July 9, 2010
Guests: Robert Edelman, Daniel Morales, Jennifer Doyle, and Richard Williams of the Guardian

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Listen to The People’s Game Radio Show Interview with Richard Williams
Richard Williams, the Guardian’s chief sports writer, joins The People’s Game to reflect on the strategies, and styles of play, that have come to dominate the 2010 World Cup. One of the world’s great football journalists takes the measure of the game 2010!

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Listen to The People’s Game Radio Show for Thursday July 8, 2010
Ziggy Marley just back from South Africa where he attended matches and played a free concert in Soweto – Matthew Futterman on John Cruyff’s influence on Holland and Spain – Sean Engle, the sports editor for the Guardian’s website, which certainly has the most extensive World Cup coverage anywhere on the internet – and Gustavo Arellano’s dialogue with Jennifer Doyle and Fernando Romero about the world cup and The People’s Game.

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Listen to The People’s Game Radio Interview with Ziggy Marley
Ziggy Marley tells about his experiences in South Africa: attending matches; playing a free concert for the people of Soweto; and reflects on the Pan-African solidarity expressed at the Cup.

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Listen to The People’s Game Radio Interview with Sean Ingle
Sean Ingle is the sports editor for guardian.co.uk – and, if you haven’t seen the Guardian’s World Cup coverage, in my opinion you haven’t fully experienced the 2010 World Cup. It’s astonishing – as vast as it is excellent – and it’s politically progressive too. We talk with Sean Ingle about the Guardian’s tremendous success on the web, and about two of it’s most spectacular, and populist (i.e. inclusive), World Cup projects – the Guardian Fan Network, and the Live Blogs.

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Listen to The People’s Game Radio Show for Wednesday July 7, 2010
Today’s show was live on KPFK Radio & features a roundtable discussion with Jennifer, Alan, Pablo, and Tony about Spain’s dominating victory over Germany – followed by dialogue on the film Zidane; the influence of Johan Cruyff on both Dutch and Spanish football; and the relation between soccer and socialism – & then listener phone calls!

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Listen to The People’s Game Radio Interview with David Goldblatt
Alan talks with David Goldblatt, author of The Ball is Round: A Global History of Soccer, about the 2010 Cup in the context of the history of the sport, and of society.

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The People’s Game Radio Show for Tuesday July 6, 2010
32 years later, Holland returns to the final with a more-thrilling-than-expected 3-2 victory over Uruguay. We speak with Uruguayan blogger Lazar Treschan, and a diehard Dutch devotee, Fernando Romero. Then, in our featured interview, we talk with David Goldblatt, author of The Ball is Round: A Global History of Soccer – having just returned home from South Africa, Goldblatt contextualizes the 2010 World Cup in the social, political, and cultural history of the global game. Lastly, co-host Jennifer Doyle registers her disgust with the ugly reality of the under-coverage of women athletes.

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The People’s Game Radio Featured Interview with David Winner
In honor of the Holland reaching their first World Cup final in 32 years – here’s the complete interview we did with David Winner, author of the sacred text Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football – truly one of the greatest books ever written about football – and certainly the best English-language title on the evolution of Total Football.

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