Howler editor George Quraishi interviews soccer journalists, managers, players, and activists. Dummy is about everything except what happened on the field last week: the business, politics, history, personalities, and social issues that touch the world’s favorite game.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 3 days 3 hours 30 minutes
The Soccer Roots of Turkey’s Coup and Crackdown
James Dorsey joins to discuss the ways that soccer fans and administrators play a role in Turkey’s complex and tumultuous political realm. Then Sam Patterson explains why roughly 50 members of La Familia, Beitar Jerusalem’s ultra right-wing hooligan gr...
1v1 with Carli Lloyd: “I’m always gonna keep fighting like an underdog”
In Dummy’s second installment of 1v1 we bring you Carli Lloyd. You’ve probably heard of her, but here are the basics anyway: current FIFA World Player of the Year, the second person ever to score a hat trick in a World Cup final, and all around badass....
1v1 with Robbie Rogers: “I’ve always been an outcast”
Robbie Rogers played for the Columbus Crew and the U.S. national team before going abroad and joining Leeds United. Soon after, he abruptly quit the game and announced that he was gay. When he came out of retirement, with the LA Galaxy, Rogers became t...
LOL New York Times
This week in the New York Times Magazine, Jay Caspian Kang published a confused mish-mash of a story claiming, among other things, that “crowds who gather in M.L.S. stadiums and bars and sing songs inspired by groups who shove black men off subway trai...
Why Dempsey, Bradley, and Yedlin are being sued by their former youth clubs
Jorge Arangure of Vice Sports joins to discuss his reporting on the case, filed Friday in Texas, that could upend everything from pay-to-play to MLS’s single entity status. Plus: Abkhazia, world champs? George and Bobby talk to a journalist who reporte...
Messi’s Retirement Backstory Plus Megan Rapinoe—What a Delightful Person
We’re having a live show with special guest Anatol Yusef! Thursday July 7th in Brooklyn. It’s an intimate venue and we can only accommodate 30 guests, so please check out shop.howlermagazine.com and get a ticket soon! Today on Dummy: Messi’s retiremen...
Jimmy Conrad Reveals Possibly True USMNT Rumors
Plus: David survived France. How ’bout that Iceland!? Bobby makes his friend Kelley O’Hara deeply uncomfortable. George’s tiki-talka gets even grosser than Joachim Löw. And Dummy’s lone listener in Greenland wrote us an email.
Goldblatt on Russian hooligans, protests, and ticket prices, plus George and Bobby go gay 4 soccer
David joins on the eve of his trip to Marseille to talk about the unrest rocking France and the sky-high ticket prices at the Copa Centenario with George. Then George and Bobby speak with Chris Billig, the man behind @gay4soccer, to talk about how socc...
Argentina’s Soccer Murders & What the U.S. Got Right Against Costa Rica
Argentina’s Soccer Murders & What the U.S. Got Right Against Costa Rica