The Funniest World Cup Moments - Our Top 10

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Welcome And The Ranking Rules

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Hello and welcome to the UK nostalgia podcast, Who Remembers? In this episode, we are asking who remembers the top ten funniest World Cup moments?

SPEAKER_00 0:50

It's football World Cup timely. Yeah, it's that time. It comes around, it seems to go. I mean, I love a tournament, but it's not a good thing.

SPEAKER_01 0:58

It comes around roughly every four years, doesn't it?

SPEAKER_00 1:00

It does, yeah. But going back to our living with Mailley days, I I feel like we've covered a lot of tournaments, even though we've we've only really been podcasting for about six years. I feel like we've done about 200 tournaments. We've travelled the world, haven't we? We've travelled the world. But we've never done a top ten funniest moments, Liam, of the world.

SPEAKER_01 1:17

No, and this is not tied to any specific tournament. We we'll do some content related to the current I want to say USA again, but it's not as it's Canada and Mexico. Um yeah, don't forget that.

SPEAKER_00 1:26

Don't forget that. You like when Trump pushes that guy out of the forget Canada and Mexico, it's all about the USA. Um yeah, I think what we'll probably do, we haven't really thought about this. We've got another World Cup, we're gonna do like do a bit of a World Cup month sort of thing. We've got another World Cup episode with two very special guests coming up after this. Um, and then we'll probably do a review of the tournament, won't we, at some point? Because it then it will technically be nostalgia.

SPEAKER_01 1:48

Yeah, but I don't know whether we might do some bonus content during the tournament. I'm not sure. We we once did a kind of roundup of the sort of group stages, I think, on Mainland. I don't know. We won't we make no promises. Uh ask us no questions, we'll tell you no lies.

SPEAKER_00 2:02

Absolutely. So before we get into the top ten, because this is another rankers episode. This was, I mean, uh how how hard did you find this, Liam? Because again, we've got together to put these top tens together and then got to yeah, and come to an agreement.

SPEAKER_01 2:15

Yeah, quite hard because it's a it's a big playing field, isn't it? Like there's there's obviously we've talked about previously Italian 90 is the first World Cup that we remember. So I mean what have we had since then? We've had uh lots. We had nine World Cups since then, is it?

SPEAKER_00 2:33

Yeah, something like that. I don't know. You're the mathematician. And the brains of the outfit, yeah. I think the two things I found hardish is a lot of good moments came at the Euros, and you think, oh, that oh no, that was yeah. And you had a really good one, and I had to tell you, I'm sorry, Liam, it's your Euros. Can't remember what it was now, and um, so we had to get rid of that one. Um, but I also think that because you've seen these a lot of these moments so many times, this they stopped being funny after a while. So I think ours is a little bit would you say it's a bit off the ball, this this top ten.

SPEAKER_01 3:02

Yeah, and we've we tried to sort of keep it for the most part off the field, so they're not like a bad you know, a bad penalty that it's the corner fly go, they're not uh no, I don't know, a missed slide tackle or something like that. That they're kind of off the field, I think, for the most part. And yeah, people I would say, particularly on this subject, there's probably going to be all sorts of things people throw at us that we say, Oh god, you never even thought about that. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, it it's quite hard because the this doesn't exist as a list, you know. Sometimes like you can find when we did our cartoons, you can very easily search and find 20 lists of top 10 cartoons, and that can give you some inspiration and some that jog your memory. It's this has been quite hard to kind of pull it together. So we actually have to do some professional remembering this time.

SPEAKER_00 3:47

Yeah, actual professional

Honourable Mentions And Near Misses

SPEAKER_00 3:49

remembering. Let's get into some honourable mentions before we get into the I think the biggest honourable mention what I think a lot of people thought we would have had is Diana Ross has missed penalty, USA 94. Opening ceremony, obviously, you know, USA, big controversy that it were going to be in the USA because they didn't even have a professional league then. And uh obviously to kick us off, um Diana Ross did the opening ceremony and took a penalty, smacked it wide, but the goal opened up as if she'd scored.

SPEAKER_01 4:13

Yeah, I mean this I I'm one of the sort of friends of the show listening. Well, not friends of the show, ones of our friends listening, hopefully. Um he will hate this, but I I tried to get co-pilot to help me to do some of the sort of find some more obscure things for this, and it was terrible. And it actually told me that this wasn't a World Cup moment. So I didn't think this is a World Cup moment.

SPEAKER_00 4:34

It is a World Cup moment. I it's one of them.

SPEAKER_01 4:36

It's the opening ceremony, isn't it? Which I I think is probably where it's confused it because it wasn't tied to a game of football. But get your AI to it. Throw it bin, mate. Throw it in bin. Yeah, let me down because I I possibly would have put it in my top ten. We we've both done a top ten, we've combined them, and this is this is the outcome. But I maybe would have had it as a top ten if I thought I could have, but yeah, co-pilot let me down. So AI's not everything that some people think it is.

SPEAKER_00 5:01

Yeah, it's not yeah. One that you did have in your top ten, but it got voted out was Roy Keane, Russia 2018, quarter final, final.

SPEAKER_01 5:10

Yeah, the I mean it it sounds really poor if you don't know the moment, and maybe if you don't find sort of Roy Keane as funny as we do. Uh but yeah, the this he's pointing around the studio, isn't he? I don't know who else is there, there's obviously Ian Wright, Gary Neville. Yeah, obviously England go out, and the English fans and uh Neville and Wright are absolutely like deflated and and Keane's kind of sort of reveling in it, like look, you you'd you'd got the open top bus booked before the total ball was even kicked. And yeah, he says, you know, you you'd already decided where you were gonna get to. Points to uh Neville Dunny says quarter final, and right he's final, it's quarter final, semi-final.

SPEAKER_00 5:50

Then he looks right at directly at Ian Wright and goes, final, final. And then the week after, or I think it's the week of the final or something, Ian Wright like sort of pulled. They had a bit, they have a bit of a do about it, and Ian Wright will say, What's your problem? What's your problem, man? He goes, We were just getting a bit excited. But he Ian Wright starts going, final, final Keane's like going, You're a grown man, you're a grown man, you're gonna be a grown man and you've played the game. You're a grown man, you've played the game. Yeah, it's brilliant like that.

SPEAKER_01 6:15

You're a grown man, you've played the game.

SPEAKER_00 6:17

That were very close to getting in. Uh, have a word with him, Gary Lineker, too. When Gaza starts crying.

SPEAKER_01 6:22

Not absolutely not funny in the moment, but but looking back on it, I love like it's like he's on a sort of stage play, like the exaggerated. Do you know like how he's sort of really over enunciating it? I have a word with him. It's brilliant, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:35

It's uh like Alidoff. Uh, I'm trying to do a teens meeting, you fool. Uh Rivaldo's head injury, which I didn't want in this because I don't know if this was in your top ten, but it annoys me more than anything. Do you know when the ball's kicked at him and he got away from the room?

SPEAKER_01 6:49

Yeah, I mean, obviously, I don't know to I I don't want to upset any of our kind of Italian listeners, but I think I sort of associated like the sort of theatrics and diving in football with with like watching some of the Italian football. That's where I used to see it the most. But but that Rivaldo moment felt like it it's kind of become part of the the world game now.

SPEAKER_00 7:12

Even for Brazilians uh resorting to it, yeah, yeah. That that wasn't funny for me. I just it was it was just I mean it's ludicrous, it's it is yeah, it is completely pathetic. Um this was I would have had this, but it's not a tournament thing. This was your choice. Big Sam with his pint of wine. But this was on the build-up to the World Cup, and obviously he played he only managed one game because he got it. I don't know what he was offering or what he was talking about. I think he was basically saying I can get oh, what was it? I can't remember. I all all people remember about it is the fact he was drinking a pint of wine.

SPEAKER_01 7:44

Yeah, he ordered a pint of wine, yeah, which is not for any listeners outside of the UK. I don't know what you can drink where you are, but yeah, we have a small glass, which I think is 125, and a large glass, which I don't know if it's 250 mil or no, it's 175 and 250, I think. But yeah, he he effectively got most of a bottle of wine in his glass. He might as well just be drinking from the bottle of wine.

SPEAKER_00 8:07

He was bragging about something like, Oh, I can get these to uh come into your agency, no worry about it. Do you know what I mean? He've he wanted that job for the entirety of his life and he ruined it by having a pint of wine basically.

SPEAKER_01 8:19

Well, we we used to go to uh a bar in Sheffield that did like these kind of sort of weird ales that are brewed on certain days of the year, and some of them are like 10% and 11%. And yeah, he's he's effectively just his his normal drink is uh a 10% or 9%. Have you watched that Deer England by the way? Um BBC I think.

SPEAKER_00 8:40

It's been decent it's been decent. It is decent, but the the first scene on it's not a spoiler or anything, it's when Sam Allardyce has been sacked, basically, and they're going look, Sam, do you have a pint of wine? He goes, Why is everyone going on about this pint of wine? Like can I imagine him actually saying that?

SPEAKER_01 8:56

It it don't bother me in such that I'm sure Fergie's kind of would be seen with a large whiskey that's probably got the same amount of alcoholic units in it. But yeah, it's just it just got tied to the fact that he had this kind of unprofessional meeting and happened to be drinking a pint of wine. But yeah, no, I that I I don't I don't look down on him for it. I don't I don't condemn it. I probably do condone it, I think it's fine.

SPEAKER_00 9:19

This one I would have had in mine. I don't think you had it in yours, which I missed out. When Ria Raheem Sterling in Brazil 2014, remember against Italy, we were all watching this together actually, our mate Tom's house. And he hit the side netting and everyone were going mad.

SPEAKER_01 9:33

No, and and this is part of my problem is you have an encyclopedic memory of football games you've watched. They all sort of blur for me. No, I don't think.

SPEAKER_00 9:42

So he hit the side netting, um uh and everyone's going mad, like and this weren't just us. I've talked to people after, yeah, come on. And then it just like the camera cuts and it's just Sterling jogging back to the halfway line. I'm thinking he's taking that in his stride, he just scored an amazing goal at the world, and it hit the side netting, and it was just like and everybody in the country thought it had gone in. But another bit of that game what I love which not really funny, but it is. Um, when we do equalise uh through storage, someone collapses on the bench. I think it's the physio uh collapsed on the bench, and everybody like who we were with thought it were Roy, Roy Hodson. Obviously, he's getting it was getting on in years even then, weren't they? And of course, oh my god, Roy Roy's gone. Like Roy's collapsed out of all too much excitement for him. But that was quite funny. Um Don't Come Home Too Soon, the Scotland song, Franz 98, Your Boys, Delamitre.

SPEAKER_01 10:29

I d I don't know the song, I should have listened before this.

SPEAKER_00 10:32

Come home too soon. Really like proper ballad. Apparently he got threatened. Um I don't know his name, the guy who uh is in Delamitre, um, by a Scottish guy. He said, Are you the guy who wrote that? And he goes, Yeah, because I go, I'm gonna he goes get out of this pub and I'll fucking kill you.

SPEAKER_01 10:48

Why?

SPEAKER_00 10:49

Because he said he just made them look like complete losers.

unknown 10:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 10:52

But if you keep going out in the first round, what's he supposed to do?

SPEAKER_01 10:56

They're all sort of novelty songs anyway, though, aren't they? What's so bad? Is it like the desperation in it? Please please don't come home.

SPEAKER_00 11:04

Please, yeah, but yeah, but I think it's just like please, please stop losing. Like they're not they're not, I suppose like with Three Lions, it's like, oh, we could win it or whatever.

SPEAKER_01 11:15

Three lions is sort of laughing at ourselves for people think it's arrogant, but three lions is actually mocking the fact we haven't done anything since 1960.

SPEAKER_00 11:21

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 66, sorry. 66, yeah. 1960. I'm gonna say no, actually, you don't need to add more here onto it. But yeah, so people were upset about that. Um and then my final one before we get onto the actual top ten. Maradona on drugs in the stand, Russia 2018. Can you remember this? And he kept cutting to him in Argentina were playing.

SPEAKER_01 11:39

Yeah, and he was clearly completely off his head, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:42

Yeah, and he he died not so long after that, which is no so uh there's a brilliant, but it's not a brilliant.

SPEAKER_01 11:47

Do you think the two things are connected?

SPEAKER_00 11:48

I think there might be. There's a clip when he was a manager of a club in Argentina, he were after he'd been the Argentina manager, and he's snorting cocaine in the dugout as the manager. It's just like it's just ridiculous. Imagine Hodson doing that.

SPEAKER_01 12:03

Maybe that's what he did too much, you know. Before, well, we'll get to it, but yeah, maybe that's what happened.

SPEAKER_02 12:07

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Rightly, um, just on that, by the way, because I I think obviously that we slagged off Maradona there as a as a drug addict.

SPEAKER_01 12:16

But for anyone who hasn't seen the video, and it's probably really commonly shared now, but the first time I saw it, it blows me away. Of him warming up at Napoli. Uh Napoli, yeah, he's got his boots untied, he's sort of dancing and jogging around, booting the ball up in the air, catching it. It it's incredible. Well, I thought I think it's an iconic moment of world football. So, yeah, if you if you haven't seen that, go and watch it.

SPEAKER_00 12:39

When we got into football, we were a little bit past his best. Another thing that's missed out on this actually is when he screams into the camera after uh obviously scoring, then gets done for a drugs test after, which is funny, but it's also really sad that that's how he bowed out on the I know people don't like Maradona and stuff, but that you know he bowed out of the old stage.

SPEAKER_01 12:56

I to me, like I don't know, like I I get it, it's uh we're not this is not us doing our top footballers, but I mean if if Maradona's not in your top three of all time, I I think Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:07

I've got an Argentina shirt based on um that that moment though in 1994 because it's such a legendary moment. Lightly, let's get on to the top ten, let's get the rankers theme tune out. Absolutely fucking rankers I hadn't heard it for a while. Someone messaged me and said, How did you get that song really? Genuinely, how did you make it? And I said, Well, it's you know, tricks of the trade. Some people were were paid. We spent hours in a studio, didn't we? We spent hours in a studio with uh I mean all I'm gonna say is like one of the voices on that, you may recognise him from a little non-girl band called The Spice Girls. Well we said we'd never we'd never reveal that, so yeah. Yeah, but you know, she's desperate. I saw a saw a clip of her um looking yeah. Anyway, top

The Countdown Begins With France 98

SPEAKER_00 13:53

ten.

SPEAKER_01 13:53

Anyway, top ten. Do you want to go do you want to start or do you want me to start?

SPEAKER_00 13:55

You do start later this time, yeah, because I started last time.

SPEAKER_01 13:58

Right, number ten. Um I mean what I would say by the way is I'm not trying to downplay it before we've even started, but it's shit, this, yeah. No, it's it's not, it's it's a brilliant moment. But I think this is one you had to be there for. Like I there's some of them on the list. I've I've watched clips back and they've made me laugh out loud. This this isn't one of those, but this is just at the time, this was such a kind of a cheeky moment, I'd say, maybe rather than funny. So this is France 98, uh, England's opening game against Tunisia. It was 2 pm on a Monday. Uh Deslinem, the the iconic Deslineham he opened the show with such a great line. The theme music comes on, cuts the cuts to the studio, deslinem, sort of wry smile on his face. Good afternoon. Shouldn't you be at work? And it was just brilliant, absolutely brilliant. I it's not it's not gonna make you laugh, but if at the moment like at the time, because uh I reckon in the pub loads of people would have had the time gone.

SPEAKER_00 14:59

Yeah, I think like if you were at home, I I were doing work experience actually, um, at this point, and I was allowed to finish early to watch this game, and it weren't really that funny to me, but I remember the day after working at home base, work experience, and uh everyone I think, oh you see Dez last night. Oh unbelievable.

SPEAKER_01 15:17

Day after you were crying well after because you'd realised how funny it was.

SPEAKER_00 15:23

Oh my god, it's amazing. But it's classic Dez, and I think this is why people loved him. This is like during the era when he was on House. The Housewives' favourite. The Housewives favourite, because it's cheeky, but it's it's funny, it's confident. It's the it's such a I can't he even named his autobiography after it.

SPEAKER_01 15:40

And like I say, if people like Do you know what because he did that, because he named his autobiography after it. I hope he came up with that line. I hope it wasn't given to him.

SPEAKER_00 15:49

You think Linna could say it? I mean, I know he's not doing like BBC anymore, but it's because I think Linica based a lot of his presenting style on Liner, but he's working. I don't think he'd say it like that, but he's from Leicester, yeah. The Midlands, isn't he? Like uh I don't think he speaks like that though. But yeah, I I think Lineham's I don't Linica'd have got I think Linica sort of comes across as a bit more sort of laughing at himself in a way. Whereas I think Lynham had that aura, didn't I, of sort of yeah, I know what you're up to. Do you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_01 16:24

Yeah, like it was like a a wink, weren't it? Like, yeah, I yeah, I I know, I know. You've clocked off early, you you're hoping your boss has not noticed.

SPEAKER_00 16:33

But we're glad to have you with us. Brilliant. Number 10, Mr. Des Lynham. And we're staying for number nine actually in France 98, and we're also staying at the BBC, and it's where Martin O'Neill absolutely rinsed Robbie Williams. This actually won the BBC's funniest World Cup moment poll in 2006. You've watched this back today, haven't you? It's I I come across I came across it about I don't know, about a month ago, just as I was like browsing on YouTube, and I like I saved it because I thought I'm gonna keep going back to that. It's unbelievable.

SPEAKER_01 17:02

Yeah, so this is one that I've not seen in a long, long time. We'd put a list together and I knew it was a funny moment, but I thought, well, I'll try and watch a few before we record. Yeah, I was I was genuinely laughing like watching this. I'd forgot this is one of them clips. Sometimes you go back to a clip and it lets you down, it's not as good as you remember. This was better than I remember. He actually has a bit more of a go at him. Yeah. Than is I mean, the the bit I we probably both want to do our Martin O'Neill impression here, don't we? So I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 17:29

You're better than me. You're better at me. I'm I always turn into Rob Bryden for some reason when I'm doing Martin O'Neill. But but it's just to set the scene, Robbie Williams is in. I don't know why he's in the BBC Studio, Robbie Williams. Well, and he's wearing a football fan. Yeah, I don't know why they've got him, yeah. Some some clock. But he's he's wearing the Des is God t-shirt. I think it's is it generic Alan Hansen? I think he does. Yeah, he does mean Des Lynham, yeah. Lynham's uh so he's wearing Des is God.

SPEAKER_01 17:53

Alright, so it weren't like uh because I thought there must be some. Ah right, I completely misunderstood that then. I I thought he'd sort of done that as an ironic nod towards Des rather than it actually being about Des Lynham.

SPEAKER_00 18:06

Yeah, I think it I think it it is about Des because then Lightham after jokes, he says there's only two icons in this room, and that is uh Rob Williams and Martin O'Neill. And then Robert just says he's he's idle, like button like sort of point. It's a it's a bad sort of comeback from Robbie to be fair, but it's nothing it's nothing nasty. Next minute, I'll let you go, Liam.

SPEAKER_01 18:25

I I mean I I don't know if I'd be doing it better if I do it from memory or if I should read it, but um yeah, so and he looks sort of quite young in this. I mean it is a while ago now, but it surprised me how long he looked. But yeah, it's so so Martin O'Neill, who was he managing at the time?

SPEAKER_00 18:40

Um maybe Leicester, maybe at that time, '98, maybe.

SPEAKER_01 18:43

Yeah, it turns to sort of pop icon and says, uh, to be fair, you you've done really well because I uh I did have to say I I thought you'd struggle after take that. Um because you know, you you can play, you can write. You can play the guitar. You know, Gary Barlow probably kept the band together.

SPEAKER_00 19:02

It's brilliant, because then he goes like uh but uh yeah, but but Angels, it's a cracking song, but angels do a great song.

SPEAKER_01 19:08

But I get why you'd want to go into Brider next, and I can imagine him saying Angels is a cra it's a lovely melody, it's a cracking.

SPEAKER_00 19:13

Yeah, I always go into Rob Brider when I do it. But Robbie looks sort of I mean he takes it quite well to be fair to me. It's not like Furious, but I think he's quite taken aback, like, because there's no prompt or anything. He just thought of having a go. You can't play all he said is he's idle, that's it. Let me tell you now.

SPEAKER_01 19:30

Angry, I can just tell you now, Robbie. You you know, you you can't you're not a musician, really. You can't you can't play, you you know, you but angels are cracking song.

SPEAKER_00 19:39

But you said you can't play, you can't write, you can't play guitar.

SPEAKER_01 19:42

I was gonna say you can't dance. Like, I thought you were just gonna go after everything, yeah. Yeah, you know, you can barely speak, Robbie.

SPEAKER_00 19:50

Yeah, he didn't actually say you can't sing in fairness to him, but he said you can't play it. It's just that I know it's such a good moment because I think Robbie's there to be like almost like the funny character in there. And O'Neill fumbles it.

SPEAKER_01 20:01

Well, and also what I love as well is you know, like he delivers it in a way where do you know when he goes into football analysis mode and he sort of leans forward and it's almost like I shouldn't be seeing you know he can't he can't play down the wing because he can't he can't say he's got his head down, hasn't it? Yeah, it's analysis of him, isn't it? Robin Williams analysis.

SPEAKER_00 20:17

Unbelievable. So number nine, Martin O'Neill having a go, uh Robert Williams. What's your number eight, Liam?

Lineker Mishap And Wild Celebrations

SPEAKER_01 20:23

Number eight, Gary Lineker, Italian nighter. To say like this was our first tournament and watched it live. I don't remember this being a big thing. I think this should have been a bigger thing in the playground, really. I only kind of got to know about it later. But it's Gary Lineker's I mean, there's no nice way of saying it. Uh, he soils himself, he shoots himself himself. Yeah, shots himself. Yeah, I don't know where that came from. Like that's sort of in common parlance. Did that come from this incident?

SPEAKER_00 20:51

Where this is brilliant. The best thing about this is he shoots himself on pitch, which is not really that funny. It's obviously funny. Someone shoots him on the page.

SPEAKER_01 20:57

I mean, I don't know. In that instant, I think Paula Radcliffe running a marathon's at it. Like, I think it yeah, if you gotta go, you've got to go, you've got to go, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:05

I think it's like I mean, he's wearing really small shorts, which I think adds to the uh picks it funny, yeah. Yeah, it makes it funny. He wipes his heart on the floor, which is awful. But the best thing is the aftermath is every for years, and it just don't happen anymore, but every one of his tweets has been responded by someone saying shat on. So it like they wanted to post a picture of him and his wife on a yacht. Someone put a shat on boat. Just like nothing, just like everything that he put, it doesn't matter what he was talking about. Shat on. Someone once uh took a flag to Glastonbury that said Gary Lineker shacks crisps, and Lineker posted that picture and said, At least it's better than saying uh he's shat on crisps.

SPEAKER_01 21:45

Shat on crisps. Yeah, did that I it's it's getting a bit vulgar now. We try and stay highbrow, but yeah, I did did that shat on did that on.

SPEAKER_00 21:55

I'd look to I've looked into this that I don't know the I don't know. No, no, no, Clinica'd. Just used to ignore it and then he put a thing out one saying, Look, I am aware I shit myself on pitch. You don't have to keep putting shat on every single time. No, but what I mean though is that that is Shat on it?

SPEAKER_01 22:11

Like where's that Shat on? Does that come after because people couldn't say that shit on it after Linux? I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 22:17

I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 22:17

And then if like so many sort of use of bad language gets to sort of knock down the sort of ratings or whatever.

SPEAKER_00 22:23

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Shat on. We'll keep saying Shaton.

SPEAKER_01 22:26

Uh but yeah, brilliant moment because makes me think of uh Shaton makes me think of uh what's the thing uh Jim White's famous uh Oh Roman de Chateleo de Chatelet, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:38

Yeah de Chatelet, that's Roman. This guy Roman de Chatelet says it like 15 times or whatever in about a minute, and I've been talking to Roman de Chatelet, but brilliant. Yeah, so I think this is one of the uh uh the funnier ones because it lasted for about 25 years after, which is always well and this is arguably one of the ones that's kind of got funnier after the event.

SPEAKER_01 22:58

I I don't remember it being that big a thing. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 23:03

Didn't he maybe he didn't reveal it? Because no one would know realistically, if you've if if you've shown it.

SPEAKER_01 23:08

Yeah, but then if you sort of see it now, he's sort of like he sort of lays laid down on the side like it looked must look so weird. Imagine if you're like I mean that could have gone so much worse, couldn't it for him, really?

SPEAKER_00 23:17

Who's up front with him? Peter Beardsley? What you're doing, Gary? Do you know what I mean? Like him just like sort of he's like rare. I'm doing the actions now, but you can't see it. He's like sort of just literally wiping his ass on the floor, isn't he?

SPEAKER_01 23:30

Yeah. Yeah. Well yeah what you're doing there, Gary, as I shit self again.

SPEAKER_00 23:36

That's that's I'll genuinely a good Peter Beardsley, honestly. But I was I don't know, yeah. That that that was not a bad Peter Beardsley. Yeah, but you can do your Chris Waddle if you want, because he would play. Well that's very similar, eh? Was he on the pitch as well? He was, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 23:50

Uh Gary, I know Gary, I know that shit that's self. So I can I stay away from me, Gary.

SPEAKER_00 23:56

Do you know what? Again, going back to that Dear England thing. Uh there's a bit in it where England get knocked out to Iceland and it's real commentary and stuff. And Chris Waddle's on that. And I just think of you now when I'm Chris Waddle, and he's going like, we're not gonna do anything. Like, and I think, oh, yeah, it's legal. We could do a version where I play all the like all the cast. Maybe you just play Southgate. Maybe I just play the guy who plays Southgate is incredible, by the way. But anyway, number seven, Liam, and this was one you weren't sure about, but this is, and I don't know how many people will know this, but it's only a couple of years ago, Qatar 2022, when a Saudi Arabia fan fired a gun in celebration after they beat Argentina 2-1. I think this is absolutely fantastic.

SPEAKER_01 24:34

Yeah, it's it's funny in its simplicity. So Saudi Arabia win. Did he beat Argentina?

SPEAKER_00 24:40

Yeah, the first game, and Argentina went on to win it. It's weird that Argentina lost this game and won every other game, and Saudi Arabia won this game and lost all their other games. Yeah, yeah. So there's this guy, they're all celebrating Saudi Arabia, they're watching it on a TV. This guy so calmly gets like it's a rifle as well, it's not just like a pistol.

SPEAKER_01 24:58

Yeah, it's an automatic uh I don't know my guns, I'd say it's kind of a K-47 type piece of equipment.

SPEAKER_00 25:06

But my favourite bit about it is he shoots it into the air, which is mad anyway. But everyone's really quiet in the room as if to say, What's he doing? Like everyone's going, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:14

Yeah, just so for those who haven't seen it, which I hadn't until recently, it's really funny. I'll share it.

SPEAKER_00 25:18

I will share it.

SPEAKER_01 25:19

Um he after the game, he he calmly, it's like he simply said sound, isn't it? He calmly walks outside of the venue and just fires a few rounds off from his gun.

SPEAKER_00 25:30

Yeah, just like in celebration. I think we should all do that. It reminds me of when Sheffield United beat Sheffield Wednesday, and we uh you'll I think you'll know what I'm on about. Um we Sheffield United scored the third goal to go three to up, and everyone's going mad cheering because it came just after Wednesday equalized. And there's a gand there's a guy in the United end doing like pistol shoots. Like who celebrates like that?

SPEAKER_01 25:52

Yeah, no, incredible, incredible scenes. But yeah, I mean that's that's one that I would say you might not have known. I consider myself a World Cup or a but I thought I'd seen most World Cup moments recently, but yeah, I'd not seen that.

SPEAKER_00 26:06

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 26:07

So that's number seven, Liam onto six. Yeah, number six. I mean, this is absolutely not funny in the moment, actually. This is this is complete opposite for English football fans. It's a heartbreak moment, but it is incredibly funny that Maradona, who is probably what, five foot five. He's five foot five, Maradona. I think everyone knows where you're gonna end with this with, yeah. Manages to jump higher with his head than Peter Shilton, who I would say is six foot one or two. He is six foot one, bang on, yeah. Well done. With his I've not looked that up, by the way.

SPEAKER_00 26:37

Um, no, no, no, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 26:39

And and even though, like, so he handballs the ball, like, which is why he's hated and disgusted, like everyone's disgusted with him. But he doesn't need to head the ball, his hand is on his forehead, he could have just headed it in. He's got his hand up because he thinks I'm gonna have to use my hand to get higher than Shilton here. He doesn't, it could have his head is as high as Peter Shilton's hand, it's insane.

SPEAKER_00 27:01

It's almost like the image. If you just sort of watch it as a as a still image, do you know what? There's some great footage, and I'll try and share it. Uh I might not get a chance to share that much from this one because I'm away. But Terry Venables, in fairness to him, it was it's the uh after the game, and I think it's Lightham again, actually, it's Emlyn Hughes and uh Terry Terry Venables and Linus. That's that's cheating, though, isn't it? And like Venables goes, yeah, but basically saying, Well, what's Shulton doing? How has he not got yeah?

SPEAKER_01 27:27

Take the ball, take him out if you need to get your hand on the ball. You've got the power in that as the goalkeeper. Just get your hand up and push the ball away. How he gets out, and like I say, literally, I I don't think I'm exaggerating. I haven't looked at this particular image today. I'm almost certain his hand is is effectively on his forehead.

SPEAKER_00 27:44

It's not it's not it's not it's not like pushed it up like it is like going is it's he's it's crouched. What's what's the word? It's like sort of bent towards his head.

SPEAKER_01 27:53

He's like he's lowered it. He should have just come out afterwards and said, like, I I'm really sorry for the fact that I thought I needed my hand to out jump a six foot one man who can use his hands, but I I didn't. So yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:06

Honestly, it's true. I mean, it's again going on to Twitter and stuff, he got he gets sick for this still today. So Shulton's put uh he had 40 years with the wife or whatever, punching above my way, and put same you couldn't punch above Maradona's head, even though it's only punch above your own head. Why is his hand lower than his head? It's it's so bad. It's I mean, obviously, the the the hand of God thing, that's the biggest thing about it. But I loved watching that um uh the the the stuff with Terre Venables because that's immediately after the game. And I did like the fact that he were like, Yeah, it is an handball, but he you can see he's stunned that Shilton can't get there.

SPEAKER_01 28:39

It's a ridiculous handball, but it's ridiculous the fact that he didn't need to do it and he would have still outjumped him.

SPEAKER_00 28:44

And I think it annoys me that Shilton doesn't forgive him to this day, does not forgive him for it. If anything, like Maradon should be like saying, Well, you know, I won't be a cheat if you could what I didn't think if he came out and said, Look, I like you said, I didn't think I were gonna get it with my hand.

SPEAKER_01 28:59

Like, yeah, I thought there's no way I can get high enough to get that ball from this six-foot-one man who can use his hands.

SPEAKER_00 29:05

It's it's so bad, it's one of the worst pieces of goalkeeping. No, he's got it up somehow, no, but I don't I don't know how he's done it, and I don't know how we've slagged Shilton a lot off on this, and he used to be a bit of a hero of mine when I were um when I was really younger, because when I were really into a fashion dull goalkeeper, but he's not a good penalty saver, and he's not good at people. But our mate's dog, Tom, he should have me send me a video of this and he throws a stomach for his dog and he like waits until it's landed before he goes and runs for it. Just reminding me of Shilton. He should have called him Schultz, but yeah, he's done that, and then there were the England Germany in 1990 where it deflects off Paul Parker, and for again, somehow it lobs over his head in a net. He's six foot one. How is he getting lobbed on his line?

SPEAKER_01 29:53

It's I mean, it's a bit like the sort of really recent Champions League final, innit? Where the the Havertz goal, the keeper made himself smaller somehow rather than being.

SPEAKER_00 30:01

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So thanks for nothing, Schultz. But it is funny, it is funny, and it is funny that he still gets uh armour for it on uh social media, which I think is always a good thing, to be honest. I think it's a health ache thing. Number

Beckham Red Card And Tech Meltdown

SPEAKER_00 30:12

five, we're saying with England again, and it's another bad moment for England, and it's France 98. And I don't know if this is very niche between me and you, but we're there's there's no way this wasn't going on the list. It's when David Beckham gets sent off for kicking out at Diego Simeone and Gabriel Battistuta's reaction to it, I'm gonna be able to do it. I'm doing the action as you're saying it. It's such a good there's so many good things about it. He nods like is it proving a hit? Like, do you know, like sort of so someone will say, like, do we take him out? And he's like nods so slowly and like surely the nod is like there's no doubt.

SPEAKER_01 30:47

So what we're talking about, that the camera is on obviously the Beckham flicks his heel up and hits Simeone, I think it is. Yeah, yeah, it goes down. Is it second yellow or is it a straight red?

SPEAKER_00 30:59

No, oh, I can't. That's a great question, though. I should know that. I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_01 31:04

It must be a straight red, and the reason I know that is the reason I know is tied to the Bat Stuart thing, actually, because everybody's waiting to see the colour of the card that comes out. Yeah, yeah. Black Stuart's eyes follow the card up, like as if is it yellow, is it red? And the second he sees it's a red, it gives the most confident, definitive nod of all time. And what I'll the best thing though about that is absolutely the right decision.

SPEAKER_00 31:30

Yeah, that that that's the best thing about it is this is an off-the-ball incident. There is no way Battist has seen this. It's halfway up the it's a striker. This has happened in the middle of the minute.

SPEAKER_01 31:41

It's probably not a red anyway, even if you saw it. It's ridiculous. But confidence in his, yeah, this you've got this absolutely spot on, correct.

SPEAKER_00 31:50

It's almost like he's saying no brainer, mate.

SPEAKER_01 31:53

No brainer sometimes if you listen to Talk Sport in the morning when Ali McCoy's on, when the other person's talking, he keeps going, correct, correct, correct.

SPEAKER_00 32:02

It's like that.

SPEAKER_01 32:03

It's like, yeah, correct. You've got you are for anyone who doubted you, they're a fool. Because I knew and you knew that this was a red card.

SPEAKER_00 32:12

I've never heard anyone else speak about this because everyone talks about the internet. I don't know. If you've not if you're not seeing it, it's World Cup season, so go and watch some old World Cup games. That's one of the best ever World Cup matches. I mean, obviously, at the same time. Just keep an eye on back to the oh I wasn't angry with him though, even at the time when I first saw it.

SPEAKER_01 32:31

I'm not like I'm not angry about Stuter in the moment. Yeah. But I wouldn't have been finding this moment. I felt good for Beckham because I didn't think it was a red, but it was stupid, and I knew that everybody would be fuming with him.

SPEAKER_00 32:44

Everyone's had huddle for him under a boss, didn't he?

SPEAKER_01 32:46

After, but yeah, yeah. I mean, obviously the Reserve are our big rivals anyway, so that made it more painful. So so yeah, I I don't think for a second, I mean, if they did, if they were ahead of the curve, if anybody saw it in the moment and was laughing live, fair play to listen, fair play. Yeah, we we've only found it funny later as we've learned to live with it.

SPEAKER_00 33:03

And if you've never seen it before, just keep an eye on him. People might not find it that funny, but it's the fact that he can't have possibly seen that incident and he nods. I'm thinking as I'm watching him, well, obviously is if Batty State was that confident, like he's clearly ascending off.

SPEAKER_01 33:17

I'm trying to think, like, what it's almost like something you know for a fact. So it's like, yeah, I don't know, it's almost like I can't think of a good analogy. Like you I don't know, like it's it's me and my brother have my mum says, like, look, one of you's eating that last cupcake, and I know it wasn't me. And she kind of reasons out like, well, hold on a minute. I I seem to remember you didn't want any supper last night, so I think you might have eaten the cupcake. And me almost like you had nodded, you figured it out. You've you've got it's almost like you know, like where sort of Colombo figures it out, and as an audience, we're going, Yeah, he's got it.

SPEAKER_00 33:53

He knows what just one more thing. Uh, did you see the kick out? What? Yeah, imagine that brilliant, and I love I love Batty Gold anyway. Didn't love him in this moment, but um absolutely I I I this is not true, but I think he struck a ball harder than anyone other than maybe Jimmy Floyd Astlebank.

SPEAKER_01 34:11

Yeah, Jimmy Floyd, definitely. I mean, uh, I think from from the the wrong side of the city for us, but I think David Earst could hit a very hard ball.

SPEAKER_00 34:18

Yeah, it would be a really good hit on a ball, yeah. But um, yeah, um but he never did a nod, David Earst, and that's why he's not on this list.

SPEAKER_01 34:25

So yeah, yeah, no, it's fair. Number four, another one that's actually genuinely really funny. I haven't watched this as recently as you, so I even though I'm sort of covering this one, you might be better. But so this is I'll try and summarise it. So Jonathan Pierce uh we're talking Brazil 2014 is a tournament, and France are playing Honduras, and goal line technology was being used. I don't know if it's the it's the first time in a world cup, is it?

SPEAKER_00 34:50

Yeah, first world cup, yeah, yeah. Yeah, the first world cup, yeah. And there's a there's an incident where a couple of shots thinking about it again.

SPEAKER_01 34:58

The shots fired in on goal, and and it's the first time we get this sort of really dramatic moment in a World Cup that we're gonna go and use VAR and figure this out. And and I I think, and correct me if I'm wrong, I think what happens is there's two incidents where the ball kind of could have crossed the line, it's fired in in quick succession. Yeah, and and VAR comes to the summary that the first time the first it's not VAR, it's just goal line technology.

SPEAKER_00 35:23

It's just goal line technology, yeah. It's so simple.

SPEAKER_01 35:26

Well, which is slightly more confusing because I thought that was instantaneous, but anyway, so that so they analyse it afterwards, and the first incident says, No goal, the ball did not cross the line, and the second incident says, Yep, the ball's crossed the line, that is a goal. So it bounces off the post.

SPEAKER_00 35:41

Yeah, so it bounces off the post, and you think, Well, is that gonna over? It doesn't, so it says no goal, but then it bounces over the line. Jonathan Pierce loses his mind. Oh my goodness me, they've changed their mind. The two separate incidents. It keeps like the best thing is Kion. It's it's so good. Kion's a lot of things. He's like, Well, no, really. Um what's actually happened there is it's two separate incidents. Which one are we supposed to believe? Who are we supposed to believe here? Yeah, yeah, which replay are we supposed to believe? And it's like going, this was supposed to be a completely free of controversy, and it is the most controversial thing in the World Cup. And you're just like, what are you on about, Keon?

SPEAKER_01 36:20

Sort of see the moment as a commentator that that while this is iconic, it's gonna be talked about forever. Like this this technology has changed its mind almost. Yeah, and like how can we trust this technology? Well, no, I think they've they've given the the first the first one didn't cross line and then it did, Jonathan. I think I'd love to. I just don't know what we're supposed to believe here. I just don't know what we're supposed to think. This is supposed to make it clear.

SPEAKER_00 36:45

But all the JP is not taking any notice of Keon because Keon's got it spot on. Yeah, he's right. That one's not in, and that one is, and then like the the managers are arguing, and he thinks they're arguing about this, and they're not. He's look, the managers can't believe what's happened, but they're not arguing about that. They're not they're just having a bit of a like a do with each other. It's not like a big do you know what I mean? And even uh it's so good. I remember that that World Cup and the memes going around, it were like it was like obviously the Dougal one, you know, like that when trying to explain something to someone, so like Keion trying to explain to Jonathan Pierce and that that Simpsons one, do you ever in the interrogation room and they're all got the cigarettes out and stuff?

SPEAKER_01 37:23

Yeah, um, so when I kick your foot, Mr. Simpson, you'll respond. Oh Mr. Anderson, I think he's talking to you.

SPEAKER_00 37:32

Yeah, it's like that. And even like even like as the game were going on, they kept referring back to it, and obviously we've had that controversial goal. I can't believe no one in his ear said you JP, stop saying it. Because all the audience knew immediately that no, we know.

SPEAKER_01 37:48

Yeah, he's just got himself that worked up, and and like I say, I think he thinks he's part of this iconic moment of wow, we're gonna talk about this forever. That we got this this technology that changed its mind mid-decision. Like, and yeah, it's it's just not what he thinks it is. It's it's actually done that it's got it right.

SPEAKER_00 38:04

Yeah, it's got it right. Uh it's mad to me that I've I've brought this as a note there. He did robot wars, but this is too confusing for him for a really simple goal. He knew everything about oh, he's got the shredder out, and he's not bothered about stuff like that. Spinning hundred kilo disc fair that whips round on the opponent. Yeah, lamb key bar, like things like that he'd be saying at that. But this is like I love JP. I we did a commentary, yeah. Yeah, I did a commentary episode for the the football podcast that I do, and I put him up there. I think he's brilliant, but not his finest moment. This um, yeah. But on to number three,

Hodgson Despair And Irish Sideline Chaos

SPEAKER_00 38:40

Liam. We're in the top the podium positions now. I think we had to have this fairly high. This is Roy Hodgson's head till after Suarez scores. Brazil 2014. England have already lost the first game, do it a lie. They need at least a draw against Uruguay. Go 1-0 behind, get back into it. Rooney's only ever goal at a World Cup, Liam. That's sad, isn't it? Yeah. Um, and uh yeah, England are on top, and then a long goal kick. Gerard, who has a habit of making big errors uh at international tournaments, missing a penalty obviously in one of them, and then passing the ball back to Arm Ray. This is another one. He heads it backwards. Suarez goes through, puts it in, England are out of the World Cup in the first round. But Hodgson's reaction to it, and I'm sure everyone has seen this gif, uh it's it's so it's like life in itself, I think. His eyes are so hopeful at first, like a child. Like, yeah, what's gonna happen?

SPEAKER_01 39:32

His eyes are wide. This could be brilliant, this could be the best thing ever. This this is gonna be so good. Oh no, it's gone.

SPEAKER_00 39:38

And then he just like it his flop is such a it's when people call him owl head, it is such an owl-like turn. It's a weird to one side.

SPEAKER_01 39:46

I get if your head drops, like, and it naturally just drops forward. I think that's human reaction. The fact it sort of drops sideways, like what's it's weird, like how he doesn't, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 39:56

It's the I don't think I've ever seen anyone reflect despair in sport as good as this head tilt.

SPEAKER_01 40:03

Because I think it's just sort of sums up. Do you know when they say like you sort of your childhood dreams, and then there's a sort of moment where you realise you've you've sort of got to grow up and give all that up. It's like it's sort of summarised that, doesn't it? It's like the the sort of boyish optimism in his eyes, and then it's just like this the the world's great.

SPEAKER_00 40:21

Like you know, I can't wait to oh no, oh no, it's not, it's awful. It's one of the worst things that's ever happened. That I can't I don't understand the optimism in his face, it's obviously just the way he's looking. But Suarez is I mean, it's a brilliant.

SPEAKER_01 40:35

And he's sat cross-legged on like almost like a dining chair, it can't be. But he sort of sat almost like on a formal chair on his own.

SPEAKER_00 40:44

And that head tilt is so I feel so sorry for him.

SPEAKER_01 40:49

Like I think it's so hard a little bit. It's like when you're a kid, you know, like a kid sort of thought they were getting the present that they wanted, and then it's like it's not that like it's oh yeah, that this is it, this is the PlayStation I wanted. Oh no, it's just a big box.

SPEAKER_00 41:03

You don't normally see managers like you don't normally see managers so open with how disappointed they are in a match because Norbert's their job to say, no, come on, so haven't we, in that moment? Yeah, yeah, that's it. I think at that moment, I don't know what else has happened in Roy Hodgson's life. Obviously, he's back but we're at Brack at Bristol City wearing a beautiful pair of shades, weren't they? Uh a couple of weeks ago. So you know, fair play to him. I think that might at that particular moment must have been the most crushed he's ever seen.

SPEAKER_01 41:31

Well, it's a bit, I mean, it's a bit sort of more obvious than it, but again, we've with Simpsons referenced already. But do you know the one where he gives Lisa the the Valentine's card or whatever, and she says, like, you see the moment his heart is crushed, and like they pause it. It's like yeah, you can see like all that optimism and hope just vanish out of him in one head tilt drop.

SPEAKER_00 41:50

I think if if if an alien came and said, What what are these things you call emotions? Just watch this gif, mate. It's Roy Hudson. What you think? Yeah, yeah. I think they'd say this, but what you're seeing here is the hope, and then you know, this uh yeah This is life.

SPEAKER_01 42:06

This is a metaphor for life. That was a metaphor. I don't know if you would, by the way, being a bit harsh on Gerald. Is that I didn't know it's a thing. Is he famous for maybe not?

SPEAKER_00 42:14

No, I've just thought of him. I as I thought as I was speaking, I thought about I'm probably on being harsh on him. He did that terrible backpass in the Euro 2004, um, and Henri got fouled and Zidane scored penalty to England Monster France. He missed the penalty himself, which he's not alone with, obviously, in 2006. And then this one he's trying to head it, obviously, and he heads it and he gets it wrong and it heads it backwards. And some somehow Suarez has cleaned through. I mean it's a poor, it's a poor England team. You've got Gary King Hooker up back.

SPEAKER_01 42:45

I mean, for what it's worth, I don't remember the games anywhere near as well as you do. But I I don't remember being frustrated with Gerard in a game. No, I don't think it was we were really poor. Yeah, yeah. I don't know. Yeah, I I I no, I just I just want to put it out there. Like, obviously, I'm not Liverpool fan, far from it.

SPEAKER_00 43:02

Uh no, I'm probably being harsh. I'm probably being harsh. I thought that was a little bit harsh on Gerard, yeah. Yeah, but yeah, that's we we that's when we'd stopped persisting with Gerard and Lamport as well. So, you know, all those people who said oh they can't play together, maybe they should have played together because we got knocked out. We we had the worst record in that World Cup of any team.

SPEAKER_01 43:20

I'm doing the like head drop as you said it. Like that's the reaction it sort of triggered in me.

SPEAKER_00 43:24

It's the worst World Cup we've ever had. Right, we're on to the top two, Liam, and I know this is one that you absolutely love for one reason, and I love it for another reason, but yeah.

SPEAKER_01 43:33

Yeah, so so this is USA 94. Um, obviously Ireland qualified for USA. Uh my my uncle went with the uh the Ireland team actually. He travelled on the U.S.

SPEAKER_00 43:41

Did you know any McAldreck, your uncle?

SPEAKER_01 43:43

Yeah, yeah, he travelled on the team coach for a bit of it. Um but yeah, the I mean this we're talking about a sort of a moment that happened, but to me it's kind of bigger than that. It's it's the iconography of this. This to me is like Sort of almost like if you're picturing icons of pop culture, like you might have Superman. I I would have this like somewhere close to it. This is Jack Charlton in sort of formal trousers, a shirt, a tie, I believe, and a baseball cap. A huge seemingly huge baseball cap.

SPEAKER_00 44:17

White, a white baseball cap.

SPEAKER_01 44:19

Yeah, pure white as well. I don't think there's a logo, or I think it's a pure white baseball.

SPEAKER_00 44:24

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 44:25

I mean, the particular moment in this tournament is so they're trying to make a substitution. Um trying to get dodgy this.

SPEAKER_00 44:31

So I'll I'll just go through the store because I watched the city.

SPEAKER_01 44:33

Yeah, you you probably might know this better than me, the actual thing.

SPEAKER_00 44:35

Yeah, so they're trying to make the 2-0 down, it's boiled. The first match, by the way, Jack Charlton's already got done by FIFA because he's um for wearing a huge baseball cap. He tried to get water out against Italy to the players, and for some reason, even though it were like 50 degrees or whatever it was, the FIFA rules at that point was you can't give water out in the middle of the match, and he's going mad, he's throwing water around Jack Charlton. So he's already been fined at this point. But what's happening is is they they tried to make a sub, um, and the guy who gets the the subs to the fourth official, he's got it a piece of paper in his hand, and for some reason a FIFA official, I don't know if you if you remember the guy, he's wearing like a yellow baseball cap, little little guy, what's like yeah, and he snatches it off him, yeah. He snatches it off this guy. So Coin goes off, um and Owen Coin goes off, and Aldridge is not allowed on because, in fairness to the fourth official, he's not seen that he's not been given to cheat, so he just seems to and walk off. So it's almost like imagine this, they're two and all down at this point, it's fucking boiling against Mexico. Ridiculous. So Aldridge loses his shit big time. He's got night to know, yeah. Oh, he's like, You're fucking cheating, bastard! He's so angry, he's absolutely fuming, and Ron Atkinson of Comments goes, I want to get sent off B no more. It's it's like that, but like, yeah. And Ron Atkinson of Commentary goes, if he's not careful, he's gonna get sent off before he even gets on the pitch. And then so it he's going mad because you're fucking you're fucking cheating.

SPEAKER_01 46:04

Imagine that as a moment. Imagine getting sent off as you're getting subbed on. Like the players come off and you get sent off.

SPEAKER_00 46:10

But yeah, I mean he's right to be furious, but so Charlton goes up to the fourth official, uh sorry, the the FIFA representative, and starts like he's pointing at him with his massive baby.

SPEAKER_01 46:20

With lots of pointing, yeah, with big sort of long arms waving around, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 46:23

Uh and he pushes him away, he says, I will report you. And Charlton, like, there's yeah, you be careful. Because obviously a bit of an arcade Charlton, certainly back in his day. Yeah, it's an incredible moment, because as you said, the I cannot this is the same tournament where when they lined up uh against Italy, Steve Storton wore a baseball cap in the line when they did the national anthems. As if that were gonna change anything, like just keeping out the sun for that little bit, is about to play a full 90 minutes. This is such a I think though, do you know why?

SPEAKER_01 46:54

I mean, it's absolutely ridiculous what I'm gonna say, actually. But do you know like the the the Jordan brand where it's like the silhouette of him sort of doing a dunk with his legs apart? I I think this should be the silhouette of him in that cap and his sort of shirt, short sleeved shirt, trousers, and tie. That's this should be as famous. That's silly.

SPEAKER_00 47:14

Would you have Aldridge behind? Like, or would you think it's just to be Charlton? I think it's got to be pure Charlton in his huge cap.

SPEAKER_01 47:20

Like, yeah, just I'd love that to be some kind of if anyone if anyone out there, you know, you can have it. Like be nice if you send them some. But if you want to make some sort of merch, yeah, just put that as your silhouette. No, no, don't need any any description. I like how and again. He's such an English man abroad, innit? But you know, like sort of in my memory, he's got a short sleeved shirt on that's kind of got those iron creases, so it sticks out a little bit on his arms, like it's it's absolutely brilliant.

SPEAKER_00 47:51

It's honestly fantastic. So I think that it it the the the the the moment is funny. I mean it's a lot of things.

SPEAKER_01 47:57

I mean even just thinking about him as he looks is making me laugh, and I can't see him in front of me, so it's got to be a good sign.

SPEAKER_00 48:04

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But that that I can as you said, the background to it all, the fact that they've already had Steve Storton wearing a cap, that Ireland World Cup thing is and they had some good results. Obviously, beat it earlier. Yeah, got knocked out to uh Holland in the in the in the next round. But that Irish team, obviously, a lot of them weren't Irelish, Irish as everyone knows. It was such a I don't know, English men abroad sort of thing. That's how it felt, you know, like wearing the baseball cats, not really sure what to wear. He wants to look smart, but he knows he needs a cap. And then you've got the midday heat, like just ruining Aldridge's game.

SPEAKER_01 48:37

It looks like, you know, like say, I don't know, like uh a five or six year old's gone to a wedding, and the mum and dad's dressed him really smart and then said, But you're gonna have to wear a cap because it's really sunny today.

SPEAKER_00 48:46

It looks like a huge version of that, doesn't it? It's like a like an eight-year-old, isn't there? You're gonna have to wear a cap, it's really hot, they're gonna burn your head.

SPEAKER_01 48:53

Like oh, I'd be fine, Mum. No, come on, put this big, huge white cap on your head.

SPEAKER_00 48:58

Unbelievable. And I would I would genuinely I I supported Ireland in that world cook because obviously England didn't qualify. And I don't I I I remember at the time feeling like they'd genuinely been cheated as well.

SPEAKER_01 49:09

Um, yeah, yeah, it was it like a real moment of art, like even thinking about it now, like you think that was bang out of order, to be honest. Like the right to be angry. I'm not sure he's right to be dressed as he's dressed, but he's right to be very angry.

SPEAKER_00 49:21

He came on the Aldrich and scored, actually, 2-1. If they got him on earlier, who knows? Might have got a draw. What could have been? Right, let's go to 10 to 2 before we reveal our number one. Number 10, it's Des Lynham. Shouldn't you be at work? France 98. Number nine, Martin O'Neill rinses Robbie Williams, France 98 again. Gary Linekus shats himself, um, Atalia 90. Number seven, Saudi Fan fires a gun in celebration, Quitar 2022. Number six, Maradona Routes jumps Shilton for the hand of God, Mexico 86. Number five, Batty Stuton nods approvingly as Beckham is sent off, France 98. Number four, Jonathan Pierce versus Goal Line Technology, Brazil 2014. Number three, Roy Hodgson's head tilt against uh Uruguay, Brazil 2014. And number two, Jack Charlton had a baseball cap. Just to leave it at that. Jack Charlton had a baseball cap, USA 94. And then number one, and uh anyone who'd listen to our old podcast will not be surprised that we've picked this.

The Commentary Clip That Wins

SPEAKER_00 50:19

And we we weren't sure why if it were too obvious for us. I don't know how many people around England have actually heard this. I think this is we're gonna have to play a clip. Do you think, Liam?

SPEAKER_01 50:29

Yeah, we we try since we came across on today's feed from the Living with Mail feed, we we try to not be too clip heavy and and we don't use many, but I think I think we've got to. I think I don't think we can do it justice without I think shall we shall we just put the what do you want to do? Do you want to down or do you want to play as a I'll build it up first?

SPEAKER_00 50:47

I'll yeah no no I think we'll we'll play the full segment. This is South Africa 2010. England are 2-1 down against Germany, Frank Lampard has a shot, it hits the bar, and this is how Talk Sports Mark Sag has reacted to it.

SPEAKER_01 51:02

Yeah, this I I mean I watched a game, I watched this with uh Armate Damon actually in town.

SPEAKER_00 51:08

I'm in Glastonbury for this, actually.

SPEAKER_01 51:10

And it's a shocking moment and it's incredibly frustrating, but but this is the best piece of commentary, it's the funniest and the best piece of commentary I've probably ever heard. It's like a work of art. I I love how he gets himself riled up, I love how he stops making any sense, he stops even using proper sentences. It's goal is one of the best lines ever.

SPEAKER_00 51:31

There's a bit though, I love the bit where he goes, oh, he don't know what to say. It's like oh and then boo!

SPEAKER_01 51:37

I don't know what to say. It's not like someone else is talking and he sort of thinks his mind's off, who mid-commentary starts booing is incredible. You know, again, I mean some of these are a bit sort of uh what's the word? We're we're kind of laughing at our own failures at times as some of these sort of England moments, but yeah, it's gutting because the ball does cross the line, it's it's an injustice, it should it should be given as a goal. But this piece of commentary is is just absolutely incredible. I love how obviously they should be professional, they should be unbiased, but he just completely gives up on that. He's furious, he's outraged, he's getting himself wound up even as he's doing it. He's kind of having a conversation with himself that like well no it's a goal, they've got to give it as a goal. It's a goal, he's getting so wound up as he's talking. But then when he starts shouting, it's goal, it's got oh miles over the line once he's seen the once he's seen the thing, Mark.

SPEAKER_00 52:39

Miles over the line.

SPEAKER_01 52:40

I think you could even for me, I wouldn't want to because I love the whole moment, but even just its goal, I could strip it down to that being one of the funniest World Cup moments.

SPEAKER_00 52:48

But it's one of those things, and I uh uh people might know thinking my mum passed away a couple of weeks ago. The reason I know this is funny. Let it go, man. Let it go. I know you're always banging on about your dead mum. Um, but uh the reason I know this is funny is she this I must be six or seven years ago, maybe. And um, she were in hospital, she was really early when she first started getting really bad. And it looked like then, like, oh, she might go. And I was sat in the car, and that's the first time I heard this commentary. Uh Oxby and Jacobs played her, and they were I thought I don't even know what they were on about. And I'm like, that that can't be real. And I went home, and I remember like phoning you saying, I've just heard best commentary of all time. It even in that like moment of like real fear, they were like, This was just too funny to ignore.

SPEAKER_01 53:33

Oh, incredible. I mean what what speed was it on then? Who was Sagis working for? Talk sport at the time.

SPEAKER_00 53:38

Talk sport, it would talk sport, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 53:39

So actually you're right then, because it was shown on terrestrial TV, maybe it's not as well known as as we think it is. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 53:47

I think he's more famous, Mart Sagis, for his you know when England get knocked out against Europe, uh against Iceland and he's going, Pat your bags, Roy Hodson. We've had enough for you. Yeah, way Rooney, you never delivered on the big stage. But this for me is the funniest World Cup moment of all time because I will never not smile when I'm gonna.

SPEAKER_01 54:05

Well, I think this I mean, hopefully, quite a few of the list, quite a few on the list. You don't sort of need to be an English football fan to to kind of get them. In fact, I'm looking through, I don't necessarily think you need to for any of them, really. But but this one, do you like when we listen to I don't know, South American commentary? Like they're going crazy, like going, yeah. I think this should be played worldwide. It's it's so good. It's it yeah, it's it's brilliant. Like the outrage, the anger, the disappointment, and and like the sadness in it as well.

SPEAKER_00 54:38

Like it's just the bit where he's where his voice goes. Miles over the line. Yeah, it's just brilliant. I think it's a worthy, worthy, worthy winner.

What’s Next Plus Ratings And Contact

SPEAKER_00 54:51

Um, and we'll be back for more World Cup stuff next week, won't we? Um but don't worry about it. Yeah, you mentioned it, aren't you? We've got we've got a a couple of rather special guests involved. Rather special people are gonna be thinking now that we've got to be a good idea. Thinking it's Hodson, it's Batchier.

SPEAKER_01 55:06

It's not we cannot cannot kind of confirm it is those people, but we'd probably say it probably won't be.

SPEAKER_00 55:13

Um, but um we're gonna be talking about the South Africa World Cup in 2010, which is this is from actually, because that was an incredibly funny World Cup for a lot of reasons. Um but if you're not into football, don't worry about it because we're gonna be continuing to share our old Maidly Archives podcast, aren't we, William?

SPEAKER_01 55:31

Yeah, we're gonna stick with those for a bit, get some of those across onto this feed. Obviously, you know, if if you've kind of come with with us on the journey from those days, listen again. It's it is content we've put out there before, so we fully accept if you if you don't give it a listen. But yeah, be nice if nice if people do. And yeah, we often mock the whole sort of smash your face into the like and all that sort of stuff.

SPEAKER_00 55:52

Oh, yeah, well, yeah, if you're on Apple, give us a like.

SPEAKER_01 55:55

Well, I think if you're on it, if you're on anything, like if if you're on Apple or Spotify or ever, if you could give us a like, give us a good rating, you know. Well, we're we're doing alright. The numbers are sort of quite close to the next step, aren't we? Things are looking pretty good. So, you know, I don't do it to loads of podcasts. We're we're fully expecting most people listening to this to now be pressing that button where it switches off and you won't fear any of it. But if you are here and you do want to do something nice for us, it would be good if you can either you know share it, tell tell a friend, tell two friends. Tell a friend, yeah. I'll run that by the way.

SPEAKER_00 56:28

I would I'd want to give a shout out to a back in the day podcast, which is a really good uh nostalgia podcast um message I'd be listening to their stuff really, really good. Might try and share a link of that as well. But before all, you listen to them, smash a like for us. That's all no offense. Yeah, yeah, give you know, give us a you've got you've gotta be, yeah. You've got to be. I mean, I say that.

SPEAKER_01 56:45

I'm I'm not I wouldn't ask you to do that. Give us a fair rating. If you don't think we're that good, rate us is not that good. But if it thinks all right, we've got two one stars, but we're we're we're alright with that, aren't we?

SPEAKER_00 56:54

We've got two one stars, so yeah, we can live with it.

SPEAKER_01 56:57

We you know, we roll with the punches, don't we?

SPEAKER_00 56:59

One of them's Peter Shilton, the other one's uh Roy Hobson, yeah. Yeah, yeah. On that, Leroy Jenkins, thank you very much.

SPEAKER_01 57:07

Cheers, everyone. We will be back very soon.

SPEAKER_00 57:11

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