Please don’t send me to Preston | 2026 FIFA World Cup

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1:37Luke Moore: Vamos, everybody. Welcome to the Football Ramble. Portugal's squeeze-through to set up a tie with Spain. It's Friday 3rd of July. I'm Marcus Speller. I'm Luke Moore. And I'm Pete Donaldson. Nah!

2:01Luke Moore: Hello, everybody. It's Friday. Yes. Come on. It doesn't feel like... Battered sausages and a bottle of Prosecco for Pete. Lovely. That's the only... During the World Cup when it's... Yeah, every day feels like the other. We're doing this job. The only reference point I've got... For a Friday. For a Friday. Is your battered sausage and bottle of Prosecco. Yeah. And that said, I did eat leftover England pizza yesterday. That's all I ate was just one pizza. I had pizza for breakfast, pizza for elevens, pizza for lunch, pizza for tea. And my daughter ate some pizza. What makes it an England pizza?

2:37I bought it for the neighbours who came round to watch the old... Baked beans on it. Do you know what they're going to start calling you? Pizza Donaldson. Pizza Donaldson. And I'll take that. And you shouldn't be having the battered sausage and bottle of Prosecco at 11am. You shouldn't be doing that. No, no. Well, it's all time difference changes, isn't it? You know you get those old alcoholics who are banging on the door of the pub to open it. You'll do it on the chip shop. Yeah, my dad. My dad, but he did used to get up at one o 'clock, to be fair, in his defence. That's a nice bit of synergy.

3:03So 11 a.m., your dad's banging on the door of the pub and you're banging on the door of the chip shop. Yeah, exactly. You got him on FaceTime? I know. How are you getting on, Dad? How are you getting on?

3:12Luke Moore: Because mine is not opening, I'll tell you that. But it is a very long weekend, of course, because we can go all the way through until 5 a.m. on Monday morning. Tuesday morning. Tuesday morning. Tuesday morning. It's confusing isn't it What? No it's Monday morning No it is Monday morning Luke So what So it's Sunday night Monday morning Into Monday morning Yeah Look at you Trying to squeeze Another day out of the government Yeah I'm going to have to Change my calendar Who do you think you are The Ecuadorian prime minister I've made arrangements On the wrong day Yeah I'll do that after the show Yeah So the England game Is Sunday night Yeah Well yeah So 1am Monday Fine okay I'm going to Pop downstairs From in my house And I basically Sarah bought me A wee-wee-winkie costume Like you know like those old night dresses to encourage you to go to bed a literal nightcap a little nightcap and a nightgown I'm going to watch it in that and it's white like England the England gown yeah we're going to need photographs I know we're going to need that we'll get them don't worry whether we want them or not from Pete or a police line up now we are very excited to announce our winner for the England 1990 World Cup shirt signed by Paul Gascoigne courtesy of our friends at icons.com a massive thank you to everyone who entered but there could only be one winner and that winner is Ryan Brinklow Brinkers has done it give a little bite go on Ryan I'll tell you what he's saying right now he's saying hey come on I hope not take it off him if he is do you remember when Paul Gascoigne signed all those England footballs and he managed to get through like loads of them really quickly because he wasn't actually writing Paul Gascoigne he was writing Pele on them so maybe he's got you've got a Pele original there icons.com they're airtight icons.com they are very careful we heard a lot about their authenticity process we did yeah so it couldn't be happening the story to go and get George Weyer's signature was quite something it was it was indeed so well done Ryan congratulations to you we'll be in touch soon to sort out getting that shirt to you don't wash it crying out loud don't wash it no what because the ink will come off the ink will come off it probably won't come off because icons.com circumspect with their sharpie use that's true I mean Ink is the middle part of his surname so he knows what he's doing.

5:21Luke Moore: Yes. Brinklo. Yeah, I get it. I got it. I just thought it was really poor. Oh. Whenever I hear the word ink I always want to sing the ink is black the page is white together we learn to read and write to read and write. Yeah. I don't know why. Weird. That's what you do on Friday with your battered sausage. You sing that. Sing that. It's the sausage. It is crazy. My hands are hot. Together we learn to read and write. but it is nice to hear about ink considering the Spanish conquistadors got rid of a lot of it in the day right the ink empire right okay Portugal 2 Croatia 1 4 goals ruled out in this one PT I'll tell you who likes eating octopus go on inky octopus or is it squid I forget either way Portugal beats Croatia yeah it was an amazing game this this was mad it really came to life second half you couldn't catch your breath there was so much happening all the time yes indeed 4 goals ruled out and that's what we want to see.

6:17We want VAR and chips in footballs

6:20Luke Moore: doing their jobs. If we want referees to have main character energy and want to be a part of this then we're going to have to make them work hard. I mean these goals, most of them most of them were ruled out for offside. I'm fine with three of them. Right. Yeah. Okay. Alright, shall we get to the controversy then? If you want to, we can talk about whichever part of it you want, Marcus. So Gonzalo Ramos scores in the 94th minute obviously after Ronaldo has been taken off. He wasn't subbed off for Gonzalo Ramos but Ronaldo exits stage much to his disappointment. Gonzalo Ramos thinks now is my time to shine.

6:48We didn't stop him getting the Man of the Match award by the way.

6:50Luke Moore: No, he did not. Courtesy of Michelob Ultra. Yeah. One touch in the penalty area in 81 minutes which was the penalty he scored. Man of the Match, please. He did... He did nearly score a prime Ronaldo goal. But he didn't, did he? Because he's not quick enough anymore. He was too quick. Too quick. He was offside. Oh yeah, he was, yeah. Fair enough. I was thinking of the one where he came in and he almost got his head on it and it went past him. That was a great move as well. We were talking about the one he actually... I know, you were talking about the right one. I was talking shit. Yes, we'll get used to that, everybody.

7:18Luke Moore: But look, yes, Portugal obviously went ahead in the 94th minute and then Gavardio thought he'd equalised in the 13th minute of added time. But the World Cup ball has a microchip inside to determine whether the ball has been touched. The microchip has mugged off Croatia, Pete Donaldson. It's a microchip that's mugging. I hate... Do you have a microchip with your batter sausage? There's probably all sorts in that. That'd be the least of its worries. I mean, presumably pigs are microchips. Oh, are they digested yet? They've chuckled my phone. Do you not think that, like, the microchip is always the thing that people mention?

7:52Like, it's, oh, somehow this magical kind of thing in it. This is part of the problem. But there's wires, there's copper strips, there's, you know, a small circuit board, I imagine. There's all kinds of things going on. There's an RF fucking transmitter as well. And the microchip is the thing that gets the bloody credit.

8:08Luke Moore: You're a microchip defender, aren't you? No, it's the Ronaldo of the electronics world. Is it? I'm not having it. All right. Also, does it feel... Where's the capacitors? Does it feel like... Where's the love of the capacitors, guys? Where are the flux capacitors? Where are the capacitors? I feel like when people say microchip now, it sounds a bit like saying cybercrime. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just say chip. The World Wide Web. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nice. But I also, you've hit on something there. I was going to make a slightly different point, which is that... We sound like a chop dunk. We do a bit.

8:32We're chop dunks, aren't we? We are chop dunks. But the problem is, I think, that when there's a controversy around something like this, I feel like far too easily some nerd can just go, well, there's a microchip in the ball, so don't worry about it. And everyone goes, there's a microchip in the ball, everyone. So it has to be fine. Yeah, but you could say that about cameras, couldn't you? Do you know what I mean? If cameras didn't exist, you wouldn't see it. So like, you know, you love microchips when they're on your side, mugging off Cristiano Ronaldo because watching him be bad. If this girl...

9:01I'm a bit confused. If this girl been chalked off for Portugal, I wouldn't be complaining. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. No, but joke in the side. So you want a biased microchip? Joke in the side. Look, I want to come across full Matt Letizia here. I want an anti-Iberian peninsula. Microchip. Okay. Matt Letizia is doing great conspiracy stuff, even in the middle of the World Cup. It's worth checking out. But aside from that, I can't bring myself to believe that he headed it. I can't see that he headed it. I don't think there's any definitive evidence that he headed it. And even the information and the quote-unquote proof that FIFA provided looks absolutely suspect, to say the least.

9:38But what do you want? 90 minutes of the most detailed kind of sound modulation data possible. When they use Snicko in cricket, they show the whole passage. They show where the ball's hit. And this, they didn't have the graph they showed, didn't sync up with the pitches, for one, which at the very least is a very basic error. And secondly, the ball hits about five different things, and there's only one spike on the graph. Yeah, I know, but they've just isolated that particular sound, haven't they? Just to make it simple. for the angry laddates like you. I am an angry ladd. I can see that, but I'm not convinced by it.

10:12Luke Moore: I think what you're saying is, and again, this is the problem with all this stuff in football, is if football is, it's the spirit of the law. That's what these things are. You know, it's a bit like, we'll always argue, was it a penalty, was it not? Offsides, we've made it as binary as we can, right? So I think, okay, fine. Sort of, as annoying as it is to be a toe offside. There's no controversy around the actual decision in offsides. Yeah, I think people just go, oh, that's so annoying, but you know... Because it's visual now, I suppose, and sound is a very different thing. And again, you can quite literally draw a line somewhere and which body part and how much of it and all that kind of stuff has crossed over that line.

10:48Luke Moore: When it comes to this sort of thing, it's like, has that flick of the hair or whatever it's done, has that made any sort of difference to the passage of play? But it does say you can scow your hair. Well, fine. And that is why you will always, always, always, always have these arguments when you bring in the technology. And is that in the spirit of the game? And people go, well, sod the spirit of the game. What are you talking about? And other people say, well, no, but that's the whole point of it. You're always going to have this. I think it's desperately unlucky for Croatia that what we have to do is we have to, as you say, isolate the sound on the ball, whether it flicked ever so slightly the touch of the head, whether it was the hair or head, I don't know.

11:26Luke Moore: The fact of the matter is the goal has been chalked off. Yeah, it has. And it is an absolute sickness for Croatia. I think you could probably deal with this by just having a quick look, given that you were saying Marcus which I agree with that they seem to want to be doing things quickly and not delaying the game and the restart and stuff they probably could have sorted this by just going does the ball obviously deviate off his head does it change anything about the passage of play which it doesn't no it doesn't so you just go right the goal stands we go to extra time yeah indeed I mean it's like Adalic after the match was saying that's not that's truly not how it can work it can't work it took the possible therefore that's the but Luke is invoking the spirit of the game the spirit of the game you see and you being a man of he's smashing up that spinning Jenny yeah the crucial part of the spirit of the game, right?

12:06Just some avoidance of doubt for everyone is that if you agree with me, that's in the spirit of the game. You are forgetting that I have no joy in my heart at all. No, there you go. It's clogged up with grease. If I may be so bold, you've kind of aligned me with, you know, chucking the clog into the lace-making machine of history. So I may throw something back to you. You're absolutely desperate for any new tech. You don't even think about it. You check yourself straight in the metaverse headfirst if you could. I bought an Xbox. Series S still on Facebook marketplace from a man who worked at a Boilermakers I mean

12:40Luke Moore: we're going to hear about that on the news at some point well I would say that Zlatko Dalic was talking about his team after the game and how upset they were and the contrasting emotions and so on and so forth and he said football should be fair but we've gone too far with VAR Croatia lost the match and I don't want to talk about it anymore we've gone too far with VAR is a beautifully succinct little bit of work it could be a proper Richard Nixon election slogan that I also love the idea that so I've obviously in the past said that if you're a footballer or a manager and you're going to take the big bucks along with that comes the coverage right so you can't be waving cameras off you when you're upset you can't do a Steve Clark but I do no no exactly but I do like the idea that as soon as the final press conference is finished after your team's been knocked out you should be within your rights to say I don't want to talk about this anymore I'm going home and you haven't got to do anything else no no no I don't want to talk about the match anymore but you can ask him anything else yeah what time's battered sausage yeah what airline are you getting nah that's to do with what we're doing yeah exactly

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14:23Did you think Portugal deserved to go through on balance of play? Or did you think it was quite an even game?

14:27Luke Moore: It's fairly even. I felt Portugal just always had, because of the quality they have, just always had the edge on them. Do you know what I mean? I know Croatia are the canniest of the cannies, but I did think that. I mean, when they went a goal down, I mean, Portugal were better in the first half, but Croatia, slightly fortuitously, you might argue, or cleverly, they sort of weathered that storm. When Yves had Perisic scored. It's like, what? He'll be there in Saudi 2034. so players should just sort of go right I've made my money I'm retiring at 29 from league football I'm just going to play I mean yeah I'm an international player now just get off your yacht every four years yeah swim to land or even move your yacht to where the World Cup is you didn't like it when Michael Owen did it when he was at Newcastle did you no hateful man hateful Perisic here's a list of the qualification games I will play Moldova San Marino Lichtenstein I'll do it yeah but when he scored against Uzbekistan yeah And he scored in this game as well.

15:27Luke Moore: He got the penalty. Did you think it was a penalty? Yes, I did. It's a modern penalty. Yeah, I didn't care that much about it. Instinctively, no. But, you know, he's grabbed him around the waist and the ball was going in his direction. So I think I do like to see them given. I thought that penalty decision was in the spirit of the game. There we go. You see? But if they were playing rugby, then it wouldn't have been given. So I feel like I thought Raphael Lau was very unlucky not to score as well. It's a beauty. and I couldn't get away from the feeling because obviously Portugal play Spain next right so the Nuno-Mendez-Lamin-Yemal matchup will be really interesting and I'm excited for that game but I couldn't get away from the fact that if Portugal had a really good fit and firing striker as a focal point they would be a really good team because the amount of work those top strikers get through the amount of threat they've got it's not just the goals which is obvious it's the occupying of both the centre-backs the Dragon players out of position the movement, the danger the decoy runs, all that kind of stuff Ronaldo's not really capable of any of that and so it seems stupid to say but this is the kind of thought experiment if you transplant Erling Haaland into that team the way they play with the three behind the one and how dynamic they are and the other talent they've got around Bruno Fernandes who to be fair had quite a quiet game yesterday but just generally they're a threat, they're a proper challenge for the World Cup.

16:51Obviously, notwithstanding the fact that Roberto Martinez is their manager, but it's so obvious. It's such a weird, almost unique situation that they still seem to be completely in hock to Ronaldo.

17:03Luke Moore: Have you heard why Andy Brassel thinks that they start Cristiano Ronaldo? In fact, when I say it's Brassel... It's what he said. Yeah, it's almost gospel. He says, and this will make a lot of people put their heads in their hands and go, oh, modern football. He basically said, when Cristiano Ronaldo plays for Portugal, the amount of eyes on that team, the amount of sponsors they get crawling up to them, wanting a piece of Ronaldo and all that kind of stuff. Basically, the revenue that Portugal gets, shirt sales, all the rest of it, through Ronaldo is utterly priceless to the football federation in Portugal.

17:37Luke Moore: He's Roman Reigns. Would it outstrip if they won the World Cup? I guess maybe it would. Probably. Honestly, he's saying like Ronaldo. When he said that, I heard him say that. I thought, I thought, is that, I'd love to see the balance between that and winning the World Cup. Yeah, and that's not Andy's effect. Now, Andy's not saying, so therefore, good on you, Portugal. Go ahead and do it, lads. He's saying that that is... He did say that to me. He said he still thinks Cristiano Ronaldo is the best forward in the world. Yeah, well, he may well have done. He may or may not be in the other office at the moment.

18:05Okay.

18:06Luke Moore: But he's saying that, you know, from a financial point of view for Portugal, Ronaldo starting is... I understand that. And like I say, people will hear that. And again, Andy is just saying that that is what the situation is. That's not his opinion and therefore he backs it. Yeah, yeah. But that, I mean, it's such a like, ugh. We've spoken at length. I'm not going to bore everybody how we think an impact sub would be a great role for him. But look, Gonzalo Ramos was the impact sub. And all that chat about, you know, Ronaldo can get his head on things. It was Ramos who came off the bench and made the difference with a great header.

18:38He's done four goals in under 200 minutes. He's done four goals. He's done four goals.

18:42Luke Moore: I mean, his scoring record has not been great in Ligue 1. I know he's obviously a bit part player at PSG. He's got a weird situation to deal with. He doesn't get in the PSG team. Situationship. Yeah, he basically cannot get his wife to get rid of her ex-boyfriend. He's always there. Get out of the house. We're married now. Get out of the house. Yeah, well, he's gone to AC Milan now for about 60 million quid. That's right. Hopefully he'll get some starting time there. Bad news for Croatia, obviously, going out. the Tuesday Night Murder Club have finally solved their last case. It's not even just Modric.

19:17It's like, it's Perisic. It's Crammerich. There's loads of them. There's loads of them just so old.

19:22Luke Moore: Yeah, I mean, it's amazing, really. Absolutely. Danny Glover of a team. Yeah, it is. I think at the time of filming Lethal Weapon was about 38. Yeah, it was ridiculous. In the first film he said, I'm too old for this. By the fourth film he's like, seriously, to the script writers right now, I am too old for this. Indeed. Speaking of those 40 plus year olds back to Cristiano Ronaldo you see that his sister before the game announced that this World Cup is probably Cristiano's last dance saying with the information that I have you can say your goodbye she's sounds like she's holding a PP7 well she's sort of liking posts criticising Bruno Fernandes yeah do you hear that Andy?

20:00and and yeah she's a curious woman how would you say Bruno Fernandes? he has encouraged

20:08Luke Moore: all of us on this island I don't mind I do not mind but in your heart of hearts what do you want to say when you say his name I'd want to impress Andy Brassel yeah I thought I'm weak willed I'll go with whatever anybody else thinks you've never tried to impress me is that just a complete lack of disrespect I think you're permanently impressed anyway true Pete did a sexy dance before the show about 90 seconds long and it was absolutely enchanting it was like seven different dance moves were you filming it they were filming it so we'll get it out later it's really good stuff you didn't think they were filming it Speaking of music, I looked over and I was like, why are they not filming this?

20:42So they did film a bit of this. Cristiano Ronaldo's sister used to release music as Ronaldo, which is the funniest thing. That's good. Do you reckon she actually sat down with him and said, do you mind if I do this? Do you mind if I do this, yeah. Yeah, it was pretty embarrassing. Presume it was great at Man United at that time. Presume it didn't.

20:56Luke Moore: There was a poignant moment after this game because today, the day after the game, marks the one-year anniversary of Diogo Jota's tragic death. And the Portugal squad brought out a shirt with the number 21 on the back. and his photo appeared on the large screen during Portugal's national anthem. So, I mean... I thought it was a nice moment. It was a nice moment. I mean, not that it makes a bit of difference, of course, but, you know, glad Portugal won the game, you know, obviously. But, yeah, it's very poignant. It's just, again, a reminder that... Well, he would have been part of that squad, wouldn't he?

21:23Luke Moore: Yeah, he would have been. A big part of that squad. Absolutely. It feels like a lifetime of God, doesn't it? I know. It's very, very strange. Yeah, very strange indeed. But Portugal, yes, they will be playing Spain in the next round of the World Cup, which is... Tasty. That's a tasty little... It is rather tasty. Pete, would you call that a hot tamale? Yeah. Do they have tamales there? Is that not more a South American, Mexican thing? I think they're tamale adjacent. They're tamale adjacent. It's probably a Spanish word, isn't it? I'd say so. Yeah. Top meaning. Top hat. Can you call it a hot tamale?

21:54Luke Moore: It's a hot tamale. Thank you very much. Pete was just like, yeah, whatever to end this conversation. A spicy chorizo. The hottest tamale... Yeah, Andy! The hottest tamale the next round is going to be Mexico versus England, surely. no but we don't have much history I would say well yeah they're bringing it aren't they they're bringing the spice they're bringing the tamales they're bringing enough for both of us I'm gonna have right hours before that match I'm gonna eat a big a big all day breakfast burrito have one of them have one of them Mexico yeah does that help with the altitude or something yeah they're bringing the tamales we're asking I'll put the little Mexican sauce with a little wooden ball on the top in there yeah Cholula or something Cholula we've got a few of those in the house what I was going to say was they're bringing the tamales and we were asking for ketchup down the ash lovely down the ash lovely that's Welsh that's Welsh that's Welsh I know but it's respect they'll be behind one of the teams playing did you see this now gentlemen a pitch invader wearing full kit with a number 7 on the back trying to get to the Portugal dugout before being taken away by security yeah I did see this and I also saw and it was Cristiano Ronaldo it was no he's just being subbed off lads yeah coming off you can't go back on again Take your shirt off I can't relax He's got your shirt off I know iShowSpeed's A FIFA Why are you mentioning him?

23:12A FIFA act these days With full sponsorship Credentials But I would like to see him Being chased by stewards Because he's bloody rapid Hence his name

23:21Luke Moore: I haven't seen him at all In the tournament I'd forgotten about him Yeah he's been kicking a ball But I haven't seen it I've been slant and mugged him off I don't watch that Have you got an iShowSpeed filter? Like an ad blocker You don't see any iShowSpeed My algorithm is throwing up England fans at the baseball chanting for was it Michael Harris? That's right, yeah. Yeah, giving that which is wonderful work from the England fans there and all sorts of stuff. Do you want an iShow? And also Liam Gallagher replying to everybody saying that England are going to beat Mexico and up yours and all this sort of stuff.

23:48That's like his default position though really, isn't it?

23:50Luke Moore: What, an enjoyable one? Yeah, he's just always a huge down there though, aren't he? Yeah, I think so, yeah. If you want an iShow Speed update I actually gave the guys in the office one I don't want one. Well, just very quickly I think you'll like it. This is why we're Chop Dunks. Exactly. Because you won't talk about I Show Speed. He was seen doing some promotion with Manny Pacquiao, the retired boxing great. And he's doing a little sparring session with him. And I Show Speed just keeps getting cheekier and cheekier and trying to throw harder and harder punches at Pacquiao. And after a while, about 25 seconds in, Pacquiao is just like, fuck this, bang.

24:24He just goes down.

24:25Luke Moore: Right in the ribs. Yeah. Down on the canvas, lovely. Yeah. But on that Pitch Invader, though, the best part of that, for those who haven't seen it it's worth looking it up and maybe we'll share it on the socials it's a German TV channel who take the time to properly tactically analyse this is brilliant the Pitch Invaders I absolutely love it but this is a different Pitch Invasion they put stars around him and stuff so it was the Belgium Senegal match was this one oh was it really so there was three oh yes it was what I liked about it was there was three kind of Pitch Invaders running around and two were like sort of decoy ones and the main one got a lot of a lot of purchase I think if you are getting to 300 yards without getting tackled I think you should not be thrown out of the ground personally I think you've earned your 300 yards it should be a countdown yeah if you last a minute it's like gladiators if you last a minute you can play for the team you choose to play for for the rest of the game nice I feel that might encourage people a baseball you didn't get my things a baseball grand you're not allowed to do it but there's a chance you can play I think you don't have it like gladiators you need to make it more like a squid game if you fail to get over that line the consequences are severe and you said Bolt he loves a better football doesn't he he'd sort of win it do you remember that really awkward moment about 10-15 years ago when you said Bolt said the next thing in his career is he going to play for Man United and then I was like did he not get he signed from an Australian A-League and he was terrible was it A-League or was it the one below I forget it was atrocious regrettable but this German TV stuff was great yeah like follow him around it's probably I'm like, right, well, the pitch invader, it comes through here.

26:02Luke Moore: But what if I was to put the pitch invader there, Andy? You know, it was, it was, oh, marvellous. You're bringing them up. There's an argument on the old forward slash soccer Reddit by an American man who was insisting on calling the pitch invaders streakers. Right. Ignoring common parlance is very different. For the ones who have doubt, streakers have to be naked. They have to be naked. They have to be naked. But he said, he was adamant saying that, no, because they're streaking across the pitch. Excellent, excellent. And then in every subsequent sort of pitch invasion chat, he's back in there arguing the case for I do think I'm right that they are technically streaking and the genesis of the word is streaking.

26:40Is he naked? Is he naked? He sounds like a pervert. He sounds like an absolute pervert.

26:45Luke Moore: So he would refer to streakers as nude streakers then. Yeah, exactly, yeah. I think this is a record for the little amount of football we've talked about in this section. And that's because of VAR. It's because of Peter, actually. Both of them, Peter and VAR. Is it in the spirit of the ramble? Yes, it is. Yes, I think it is. I agree. Speaking of which, coming up after this, we have an update on Danny Murphy's cat.

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27:49You told the story about your cat, Bob, when Oscar Bob came on. Surprisingly Steve there was a lot of interest which surprised us both but yeah He didn't actually die. We did get him back six or seven weeks later Unfortunately gone feral and we couldn't reintegrate him into the home And he ended up living with my Friends parents in Preston That was the life he had and now he is passed away unfortunately many years ago Thanks for all the concern those who have been messaging us

28:26Luke Moore: R.I.P. Bob. It's a damning and darting on Preston, isn't it? He's gone Farrell, sent him to Preston. He's got to live with a family in a cave in Preston. I sincerely think that's one of the greatest pieces of British broadcasting ever committed. Is that there? Well, it was like, it was kind of, he was only there for six or seven weeks. But the way he said it though, is that why he never went to the Korea Japan World Cup? Because he was scared to go Farrell? Must have been. Factor foot injury. I was scared to go Farrell. They got to send me to Preston. they might send me to Preston nothing he said though didn't he he jumped in the back of a van and that was that sort of thing that sounded like you didn't get him back it does he did that's why people were demanding a sequel I've worked with Danny Murphy loads he likes you I have a lot of fond memories of Danny by which I mean we did radio shows together I'd love to hear what he thought of you I bet he wish I'd jump in the back of a post van and leave him alone but you have gone feral though they're all electric now you wouldn't hear it go no you wouldn't actually you wouldn't do you know what in certain states in the United States they have to put come on now noise generating things in the electric cars so people can hear them like Japanese cameras because the men are perverts well they have to put a noise on them they have to put noise on them you buy a camera that is a damning indictment camera or phone from Japan you got it they put a noise really loud wow if they're that dirty they're all going to move to Preston yeah Ross didn't get a lot of stray for that well indeed they did with Danny Murphy's stray they got one right Spain 3 Austria 0 the Spanish are properly up and running aren't they oof they look good yeah Austria gave what you can only be described as about 10 to 15 minutes resistance we're not doing this anymore this is fucking rubbish can we be asked to get in there apart from the keeper who did do really well we got through the group what more do you want also I think it sent the wrong impression for what Ralph Rangnick Specs was wearing.

30:23He had a very distracting pink jumper on. Right, okay. With a blazer over the top, which he then removed. It looked odd.

30:31Luke Moore: He looked like he was going to go for a run at like a fancy gym or something. He looked like the inside of a battered sausage. A little bit. Too pink. Too pink. Uncooked. Uncooked, yeah. It looked to me like he was going to be off to a disco afterwards. Okay, a roller disco. Yes, exactly. Because we keep on getting told how hot it is. Everything's so bloody hot. But a lot of the times, and I realise some of the stadiums are air-conditioned, a lot of the managers are just wearing too many layers. Michele Yazibel got a brace and thus has joined the golden boot race. As predicted by you. Thank goodness for that.

31:03Luke Moore: It's always a relief when your man scores. Two great finishes, by the way. Yeah. Do you know what I mean? I've made some stinking predictions. Austria were my overachievers. I think we can all agree they overachieved getting out of the group and only losing three nil. I'm furious Marcus is off and running. gone off the Basque national team have you there were two there were two there were two great finishes you can tell those finishes the finishes of a great quality striker the way he opened his body for his second is amazing yes indeed he was having a good time Pedro Porro's got a lovely one arriving late just come on the camera was like oh we need a wider lens if he's going to do that this tournament Dick's redefinition of ghosted in the thing is though if you're Pedro Porro and you love to attack and you can't really defend that way you leave a lot of gaps yeah but you're playing for Spain Don't worry about it.

31:49But the great thing about playing in that wide right position is if Spain have got the ball over on the left, you have got as much time as you want to get in there. Because they're not going to get the ball away. It's not going to get turned over. So the luxury of that is amazing. But he absolutely ghosted in. Totally. And no one even knew he was coming.

32:06Luke Moore: No. I tell you what, in the heart of the defence, obviously I'm Eric Laporte there. And I know he's been playing for Athletic Bilbao. But bearing in mind he went to Al Nasser for a couple of years, a sort of a funny time in his career, basically before he was old. But he was also kind of frozen out, wasn't he, for a while? It was a bit of a weird one. He wasn't getting picked. I think people were talking about personality clashes or something like that. All that sort of thing, you know. I mean, there was always... Wasn't there chat, you know, that he could have played for France because he was born there, but obviously...

32:34Luke Moore: And he ends up playing for Spain. Can't get in that team either. Well, I think he's done okay with Spain, it's fair to say. Of course he has, yeah, of course he has. But I just, you know, I mean, I know he's been starting games for them and so on, but it's funny how it goes. But yeah, Spain were looking much more like themselves this game here. You could just tell after about 10 or 15 minutes that was that. No one in a million Australia are ever going to get hit. And it was the perfect game for them in that the times of the goals you're 1-0 up at half time it could have been to well I mean blimey that goal that was chalked off I know it was Mark Kukurea but that's a scandalous decision that that goal and that's where you kind of go okay fine we're in this VAR world now you have to look at that.

33:17Luke Moore: do you know what I mean either look at stuff or don't look at stuff honestly this is pissing me off now because I honestly there are incidents at this World Cup where you go I have no idea what the referee's going to do absolutely no idea but as Pete said it has to be disallowed because there's a microchip in the keeper so you can't question that and the microchip was disrupted or something like that there's no way it's like the Germany one against Parafide Germany were mugged off totally there's absolutely no way that those goals should have been chalked off and the Germany one did they look at it?

33:48Luke Moore: But we can't complain because one is against Germany and one is quite literally against Marco Carrera so it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. And that is the spirit of the game. So we move on to their part later not marking Pedro Paul at all so it's fine. Yeah, I mean look, it's piss poor and Spain went on to win so therefore that decision is forgotten but I'll tell you what it's just ludicrous it's absolutely ludicrous but yeah, Spain the way they as you say Luke the way they took to the game and so on there was just it was such a dominant performance they moved through the gears yeah and like I said there's no way in a million that Austria ever get anything out of that game Austria are a perfectly capable team they've got some good players they are capable of playing well they've got an interesting detail driven coach he's been there a while so he's going to be fairly settled they just couldn't get anywhere they couldn't lay any kind of glove on them it's not just Oya Sabo's finishing as well it's like his movement in the box is so difficult to pick up so he just appears in so much space.

34:47Luke Moore: But he finishes like a proper striker. He does, yeah. And yet the movement and all the rest of it is very modern Spanish forward, you would say. He moves almost like a playmaker. Yeah. But he finishes like a striker. But he does stay up there. I mean, I know they had their strikerless systems back in the day and all that kind of stuff. And obviously David Villa was kind of more of a sort of a winner. But he's got the kind of physical profile of what a playmaker is what I mean. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Totally, yeah. Marvellous player. And they're very much on the march. Lamine Yamal was playing, of course.

35:10Luke Moore: he was doing bits. They had a nutmeg. A lot of shots and a lot of nutmegs. Yeah, indeed, yeah. That's just laminomal. Did you see his brother? Three-year-old brother. Oh, he's great. Did you see him, Pete? Absolutely loving it. He's got older brother energy, weirdly. Even though he's three. Yeah. He's three. Yeah, I have a three-year-old. I can't imagine. Same. I find that odd. Yeah. He's screaming, vamos, vamos, while really into the football. I guess it is his brother, so it's kind of... Yeah, I mean, but apparently he's obviously sort of used to that environment, obviously, He's been a lot of football matches, yeah.

35:41Yamal, though, I mean, it was just shots and nutmegs, and he is a big problem. His battle, as I said, against Nuno Mendes will be really good. It'll be interesting.

35:50Luke Moore: I mean, Colombia will be delighted that they're on the other side of the draw. And they won their group, so they got that right not to play Spain at this stage in the tournament. When Yamal kind of managed to sort of get on the pitch in the first couple of matches, it was sort of nice to see how attentive the other team was, which made a load of space for everybody else. But in this situation, he was at the front of everything, really. And God, he just plays in such small spaces. He's 19, I think, next week. Yeah. Which is just crazy. Nico Williams didn't play. Again, not that they needed him, of course.

36:24They were Penelope cruising to the win. They were. Penelope was there. She was there, yeah. Nelly Furtado in the Portugal match as well.

36:31Luke Moore: Was she? Oh, I didn't see that. Okay. And at the end, she flew away. Yeah, like a bird. the Portuguese bird lady or did you follow follow follow down down down do you remember that one she did a world cup didn't she do a Euros song as well she did it's a good job she didn't it's a good job she didn't eat several men on the way out she is famously a man eater yeah that's an injury hard to recover from if she'd have eaten just one man would you go you've sold yourself short to be fair the song is man eater not men eater oh true it would make sense she'd have to choose one man to eat several men yeah a whole eleven and batter them and eat them.

37:08Luke Moore: Yeah, like a big old sausage. Right then, let's finish this World Cup roundup with Switzerland to Algeria. Let's get this out. Thanks for listening to the football. Do you know what I thought? You've got to hand it to Switzerland. They put this game to bed early. And it's their first World Cup knockout win since 1938. Whoa. Yeah, 88 years. As mental, that. Algeria were really, really poor. But one thing I couldn't get away from is that it doesn't matter who you put them up against. do a little mental experiment in your mind little thought experiment think of a fixture involving Switzerland and the moment you say Switzerland the fixture gets about 50 % more boring are you interested watching France versus anyone yes I am are you interested in watching France versus Switzerland not as much so it's difficult to get past that even though they've got some good players like John Mazzambi is great it's superb it's great to see Xhaka doing his thing I tell you what speaking of forgotten things because of wins you can put the Harry Kane penalty decision there you can put the aforementioned Cucaria goal you can also put Fabian Reid as open goal miss because that was that was a that was astonishing to watch well yeah I don't know he missed that I really don't came off his heel didn't he I don't know him that well as a player is that his weak foot do you think it must be it must be well Erling Haaland it came off his heel of course didn't it against Ivory Coast is it a heel World Cup maybe what is such a thing in Bola's celebration is it a cigar that he throws out of his mouth or is it a grenade?

38:36I hope it's a cigar. Do you know what I mean? Do you think it's a cigar? Hopefully, yeah. Right. I was thinking it looked like a bit like Arnie in Predator or something. I'm happy with either. Doesn't Arnie use... I mean, getting into the weeds here, admittedly, he more uses grenades in Commander, doesn't he, than Predator? Probably. Predator's more kind of... It's more machine guns and innovative ways to capture the beast. Maybe he should have thrown a grenade or two because obviously that would scatter and you might wing him. But Arnie famously... and he actually goes, oh, fuck my arm, I'm the Predator.

39:06Arnie's very famously good with both though. He loves a cigar. He loves a cigar. He does love a cigar.

39:11Luke Moore: And who was in Predator 2? Oh, Danny Glover. You see, it all makes sense. That's the Dodger Trump weave for you right there. It was a real, it was, it was a real show. Obviously, I think it was on yesterday's show, you were saying how great it is that they had so many, it might be the day before, how many African teams are still in the competition. Yeah. Done. Algeria have gone. They will be, honestly, they will be sick. They were so, they were so poor like they were capable of so much more than that you think some of the we had a couple of good moments from them you know with Mahrez and Belgali and all that kind of stuff the Swishers middle managed their way out yeah it was it was so boring they did it's absolutely spot on it's a great assessment it was just you're not going to be able to stay awake long enough to put a glove on us here middle managed their way out we are going to admin you to death yeah well speaking of African teams we have a couple of them in action tonight Australia versus Egypt and then Argentina versus Capo Verde.

40:05Is it too much to ask? I know what the answer to this is going to be, but I've got to put it out there.

40:09Luke Moore: Please ask it. Is it too much to ask for Cape Verde to knock out Argentina? I feel it might be. Because I can get involved with an idea that England get past Mexico even though I don't think they will. I can understand what people think they will. I can also get on board with the idea that Brazil aren't the team I used to be. I know where you're going. But I go there and in the words of Job, I go there but no further I cannot get on board with the idea that we beat Argentina in the semi-final of anything we couldn't beat Argentina in the semi-final of fucking cornholing let alone fucking football so can Cape Verde do us all a favour at least put the Argentina Cape Verde match at like 7 o 'clock instead of Australia, Egypt it's not about that though is it you can't stop time zones and Cape Verde are your African team North Korea did it once did they yeah they changed just half an hour after the hour for a laugh would you say Cape Verde are your African team yeah I think so I mean they're going out tonight do you believe in them obviously not I believe in them okay I mean who's your African team Luke Moore come on you know mine's Ghana it's a good question we need an answer but you don't have to answer it today I've only been to South Africa in Africa there you go your boys have gone then yeah they're gone and I slagged them off I said they were shit a lot of people got pissed off at me why don't you say they're DR Congo you were gutted yeah because I've also not been to medical school or been to Congo so I can't really claim that well obviously the African team's left in the competition Morocco and they face Canada they'll win that I think Morocco are the best of the African team yeah unless Paraguay do the absolutely unthinkable you're probably looking at Morocco-France quarterfinal which would be tasty well I mean they obviously in the semi-final last time round it's a spicy enough meatball for me that the only other players I've been to in Africa are Kenya and Rwanda and they're just not doing it not in there on the football space yeah so Kenya would be the other side I think from the African point of view as you've already said you've got Morocco in there already you'd fancy Egypt to get part Egypt are a better team than Australia you never know you would fancy I mean the Aussies are funny at World Cup they can just produce I mean that win against Paraguay sorry not against Paraguay it's Turkey and then obviously got the convenient draw against Paraguay and then you'd fancy Colombia to beat Ghana though wouldn't you probably you would yeah so there we go who knows will Carlos Kuros attack we'll talk about that another time there we are everybody thank you very much for listening to the Football Ramble part of the ACAST Creator Network Luke and Pete we'll be back with David tomorrow so do make sure you listen to that are you hosting that one tomorrow Peter are you get your hosting chops out probably I think I'm on today tomorrow and Sunday morning it's a Donaldson spectacular it is sorry everyone it's like a Donaldson Glasserie weekend it is your headline on Friday your headline on Saturday your headline on Sunday battered sausages for everyone lovely I'm in Sunday as well preview in England of course so we're going to look forward to that so thank you very much Pete Donaldson thank you very much thank you very much Luke Norrell thank you very much thank you very much microchips and thank you very much Cape Verde in advance for knocking out Argentina get it done do your job

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