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Podcast: The Upshot
Episode: Warmongering soldiers and slum landlords: a Champions League preview
Description: The Champions League is back, and the competition is packed with absolute wrong’uns.Slum landlords. Warmongering paramilitaries. And a man accused of snatching Maddie McCann.Pull up a padded corporate seat and pour yourself a glass of Gazprom, as we dine at the top table of European scandal…Links from the pod:Diego Simeone playing chess with no king: https://images.app.goo.gl/tXX7UaY1nimyHmgV7 Sparta Prague stealing West Ham flag from Durham Uni students: https://x.com/ffwtbol/status/1666763342688526338 ...