Our guest is Robert O’Connor, who has observed football’s state and role in the former Soviet republics and other countries formerly under Moscow’s influence.
It’s a story of politics, national identity and – often – oligarchy. Robert has chronicled his travels in a new book, Blood and Circuses: A Football Journey Through Football’s Rebel Republics.
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