{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/655ce147a2b4520012ffdbe8/6a4fcfc7cf487ba3a98eb7ca?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"WAGs, Man Bags & Which Footballer Gifted An Orgy To His Dad? With Jack Rivllin ","description":"<p>Hey EIChampions 🏆 ! Come and take an EIC-style spin 🚗 around the football ⚽️ block: it's the World Cup's world 🌍 &amp; we're all just living in it, baby 💋. (It's coming home FYI.)</p><p><br></p><p>This week on the podcast we are without Ruchira, who is currently on honeymoon. She’ll be back in a couple of weeks and we’ll do a big wedding debrief then- but for this episode, as you will hear, we <em>are</em> joined by Jack Rivlin from The Upshot podcast! The show where he, alongside Zach Sweeney Lynch, covers brilliantly funny sports stories - everything from drunken dressing-room escapades to deep dives into famous sports personalities and their scandalous lives. Their current world cup coverage is also absolutely unmissable.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>First up, we give our predictions for Saturday's game, recommend our favourite animals to get betting advice from, and discuss the hottest football managers (spoiler: it's all of them).</p><p><br></p><p>Then we talk about something messy- no, not Lionel - but ongoing allegations towards FIFA of corruption, US favouritism and collusion with Donald Trump. Perhaps the biggest recent example of this was the decision to rescind a red card suspension of US player Folarin Balogun and allow him to play in a last-16 match earlier this week against Belgium. As Jack calls it, it's a 'love-in' between Trump &amp; Infantino.</p><p><br></p><p>Next up, we're sure everyone knows what a WAG is- but in case you’re waking up from a 30-year coma- it’s a term meaning 'Wives And Girlfriends', usually attributed to the partners of professional footballers. The origin of the term is somewhat disputed- some say it was christened in 2002 with coverage of teenage Colleen after Wayne Rooney’s first Premier League goal, others say it goes back even further to the infamous purple-outfitted Posh &amp; Beck’s wedding of 1999. We reminisce on the best to ever do it!</p><p><br></p><p>And lastly, some salacious stories from some of the most famous men in sport! Plus lots of meandering, philandering, Haaland-pandering, tangents in the middle!</p><p><br></p><p>We hope you enjoy ☺️ , as always please do rate, review, and follow the show!</p><p><br></p><p>And share with your friends!</p><p><br></p><p>And leave a Spotify comment!</p><p><br></p><p>Love you, byeeeeeeeeeee.</p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://open.spotify.com/show/1I73S1uKoKzkRnedbnYTlB\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Upshot</a></p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://www.lemonde.fr/en/sports/article/2026/06/09/2026-world-cup-the-murky-ties-between-fifa-and-the-us_6754289_9.html#:~:text=That%20marked%20the%20beginning%20of,money%20laundering%20conspiracies.%22%20The%20investigation\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">2026 World Cup: The murky ties between FIFA and the US</a></p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://www.britannica.com/event/2015-FIFA-corruption-scandal\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">2015 FIFA corruption scandal</a></p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/us/politics/trump-fifa-balogun-world-cup.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Trump Asked FIFA to Review U.S. Player’s Suspension. 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