Chirp Adams | 2026 FIFA World Cup

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4:19Luke Moore: Open wide for some soccer, everybody. Welcome to the Football Ramble. Mexico are through and Canada gub Qatar. It's Friday 19th of June. I'm Marcus Speller. I'm Luke Moore. And I'm Pete Donaldson.

4:43Luke Moore: Hello, everybody. It's Friday. Who cares when it's the World Cup? Every day's Friday. Every day does feel the same. It does. For us, every day feels the same, doesn't it? I'm going to have a bit of World Cup and a battered sausage. Oh, yes! That's how we know it's Friday. That's every Friday. Because a Donaldson battered sausage WhatsApp message comes through about, what, 6.30? Yeah. I can't get enough of it. Do you walk into the chip shop now and they just go, here he is, and just wrap it up for you? Yeah, yeah, yeah. The guy has returned to me a pair of Bluetooth headphones on more than one occasion I've left there.

5:12How are you doing that? Are you taking away? What? Are you taking away? You're not even eating in there, are you? Yeah, but I left, I think I took them out to receive my fish and chips, and I left my Bluetooth headphones twice in the fish and dishes shop. There's nothing more brutal as a British person than walking into an emporium, whether it be a chip shop or a pub, and going the usual, and they go, what's that? Yeah, nice. So you don't get to overconfident about it. No, I know, I know. So he'll just, what do you have? Just battered sausage? Battered sausage and a greasy set of Bluetooth headphones, please.

5:39Luke Moore: But the battered sausage, do you not go for the, what's the red sausage? Savaloi. No, Savaloi. Not fun enough. Would you go for a battered Savaloi? You can't. Because they're in that cover. We can batter Mars bars and cream eggs. You can't do a Savaloi. But you're not battering a Mars bar with the wrapper on, are you? The Savaloi's got a wrapper on it. Yeah, we'll take it off. No, you definitely eat the Savaloi. Do you eat the wrapper as well? Yeah. Okay, right. I've never really had a Savaloi. Yeah. It chugged. It chugged. Does it show? Peter's Morgan there. It doesn't know what he's talking about, but it comes wading in anyway.

6:08Luke Moore: Well, Chris Dornara doesn't eat Savaloi. I'll tell you what. Maybe he does. maybe that's how you do it yeah maybe because you're forever young do you have chips as well? yeah do you have chips? do you have chips? because I can definitely see Darlson just getting a batter's sausage and leaving again that's the most basic question you've ever asked on a Friday with your batter's sausage do you get chips as well? put salt on them oh dear right everybody enough of the bollocks this is a reminder to get your football ramble crossover Admiral Whiteaway shirt some sizes are starting to run low on stock so grab your shirt today if you want to make sure that you make it a very sexy Friday and you can order the right size.

6:44Luke Moore: Head to footballramblestore.com to order a shirt now. A lot of people were buying them on Wednesday night. Yes. I had to have a stock update but we only made 250 of them. So, I mean, the last ones went so fast within a week or something. Very fast. So you haven't got much time. I wore mine to the watch along. You did. And I noted that some other people in this room did not. Do you know why I didn't wear mine? Absolutely fuming. Because my wife instantly took it from me when I took it home. Oh, did she? And so I couldn't wrestle it back. Once again, blaming the wife. Yeah, she was a kid. Have you ever thought that at some point it might actually be her fault?

7:16No, it's never occurred to you. She hasn't. You're like an old couple. Yeah. Me and you are like an old couple. Yeah. You and him are like an old couple. Thropple. And me and him are like a... We're just a big thropple. We're a thropple, yeah. Which one of us is Gwyneth Paltrow? A cocky thropple. Yeah, who's the cuck? Marcus? No, you're the cuck, Pete. You're the cuck, 100%. Why? Yeah, Marcus. I'm not furtive. I'm powerful. and important. You are furtive.

7:42Luke Moore: I have no idea what's going on here. But I do know also, as mentioned yesterday, we're giving away four free tickets for our next watch party when England play Ghana on Tuesday 23rd of June. Simply submit to Five Star Review wherever you're listening and send a screenshot to showatfootballramble.com That's showatfootballramble.com If you win, you'll be able to claim up to four free tickets for you and your mates. We'll announce our winner on Saturday's Football Ramble. And not only will you get four free tickets, I guarantee you a handshake and or hug from me, your preference, when you turn up.

8:19Luke Moore: Well, maybe not when you turn up, but at some point in that evening, there'll be... But don't let that put you off. No. No, exactly, yeah. Or if you don't want that, just simply say no, and I will respect your boundaries. Personal space. Good on you. You're a big respecter of personal space, unlike Peter. Canada. putting the can in Canada is Jesse Marsh. They beat Qatar six. This is the greatest result in the history of Canadian football. It is probably. It's definitely the biggest, it's the biggest result by any CONCACAF team, isn't it? It's massive. Yeah. Yeah, it's absolutely huge. It's their first ever World Cup win and to do it with six zip, I know that that doesn't give the full story of the game.

8:56Qatar were kind of the architects of their own downfall.

8:59Luke Moore: Yeah. I'll tell you what, what was Switzerland doing in that first game against Qatar? But anyway, look, it's all about Canada. It's the opening game though, isn't it? Well, you know what? This is classic. Can't break Xhaka's legs. More on that later. This is the classic thing of the opening game doesn't quite go to plan. They got a draw. They would have felt that they should have beaten Bosnia-Herzegovina, let's be honest. And they were disappointed. And the ever-so-performative Jesse Marsh was certainly disappointed that his side didn't beat Bosnia-Herzegovina in their first game. And it's kind of like, look, lads, not only are you the host, you're actually not a bad side.

9:36Luke Moore: You've got a bit about you. And in this group in particular, you definitely can go through. I mean, surely they'll go through with that massive. They would have to be absolutely hammered by the Swiss, you would think. And the first game is like, right, let's knuckle down now and let's put this other game to bed. And my giddy fizzy aunt, they did. And look, I understand they were sending this off. I tell you what, this World Cup loves a red card, doesn't it? Bloody Nora. It does. But I think the way they were playing Canada, they had the bit between their teeth straight away, and it was, right, let's not piss around here, chaps.

10:08Luke Moore: Let's go to work. And straight away, your man, Laren Luke Moore, on the score sheet again. I think they've won every single game he scored in. Is that right? Well, they drew the last game, of course, famously. Oh, they've never lost when he scored then? That's better. More likely. Yeah. You've immediately disproved the first one. It's their first World Cup win, and they've played two games this tournament. There's the clue. There we go. There we go. It's still a fact. One of them was. We got there in the end. Yeah, choose the correct one, everybody. But I think on the first game chat, I said this to you in a different style before about when it comes to what order you play the teams and your grouping.

10:42I think the first game was a bit of a pass. I think, honestly, if you're a good side in this format, I mean, it's unthinkable you don't go through four points and you're very, very likely to go with three points, as we said.

10:54Luke Moore: But for Canada, topping the group would be very important. It would, absolutely. But my point is that the opening game in the World Cup can be nervy. Look at England. I mean, even England, fully experienced, got a great side. So you don't need to be too hard on them. Well, I'm not, but I just think they would have had a few regrets after that game. And being the host nation, and well, that's their first book. They've put those regrets to the sword now. Exactly. Wouldn't they? Exactly. But Qatar were poor. They totally lost their head. Canada had to get the job done. They did so. But, I mean, Qatar look a really poor side, I think.

11:26I mean... How on earth did Switzerland not beat that? I know. First game again. First game again. You don't know you're just filling your way into it. First game, mate. First game. And they contribute to their own downfall to such an extent. There were errors in there. There were obviously red cards. More than one of them, which is a bad thing. There were own goals. It's an uphill climb after that, isn't it? As a general rule, that's a bad thing. There was an own goal. So I think, ultimately, you can only beat what's put in front of you, of course. But the bad thing for Canada is that terrible injury, which, yeah, I mean, that's a bad one.

11:59and it hopefully won't affect the team too much because when they scored after that, obviously they held the shirt up of Curry, didn't they? The player who got his leg broken. I don't think it was intentional. I think it was a kind of one of those unfortunate situations. The thing is, it's hard to know for sure because they won't show it again, which I understand it all. But it didn't look intentional to me. But I've seen it on YouTube. I've seen the challenge. I mean, it didn't zoom in or anything, but I mean, it was a yellow for me. I mean, I think the VAR team kind of made the referees, the rest of the match the referee quite difficult I think by giving it a red so the outcome shouldn't dictate a decision right but the optics are bad I know the optics are bad because the referee's job is to protect the player's safety and stuff but yeah it's on YouTube it's worth having a look it's worth having a look it's worth having a look it's definitely a horrific leg it's worth having a look it's worth having a look I mean didn't need the sound of the crack of the leg

12:52Luke Moore: could you hear it yeah yeah on the well I mean a lot of the players you could see that I know that because often you can hear that can't you? I've never experienced that myself. I heard it once. And I'm very happy that I've not experienced that. I heard it once. It happened to me. I was at a Portsmouth game, Fratton Park, in, I want to say, the year will escape me, but I'm going to say mid-90s. And Lee Russell, who I think played fullback for Portsmouth at the time, he got his leg broken right in front of me and I heard it and it was horrible. But the reaction of the players, the reaction of the...

13:19Luke Moore: Yeah. The Qatari player did not help himself by like, the VAR had the split screen on the TV, and they were showing the VAR, he was showing the footage of the pitch, and the Qatari player was like... What have I done? Yeah. I mean... He looked as guilty as Richard Nixon. I think, you know, even if he had been booked, I think he would have been subbed off. He was distraught, and it's an incredibly unfortunate one, and you feel for everybody involved, particularly Kone, of course. Who was excellent up until that point as well. And it's a shame... He was putting some amazing passage. It is a shame, because you're right, and it's a shame it's slightly...

13:53Luke Moore: It makes it more difficult. It slightly overshadows it, but it's... We'll be reminded... When we, obviously Canadians, more to the point, think about this game, they'll be reminded of that injury. But the players, it'll be a fork in the road for them. It'll be like, we'll come together over this and really do it for him, and make sure he feels supported and really use it to channel it, or it'll upset us and we'll feel a little bit bereft. I think with the man in the dugout, probably we'll be the second. He's a very over-emotional man. Yeah, but he might get a seized mentality going. Do you think?

14:23Jose Mourinho's an emotional man. Yeah. He did pretty well over the years. Yeah. So it can work either way.

14:28Luke Moore: So Jesse Marsh is going to be around with him, man? I mean, I have to... He'd like to think so. I'll tell you what. Wouldn't put it past him. On the Marsh thing, I'm broadly not a supporter of the man. No, I think he's an idiot. But I do think he is within his rights to be annoyed about the situation. He's obviously going to be upset that a player he's worked very closely being badly injured. I don't know what his view of the challenge was. He may not have all the information because he may not have seen it back or whatever. And him and Lopetegui had a bit of a coming together at the end and Marshaled him to get pissed off.

15:02And usually... It looked like they were friends for a bit, didn't it? And then they just sort of turned on each other. What it looked like to me was Lopetegui was trying to explain something quite complicated in the second language and Marshal was listening for ages. And then he just got pissed off. He just threw his hand away, didn't he? Ah, shit your fucking mouth. Yeah, yeah.

15:15Luke Moore: I'm not going to go to West Ham. Good to see Mark Carney and his Canada shirt in the crowd as well, giving it some. No, I think that's something we all want to see. He looked great. He looked great for his age. Was Trudeau there? No, he wasn't. He's busy smooching the... Stop. I just asked if Trudeau was there. He wasn't there that I saw. I just wonder if he had his face painted in the Canada flag. Stop it. Carney looks great for 61. You've got to agree with that. He does. I do agree with that. Yeah. Did you see right after the leg prick, Ahmed Fahy, the guitar player, just went steaming in. Did he?

15:47Afterwards. Fucking went for the Canada player's knee. Read the room. Took him out. Read the fucking room, man. It was so funny in a horrible circumstance.

15:56Luke Moore: Oh dear. Oh dear. But look, I'll tell you what was a huge positive for Canada. Jonathan David turned up. Hat-trick. Come on. Because we said in the first game, remember that chance that fell to him in the first half against Bosnia Herzegovina. Sorry to keep going on about that. But that is the contrast here. And it bodes well for Canada. He took his shot and it was the effort of a slightly unconfident player. and compared it to one or two of the US players when they were finishing. David needed this and I think Canada needed him to do something. Laren's come in and he's done well. He's got another goal.

16:28Luke Moore: But Jonathan David coming in and doing that, it's like, yes, our big player is here. And he is the big player. He's scored by far the most goals for them in the squad. He plays for Juventus. He's clearly a cut above the majority of the rest of that squad. They don't have any other, apart with the exception of Alphonso Davis, of course, he's had his injury problems. they don't really have another player of that level. So it is important for them. One of the goals he scored was absolutely amazing. And the turn, that volley on the turn was great. So yeah, look, I think that's going to be key for them, isn't it?

16:56Because if they qualify, which you'd expect them to do now, I think it's hard, it's tricky because they're a home nation as well.

17:04Luke Moore: But I think getting out of the group is probably decent for them. But if they top the group, I mean, again, I know I haven't quite looked at it all. I think it's hard to make an argument they'd beat Switzerland in the final game though. And I think Switzerland will win the group. they just need a point. Yeah, they do. So, you know, it's not ridiculous to think. I think Swincon are better than them. Fair. Okay. Well, it's about... Which is basically what's mostly underpinning my argument. Because I think they're a better team. It's a fair underpinning. Yeah. The underpinment... Solid underpinning, Luke.

17:34Luke Moore: Thank you, mate. Well, my underpinment goes on the fact that Canada just need a draw. Yeah. Are you oiling the pin? If you want me to. That's why he backed Kate Verde ahead of his finger. You need a draw. There you go, you see, and history's been made. And there's already been six red cards at the 2026 World Cup. I love it. I don't like to see a player get badly injured, but I love the red cards. Two more than the entirety of the last tournament. But the last tournament has quite a low tally of red cards. The tournament record, and to prove that, the tournament record was, 2006 World Cup, it's going to be 28 red cards.

18:04Luke Moore: That's a lot. We're on for it, though. It's just a complete and utter physical breakdown for a lot of the players who've been in Europe. A lot of that was to do with when Portugal played Netherlands, didn't it? There was four of them. Everyone lost their minds. Yeah. That was one of the most amazing occasions. It was so good. The Battle of Nuremberg. Manish scored the winner. They won 1-0 Portugal, didn't they? Was it the most keenly contested thing that's ever happened in Nuremberg? I wouldn't have thought so, no. I wouldn't have thought so, no. Well, anyway. Would you say that was keenly contested?

18:29The game was. I'm talking about football. I know you are, yeah. I stick to football. Oi, have you ever known anyone with more dog whistles than Marcus? He hasn't even got a dog. Yeah, you can't fit him in his mouth.

18:40Luke Moore: I know, exactly. Oh, he hasn't even got a dog. Yeah. but it's all about the whistles. It's like an airhead siren. Yeah, it is. Joining in like it. Right then, let's get back to the middle ground and talk about Switzerland. They beat Bosnia-Herzegovina 4-1. Finally, the Swiss have turned up. This was remarkable for me as a personal experience because I was a bit tired yesterday after the Wednesday night festivities. So I put on Switzerland-Bosnia-Herzegovina which kicked off at 8pm our time. You didn't fall asleep before the 74th minute, did you? Yes, I did. Oh, no, Signe. I woke up. Honestly, I had the most ridiculous experience because I fell asleep.

19:16It was dull as fuck for like an hour. It was, yeah. And I fell asleep and I woke up to the punditry after the game. And I was like, and I literally said to my wife, have you turned that over?

19:27Luke Moore: Are you blaming her again? Yeah. Because I couldn't, I couldn't... Did you turn that over? Yeah, because... Are you trying to trick me? Because, because they're like, 4-1, that came from nowhere. It did come from nowhere. Came from absolutely nowhere. I mean, yeah, it did. but you knew Switzerland were capable of something. And Buzz Lightyear was a good one. No, but it just wasn't that kind of game until like 74 minutes. Yeah. That's why you never leave a game. Never turn off. I fell asleep. Never leave consciousness. My consciousness left. Never leave a game. Look at Luke Ma. He's turning over on the pillow, turning on his heel and leaving for the car park of sleep.

20:06Do you ever do that? You must fall asleep during games. Oh, massively. You told me you fall asleep and the dog pisses on your head. but he does it at the stadium though. My dog just pisses. Rubs his nuts on your head. Rubs his nuts on my face, yes. He doesn't have nuts. None of my dogs have nuts. I won't have him now. He's sitting on his bag. He rubs his bag on you. He rubs his bag. Why do they have bags anymore? Do they remove a bit of skin? I don't know. They just sort of shrivel, don't they?

20:27Luke Moore: Why is... I mean, why did you teach your dog to essentially teabag people? I didn't teach him. And I said, Sammy, please... Dogs don't do that normally. Marcus, Winston would never do that. Winston's a big dog. He would fit on a pillow. I don't own a dog currently, but I always grew up in a house with a dog for many, many years. Would Winston have ever rubbed his nuts on anyone? If requested enough. Right. Which of course he wasn't. There was a treat in it. He was a bloody good boy. He was. Pete's face is the treat. Oh dear. Anyway, should we talk about Johan Manzambi? He scored the opener three minutes after coming off the bench.

21:02Luke Moore: They used their bench wisely. Yeah, let's put it another way. Manzambi has just secured himself a 55 million pound move to Chelsea. definitely by scoring two goals off the bench for Switzerland against Bosnia yes Jakin looks great doesn't he he looks good the highlight of the game for me by the way he looks happy as well he did but the he looks a bit like Zlatko Dalic yeah he's like vaguely reminiscent of Zlatko Dalic anyway who's his brother I forget his brother's name I don't know okay stop asking me questions you know I don't know the answers to them on the show that's Jim's job sorry the highlight of the game for me was that overhead kick from Ndoy oh I've never seen an overhead kick like it what do you mean as in obviously the keeper saves it so it'll be forgotten but the ball comes over and normally when an overhead kick is scored it can be from a ball coming out I mean obviously Ronaldo Gareth Bale have both scored goals that I can think of overhead kicks where the balls come across from a wide area but the thing about Ndoy if you watch it back is he does it on the move so he swivels and he's also moving as he overkicks him and meets it perfectly Trevor Sinclair-esque Trevor Sinclair is the greatest overkick of all time I can't fully tell you if it's the same though because I can't know Sinclair was slightly on the move that was what was was it but we haven't got the angle to show how much he was on the move because it's only from that one long angle to Sinclair it would have been one of the great it was Thomas Brolin in that Nike advert oh I like that because he was on the move I like that it would have been one of the greatest world cup guys of all time 100%.

22:40Luke Moore: One of the greatest goals of all time. 100%. And that bastard keeper robbed us of it. He did. And I think he should be banned. Yeah. I think he should take a ban for that. Oh, yeah, that's fair. And there was also a red card in this game as well, wasn't there, by the way? Speaking of your red card... Yeah, of course, yeah. Red card... Do you know why? Because it was a game at the 2026 World Cup. Obviously there was a red card in it. But yeah, Switzerland needed this. They needed this badly. They now feel like they've arrived. There's a big game against Canada in the final game of the group, as we've talked about, and I think Switzerland will be favourites for that and I think they'll probably top the group which is good for them.

23:13Switzerland seem to me like they never really let you down at a tournament but they never really go beyond a certain stage.

23:22Luke Moore: A bit like Mexico. They're like a gatekeeping boxer. Are they the European Mexico? Stylistically, no. But in terms of energy, I think they might be. In boxing, if you've got a boxer in your stable that you want to go on to become a world champion, they have to fight a certain rank of fighter called a gatekeeper type at the time to prove they can get past someone who's tough and never really going to win a World Cup themselves. And I think Switzerland are the gatekeepers of the World Cup. It feels like you have to get past them at some point. I know what you mean. Yeah, I know what you mean. Have you heard, though, that there are reports or rumours of discontent in the Switzerland camp, some suggesting that Granit Xhaka is toxic?

24:03It just sounds like he's... Sounds like you for a song, doesn't it?

24:09Written about the super vet, wasn't it, that song? That's right, yes, it was. Are we talking about Britney Spears? Yeah, so that song, Toxic, is written by Cathy Dennis, who's a British songwriter. Yeah, oh, Cathy Dennis. And she was in a relationship with the super vet at the time. How's he? Noah, what's his name? I can't remember his name. You'd recognise him. Right. Noel or Noah something. Is it Irish? Irish guy, yeah. I can't remember. But the most kind of communal garden, benign, veterinarian you can think of. Right. Toxic has written about him. It's a weird bit of trivia. He's quite successful with the ladies.

24:37Yeah. Oh. He won't have dogs rubbing balls on his head. Xhaka's toxic. He's got a lot of caps. Well, I think he's just kind of in charge, I think. I think it sounds very much like he's taking penalties off people because that's not the plan. Surely that is the plan for him to take penalties. Yeah, but I think because... I mean, especially if he tucks them away. He strikes the ball so well. Yeah, but I think if... Is that how you do it, Harry? Don't need two goes. Manzami was on a hat trick. So is that why Xhaka was doing that when he scored?

25:03Luke Moore: Well, it was not because of taking the ball off the player. which I didn't actually see, it was responding to the reports. Fine, okay. What people suggested. I love it if he had been doing that to his teammates. Ha ha! Yeah, I've scored. Goodbye. It would have backed up the rumours, I think. It would have, absolutely. Good to see Vargas scoring. Yes. He likes a goal at a tournament now. He does, absolutely. It was good to see him. Well, it was good for Switzerland, by the way, to broaden that discussion out. We talked about Manzabi, talked about Vargas, who also got an assist in that game. Yes.

25:31Nice depth of squad proof for Switzerland.

25:34Luke Moore: It's the classic, it's the old cliche. you want your flair players or your creative players, your goal scorers to get on the sheet. Although Bosnia-Herzegovina did score a lovely one. It was a great hit. They did contribute something. It was a great hit. And Mamic loved it. It's why he really enjoyed it. And so he should have done. One of my favourite bits of the game was the, I saw a Twitter video of someone who'd posted a little line saying, explaining Toblerone to someone in an airport. And the commentary, when you click it, it says, neat little Swiss triangles. It's very true. She was lovely.

26:06Luke Moore: All right, everybody. Coming up after this, Merlin the Mexican Duck has competition.

26:16Get a bell, Marcus.

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28:38What do you expect from this game? They're footballers. So we're footballers. It's going to be a game of football.

28:47Luke Moore: Welcome back to Football Round. Well, presumably that was Ben White. He didn't seem sure. I think it's fair. It was too wordy to be Cole Palmer or Michael Alise. Alise getting strays as well, is he? He's very one - Dimensional. One dimensional, yeah. Oh, I see. In English. I don't know if he does many interviews in French. I think it's fine for him to be like that in his second language, isn't it? Yeah. No, but in English, I'm saying he was like that. Oh, I see what you mean. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We still welcome you back. Absolutely. It's not too late. He keeps asking where the museum is. What we should do is, you know like, yeah, the beach, the plight.

29:22You know what we should do? You know like in certain wars, they would get people to fly planes with leaflets saying, your cause is pointless your people have abandoned you come over to the other side could we do that over the German camp over the French camp to Elisa I love that sorry either be fine over the French camp and get Elisa to come back yes nice yeah come back it would take some legal wrangling

29:51Luke Moore: I think with FIFA anything's possible everyone's for sale I think if the BBC said, all right, we'll break complete protocol, we'll break the history, we'll do one commercial, one ad break. Yes. Okay. We'll put like, yeah, whoever's hosting that day is sponsored by Pepsi Max. Exactly. But we get Aliso back. The right winners wouldn't know what to say because they'd be fuming the BBC doing adverts for a license fee. Yeah. But then we'd also get Aliso back. Yeah. So they'd probably like that. Yeah. I think also... I think they'd probably have something to say. Anything's possible with FIFA. Yeah, it's true.

30:30Football reunites the world. So could we unite Elise with England?

30:34Luke Moore: Yes. Good point, actually, yeah. Yeah. Anyway, let's look into that further. That's Mexico, South Korea. What's next? At Mexico, they've become the first team to make it through to the knockouts. Group winners as well. How about that? 1-0. They beat South Korea 1-0. And that means they're going to play their round of 32 and their round of 16 games at the Azteca. Is that right? Yeah. So, I mean, that is massive. That is huge. I get the impression. So I feel like Mexico and South Korea are both quite well-matched teams. Yeah. And then obviously Mexico win because there's a goalkeeper error. Oh, no.

31:04It's a sickener. Was it an error? Yes. He dropped the ball after he caught it, Peter. His pillow was in the way. He should have punched it. It's a bad decision making. But I think it's just kind of... Don't ever watch cricket. Exactly. Was that an error? I held it for about half a second. Were you in control of it? I'm struggling to see if he wanted to gain possession of the ball. I don't know what he could have done. Interestingly enough though, Peter, you're talking nonsense there, but interestingly enough, right, that you've hit on something, I think genuinely quite interesting though, honestly, because everyone who complains, you only get the people in the pub, normally older fellas, who say, goalkeepers don't catch it anymore.

31:42That's why they punch it. That's exactly why. Because if you, the idea is, if you get two fists on it, it goes miles. And if you drop it, I don't think there is any excuse for dropping it, given the quality of the gloves they have now, the stickiness of the gloves, that professional keepers play, you are mad. But he has dropped it. It's an error, but that is why they punch it. The point I was just going to make was that they're evenly matched teams, those two, and Mexico will be delighted, obviously, to get through that game and probably consider themselves fairly fortunate. But I feel like they could probably beat anyone at the Azteca.

32:12That game last night wasn't at the Azteca. It could be England. It might well be England. It might be, yeah. And I honestly think England against Mexico at the Azteca would be horrible for England.

32:23Luke Moore: back again at the scene of the crime yeah would be back 86 all over again yeah it wasn't always bad at the Azteca I think we did the round before did they beat Paraguay at the Azteca I'm trying here potentially I'm trying it's before my time let's worry about Ghana before we start doing all that nonsense Guillermo Ochoa remained on the bench again he's got to play in the third they've won the group he's got to play in the third group game surely you see Roberto Martinez that's what you do for an old legend who everyone wants around everybody under He said he will retire after the World Cup. You see Cristiano Ronaldo?

32:55Luke Moore: Yeah. That's what he got. Yeah. Could Ronaldo potentially retire before the next game? Oh, I don't know. Yeah. I don't know. But show him, will he get a run out in the third group game? It wouldn't be very professional, I suppose, would it? That's why he doesn't really need to give the keeper a rest, do you? No. Yeah. I think it might be a bit gimmicky. And also, in terms of momentum and the focus and so on, it might be a bit of a sideshow. Speaking of which, Merlin the Mexican duck, yes, has indeed competition because there's a Scottish duck, McDuck, presumably, on the scene called Donnie. Donnie.

33:27Luke Moore: Yes! And he's been spotted in Providence, Rhode Island, at the front of the Tartan Army's march. Where did they get him from? They have basically... They've liberated a duck. They've liberated a duck. But he's called Donnie. Yeah. Oh, okay. No further questions. Well, he sort of had like a sort of Scottish flag on his back. It's not... Is there a specific word for a duck's back? It's where the water lives or slides off, isn't it? Slides off. It's where it's a duck's back, yeah. But somebody had sort of attached it with like a necklace, which is quite cool. They've not thought it through. They've tried to copy what Mexico have done.

33:58Luke Moore: We need an investigation. Yeah. I think Donnie needs to be... Andy Robertson. Robertson, yeah, okay. Yeah, very nice. I think it's better than I thought we would get on this segment. John McWing. McWing. McWing. Yeah. It works. If you had interrogated it, it would have worked. We got a chuckle out of Marcus, we could have moved on. We would have been fine. Ganondark. Ganondark. Ganondark. Scotland played Morocco at the Boston Stadium. We're not moving on from that, are we? We're staying with Scotland.

34:36Luke Moore: They're still in Boston. They're still in Boston. I don't think the Bostonians want me to leave. They're having a lovely time. Those poor statues with the crones on their head. Traffic cones, yeah. They do like a traffic cone. The local economy in Boston must be absolutely flying. It must be a flight. Yeah, exactly. Well, the governor of Massachusetts, Marahili, has gone back on her declaration that she would make haggis legal in the state. Which is a bit disappointing. Is it illegal? Presumably. Because of the awful content or something. Yeah, I guess true haggis. I think that's a muck that gets put into American foods.

35:09Not USDA. You can confirm. Isn't there a rule in this country about how much you have to cook beef as well? Oh, in this? What do you mean? in restaurants. You can't, isn't it, I don't know, is it illegal to ask for like a rare burger in this country? I don't think so. Is it not? No. Okay. There was chat. Those pen pushers in France wouldn't have that, would they? No, there wouldn't. No, no, no.

35:31Luke Moore: There was chat about that and I think in France they were just like, what are you playing? Well, France ain't playing. No, no, of course, but I don't, I can't remember. But you can have a steak tartare, I guess. I think what it was, Luke, is that unless you specified maybe, then they would do it medium, something like that. Right. But the chat about this... Lewis Birderson? Fine. The chat about this haggis business from the governor, Governor Healy. So yes, did plan in making haggis legal, but 24 hours later, put on Instagram, I think it was, I've received countless messages from Massachusetts residents, Scotland supporters, legal experts, and at least one very concerned sheep.

36:12Luke Moore: After careful review by my office, I am prepared to clarify that this was, in fact, a joke. Oh, right. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. It's a good joke. That's why politicians don't make jokes. You can't spell haggis without the word ha. It's true. Don't make jokes if you're a politician generally. Generally. Yeah, I would say as a general rule. As a general rule. What do you make of Mexico's chances, though? Well, good. I mean, I think that the home thing is... It's huge, isn't it? It's annoying for them that they have the extra round before the quarterfinal. Yeah. Because the quarterfinal has been their ceiling.

36:43Luke Moore: because if they did get to the quarterfinal, they could say, well, we've played more than five matches, which is what they normally did. They'll play the quarterfinal in Miami Gardens, which isn't too far for them to go. No. But anyway, we'll see. But I think Mexico, they're on the march. They're doing well. Haven't conceded. Lovely old job for them. Elsewhere in the group, South Africa won, Czech Republic won. Just get them out of the titles. It was so bad. Reading the reports on this, everybody was pretty unanimous. a draw was not much use to either side. I mean, having said that, though, the fact that South Africa were 1-0 down and they managed to get an equalising goal sort of fairly late on, and after that, they sort of thought, actually, we should probably test these a bit more.

37:23Luke Moore: And then they kind of went for it. But really, neither side have kind of done that much at the tournament so far. I think it's a bit of a tricky argument to suggest that they may, either one of them may go through. I mean, of course, it's within the realms of possibility, but not either side have been great. It feels like the downside of the bigger tournament. The upside of the bigger tournament is you get a Cape Verde story. You get a, you know, you get extra African team. You get, but it's actually the first round of games overall was really good. Everyone, everyone really seemed to have a say in it.

38:00Yet the downside is that you are going to get occasionally a team like Czech Republic or South Africa who are going to go through to the knockouts. There's no point in it.

38:10Luke Moore: You might get that. I appreciate it's much rarer in previous tournaments. I'm sure there are other examples, though, where that's happened. But I think the difference between South Africa and Czech Republic is that Czech Republic have got at least a handful of decent players. I mean, Patrick, when he had that header... And they're less than the summer in the past. He's way off it. You're going to think about how good he was at the Euros. I know that was a few years ago now when, in 2021, it was played. But yeah, they've not really... I think that the regrets for them is that they were in a group which...

38:48Luke Moore: Look, every group's competitive. And I understand South Korea are no mugs, as they showed. And obviously, they've got Mexico coming. But you wonder if they just get to the end of the road, which I suspect will be in the next game. You know, that'll be them. And they kind of go, we just turned up and really didn't do anything. And that would be very frustrating for a side who hasn't always qualified for the World Cup. I mean, I know over the years they've had some great players and they've done some good stuff, but yeah. The last thing you want is you leave the tournament after three games and you've got regrets.

39:16The difference between them and South Africa is it doesn't look to me like South Africa have got really any good players. And South Africa, they qualified by winning their group over Nigeria, which is a surprise. Well, it was a surprise. Based on what we've seen here.

39:28Luke Moore: I was pleased for South Africa that they didn't lose the game because that would have been rubbish, you know, after that first game. Again, I understand that they've now got to beat South Korea. but I mean look both sides have a fighting chance to go through I was happy for Mikhail Sadelek because he was in the pre Euro 2024 training camp and he was riding a tricycle oh yeah and he fell off and he gashed his legs so hard he had 65 stitches and he couldn't he couldn't play in Euro 2024 so I'm glad he scored I'm glad he's at the World Cup yeah I mean that's a great comeback story yeah isn't it that to me is six episodes on Netflix that's horrible though 65 stitches.

40:08Were there anything about the tricycle? I mean, how fast did he go to the tricycle to get that? It was in the mountains, so maybe he was just freewheeling down the mountain.

40:15Luke Moore: Well, it's good to hear that he's back in the saddle-eck. Now, there you go. But, of course, that was a game involving the second and third oldest managers. Oh, Kubik got pissed off, didn't he, before the game? He did, yeah. He looked terrifying as well. Old man hard. Oh, yeah. He was... What I don't understand, and you'll know more about photography than me, so no it was a genuine question so Kubik Kubik got pissed off because the camera ram was right up close to him and he was like just move away you don't need to be as close Thomas Tuchel said that my genuine question is with a stills camera with a zoom lens that big why do they need to be so close I don't know some of them some of those lenses were so large I can't figure out how they managed to get anything out of that to me it doesn't make any sense they do like those they do like those dramatic pictures though where like it's kind of like the subject is at the centre and then the horse sort of wraps around you.

41:09But why are there so many of them? I realise the international press will start there and then presumably they'll kind of go around there. There's a reason there was so many around Tuchel, if you don't mind moving on to that, is because they were desperate to see any kind of reaction for him as a German when the national anthem was playing for England. They wanted to see what he was going to do. There was a lot of chat about whether he was going to sing the anthem or not. A lot of the right wing press in this country have been overly exercised by it because that's just how they are. and so there was a lot of interest from the German managers and the English team.

41:37Are you going to get that from a stills camera though? I don't know. He was yawning. He was singing. Yeah, exactly. And he was saying, and I think this is fair, obviously my take broadly is that if you take the money to be part of football and you understand the whole jamboree that comes along with it, you can't really complain about the media attention. But in that specific instance, there's no need for him to be that close. He said himself, it's really disappointing because I wanted to see my team. I was proud of the team to be doing the national anthem. Fica's not making any money out of cameramen and women being that close so I think they'll probably just move them.

42:04There's no angle for them.

42:06Luke Moore: Consider it done, Thomas. It was so many. It was very odd. It was like Princess Diana stuff. It'll be every country in the world has a photographer and they're all basically there and they've all got equal billing so they've all got to be there. Unless I'm being naive, I've never seen anything like that myself and clearly too cool. Not since the 2015 Archiva Awards where people were snapping me on the red carpet. Snap, snap, snap. Oh, Pete, can you show a bit more ankle? Yeah, okay. Did you show some ankle?

42:37Luke Moore: Did you show some upper arm? It was that one that... Speller gets a bit of that attention. Like the Palladium Speller got a bit of that attention, I'd say. Yeah, I'd say so. Put your nipples away. We just want to see your ankle, that's it. Yeah, no, he was understandably pissed off, Tuchel. Because for the reasons you said, and he's like, I'm a manager the first time I'm in the World Cup. I want to see my team. I want to take it all in. I should be able to see my team. Because presumably he wasn't allowed to then just walk around the side of them, which would have been odd. Arteta would have bloody done it.

43:07Get in the middle like a Chelsea football. Did you see that Tuchel was throwing the first pitch out at a baseball match? Did he really? He should be working. With Dan Byrne. Oh, okay. And Harry, obviously, as well. Probably the nearest thing Dan Byrne's going to get to a sporting field of play.

43:25Luke Moore: He's going to nod us the winner in a rock-out round. I'd love that. The rock-out round? In a rock-out round. Big rock-out round. In a hard rock cafe. Imagine Dan Bernthal on a pitch. It would go all over the place, wouldn't it? It would actually. Well, yes. FIFA have said, though, that the coaching staff will no longer be required to remain in front of the dugouts. Now they'll be allowed to move to the left or to the right of the photographers for an unobstructed view of the score. They'll just move left and right like that bit in Moonwalker. Do you know what it'll be? It'll be like the Dutch fans.

43:54Luke Moore: To the left. To the right. but do everybody skip your medication so you can lose your minds yeah that's official advice from Dutch from the Dutch nation yeah I'd say it comes from the government I assume I assume oh dear me let's have a more encouraging update from the England camp Ivan Tony got a hat-trick in a behind-closed-doors friendly over Sporting Kansas City they beat them 5-1 go on Tony go on Tony apparently it was only a shortened game of 25 minutes per half he still knocked them in the other two goals were scored by Morgan Rogers and Ollie Watkins. No. That's absolutely ideal. Seismic.

44:32Get the lads who aren't starting games playing and scoring. Get their confidence up. Like it. Nice of Phil Neville to step in and manage sport in Kansas City, though, for that occasion.

44:41Luke Moore: Where is it? Show some fucking respect. Oh, dear. In other news involving Englishmen, Graham Potter has gone full cowboy in a recent photo post on his Instagram. He has gone full Colonel Kurtz down the Mekon native. Yeah. He is dressed fully like a cowboy now. Be honest Does he look good in this? I think he does He looks a bit like I think he looks very good He looks like Chuck Norris Oh he does In Walker Texas Ranger He absolutely does He does Yes I like that shout The belt buckle He's got it all Have we ever seen him Looking happier? No This Walker can't He's done no coaching Of the team He's just knocking about He's just wrangling cattle It's just a montage Of him In like a Hollywood film Coming out of Dressing rooms Going They come down the morning the hotel anyone seen the gaffer no in the background through a window he's riding the ball do you know what you know in those training sessions that they would say like I don't know if Hodgson did this or some other managers where they would quite literally put a tyre rope around like the two defensive midfielders right yeah Saki used to do that right okay so the best at it the best at it Potter's thinking boys I'm going to do that alright where's the rope don't worry glassuse them yeah wild honks I think so I said he gave with the Chuck Norris...

45:56It's actually a Brokeback Mountain vibe. It's a Brokeback Mountain... I know nothing about that film apart from the kids in the obvious. It's just two cowboys who fall in love with each other. What's he falling in love with? Victor Joffreysh. Well, we haven't got the other main star of it yet. World Cup is the other...

46:16Luke Moore: I think you're creating narrative where it doesn't need to be created. When Potter grabs the World Cup trophy and Sweden win it, he's going to say, I wish I could quit you. That's what he's going to say. The reason why I think we're looking at Potter looks happy is because clearly he likes all the rodeos and all that kind of thing. Also, you have to remember that the last couple of jobs he's had that we think of Graham Potter, I know he was obviously in Scandinavia before and Swansea, but West Ham and Chelsea where it's a madhouse. West Ham's West Ham. And now look at him. Cowboy head on, boots, the lot.

46:46Luke Moore: Having a great summer of his life. He's not coming back. It's a Graham Potter summer. He's staying. Yeah. Lads, it's been a pleasure, but I'm staying. Yeah, exactly. Oh, dear. There we are. thank you very much everybody for listening to the Football Ramble part of the Acast Creator Network also everybody go and get your Football Ramble Admiral White away shirts now before they all fly off the shelves because they won't return just like Graham Potter exactly there we are thank you Luke they would go great with a cowboy hat wouldn't they yeah we'd like to see it from you Peter howdy never has a man been more likely to have a cowboy hat at home than you yeah I don't really want a cowboy hat that's got to be bollocks that has to be nonsense you must have one somewhere I've got like a safari hat that if you put your head down, it's the shape of a skull.

47:29Luke Moore: I bought from Korea one time. Let's have a look at that. Put it in. It's that classic hat they all wear in safari. It's the classic hat they all wear in Seoul. And you've got the old infant chip bowl helmet, obviously. But in a lot of parts of... And the Richard Keys head. Is it in parts of India where they wear hats with a face on the back of them? Because tigers come up behind them. No, it's like that. Beautiful. It's a safety mechanism. There we are. Thank you, Luke. Thank you. Thank you, Pete. Fare thee well. And thank you, Graham Potter. My wife.

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