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Brian Cush

Brian Cush

Irish-born furniture designer and founder of Sawdust Bureau; podcast guest on "The World Cup, But Not Really" discussing vintage football jersey collecting.

Jun 5, 2026

19:21
Wow.
19:21
You know? And you, you like you see them turning up in, in the middle of nowhere in like, I don't know, rural Malawi.
19:28
There's Arsenal shirts and Barcelona shirts and United shirts, all knock-offs from the market, but it's just, you just see that melting pot of people coming together, and it's football that's bringing them together.
19:39
We also, in Kenya, we ran a, a football tournament for several Maasai tribes.
19:45
We're looking about 100 kilometers west of Nairobi.
19:50
[smacks lips] Not a single blade of grass on the pitch, so you're like red dirt.
19:56
Um, goals made of trees sort of fashioned into goalposts.
23:29
Mm-hmm.

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