Why Has China Cancelled Mesut Ozil?
Football Today
English - December 20, 2019 06:00 - 26 minutes - 36.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsSoccer Sports football soccer Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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With one Instagram post, Arsenal midfielder Mesut Ozil simultaneously sent off alarm bells from Arsenal headquarters in London to the Chinese government in Beijing, leading the latter to erase him from the internet in the country.
Today we look at his post with Lily Kuo (Beijing Bureau Chief of Guardian/@lilkuo) and Simon Chadwick (Professor of Sports Enterprise at University of Salford/@Prof_Chadwick) and ask 'what will the fallout be for Arsenal, the Premier League and football fans in China?'
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