# The disillusionment of the 2026 FIFA World Cup Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/three-lions-podcast-952493/the-disillusionment-of-the-2026-fifa-world-cup Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/three-lions-podcast-952493/the-disillusionment-of-the-2026-fifa-world-cup.md Podcast: [Three Lions Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/three-lions-podcast-952493) Published: 2026-04-30T00:30:00+00:00 Episode link: http://sites.libsyn.com/95999/the-disillusionment-of-the-2026-fifa-world-cup Audio file: https://pdcn.co/e/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/threelionspodcast/The_disillusionment_of_the_2026_FIFA_World_Cup.mp3?dest-id=492310 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/three-lions-podcast-952493/episodes/the-disillusionment-of-the-2026-fifa-world-cup Duration seconds: 2632 ## Resource Ep 410: The World Cup is getting ever closer, but have you ever felt so disillusioned by the biggest tournament of them all before? France ’98, Germany ’06, Brazil 2014, Russia 2018, the excitement was there, but this time…. Join me as I pick apart the defining moments where it’s all gone wrong for World Cup 2026. Running time 43:51 Join the debate in our Facebook group at http://bit.ly/2hnHBzi http://www.threelionspodcast.com http://www.Twitter.com/3LionsPodcast http://www.Twitter.com/Russell_Osborne ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/three-lions-podcast-952493/episodes/the-disillusionment-of-the-2026-fifa-world-cup/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/three-lions-podcast-952493/the-disillusionment-of-the-2026-fifa-world-cup.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.