Set Piece - An Audience with The Empress (Special Guest: Kelechi Okafor)

The Banter Pub FC Podcast

This week's Set Piece is beyond special. It's a massive occasion. Kelechi Okafor - AKA Kelechnekoff - the tour-de-force actress and social commentator that brings you Say Your Mind every week as well as teaching the people how to work the poles and how to twerk properly from her dance studio Kelechnekoff Fitness joins us for a wonderful interview and discussion.
Neil, Ama, and Joseph sit down with The Empress herself to talk about her favourite club (Arsenal), her favourite player (Thierry Henry), her favourite manager (Arsene Wenger), her favourite F1 driver in Lewis Hamilton, and Slavia Prague player Ondrej Kudela's racial abuse of Rangers' Glen Kamara before digging into what that means for Arsenal in the Europa League quarterfinal as well as football writ large. We also discuss Thierry Henry's decision to leave all forms of social media until racism is dealt with adequately by the people that administrate social media platforms. Finally, we dig into the British monarchy's racist skeletons falling out of the closet [again] and what that means seeing as William is President of the FA before wrapping up discussing the recent slew of men's football players repatriating themselves to Nigeria and Jamaica respectfully.
This was a total and utter honour and privilege for us at The Banter Pub! A massive thank you to Kelechi for joining us in this week's Set Piece. We hope you enjoy listening as much as we enjoyed chatting with Benz Punani Womanist.