WORLD CUP DIGEST: Poch's USA Balling Out, Sonny's Struggles & Brazil Nostalgia

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2:03Good morning, welcome to the Rule of Roost World Cup Digest. Just something I thought I'd do with a level of semi-regularity during the World Cup because it's fun. 15 minutes, I'm going to time and just go over all of the biggest talking points that we've seen thus far in the tournament. So I'm going to get on the timer going now. Apparently, right, yeah, I have done. so um opening game Mexico versus South Africa reflections on that were I loved the opening ceremony I loved how like unapologetically sort of Mexican South American it was in its vibe the reggaeton sort of samba stylings all that type of thing felt like a real sort of middle finger to you know the US and everything like that didn't it um and it's just fun quite like that type of music as well anyway um shame a crying shame i'm not the first to make this point that the azteca will not be the venue for the final um i know what is it because it's not even the so-fi is it it's the what is it the met life i mean maybe that is the so-fi i don't know um it's a good preparation isn't it for for a world cup podcast but the aztec is such an iconic ground lovely to see Raul Jimenez I felt actually quite emotional for the lad I thought in his 30s he had a similar head injury to Ryan Mason obviously life and death came back, got his career back on well not really on track he was a really exciting, exceptional player wasn't he before the injury looked like he was destined for a big move it sort of derailed perhaps his grander ambitions but still he scored a goal on home soil in the World Cup when a few years ago it looked like he might die on the football pitch.

4:00So emotional, great moment. Referee though for that occasion, for the first game of the World Cup, getting so happy with the red cards, awful. I made a comment on Twitter about the referee just saying he's awful and had a couple of Brazilians, it's good that Twitter gives you the auto-translate now because a couple of Brazilians were being like, they're learning. So I'm guessing this referee is awful and he's not well liked in Brazil. But South Africa, quite disappointing. I thought they looked pretty sluggish in places, to be honest. I didn't think their defence was up to much. Yeah, not great.

4:39Mexico probably should have been more ruthless, could have scored more. But look, World Cup's underway. Well done, Mexico. Lovely stuff. South Korea, I didn't actually watch the game, watched the extended highlights the next day. I'm one of those people, I work a nine to five, so I'm not going to be able to stay up all night. I will talk about that in a minute. But from the highlights I did see, I mean, look, let's not jump to any conclusions, but let's just hope Sonny is finding his feet. He's getting up to speed because it wasn't, you know, it didn't look great for him. It looked quite painful.

5:19it was kind of you know I've spoken about this before it's like the last days of Ledley King when it sort of felt like watching your dad getting beaten up in front of you it's just it's a painful thing to watch it's a painful thing to see a footballer who was once so really incredible and to be fair to him to be fair to him he was still bright he was still alert he was still getting into good positions he was still you know bothering the the opposition the Czechs but can you say the Czechs I don't know is that right

5:50but yeah his finishing he just didn't seem quite as sharp do you know what I mean I think that's the thing when a player's been so truly elite for so much of their career when they lose just that tiny little bit it seems so much more pronounced because at that level you know it is all about the finest of fine margins to quote an off-trodden you know cliche it's a shame another reflection on the back of this that Lee Kang In doesn't want to follow in Sonny's footsteps I think there's some animosity is that who Sonny punched in the face before or something there was some kind of beef something that happened there but he's obviously like the next great hope of South Korea isn't he or at least one of I mean they look like they've got a really really good team a really solid team could be a real sort of dark horse for this one who was it I think it's Adam Cleary spoke quite well about their tactic to break through Chech's low block so have a look at that he was saying he can see this type of tactic being replicated internationally and domestically it's a good watch it was quite an interesting thing I don't have the time to go into it now and I also don't have the technical founding really to talk about that sort of thing but I can appreciate stuff more than I can convey it on that level so it's quite interesting really technically sort of strong team really physically decent I thought South Korea moved the ball about really nicely Lee Kang in just unbelievable talent looks like a great player there's I think there's some talk that he's going to go to Atleti this summer from And PSG, he's never really settled at PSG.

7:38So, you know, shame Spurs can't get it over the line because he seems like the perfect type of player for the way Roberto De Zerbi wants to play. But, you know, there we go. Watched the Canada game last night. Obviously, good atmosphere. I think that's one of the things that's been quite a shame thus far. The atmospheres have felt a tiny bit flat. Even in the Mexico game, I thought, actually, surprisingly enough. and I do wonder how much that is to you know to be an inverse snob I wonder how much that is because of the what strata if you like of society are actually attending these World Cup games we know how how highly priced these tickets are and I think we're talking like a thousand bucks a ticket kind of thing so you know as as I think we all know don't we you know the noise from the posh seats isn't usually as loud as it is from where the plebs all gather is it um and if there's less plebs in these grounds then this probably stands to reason that there's going to be less of a of an atmosphere if you like but look you know let's not jump on it too soon because the atmosphere in the Canada match was actually you know markedly better I thought it was sort of felt like the first really big sort of exciting World Cup game to a degree um there's a lot of footage of the Canadian fans outside the stadium at the beginning of the match, you know, waving the flags and everything like that.

9:13It's quite exciting. My mate who is, he's half Canadian, he lives in Canada. He does say that there's a level of performatism, but hang on. Yeah, let's just say that. There's a performative element to that, but isn't that what the world cup's about to a degree jay i'll call him out you know i think probably when we're in croydon box park chucking pints at each other that's quite performative as well isn't it so look we've all we all kind of do it and i think that the main thing to be sort of soft about it that's great about the world cup that it is a carnival you want everybody to be to be able to enjoy it you know i don't really want to gatekeep it i don't want you know the whole kind of look at It is funny.

9:59Don't get me wrong. It's funny sometimes the way the North American fans chant. I'm sorry, North American listeners. It just kind of is. There's loads of memes about it, right? You turn on British fans and they're all singing about each other's mums and grands and all that type of thing in the most foul terms possible. and then you hear North American supporters being like, here we go, Canada, here we go, or whatever they were singing yesterday. It's just, it's quite sweet. And I know that's really patronising, but it just, it's very far removed from your standard sort of British supporter experience, to be honest.

10:37But it's nice, people getting behind their sort of, their nations, enjoying the football in a, you know, it's a nicer, cleaner form of nationalism, isn't it, really? let's call it what it is but it's fun and if it can stay in that sort of spirit it's nice Canada, look good game I thought there's an edge of spurs to them in the I think in the last couple of seasons in that the build up was quite good I thought they looked like they controlled the game against Bosnia-Herzegovina but finding that killer pass and also having enough talent up top. I know David's a player that's been spoken about a lot, being with Spurs and everything.

11:26Didn't think an awful lot of him. Kyle Lahren, though, his goal was lovely. I know he got a touch off the defender, but I still think the way he controlled it, back to goal, the turn, the shot, his first action on the pitch, again, on home soil. It's great. It's exciting. It's the sort of you love to see it kind of stories of the World Cup, right?

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You know, Paraguay, for a start, Paraguay. alright they're not one of the top tier nations of the World Cup but they are still a team with international pedigree I would probably say to be fair I think they probably edge the USA in terms of international pedigree so to see the states balling out as they did yesterday was really quite remarkable what a performance and look you know he's magic you know a lot there's been a lot of noise about Maurizio Pochettino and look it's early days I get it it's the first game it's their first game of the World Cup right it might go south from here however to have them playing in the way that he did which was it was genuinely it was like hello old friend watching that type of football watching like peak Tottenham peak Pochettino's Tottenham knocking the ball about creating opportunities playing with a sense of just kind of reckless abandon look it's a perfect it's a perfect blend for that whole American dream to dare is to do like rhetoric you know there's there's and I understand why there are kind of a lot of American Spurs fans because I guess that whole mythology around Spurs is very I guess probably attuned to a lot of American sensibilities the you know the Hollywood the the you know the dreamers kind of manifest sort of belief and everything like that so that perfect blend of seeing somebody like Pochettino who's emotional he understands kind of the emotions the narratives the stories behind football it feels like the perfect blend for team hollywood doesn't it you know um for one i mean hats off hats off to the states i'm like what a start unbelievable um you know i love to see kind of host nations doing quite well i understand this is kind of fraught with a particularly unpleasant political backdrop but you know i know plenty of americans who are very good people who love football and you know you can also look at things on a positive side for good people who try and do good things as well you know let's keep politics out of football and all that but that not I'm not going quite that far but I'm just saying you know the people are allowed to be happy about stuff right um Brazil Morocco tonight that's gonna be I think that's that's kind of game of the tournament thus far isn't it in terms of like from a from a viewer's perspective i think it's going to be really interesting to see i've been watching so the bbc have got on on iplayer i know this is a great one for it you can all get no vpn bbc iplayer um on iplayer they oh yeah they have a world cup classic channel and they're playing like wall to wall i think it's 24 7 just old highlights of classic world cup games um with like their punditry and everything in there as well it's great it's really lovely I sort of I like you know I think my sort of earliest memories of football I mean I've got I've got picture memory of like the 94 world cup but I don't really truly remember it if I'm honest where I really remember is like Euro 96 world cup 98 so world cup 98 is my first real big world cup to live and breathe it it's funny watching some of those games back actually like how different football was and I know that's quite a trite observation but how much more chaotic it was there's a lot of kind of like knocking the ball into space and running onto it type thing and then when you get to like 2002 2006 those two world cups I think personally for me is sort of where football peaked I think there you're kind of looking at a nice blend of like the technical football that we have today and of the chaos ball of yesteryear so I think in that period there you've got kind of the peak the peak mesh of the two um really enjoyable to watch really great but um it makes you realize what my point there I'm running out of time got a minute left it makes you realize like how great Brazil were and Kevin I can't remember his name I'm sorry but the Scottish comedian he's done like a he wants to remember football it's on it's again it's on the BBC he visits Brazil as a Scotsman and it's great and he's remembering all the Brazilian teams of yesteryear and a lot of Brazilian fans are talking about why they're not as good anymore and they sort of worry about it being like the favela's been gentrified in places or whatever there's a part of me that wonders if you look at Brazil who typify basically you know that total football creativity flair reckless abandon the sort of Pep Guardiola technicality of football has probably killed that but Morocco are another team that play expansive exciting front-footed football so it'd be great to see what Brazil are like nowadays yeah they're not quite the superstar team of yesteryear but they're still one of the better teams Morocco are great side and let's not forget Scotland it's going to be sad to see them playing at 2am and that's the 15 minutes just to quickly end that point it's gonna be sad and I am quite sad that the World Cup is the way that it is here in Europe that we don't you know that I can't just have a wall-to-wall coverage of the World Cup on because I would have loved to have stayed up to watch Scotland and maybe I will but it's difficult with an eight-month-year-old teaving baby to be honest you take sleep where you can get it but there we go I'm not going to go on much I'm not going to go on any more than that thank you very much for tuning in I will do these, like I say I'm not going to do them every day but maybe every couple of days or so please share it spread the word with others say maybe non Spurs fans that you know who are just looking for this type of content I'd really appreciate it and yeah thanks for tuning in I will speak to you in a couple of days, I guess, maybe.

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