{"id":42391,"date":"2022-01-21T10:54:06","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T10:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=42391"},"modified":"2022-01-21T12:43:09","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T12:43:09","slug":"beyond-the-back-page-financial-times-journalist-simon-kuper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=42391","title":{"rendered":"Beyond The Back Page &#8211; Financial Times Journalist, Simon Kuper."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick was joined by Financial Times Journalist Simon Kuper to talk about his recent book, The Barcelona Complex: Lionel Messi and the Making&#8211;And Unmaking&#8211;Of the World&#8217;s Greatest Soccer Club. Simon chatted to us about the incredible success of the club and the contribution of Johan Cruyff and Lionel Messi to this success. Also discussed was the current problems at Barcelona and the prospects for the club over the next few years. Simon also chatted a little about his upcoming book Chums How a tiny Caste of Oxford Tories took over the UK.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4961\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/beyondthebackpage-21-01-2022.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('4961','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/beyondthebackpage-21-01-2022.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/beyondthebackpage-21-01-2022.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=42391-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/beyondthebackpage-21-01-2022.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"beyondthebackpage-21-01-2022.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 20:51 &#8212; 28.6MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick was joined by Financial Times Journalist Simon Kuper to talk about his recent book, The Barcelona Complex: Lionel Messi and the Making&#8211;And Unmaking&#8211;Of the World&#8217;s Greatest Soccer Club. Simon chatted to us about the incredible success of the club and the contribution of Johan Cruyff and Lionel Messi to this success. Also discussed was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4962\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/beyondthebackpage-21-01-2022.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('4962','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/beyondthebackpage-21-01-2022.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/beyondthebackpage-21-01-2022.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=42391-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/beyondthebackpage-21-01-2022.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"beyondthebackpage-21-01-2022.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 20:51 &#8212; 28.6MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12649],"tags":[20817,10416,20818],"class_list":["post-42391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beyond-the-back-page","tag-financial-times","tag-patrick-donohoe","tag-simon-kuper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42391"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42419,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42391\/revisions\/42419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}