Pickles The Dog Didn’t Kill Himself (with The Upshot!) | The History of The World Cup (Part 2/4)

Without sounding like a ‘hm I think you’ll find’ … when I was a kid (80s), it was common knowledge that Pelé got his name from the Portuguese world Pele (no accent) which basically means skin, or hide… cos his mates mocked him as he was darker than them. I even remember reading about it as a nerdy kid and thinking ‘oh fascinating’ It’s why when he was young he hated the nickname? This Bilé nonsense is revisionist tosh

Pele counting wanks in his numbers. Stat padding

Can’t believe we didn’t get an official ranking of the Brazilian player’s bums… a Bundasliga, if you will..?

I used to be a security guard for the Brazil national team around 5 years ago 7 years ago, to this day they don’t let any women on to the same floor that the players stay on, not even hotel staff

Quality quests

The 1954 World Cup does muddy the waters of holocaust history

“Is that exhibition sex?” 🤣

Lymm gets a shout out; there is a cutout of Pele in the Heritage Centre going 'LOOK WE'VE HAD A FAMOUS PERSON HERE ONCE'

The lack of Ally’s Tartan Army coverage in this episode is criminal

Can’t believe you haven’t covered the CIA poisoning Gordon banks

That’s the tourism ad I’d like to see "Balls. Bunda. Barbecue… (whispers) brazil”

History of rugby for next year's rugby world cup? Seems like a very similar story to the start of football

Big fan of Fin being so English he refers to fifa as “the fifa”

Christian Erikson should've got back up and scored. Games gone

No way Lymms got a mention on this 😭

Ow, my poor fat ears

It’s true. People love stabbing each other in Middlesbrough.

Scotland had the 3 day week and qualified for '74 so that doesnt stand up.

But Germany absolutely dominated the 1936 olympics?

The audio on this episode is our Hiroshima

Republic of Ireland were the first foreign team to beat England on English soil , Goodson Park 1949 . Long before Hungary

Erikson reference aged well