Play the Game Podcast

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Episodes: 9

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A podcast about the people, powers, and politics shaping sport. Play the Game Podcast will bring you some of the voices, stories, and debates that rarely get enough space in the world of sport. For almost three decades, Play the Game has worked to create space for open, critical, and informed dialogue about international sport. We have done so through our conferences, analyses, and journalism. Now, we are bringing that work to your headphones. You will hear from investigative journalists, researchers, athletes, whistleblowers, sports leaders, decision-makers, and other voices who help uncover what is happening behind the scenes of international sport. We will bring you interviews, narrated articles, conference presentations, and critical debates on some of the biggest challenges facing sport today — from corruption, matchfixing, doping, and human rights to geopolitics, gambling, sustainability, athlete welfare, and abuse in sport. Some episodes will give new life to important material from Play the Game’s conferences and website — presentations, articles, and conversations that deserve to travel further than the room where they were first heard. For many years, Play the Game has been known as a home for the homeless questions in sport. Today, there are still many such questions — and many people who need a place where difficult, uncomfortable, and important stories can be told. The Play the Game Podcast is for everyone who believes that sport deserves scrutiny, transparency, and open debate.

Episode Date
FIFA’s latest crisis shows why sport needs independent oversight
Aug 19, 2026
Lindsey Kennedy: Scams, slavery and surface-to-air missiles – Online sports betting in Southeast Asia
Jul 16, 2026
Stanis Elsborg on Infantino’s FIFA: Ten years of power, politics, and so-called ethics
Jul 02, 2026
Interview: Karim Zidan on how sport became part of Donald Trump’s MAGA machine
Jun 24, 2026
Across Mexico, World Cup 2026 projects are putting communities and ecosystems under pressure
Jun 17, 2026
Jules Boykoff: Sportswashing, the FIFA 2026 World Cup, and the 2028 Olympic Games
Jun 11, 2026
FIFAs betting expansion raises integrity fears ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup
Jun 10, 2026
Qatar 2022 whistleblower: Abdullah Ibhais on prison, pressure, and media control
Jun 08, 2026
Welcome to the Play the Game Podcast
May 28, 2026