Adam Leventhal

Join Adam Leventhal, Felipe Cardenas, Matt Slater, Carl Anka and Jack Lang for their analysis of the draw LIVE.

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YouTube video by The Athletic FC Podcast World Cup Draw: Live Reaction

Good fun hosting the World Cup draw live reaction show for @theathleticfc.bsky.social with guests @mjslater.bsky.social @felipecardenas.bsky.social Jack Lang and Carl Anka getting their heads around it all.

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The Athletic FC Podcast: The Most Powerful Man in World Football Gianni Infantino, FIFA president, is world football's most powerful man.His presidency has been marked by the controversial men's World Cups in Russia and Qatar, as well as the awarding of the 2034...

...and here's Gianni.
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The Athletic FC Podcast: A World Cup Divided: Trump and 2026 In Los Angeles, California, four nations collided in a football tournament with an inescapable geopolitical backdrop.Canada, Mexico and Panama have all found themselves in the crosshairs of Preside...

Ahead of the World Cup draw thought I'd flag two of the special episodes of @theathleticfc.bsky.social podcast that we've made focused on the two men that will be flexing their main character muscles later ...

Donald
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The Athletic FC Podcast: The Story of the Guinea Stadium Disaster On December 1, one of the world’s worst stadium disasters unfolded. At the Stade du 3 Avril in Nzerekore, Guinea, a devastating crush led to chaos and, according to officials, the deaths of 56 p...

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Guinea stadium disaster special report: ‘This door here, it’s the door to hell’ Two weeks on from a tragedy that killed at least 56 people and perhaps many more, those affected speak to The Athletic

Year on from Guinea stadium disaster & so many still search for justice, just as they did when I visited. This outlines how tragedy unfolded on Dec 1, 2024 at Stade du 3 Avril in Nzerekore for @theathleticfc.bsky.social & also includes link to audio documentary ep.
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The Athletic FC Podcast: The future of watching football A week ago we released a documentary about illegal streaming. It’s fair to say, you’ve had a lot to say about it.So, today we’re going to answer your questions, and look to the future of watc...

🎙️The Athletic’s resident futurologists @adamleventhal.bsky.social @adamcrafton.bsky.social & I discuss digital piracy, “Premflix”, the 3pm blackout, American chocolate, hyper-personalisation, smart glasses & professional rodeo.

Yes, it’s an international break.

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The Athletic’s streaming survey: Almost half of respondents admit to using illegal streams More than 5,000 people responded to our survey, with almost half saying they use illegal streams to watch football

Illegal streaming survey: results are in & almost half of 5k+ respondents to anonymous poll said they consume football via piracy.

Read full results - inc view on Sat 3pm blackout, how to perhaps solve issue and much more - here.

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Great to talk about The Underground World of Illegal Streaming pod & a year of audio documentaries for @theathleticfc.bsky.social at @websummit.bsky.social with @laura-williamson.bsky.social Alex Protsenko and Bilal Hadj-Sadok

Is ‘Premflix’ the future of Premier League streaming? Piracy is a threat to the way football operates. So what is likely to change and is a direct-to-consumer model, like Netflix, viable?

Is ‘Premflix’ the future of PL streaming?

(Or will the risk attached to entering a fluctuating subscription environment rather than sticking with guaranteed traditional broadcast revenue mean the can is kicked down the road?)
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The Athletic FC Podcast: The Underground World of Illegal Streaming Does the rise of illegal streaming pose an existential threat to football?To answer that question, Adam Leventhal has spent the last six months looking into the culture, crime and crisis associated...

The Underground World of Illegal Streaming is here. Free to listen.

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Amazon steps up attempts to block illegal sports streaming via Fire TV Sticks The U.S. company will block apps loaded onto all of its Fire Stick devices that are identified as providing pirated content

During course of 6 month look into illegal streaming went on a bit of a journey with firesticks. Effectively they were too open to piracy, but things - Amazon say - have changed. This article gives you a snapshot. Full audio doc linked in 🧵
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Streameast: How the authorities took down the world’s largest illegal sports streaming platform As part of a new podcast documentary on illegal streaming, The Athletic finds out how Streameast was shut down

▪️ Investigators honed in on IP address in Egypt
▪️ Crypto movements identified
▪️ Streaming lynchpin had portfolio involving real estate and gold bars

This is how the authorities took down the world's largest illegal sports streaming platform.

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Streameast: How the authorities took down the world’s largest illegal sports streaming platform As part of a new podcast documentary on illegal streaming, The Athletic finds out how Streameast was shut down

Streameast: How the authorities took down the world’s largest illegal sports streaming platform. Includes explanation from lead investigator, developments re revenue generated, images after the raid and why the story is not over.

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Four men arrested on suspicion of being part of illegal sports-streaming gang Police believe the operation was making hundreds of thousands of pounds a year across the UK

Four men have been arrested on suspicion of being part of an illegal sports-streaming gang that was making hundreds of thousands of pounds a year by operating across the UK.

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The Athletic FC Podcast: The Underground World of Illegal Streaming Does the rise of illegal streaming pose an existential threat to football?To answer that question, Adam Leventhal has spent the last six months looking into the culture, crime and crisis associated...

Here’s link to the special podcast episode

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Four men arrested on suspicion of being part of illegal sports-streaming gang Police believe the operation was making hundreds of thousands of pounds a year across the UK

Excl: 4 men arrested on suspicion of being part of illegal streaming gang - making hundreds of thousands of pounds a year - in W Yorks, UK. Details below & further info in new doc ep. of @theathleticfc.bsky.social podcast - The Underground World of Illegal Streaming.

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The Athletic FC Podcast: The Underground World of Illegal Streaming Does the rise of illegal streaming pose an existential threat to football?To answer that question, Adam Leventhal has spent the last six months looking into the culture, crime and crisis associated...

Exclusive research gives snapshot of illegal streaming culture

9% of UK 18+ watched pirate stream in last 6 months with another 9% preferring not to say/unsure

Separate poll shows issue even more acute globally.

Listen for free here on @theathleticfc.bsky.social.
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The Athletic FC Podcast: The Underground World of Illegal Streaming Does the rise of illegal streaming pose an existential threat to football?To answer that question, Adam Leventhal has spent the last six months looking into the culture, crime and crisis associated...

🎧 The Underground World of Illegal Streaming is out now.

…the culture, crimes and crisis associated with piracy.

Exclusive new data, intel on investigations, how illicit industry grows & look to the future.

Special episode of @theathleticfc.bsky.social podcast

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The Athletic FC Podcast: The Underground World of Illegal Streaming Does the rise of illegal streaming pose an existential threat to football?To answer that question, Adam Leventhal has spent the last six months looking into the culture, crime and crisis associated...

🎧 The Underground World of Illegal Streaming is out now.

…the culture, crimes and crisis associated with piracy.

Exclusive new data, intel on investigations, how illicit industry grows & look to the future.

Special episode of @theathleticfc.bsky.social podcast

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🏴‍☠️ Out tomorrow - Sunday ...

The Underground World of Illegal Streaming.

The latest special episode of The Athletic FC podcast.

Download in all your usual podcast places from 0600 UK.

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Final touches being put on the latest special episode of The Athletic FC podcast, which will be released this Sunday, Nov 9.

Very much looking forward to letting it out into the wild and gauging the reaction to another thorny issue. Will also be asking for your input.

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Why the Premier League could show Saturday 3pms over festive period – but won’t The league has yet to announce its UK broadcast picks for the period, with fans unsure how many games they will be able to watch live.

So live Xmas/NY fixtures out & as explained here earlier this wk, technically PL had option to show Dec 27 3pms live - via UEFA blackout exemption - but broadcast contracts dictate its treated as a normal Saturday, with 5 x non-live 3pms.
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Why the Premier League could show Saturday 3pms over festive period – but won’t The league has yet to announce its UK broadcast picks for the period, with fans unsure how many games they will be able to watch live.

An exemption has been granted to lift the 3pm UK broadcast blackout of Premier League games on two Saturdays over this year’s festive period: December 27 and January 3.

Sources briefed on the situation have said that the Premier League will not exercise the option.

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Why the Premier League could show Saturday 3pms over festive period – but won’t The league has yet to announce its UK broadcast picks for the period, with fans unsure how many games they will be able to watch live.

Explained: Why the Premier League could show Saturday 3pms over festive period – due to blackout exemptions requested by the FA & ratified by UEFA - but … won’t.

Complex story of history, football politics, broadcast agreements & more.

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UEFA has become the first sports governing body to join the world’s largest anti-piracy coalition, the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE).

Exclusive story from @adamleventhal.bsky.social ⤵️

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Today - 16/10/2025 - BBC Sounds News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.

Thought this 10 minute walk through history of Israel/Palestine situation - including other attempts at lasting peace & fragility of ceasefires - was excellent from Jeremy Bowen on Today programme this morning.

From 2:11:27 to 2:21:23.
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At what cost? Saudi Arabia and soccer

Why was Infantino hanging around Trump last 24hrs? V. close re WC26 but also together in Saudi/Qatar earlier in yr & regional instability has impact on Vision30/WC34. Special ep of The Athletic FC pod inc various linked issues & @kristianulrichsen.bsky.social take.
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The Athletic FC Podcast: Why the Premier League needs English football's pyramid to thrive So far in our series, The Future of Football, we've looked at the global game and the unstoppable power of the Premier League.But away from the top flight there are 72 other professional clubs acro...

🎙️3rd & final part of our Future of Football pod series is on the EFL, the importance of the pyramid, independent regulation, parachute payments, 3 up from NL & a fairer financial distribution.

W/ @adamleventhal.bsky.social & EFL chairman Rick Parry

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The Athletic FC Podcast: Why the Premier League needs English football's pyramid to thrive So far in our series, The Future of Football, we've looked at the global game and the unstoppable power of the Premier League.But away from the top flight there are 72 other professional clubs acro...

🎧Final part of Future of Football podcast series for
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alongside @mjslater.bsky.social. We're joined by EFL Chairman Rick Parry to talk about health/challenges of English pyramid, Wrexham/Birmingham/US influence, dealing with PL, regulation & more.
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