Dara Ó Briain and Josh Widdicombe gleefully dive into the story of the ‘worst footballer ever’

Podcast review on 53 Minutes: On their way to recounting Ali Dia’s brief appearance for Southampton, the comedians tell a complex, compelling taleEver heard of Ali Dia? If you have, it might be because he has gone down in history as the worst soccer player thehas ever seen. Back in the mid-1990s, when Southampton were battling relegation, the legendary Liverpool midfielder Graeme Souness came on board for a season to manage the team.

Shocker: Widdicombe and Ó Briain have more to say, and they dive gleefully into the world of Premier League soccer in the 1990s, replete with dodgy agents, double-crossing, European club trades and the rise of a number of brilliant African players.

He’s not wrong. We’re no longer in the world in which a university student who tracks down Peter Ndlovu for a bet can become the Zimbabwean striker’s agent, nor where someone has to borrow train fare from his mother to manage the transfer of Samassi Abou to West Ham. Most importantly, perhaps, it’s a different world from the one in which somebody got through to a Premier League team manager claiming to be a soccer legend and persuading him to take a punt on a plucky striker.

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