WAGs, Man Bags & Which Footballer Gifted An Orgy To His Dad? With Jack Rivllin

From Everything Is Content by Beth, Ruchira & Oenone

July 10, 2026 · 1h 8m · Season 2 · Episode 177

About this episode

The episode features a discussion on football, World Cup predictions, and allegations of FIFA corruption with guest Jack Rivlin.

Hey EIChampions 🏆 ! Come and take an EIC-style spin 🚗 around the football ⚽️ block: it's the World Cup's world 🌍 & we're all just living in it, baby 💋. (It's coming home FYI.) This week on the podcast we are without Ruchira, who is currently on honeymoon. She’ll be back in a couple of weeks and we’ll do a big wedding debrief then- but for this episode, as you will hear, we are joined by Jack Rivlin from The Upshot podcast! The show where he, alongside Zach Sweeney Lynch, covers brilliantly funny sports stories - everything from drunken dressing-room escapades to deep dives into famous sports personalities and their scandalous lives. Their current world cup coverage is also absolutely unmissable.  First up, we give our predictions for Saturday's game, recommend our favourite animals to get betting advice from, and discuss the hottest football managers (spoiler: it's all of them). Then we talk about something messy- no, not Lionel - but ongoing allegations towards FIFA of corruption, US favouritism and collusion with Donald Trump. Perhaps the biggest recent example of this was the decision to rescind a red card suspension of US player Folarin Balogun and allow him to…

People in this episode

Hosts: Beth, Oenone

Guest: Jack Rivlin

Topics covered

football
World Cup
sports scandals
WAGs
FIFA corruption

Keywords

football
World Cup
WAGs
FIFA
sports scandals
Jack Rivlin
Folarin Balogun
Donald Trump

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Upshot