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Last broadcast on Fri, 10 Feb 2012, 13:45 on BBC Radio 4.
Synopsis
Clare Balding charts how Britain spread the passion for football around the world. She particularly looks at South America where the game is central to their way of life. The FIFA World Cup has been staged 19 times and on 9 of those occasions, it has been won by either Brazil, Argentina or Uruguay.
Professor Tony Mason from De Montfort University explains that unlike cricket and rugby which was spread by soldiers, civil servants and settlers in British colonies, football took a different route. It was taken around the world by those who had made Britain the greatest trading nation in the world, by mangers, engineers and teachers.
Readers, Nyasha Hatendi, Sean Baker and Jane Lawrence
Producer: Garth Brameld.
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The Corinthian Ideal
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Broadcast
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Fri 10 Feb 201213:45
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