# World Cup fever: is it still the ‘beautiful game’?

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Podcast: [Global Roaming with Geraldine Doogue and Hamish Macdonald](https://stenobird.com/podcast/global-roaming-with-geraldine-doogue-and-hamish-macdonald-6755533)
Published: 2026-06-17T01:05:00+00:00
Episode link: https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/global-roaming/global-roaming-world-cup-fever/106735702
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Duration seconds: 1742

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World cup fever is sweeping Australia. But as politics, deportations and soaring ticket prices collide with football's biggest tournament, can the beautiful game ever be separated from the world around it? Guest: David Goldblatt, Writer, broadcaster and academic. Author of Injury time: Football in a State of Emergency

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