Dick Advocaat's banter bus | 2026 FIFA World Cup

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4:47Vishal Sinha: We're underway, everybody. Welcome to the Football Ramble. Goals, red cards and Shakira. Shakira, it's Friday, 12th of June. I'm Marcus Speller. I'm Pete Donaldson. And I'm Vodushina Hunter-Raja. Whenever, whenever.

5:11Vishal Sinha: And we're off. Hooray! Strap every body part in. The World Cup has begun. Take it to your legs if need be. Oh my goodness. And sell a limb if you want a ticket. Exactly. And Mexico will host it. And ten seconds before we started the show Marcus Speller was wondering How many buttons to do up or undo On his shirt That was appropriate and professional I said do another one down Marcus, come on I wanted to go full Simon Cowell Absolutely just go for it Look at that Look at that hairless muck I was looking at some of the For the World Cup I was looking at some of the ITV pundits And I thought I want to be like that Could you hear them through the wind tunnel?

5:50Vishal Sinha: I tell you what Other than the wind Magnificent studio Yeah, what great is that? It's a terrible choice. You know me, I'm a sound man through and through. Awful choice. Awful, awful, awful. Who cares? But beautiful. But Peter, we're visual guys. We're visual guys. And that looks stunning. What I loved is that Mark Pugash, lovely man, was at pains to say, this is not AI. That is an actual view because as soon as you saw it, you thought, that's a very realistic, is it a big screen? Well, because the obviously augmented reality that they've got when they turn the camera around looks like AI. So, yeah, I mean, that must have cost them an absolute ton and they really need a deal on the wind situation.

6:30Vishal Sinha: The real cost will surely be the man versus food guy's dinner order. That's a good point actually. What's his name, Adam? Adam Richmond. I mean that is him. I thought he looks like that guy man versus food. Did he not? He used to have a gorty or was I just thinking of just men who looked like they were in corn? I may tell you

6:45Marcus Speller: you've got me a little bit confused with Guy Fieri. I know Guy Fieri. I was eating Guy Fieri's Flavortown restaurant about five weeks ago and I was eating every morning but on this brunch $20 thank you very much I will have the weird white gravy on everything thank you that goes really well on chicken fried steak on everything it's lovely yeah yeah I'd have it on my dad's wiener

7:05Vishal Sinha: is it a Hulk Hogan themed thing no no no just the way you were talking there well he used to have a pasta restaurant in the Mall of America Hulk Hogan had a pasta restaurant

7:15Marcus Speller: he had a pasta restaurant yeah it didn't last for very long well I would have gone

7:20Vishal Sinha: well there we are everybody the World Cup is officially underway now we have officially

7:28Marcus Speller: broken the bottle people thought it was the opening ceremony before the first game it wasn't now we've started our run it was three Englishmen around the table being like fine continue

7:38Vishal Sinha: sound the alarm the World Cup is underway entertain me entertain me do it but of course Peter time is running out if you want to come to our World Cup watch parties for all of England's World Cup group games tickets for England's opening game have already sold out and games two and three are selling fast. So hit the link in the show notes and grab your ticket now before it's too late. Very briefly, Vish, we're not here to talk about England that much, but the England players were playing cricket the other day. I do not want to talk

8:04Marcus Speller: about cricket anymore. I've had too much cricket. Have you had a busy week? Too much cricket. Too much cricket. At a weird time, were you expecting to have this much cricket? Not as much cricket as I've had when they haven't been playing cricket. Right. Were you bolder googly this week? Yeah. Do you want me to undo another button? Because that was... That was sexy cricket. And that's another reason why I don't like cricket. I don't like you saying cricket words. Makes me feel uncomfortable.

8:28Vishal Sinha: How's that, Marcus? Pete's currently having a full toss, though. Do you remember the first time

8:31Marcus Speller: your mum said the word, like, lesbian? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Mum, I don't think you know what that word means. I remember my mum telling me off to say the word wanker by using the word wanker, and I was like, oh. Even as a young person, I don't need to hear that from her.

8:42Vishal Sinha: What were you doing at the time? Come on, kid. No, there you go. Was it your father? Was it your father? The idea of your mum... The man who called you that word. No, no, no. No, we were just discussing the term, all right? Your kind of opening ceremony is this. I've never seen you go a bit shy there, Peter.

9:00Marcus Speller: Your mum catching you wanking and you looking at her saying, you can't say that. You can't say that. That is out of order. We need to talk about Kevin. She's meant to turn eye contact. But it's the World Cup, everyone.

9:09Vishal Sinha: We're underway. But the England players were playing cricket. Vish, that must have pleased you. I go to your Instagram stories to see close-ups of food, but there's been a lot of cricket on there. and I'm thinking, does he know the World Cup is underway? Well, I'll tell you what, if you're in doubt, let's get stuck into this. Mexico 2, South Africa nil. Did you even bother watching the game, Vish?

9:28Marcus Speller: I did, yeah. It was a lot shorter than some of the games I've been watching recently.

9:33Vishal Sinha: Less drama. I thought there was going to be more, not VAR, added time due to the settings. Before the game, though, we did have the ceremony, which was great. We're going to talk about that in a little bit, but straight to the game. 2-0, two goals and three red cards. There was only four red cards, everyone was saying, at the Qatar World Cup. I think one of them was after the final whistle as well. So we are properly up and running, Peter. Yeah, I'm worried about my card total that I put on the prediction. Sure, a little bit worried about that. But, you know, they are... You can't really argue with a lot of them.

10:08Probably the first one was the softest, you'd say. Gutierrez bought it. No, the first one! That was the one! Gutierrez sort of bought it a little bit. It was a bit of a tangle of legs. and at the end of the day it wasn't the legs that did it for him it was a shunting from behind so to speak

10:24Vishal Sinha: you can't shunt from behind in a car or out of a car in a built up area well look it's a game of opinions isn't it it is a game of opinions well not that one

10:36Marcus Speller: it's definitely a red card shut up cricket

10:40Vishal Sinha: I'll tell you what though all jokes aside seeing the Azteca stadium in full technicolour like that it's so good obviously it kicked off tournaments in 1786 when they hosted them outright but you know I thought to myself that is it's iconic it's iconic as FC UK and the way that kind of like it's a massive stadium very vertical and then you've got those two kind of squished kind of like bits in the middle so I've sat in one of the squished bits in the middle before and then made my way out of there and sat with the proletariat

11:20Marcus Speller: Flanked by guards, obviously

11:23Vishal Sinha: Yes, flanked

11:23Marcus Speller: Yeah

11:24Vishal Sinha: And it is something But to see it like that It's a beautiful sight And there was a beautiful noise as well I loved it Straight from the kick-off The Mexican fans were cheering the passes And I thought they knew They knew what was coming Yeah

11:38Marcus Speller: They did Just to stick on the stadium for a little bit I like the fact that From some of the camera angles You're like Does this actually stop? because at the back you can't see the sky it's like the Tower of Babel it just goes on and it's just like I just love any I don't know what it is I think I've spoken about it before whether it's like the slight increase or decrease in frames and frames per second or the way that the NTSC system works I don't really know why it's so beautifully kind of oversaturated the colours just always pop like motherfuckers the contrast is there the ref cam huge huge addition to the World Cup that's going to get better and better and less kind of wobbly-bobbly.

12:17But we've seen, you know, it's just beautiful. I loved watching this game. It was just fantastic. I love that, Pete. Great start. Love that.

12:25Marcus Speller: I know, yeah, I mean, obviously there was football played, but I know exactly what you mean about the saturation. In my head, it was like a cartoon version of Mexico. Well, I mean, outside the stadium, there's a goose and a fucking Mexico top. I mean, I am in for that. Chris was tweeting about that.

12:39Vishal Sinha: I think that was the least of the troubles outside the stadium. Right, yes, fair, fair. He started all of it. Yes. Let's stick to football though Shall we We got the first goal of the World Cup after nine minutes Bit of a gift Yeah that keeper was very charitable wasn't he Yeah I mean South Africa Such an interesting side Because they were playing out from the back But they were very tidy in possession Up till the final third Honestly I've never seen The first third I understand that the goalkeeper Was a bit of a one would say he shouldn't have made that pass with the defender having so many attackers around him.

13:19Vishal Sinha: But they were pretty handy in possession, zipping it about a bit. Anywhere in Mexico's half or the final third, they couldn't pick a man out. It was extraordinary. But I think all over the pitch, I mean, you said they were very tidy, but I think they were very tidy within the parameters, I'd say, because sometimes the ball would come into a player and a relatively simple sort of take would take just a couple more touches than you would take. And I know this is like a huge disparity in the rankings. Probably the biggest, we'll see this. The last club game we just watched was the Champions League final.

13:51Vishal Sinha: So just everybody can't do it. Oh, you're watching your gas all season. What they should do, UEFA should try and help FIFA out because I know that they get on very well. They should have the Champions League final first, then Europa League, then the Europa Conference League. And then we go into the local. There we are, just a suggestion for four years' time.

14:07Marcus Speller: I think the, I really admired the ambitiousness of South Africa. and I totally agree with you when they played out the back they did the hardest bit and then they just seemed to panic Pete's right because sometimes when they were spraying out wide they couldn't keep hold of it Jaden Adams had quite a good game but after they did the hardest bit it was almost like oh fucking hell we've not got to this bit before I didn't expect to get this far because there were quite a few opportunities you wouldn't even really describe them as like you know formed counter-attacks but they were in the process of having you know like an overload on some you know on one side or getting the ball to La Foster and Reina's up top like there was they definitely had their moments or certainly openings and they just couldn't use them yeah no it was

14:55Vishal Sinha: it was they were distinctly second best there's no doubt about that but I mean so much it's hard to know where Mexico are really seeing the way that South Africa performed in this one yeah because like we talked a lot about elevation obviously you know I don't know where all of the South Africa necessarily players are playing but South Africa, there's a lot of places that are quite high up and they look like they were blowing from the fifth minute, really. Very, very slow start.

15:18Marcus Speller: Have a kick about Uptable Mountain. What are they doing? Crying out loud.

15:22Vishal Sinha: If you've got the facilities, use them. Exactly, exactly. Scotland will be playing. They would have built a tower that would have been on top of Ben Nevis, but the same height as Ben Nevis. Because Ben Nevis has used as a reference point a lot so far in this world. For some reason. And then they would have played up there. That's what they should have done.

15:42Marcus Speller: What have they been doing? Oh, we've been playing in the lock shape. Well, I'll bring in Richard's message. Go on, Richie. The Azteca is only 1 ,600 feet higher than the Calabash, which is the FMB stadium in Johannesburg. That is not even half of a Ben Nevis. There you are. Benjamin Nevis actually plays for Austria. He's a 17-year-old kid.

16:02Vishal Sinha: He is, yeah. Well, we appreciate that message from Richard Pierce-Jones. Yes. RPJ. In your ears there, everybody. so yeah it was a poor start for South Africa I mean I thought after that first goal this could be an absolute shoo-in and then after the sending off I thought this is definitely going to be a shoo-in but I said the only I mean look three points this group we expect to be tight so I wonder if they'll look back at this and think you know what we should have had maybe a goal or two more but it was great to see Raul Jimenez score come on

16:36Marcus Speller: I think that's it's always good to start a World Cup, it's great to start a World Cup in Mexico, and then you're just looking for the story, aren't you? What is a great story of the first game? And it is Raul Jimenez. I mean, that accident against Arsenal, you know, he's obviously spoken about it in detail, the psychological trauma of it, the doubt of ever playing again, the fact that even when he came back and was playing in the Premier League, he used to be a great header over the ball. And there was a period where he mentally couldn't get his head around heading the ball. No, no, no. But yeah, he couldn't.

17:13Marcus Speller: It was something he had to overcome. But I saw this at Fulham. Exactly.

17:18Vishal Sinha: Watching him at Fulham, when he first joined, you could see that he wasn't sort of, I don't know, putting it about as much. Yeah, not challenging for headers. Yeah. And then to see that kind of come back in his game, where he was a kind of an outlet or, you know, sort of a target man, you would say, because he can hold up the ball really well. And as you say, he's very good in the air. It was odd because in the early days when he signed for Fulham, I remember thinking, oh yeah, like the aerial threat that say Mitrovic gave and then sometimes off the bench, Muniz gives Fulham, forgive me for talking about Fulham tactics here, everybody, but it is relevant drivers.

17:51Vishal Sinha: You know, Jimenez is a massive drop off from them. But as his time at Fulham went on, he suddenly was like, oh right, I get this. And scored a number of headed goals and obviously got one there. But a very, very likable player as well. Beautiful feet, you know, like all the rest of it. But some of that direct stuff that you're talking about, as we saw in this game, was there. And at the age of 35, I mean, he's been released from football, but I think he's, I don't know if it's been confirmed or not, but it looks like he's going to go back to Wolves, which I'm very pleased about. But for him to get that goal, the emotions, you might say when the World Cup is finished and after all the montage of England celebrations and all that, we'll see this again.

18:33Vishal Sinha: because I think already this is probably going to be one of the moments of the World Cup.

18:37Marcus Speller: Scoring your first World Cup goal in front of your own fans in that stadium. The outpouring of emotion as well. Also like the... The goose. Yeah, the goose in the Mexico shirt in jeans maybe. Goose do not require keys. You know sometimes when players celebrate like that it actually takes them a while to actually for the emotion to hit them. It's the shock and awe of scoring a goal in that setting. he was crying immediately he knew it yeah but he's of an age you know again being in his mid-thirties

19:08Vishal Sinha: thinking he's keenly aware of the whole thing was he hungover as well

19:11Marcus Speller: because that generally does it for me switch on a rom-com at 1pm watching marines come on yeah

19:18Vishal Sinha: it has been confirmed he's going to Wolves right yeah in case anybody goes how could you not know that because I couldn't give a I couldn't give a shit about club football right now that's why yes

19:29Marcus Speller: I suppose during the Premier League season when you never talk about England That's true.

19:33Vishal Sinha: Hey, look, here we are. I was right all along.

19:38Marcus Speller: Have you got a countdown at home to England's game?

19:41Vishal Sinha: That's your opening ceremony. Do you know what? When the World Cup's finished, I always feel like Don Henley. My love, will you still be stronger even after the boys of summer have gone? That's what it is for me. Well, anyway, let's talk about the red cards. Pete, you weren't sure about the first one. You've had time to change your mind. I was very sure about the first one. It was clumsy. it was unfortunate it was dogzo it was the denial of a goal scoring opportunity it was a dogzo in jeans it was a dogzo in jeans yes it was it was a dogzo in jeans I mean it was very very clever forward players it's exactly what they're taught and the defender it was clumsy

20:18Marcus Speller: I know what you mean but I like the way they're taught it was like South America yeah exactly Central America whatever

20:23Vishal Sinha: yeah Michael Owen would have stayed on his feet but yeah the defender knows the defender knows so I don't think there's any two I don't think there's too much Argument about that The second one though Little cheeky Was it a slap in the face? Was he trying to get him out the way? I think it was just An accidental coming together I think Did he not take the opportunity To just go

20:43Marcus Speller: The man from Christina Uncle Love that Isn't it great to have Uncle back? You know what's so good? She's so matter of fact She is We're so used to The referees coming on In the Premier League Or Champions League coverage And kind of out Staying there welcome even for that brief window?

21:00Vishal Sinha: Yeah, because they're trying to cover for their mates. Well, obviously, I mean, he could send him off, but obviously if he doesn't, I think that's absolutely justified. Basically, reluctant sometimes to give a decision. Uncle doesn't give a shit. And that was the best thing about, was it the Euros or the last World Cup we saw? We didn't just saw it at the last World Cup. I want to see her every week. We said this when we last saw it. Like, why can't we see her every week? Well, she was brilliant because you get some of the pundits arguing and she just, as you say, comes in and goes, well, actually, chaps, this is the law.

21:26Vishal Sinha: This is how it's applied. Whether you like it or not is a different matter. but the referee applied the law exactly as it's written. And they go, I don't want to. I don't want to. But I don't like it. She's like, that's not what I'm here for. You can have a chat about that. The law was a correct, but she was straight on it and said it was a red card. Yeah, yeah.

21:43Marcus Speller: It's almost like she gets paid just for being on rather than like by the minute. Yeah. I don't give a shit, give it red, it's fine.

21:51Vishal Sinha: Yeah, but she said straight away and the referee concurred. I thought, yeah, and here I am going to do that thing which I was accused of. but I just wondered if there was enough in it. I know the angle does sort of say, but it...

22:03Marcus Speller: We didn't have the right amount of zoom on it. Maybe because the cameras were on top of the stadium.

22:08Vishal Sinha: It's like Hubble telescope shit. That's true. We did see the RefCam on it, though, which, again, as Pete said, it was a lovely addition. Love the RefCam. Absolutely adore it. Can you hack RefCam? I don't know. Well, because we used to see RefCam before, but it was like 10 minutes later, 20 minutes later, didn't we? And now it's like just almost live stream. That's why it's so wobbly and bobbly. She's actually got a big extension cord. tracking it along no he's attached to the camera that hovers above the ground one of them came down recently didn't they in the Uzbekistan match I think the floating camera was the ref trying to do a Bon Jovi flying around I always think they look like spooky witches have you ever been in a stadium because they've got little arms that attach to the cables and they go they don't do the laugh do they

22:52Marcus Speller: he's the cackling

22:52Vishal Sinha: that makes them witch fights otherwise they just look like a camera do you like Ref Cam because it is it just reminds you a little bit of well it's a bit like me and my little bit Duke Nukem first perspective I was thinking more Sam Fisher in in what game was Sam Fisher in Doom? I don't know I've known those the only two I've got God why can't I remember Sam Fisher's game he was like a kind of special ops guy Splinter Cell Splinter Cell and he'd have like night vision goggles and stuff right okay yeah very good so your second one I'm going to go with Uncle yeah aka the right side of history yeah And then the third one The third one is Was he going Direct enough to goal I mean it's a shocking It's a shocking tackle It's not a dog's off for me

23:39Marcus Speller: I agree The reason he makes a tackle Is because This won't be a red But why is he making a tackle

23:45Vishal Sinha: You're 2-0 up Against nine men I understand Okay so if he puts it away Which I don't think he would have done You're not going to It's such a stupid South Africa made more purchase of going up field when they were down to nine men

23:58Marcus Speller: I seem to recall they went from playing out the back to like right someone take a body here we're kicking the shit out of them

24:08Vishal Sinha: 92nd minute 2-0 up against nine men what are you doing you fool you'll be fresh for the knockout well I don't know so fresh I can totally see why I think the referee sent him off because he was just a bit like you knobhead and it was a proper foul it was so intentional shins through the fucking block absolute shinama very silly by the way the spider cam fell in Hungary's friendly against Kazakhstan I'm reliably informed have a bit of that do you think Gutierrez looks like Ricky Wilson from the Kaiser Chiefs which one? Gutierrez the one who got fouled the great hope for Mexico

24:48Marcus Speller: which one off the Kaiser Chiefs? Ricky Wilson's the main one He's just got very pretty eyes Like Ricky Wilson From Geiser Chiefs

24:56Vishal Sinha: I see what you mean with that Yeah We'll go with that We did see Mora come on For Mexico Yes Who He's a baby He's just a little baby He's just a little baby Yeah I like seeing the babies The World Cup babies There is a World Cup baby World Cup babies You've got World Cup dads You've got World Cup uncle One uncle And

25:17Marcus Speller: World Cup babies We're World Cup unks We're Chop Dunks I'm using Chop Dunks a lot to try and talk to the youth. Yeah, I think it could work. Producers, both in their 20s, just vomited on the mixer.

25:28Vishal Sinha: Yeah, don't do that. It's unprofessional. We're going to need that. Mora, though, we want to see him come on when Mexico need a goal. Oh, the game's poised. Okay, yeah. There's magic in those boots of his. So that's something to look forward to. Something I'm sure we can all get behind unless it's against England later in the tournament. Assuming both teams get there.

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28:13Vishal Sinha: Now, gentlemen, we have spoken a lot about supercomputers over the last few weeks because they're important. And we thought that we didn't have any animals to turn to when wanting to know who will win football matches. We've got our first psychic animal that's been spotted.

28:30Marcus Speller: Psycho animal. Psycho.

28:33Vishal Sinha: The strict piece of predicting. We've got our first psychic animal, I should say. Might be a psycho Tell you what If they get it wrong Don't look at them No They'll blame the players This animal Paco the axolot Predicted Mexico Would win the game It's a great little fish It's like a fish with arms What the fuck is that A very friendly looking Fish arms That's something out of

28:54Marcus Speller: Super Smash Brothers What is that It's like a Pokemon Isn't it Yeah Yeah There's more of a Pokemon Yeah That's Paco He doesn't have any Obvious eternal gills Oh he has a little face It's a species of salamander Oh right It reaches sexual maturity without undergoing metamorphosis. Like me. Completely smooth down there. Nothing going on. So it's got no pubes. Got no pubes.

29:18Vishal Sinha: Right, okay. It'd probably get in the way of the water. It would get in the way of the predicting things, wouldn't it? Yeah, and the water generally, I suppose. I don't know. So Publis Paco, he said, I assume it's a he with Paco, predicted that Mexico would win the game. And what happened, Peter? Mexico won the game. All eyes on Paco He's actually got a serious gambling problem

29:41Marcus Speller: It's actually very sad He does have to We should stop him doing that I don't know If he gets one wrong he's going to be saltier than deep fried Into a lovely little snack Apparently you're not allowed to touch him Because your skin transfers dangerous skin oils Onto their slime that they emit Disgusting little freaks He's not going to have a say in it when he's deep fried is he Between a lovely couple of pieces of bread and some tartar sauce. Yes, indeed. Make a philly-o fish out of him. You can keep one as a pet in the UK. Why are we doing this for crying out loud? Because people keep... The amount of things...

30:14We got an email from the wax museum. What's it fucking called?

30:19Vishal Sinha: Ruby wax. Madame Tussauds. Madame Tussauds. They said, do you want the Harry Kane Madame Tussauds thing? And I said, Charlie, get us the Madame Tussauds Harry Kane. They're bringing a new Harry Kane in. You should say producer, Charlie, because people might think you're talking to Harry Kane's brother. Then you're definitely not getting him. And like, where's the Harry Kane model? I want the Harry Kane waxy boy. I thought it was a real Harry Kane we were offering. When you say we were sent an email. I was sent an email. Alongside hundreds and hundreds of others, by the way. People don't trust me.

30:47Vishal Sinha: No. People don't trust me when I forward things on. Yeah. Where's our Axel October? Probably because on one of our live shows, you did some, what was it, the Waxy Bastards Museum you did. We did get a cease and desist from Madame Tussauds. Yeah, we did. Yeah, there you go. Good. There we are. That's why. That's not going to be the edit, but crack on!

31:05Did want that wax model.

31:07Vishal Sinha: Yeah, okay. Before the game, we saw a video of the South African team singing, which went viral. Beautiful. After I saw that video, I thought to myself, they could win this whole damn tournament. If they are that good off the pitch, what are they? There's something so bloody marvellous about that.

31:25Marcus Speller: I know we can say this about most countries, but... Well, not most. They are better, aren't they? South Africa has a great football culture. Yes. it has its working class roots in the townships and stuff like that and there are you know sports like cricket and rugby kind of occupy like the private school space as it were so yeah their football culture is great Ajax of Cape Town visited a few times like their academy obviously is modeled off Ajax but you know loads of other clubs we've mentioned the Kaiser Chiefs already exactly good point so you know there is a great history there and like there is a lot they take from South America as well because those are very kind of like Brazil's wrestling room scenes and it's yeah great did you see Benny McCarthy Quentin Fortune and Aaron McAwenna after the final whistle

32:12Vishal Sinha: oh were they sad it just went good to them and they just had an agreement just to not say anything for a 15 seconds they were absolutely shocked to be fair to Benny McCarthy's credit he was nearly corpse

32:23Marcus Speller: we should say as well before we move on they are South Africa are better than that yes they are they top their group they top their group Nigeria in their group they would dock three points I think and they still got got to the top of the tree so yeah so like you know they've got a lot to do to turn it around because fucking they've got two red cards to deal with but yeah they are a better side than that so I can understand why you know the greats of South African football were pissed off by that

32:50Vishal Sinha: it's a tough start Mexico and the Azteca

32:52Marcus Speller: yeah but you know they did take inspiration from Aaron the Axe McWenna in trying to take as many shin bones as possible

33:00Vishal Sinha: bone collector Absolutely right, yeah. Do you think the South African players would have enjoyed Shakira's opening ceremony that she was heavily involved with? Because, of course, 2010, she opened that ceremony as well. She did, yeah. With old Pitbull, if I remember correctly. It was a weird one. I think sometimes because, I'll talk about TV broadcasting again, because there's a lot of, what do you call it, confetti in the air. Oh, yeah. Because of the way that modern video compression works, it sort of degrades the quality of the footage somewhat. So you can't really make out people's faces. I wasn't sure that was actually Shakira.

33:37Vishal Sinha: Oh, right. She looked like she was wearing a mask of Shakira's face and the sunglasses didn't help as well. The daddy Oakleys. Interesting. Vish, you're not a fan of Shakira, but what did you think of this performance?

33:46Marcus Speller: I don't mind Shakira. Why have you said that?

33:47Vishal Sinha: I've never seen you at any of her gigs.

33:49Marcus Speller: Stop complaining about people taking a jam. Okay. If he's in the fridge, all bets are off.

33:54Vishal Sinha: Unbelievable.

33:58Marcus Speller: I didn't realise maybe I'm being a bit childish about this I didn't realise they were lip syncing I didn't think in the so we'll come on to talk about the other opening ceremony but I thought it was just one of those things where you sing something and just because of the way that it's broadcast in the you either take a live feed from the microphone maybe it was live maybe it wasn't I just thought it was all AI and I thought

34:23Vishal Sinha: everyone in the nothing's happening but you hold your phone up you point out the pitch and then you can watch it and that's what we say I'll have Charlie Gambino please well Peter I'm telling you where's he gone well America haven't done their opening ceremony we've got that to look forward to but if Gambino doesn't turn up if Paul Gambaccini doesn't turn up that is one in the eye for you

34:43Marcus Speller: it'll be Kid Rock won't it yeah what was his song Wagga Wagga it genuinely could be no that was Shakira

34:50Vishal Sinha: Wagga Wagga Wagga Wagga sorry yeah Well, yeah, the ceremony was concluded with Shakira and Burner Boy performing Die, Die, D-A-I. Always have to specify that. Which is the official World Cup song. But before that, though... D-A-I, the official World Cup song of the Trump organisation, what would we suggest? Possibly. There were some performers before that, though, Vish, which you thoroughly enjoyed.

35:10Marcus Speller: I did. I'm a J Balvin fan. That was basically it, I think, in terms of people I knew. But incredibly gay, an incredibly gay production. Yeah. Actually one of the better Opening ceremonies I think Partly because I've watched Most of it I feel like they're learning Slowly But then you're beholden So for example The American opening ceremony Is going to be rubbish Do you think it is? To me it's got to be The Canadian one Bublé and Morissette Yeah Come on Bit of vanilla ice in there He's Canadian isn't he? Probably Snow Snow is Canadian Snow is Canadian If snow doesn't come out I understand why I got

35:44Vishal Sinha: Those two confused Yes And Eminem's No No

35:48Marcus Speller: No, no. Okay. But Jack Harlow will be there. I see. Yeah. Yeah. Do you want to talk about the other opening ceremony? Because obviously... Well, the second ceremony with all the flags came out. Where all the flags. But then we also got performance from... Andrea Bocelli. Bocelli and one of the K-pop Demon Hunters. I forget her name. EJ. EJ. And... God, she can sing. God, anybody who's in... That's why they booked her. But like anybody who's been in a K-pop band can fucking sing. There's no Spice Girls in Korea They're absolutely amazing Don't have a dig of the Spice Girls Mel C could do that Not in a World Cup But what I would say We've got to ask the question at this point It's been too long And nobody is pointing out the obvious Mel C, Scouser English Is David Guetta under house arrest?

36:36Because he is never where he needs to be He's always on the roof of his apartment What is going on?

36:41Marcus Speller: Was it not enough when he solved racism? Exactly I presume it's the same roof what more do you want he just gets on his roof and goes I'm not going to the World Cup guys I'm going to sit on my roof what like Julian Assange yeah he's hanging outside the Ecuadorian embassy window with a skateboard

36:58Vishal Sinha: oh okay and I tell you what good defensive record this lot nobody can get at me yeah I'm not having it it's very strange well I don't know Peter these questions I fear will remain unanswered for quite some time did we before we move on did we enjoy the referee explaining to everyone what happened in the red card and uh, Medow leaning in, trying to figure out what the hell he was saying. You know, I enjoyed that. Very enjoyable. It's kind of like, right, fine. Second language. I don't think it's, I don't think it's a problem to point out that, you know, airline pilots have to speak English. Yeah.

37:30That you do have to have, uh, it's a, I don't think it was an English problem. I think he probably could speak very good English, but I think it was just a, the emotion on top of him. And he was kind of confused. Do you think he had a lot in his ear? Maybe he was thinking most of the stadiums,

37:44Vishal Sinha: most of them are Spanish speakers should I be doing this in English? I don't really know he should have decided it he should have decided it beforehand but he looked very stage frighty he was very enjoyable it's the opening game of the World Cup and the Aztec yeah but and he's not refereed that was his second read quite clearly he's an experienced referee

38:02Marcus Speller: he's never refereed in the Prem yeah I don't know

38:06Vishal Sinha: alright coming up after this we get an update on big swinging dick advocates Curacao

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44:41Yes!

44:42Marcus Speller: Yes! It's a go! It's a go! It's a go! It's a go! It's a go! It's a go! It's a go! It's a go! It's a goal. Boo! Boo! It's a goal. It's a goal. Oh! It fails over the line.

45:12Vishal Sinha: One back to football round with everybody. That was Mark Saggers on TalkSport commentating on Frank Lampard's ghost goal in 2010. Oh, no way, was it? That's so good. Yeah, which of course wasn't a goal. No, I'm glad it wasn't a goal. They would have already made Germany angry. Yeah, they wouldn't have gone on to beat us four. Discord moderator Paddy sent that clip in. You can send us break clips throughout this World Cup by signing up to our Patreon for just five bucks a month. You'll also get every single episode of the Football Ramble and on the continent throughout the World Cup completely ad-free.

45:44Vishal Sinha: Head to patreon.com forward slash football ramble to sign up now. Right, staying in Mexico and South Korea's group, We had South Korea 2 Czech Republic 1 Last night South Korea are up and running They beat them 2-1 Coming back from 1-0 down The right team won Even The Czech manager Said that himself Peter Yeah I mean I think it was a real gut punch That header from The Czech Republic Because South Korea Had so many chances And to get back On the horse Yes The Korean horse And trample The Czech Republic I'm tired Oh yeah Either way Are you staying up for this game? It's going to happen. It's going to happen.

46:23Either way, the Korean substitutes, I think, really made the difference here. They look more conditioned. The Czech players looked way less busy. I know two of them were playing in Korea, so you imagine their league is up and running now, and they're probably a bit quicker off the mark. But yeah, the Czech players look way more leggy than the Korea, certainly in the second half.

46:46Vishal Sinha: Yes, they did. Nice to see Son, of course. He was determined to score. but he saw what Raul Jimenez did earlier in the day. He was like, I'm getting a piece of that. But he couldn't do it. He's not had a great season. He's not been not limited. He's really lost his finishing touch and it really shod in this match. He was trying too hard, wasn't he? Yeah.

47:02Marcus Speller: I mean, he's got a lot of miles on those legs. And he wears them. But I thought the reason South Korea were able to come back from Czech Republic getting the first goal was because they'd already made enough incisions anyway, playing their normal style. They're like, we're going to make chances here. it's going to be fun

47:20Vishal Sinha: they were carving them open a lot it seemed crazy as you say Pete it was a gut punch a sucker punch whatever kind of punch it was it was against the run of play when Czech Republic scored but I think South Korea it was just keep doing what you're doing lads because you'll get your reward oh that inbion quangs where he just took the defenders and just went go and get yourself a hot dog not only a hot dog get yourself one of those Florida dinner plates get yourself one of those

47:47Marcus Speller: $16 beers yeah One of those Korean hot dogs That like On a steak And they add little chunks And stuff Sounds lovely I thought the defender Was going to Have some gotcha junk sauce

47:57Vishal Sinha: On that hot dog please Well give it to me And I will I thought the defender Might slide in And have it off the line If you pardon the expression I think if he sort of Worked a bit It happens so often That doesn't it You are just a bit like Oh that's going in I don't want to look like a fool Trying I don't want to clatter the post That would be embarrassing Yeah But the way But the way he dug it out of his foot just to knock it past the... And the spin! Oh man, it was delicious. It was a lovely one. Like a lovely Korean hot dog on a stick.

48:26Marcus Speller: With the little bits on it attached on top. I think the reason he couldn't clear off the line was, as you say, he was knackered because South Korea gave him a run around. They did. I felt awful for Thomas Suchek. After you have that season... I thought they said Tuchel then. Wait for the knockouts. To have the season he's had with West Ham, And then his first game Of the World Cup Oh no Hwang and Pike Just running rings around

48:50Vishal Sinha: And he did his celebration When it was chalked off Rightly so Yeah

48:54Marcus Speller: His little spinny celebration Yeah I mean He's had a long career To come up with a better celebration Than that Yeah I know I think it's related to his I think he did it once Just impulsively Right I think his kids really liked it Yeah And so he just kept it up Yeah Fuck them They're not playing are they No I don't pay to watch their His kids Good point It is an excellent point Sucek's kids

49:13Vishal Sinha: I think that I think I've got your kids, Thomas. I've got your kids.

49:18Marcus Speller: He's been through the ringers in his seat. Having his kids slagged off on a podcast less than six hours after losing. He's over there. He'll never find me.

49:28Vishal Sinha: It's true. Yeah, yeah, yeah. When he comes back to West Ham. He's not coming back to West Ham. He'll be somewhere else. Oh, is that right? Come on. Yeah, Czech Republic, it's fair to say, look a bit tasty from set pieces. Yeah. I'm that thrilled.

49:40Marcus Speller: It helps if they're a foot bigger than everyone.

49:42Vishal Sinha: You know what? They thought this is going to be the game plan. And I admire that. It didn't ultimately work. It was very close to working. Fair play to them. But I did enjoy the winning goal for South Korea because I think most of the stadium were supporting South Korea at that point. And when Oh Hyong-Goo scored, I thought, oh, where's Barry Davis when you need him? Because he would have probably gone, oh, oh. Because that's his name. Oh, I see. I see. I understand. It would have worked brilliantly. But he's not there. And neither were a number of people. It seemed like there was a fair few empty seats.

50:21Yeah, I mean...

50:22Vishal Sinha: It didn't show so much on the highlights, but I know when the commentator was saying, he mentioned the empty seats, and there was a few comments. But the FIFA official attendance was 44 ,985. Bullshit! Which suggests that only 700 seats remained unsold. How many do you reckon, Peter? Look, I hate to bring wrestling into this. I don't I love it but that feels like one of those WrestleMania attendances where they counted the concession stand people the media the players the players yeah every little helps people's shadows I mean how full would you say two thirds three quarters it wasn't that low but it was certainly it's a fucking World Cup opener opening day and you can't get the seats filled I mean astonishing we shall see even like even sort of like curious neutral observers didn't feel like they wanted to get involved.

51:18Yeah, that's kind of the point, isn't it?

51:20Marcus Speller: You're pricing people travelling, but you're also pricing local people so that they can come and experience watching different teams playing the World Cup. That's part of the occasion.

51:31Vishal Sinha: Another part of the occasion, of course, we did see a Mexican wave. In Mexico, come on! They just call it a wave. That's true. But Gianni Infantino's unconcerned, isn't he? He said, cool it guys don't worry about it well I mean he said before the tournament the demand has been unprecedented for tickets not by a little bit but by a factor of 10 or more right well he's the way that he sort of did his pre-World Cup and my girlfriend's a model he looked absolutely exhausted at the start of that he's kind of like I'm just tired of getting you know arrows it's fair that he's tired he's had a lot on I'm not criticising him for looking tired no but he's yeah but I think it's starting to sort of tell on his face, I think, that he's not enjoying his time dealing with Donald Trump's setup.

52:20But he is basically, weirdly, conversely, Donald Trump on South Park. Have you seen Donald Trump on South Park? Where he's having sex with Satan, canonically, canonically? Canonical-y. And he's constantly gaslighting the devil about wanting to be with him permanently. And he's going like, relax, guy! He's the relaxed guy! That's all he's doing. and he's just relax guy in it all the time. So Johnny Infantino has become Donald Trump on South Park. Relax guy, chill out guy.

52:47Marcus Speller: Exactly, yeah. I'm worried of being libelous, but it doesn't matter after that now. But I was concerned for Salma Hayek's well-being when she was still that close to him. That's fair to you, sir. Yeah. Because from what we know of him and how he operates, even if we extrapolate his business operations and stuff like that. I mean he's a weirdo's weirdo isn't he yeah there's no limit for that guy

53:14Vishal Sinha: were you relieved that she was wearing gloves and not him yeah

53:18Marcus Speller: she wasn't doing it to handle she wasn't doing it to handle the World Cup trophy she was doing it in case she had to shake hands yeah yeah exactly

53:25Vishal Sinha: exactly he's like an axolotl over the fold something that we did see don't want to get get on my slime don't want to get your disgusting Gianni slime on me something we did see Peter that we can all be happy about is that South Korean fans were seen outside the stadium sharing a bottle of tequila with some Mexicans. Presumably they weren't allowed to bring it into the match. Which I get. They were whores in that. They were loving that, weren't they?

53:48Marcus Speller: Koreans are like underrated boozers, aren't they? They call them the Irish of Asia,

53:51Vishal Sinha: don't they? Do they? Yeah. That was... I understand Irish people may think that's a load of bollocks. So might South Korean people, but that has been... They can't be

53:59Marcus Speller: because they're in the World Cup, aren't they? Oh. Hello. Surely we're taking this out anyway.

54:04Vishal Sinha: Yeah. All right. And the Mexicans were having Bloody Marys as well.

54:09Marcus Speller: You're saying that's a thing over there?

54:10Vishal Sinha: It is a big thing, yeah. I've seen it. I've seen it. I know. I've seen it. I know. I've seen it.

54:18Marcus Speller: Is that Michelado? Or is that completely different? That's just beer and tomato juice. Clamato juice? If you want.

54:25Vishal Sinha: Go over there and see it for yourself. I'm happy with what I know. I love putting spice in beer. It just improves it. Speaking of boost breaks. A bit of cinnamon in there. Did you see that South Korean lad who has been thrown in the air by a lot of Mexicans. Yeah. It was a positive. I think it was positive. Some early hooliganism. They basically found this South Korean guy in the middle of all the Mexicans and they said, you're crowd surfing. And they said, you're crowd surfing. Yeah. So hopefully.

54:53Marcus Speller: I saw that with an Australian fan. Right. Okay. Yeah. They were being crowd surfed. Yeah. There's a lot of. Yeah. They were crowd surfing. Yeah. But against their will in Mexico. There's a lot of South Korean men getting kissed On the cheek by Mexican women And I'm here for it Get on them Is that because of The rise of Korean dramas Oh right I think so There is a reality TV show now Of people going to Korea to find a boyfriend Oh right It's a genuine thing They're the honkiest men in the world But I don't think it was a genuine You're honky, it was just a like Cheeky, cheeky little kiss It's a cheeky little kiss

55:37Vishal Sinha: now then everybody let's move on to some interesting stuff that UEFA have done Somali referee Omar Artan who was banned from entering the US is due to officiate the 2026 UEFA Super Cup between PSG and Aston Villa lovely little dig come on that's how you do it boys we'll take you in that is very enjoyable and we're going to give you loads of money as well Oh yeah And a car Speaking of people being banned from entering the US BBC were doing a thing about Some Scotland fans are struggling Just like no reason None given Oh the Estas getting Yeah exactly Yeah yeah yeah They go into the airport And an hour before getting on a plane There was one guy And it's just happening across the board this And he's going there's absolutely no reason for it There's a lovely little golf club In Scotland Yeah Smash it up smash it up alright okay yeah someone of ours to the hospital your golf clubs go to the mog Trumpy he said Trumpy

56:49Marcus Speller: so yeah we don't know who that could be

56:52Vishal Sinha: did you enjoy this though Peter an electronics brand giving out free TVs to Argentinian fans whose US tourist visas were rejected how do you forge that because they will be yeah I was definitely trying to go yeah TVs are pretty pretty much free now. It's like 20 million. Yeah, pretty much. Burglars don't even bother stealing them anymore. Just go into... They're too big. Comet. Comet. Jesus Christ, Marcus. Just pick one up

57:16Marcus Speller: from British home stores. Get yourself to Rumble those, guys. There's tellies up for grabs. Jesus Christ. The things we've said on this show, that's somehow the worst.

57:26Vishal Sinha: Oh, Peter. At least acknowledge the irony. Now, Curacao. They have reminded everybody why the World Cup is brilliant. because the big swinging dicks curacao have been using a school bus to get around the United States. It's class. And it is a rickety old thing as well. It's class, but I bet the players are like, come on now, we're professional footballers. Come on now. Yeah. It's got no air conditioning. It's got a nail. I love that. You've seen the footage, surely. Yeah. I always sort of bring this up when school buses are mentioned, American school buses, American style school buses are mentioned.

57:59They've spray painted it beautifully. Yeah, yeah, yeah. In the colours. In the colours and stuff. So it looks really good, but it is just a bit of a yeah we're still professional athletes 100 % and it's kind of like it's a little bit twee isn't it it's a little bit twee and they always sort of say like punk bands in America they ironically buy these old you know dead school buses and you know do them up and use them as tour buses always a bad idea they never run for very long they're fucked so I hope that Dick Avacar's Curacao can get to where they need to be indeed and that man needs air conditioning he's a man of advancing years yeah that's true

58:31Vishal Sinha: that's true it's nice to see a Curacao player dancing with the pilot on the runway when they were about to leave America. Yeah. They put upon what they're called the people in the towers. The people in the towers. Oh, the air traffic controllers. They weren't dancing on the wings they were about to take off. No, but they were on the fucking runway. They were on the part of the airport you shouldn't be dancing in. on the runway. You're trying to get an ALS approach for a Boeing 747 and the pilot's dancing on the fucking runway. No, thank you. You're acting as if it's like Malaga Airport. I've not been paid for months.

59:03Vishal Sinha: Where like Ryan Air flights are turning up every 10 minutes. No, the plane was there. Yeah. The pilot's dancing. Get on with working out what cargo you've got to bring. Yeah, I didn't think about this. I didn't realise how disrespectful that footage was to the air traffic controllers. Exactly. So sorry about this.

59:19Marcus Speller: I mean, you do realise there's a reason that, say, like Harry Kane didn't do a Heathrow Terminal 2. Exactly, yeah. It would have been Terminal 5, thank you. 12 hours into a 14-hour shift off your own Adderall and coffee and you've got to deal with a pilot dancing on the runway. We're not, thank you. That's true. He was probably pissed.

59:37Vishal Sinha: I've seen Pushing Tin. Have you? Yeah. I reckon that pilot would have had a coffee before the flight, though. Yeah. And that leads us neatly to our final story. The world's largest coffee pot was flown in from Bosnia to follow the Bosnian national team for the World Cup. The pot can fill over 8 ,000 cups of coffee. It's like a big coffee keg. It is. It's an urn. It's a tea urn. It's bigger than an urn It's a keg It's a big urn It's a big keg Yeah What's bigger than Can you have a keg That's the size of an urn Yeah you could get a lot of people I mean either way It's not getting clean So enjoy shitting your pants everybody That's the spirit That's the World Cup spirit That's the World Cup spirit It's a bit unnecessary Enjoy shitting your pants everyone I hope the toilets are working Bosnians There's no toilets In that Curacao bus I'll tell you

1:00:24Marcus Speller: You know Canada and the US Have a lot of similarities They crucially Also have a lot of differences One of the main similarities they love piling it on they love big portions and whatever I think they've got a big fuck off coffee canister that you use a big coffee canister

1:00:39Vishal Sinha: will we see a coffee off outside the stadium because obviously a coffee off if you like Canada are hosting Bosnia-Herzegovina tonight 8pm Greenwich Mean Time or whatever we have to say nowadays nowadays what nonsense yeah something European time right I think we should have Central European time because only what I turn on my television We're not Central Europe. We're Western Europe, surely. Either way, I think we should all disagree we're not that big. Just sort out one time zone because I think we're just being very silly because I turned on the television. I missed the opening ceremony because I turned on the television at nine o 'clock.

1:01:13No, I turned it on at eight o 'clock thinking I was going to enjoy Shakira. Whenever. And I did not enjoy Shakira. I had to watch it back on YouTube.

1:01:21Vishal Sinha: Sort it out, everybody. We need one time zone throughout the world. I don't care if it's dark and you're all asleep. Go to work. You all should be at work now. I'm like, I can't remember which North Korean dictator, which part of that family changed it to like half an hour. Like they changed it forward or backward by half an hour just to be a prick. Why? Was he running late for something? Maybe, yeah. Okay. I think you'll find it. The meeting started when I walked in the room. Exactly. Okay, there we are. You can do that. Well, good luck. You can do everything. You can, absolutely, yeah. Thank you very much for listening to the Football Ramble part of the Acast Creator Network.

1:01:54Vishal Sinha: We'll be back tomorrow and every day throughout the World Cup. so hit subscribe now to make sure you don't miss an episode so back tomorrow to talk about Canada against Bolsone, a governor and the little matter of the US facing Paraguay as well. they're not going to see any of that match because Fox just keep on switching to adverts every time there's a water break missing out on half the action. There's a corner it's taken a while to get over to it. Bad break. Well apparently broadcasters were told that the ad break shouldn't start within 20 seconds of the referee's whistle pausing play and it should return to the match feed at least 30 seconds before player resumes.

1:02:29I mean, I guess you wouldn't really know when it's going to resume, but I don't know. No, I suppose you wouldn't. So I believe in Fox. I believe in foxes. Okay. Are you also aware

1:02:38Marcus Speller: it's not 2am there? Yeah, it's a good point, actually. Everyone's tired. I need a big coffee from that, Owen. Thank you, Vish. Cheers. Thanks, Peter. Relax, guy!

1:02:47Vishal Sinha: And thank you, Dick Advocate and his little school bus.

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