Episode 42 - World Cup Preview

World Cup fever takes over the podcast this week. Before our World Cup chat we took a look at this weeks football and transfer news. We then looked ahead to the upcoming World Cup and gave our predictions for winners, top scorer, surprise package, biggest flop, and player of the tournament. We discussed the competition as a whole before answering questions from our listeners which were all World Cup themed. All our predictions are on Instagram.

Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:05

Welcome back everyone, episode number forty-two, Lads on the Sideline Podcast. Um this is our World Cup Preview podcast. So we're gonna welcome everybody who hasn't listened. It might reach a bit of a broader audience if it's a World Cup preview, so if it's our first time listening, welcome. We're a football podcast, it's three people, two sons and a father. Talk all teams football throughout the Premier League season and we delve into Man United a bit more, as we are Man United fans for our scenes. But during the summer it'll be all transferred windows, and obviously now the World Cup is on, we'll be we'll be delving into the Woke Up a little bit as well. So I'm Connor, joined by my brother Sean. And our father, Villa.

SPEAKER_01 0:48

Oh yes, welcome back everybody. Thanks for listening.

SPEAKER_02 0:51

Yeah, to be we were talking about this podcast age, wasn't it? Yeah, the World Cup preview, and now it's two days away, it's mad, isn't it?

SPEAKER_01 0:57

Snuck up fairly quick, didn't it? Mm-hmm. It's like you were saying last week, wasn't it? Just the season just seemed to whisboy, doesn't it? You know, United only had like one game a week since they've got knocked out of two early cups. Like just flew in, didn't it? When we thought it was going to be a long season, really.

SPEAKER_02 1:10

And it'll be it'll be winning quick, it'll be a couple of weeks now. We'll be looking like Jason Spain won the World Cup, they did well, didn't it? Maybe saying Argentina We don't know who shan't speaking yet either.

SPEAKER_01 1:21

Portugal, yeah, Portugal, I'm thinking about it.

SPEAKER_02 1:24

That's alright, like yeah. Um if people do want to look at our predictions, we do have an Instagram page and they're all up there. We've gone through our whole group stages, best tour place finishers, all the way through to the to the final. And we've also given a few other little predictions, top score, etc. So we'll go through that now in a few minutes. Um are we already all the best?

SPEAKER_01 1:45

Yeah, yeah. Looking forward to doing her again, with a quick week. That's it. Every time a week goes in, I'm trying to say that's a new a week nearer outlets. Four weeks.

SPEAKER_02 1:54

Yeah, four weeks on the isn't it? That's true, yeah. True. But uh yeah, so we always start off with our news or talking points. There's not too much in fairness. It was a little bit, but it wasn't anything that was sort of warding up and down. Like uh Marco Silva started for us, and he's gone to Benfica as a manager, so he sort of left Fulham. Yeah, all the blue, but don't read him to things, so he's gone there, like so. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 2:22

It could be good, it'd be bad if Stan's move, like I mean it's looking must be getting more money. Now I don't know what it's like over in Park to go to pay money out now. And obviously part of when Benfica and Spartan Lisbon are probably the three big teams over there. But to leave Fulham, like I think you'd like to leave the premiership to go back there, like you need to think of a step down, but I suppose to go to Benfica like more chance of playing in the Champions League with a team like that, I suppose. That's probably.

SPEAKER_02 2:48

I think they would have beaten, wouldn't he? They still playing second, I think, in the league with Mourinho. So er book. We can take Fulham now, isn't it?

SPEAKER_01 2:58

Yeah, yeah. Definitely. Interesting. Look, you still have to replace him as well. He was a good manager.

SPEAKER_02 3:02

Fulham aren't in bad shape, whoever takes them over. It's not as if they're every ones who kind of I don't know what the contract situation is for all the players they have, but and they obviously need new ones too, but it's not as if they're like Bournemouth, the people looking for three and four of the top players. No, they're steady. Yeah, Carrie Wilson might be looked for, so I might look for him, maybe. I don't know. It's not as if it's global. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So whoever comes in should have a fairly steady ship because they're not a bad team, as you said, they're always a no, they're well run.

SPEAKER_01 3:27

Yeah. They're a well-run club, like yeah, always give you a hard game.

SPEAKER_02 3:32

No, never say never, but look at West Ham, but this could do something to them like that, you wouldn't know, but yeah. I can't see too many players leaving if their contract situations. And he would take him.

SPEAKER_01 3:46

Yeah. He's a good manager. But I can't see him leaving West Ham, but he stayed with him. Do you think so, yeah? Yeah. Get him back up. Look, I think like I think like of all the teams like that went down over the last few years, I think they're team that should just come back up.

SPEAKER_02 3:59

With Glass now go anywhere, would would he go there or CD? What's his name? It's a strange one, isn't it? That is a weird one. If if Sweden were to struggle, I wonder what Grey Potter would be in the mix in as well, isn't he?

SPEAKER_01 4:11

Yeah, he might like to go back to the Premier League, yeah. And they're good, you'll have a full message with him. Yeah, it's really like you like Brighton, didn't you? That that type of club, like you play decent football and a well-run club like Brighton, and it could be a good move, like yeah.

SPEAKER_02 4:22

The pressure isn't quite as much as the Chelsea or anybody like that sort of a thing.

SPEAKER_00 4:27

So look.

SPEAKER_02 4:28

It's intense, isn't it? Yeah, Premier League manager. The higher you're playing, obviously the higher the chain, the you know, but no matter who you are, it's not your manager. No, it's not easy. It's a full-time, full-time job, isn't it? Well, well, they'd throw it on there, but probably the only thing they love, but mostly stressful as well.

SPEAKER_01 4:42

Like you know that balls of steel. Yeah, really, to take the job because it's it's pressure, and that's it. And it's usually to say the whole you go up the chain and the league at the top, the the more pressure under.

SPEAKER_02 4:53

You're more scrutinised. You'd be there by six months or six years, couldn't you? It's mad. Yeah, it goes to crazy.

SPEAKER_01 4:58

And you know what? You could be doing great for five years and have one bad season and you'd you've you're crucified. Yeah. Then the English reporters over there and then in the media over there just just wait. Like the just how many in your marks are when you're when you're doing bad and when you're doing good. Yeah. And that's it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 5:15

Er two other little bits of news, then more international news. So we are Irish, so let's give a little shout-out to the women who are playing tonight against France. And uh if they were to somehow win, they'd go automatically into the World Cup. But I think if they come second, the Great would play off, I think, don't they?

SPEAKER_01 5:31

So yeah, they see it. But you'd expect France, look here. Wouldn't we expect him really to get a great win the other night now in Halloween, and I believe it was all game on that? Sorry, it was in Cork, wasn't it? Yeah, yeah. And it was um it was pissing out, wasn't it? Yeah, horrible. But they get a winner in the 19th minute for the fans to be to be gone to watch them actually, they must have been delighted. And it gets them a good buzz. They're playing well enough. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 5:54

They're doing well, like it just fills them a competence. Obviously, Francine Lean, well favourites, but it was a close game the last time in Tallis Asian.

SPEAKER_01 6:01

Yeah, when you won. The woman came on, like the the girl came on like and scored just open, scored two goals, I think, didn't she? Yeah, looking at it.

SPEAKER_02 6:09

She had one off the line the last minute, so come here. Look at they'll give as good as they get anyway. Yeah. Um so we're a bit like one of our teams are going to a World Cup at some stage. Uh and then look the last bit of news before we got to quick transfer now is er poor poor Cunt Erickson. Announced again. They're saying that the the fib later is it that he has inside in his chest, like that literally side is life. So he's doing the job, like you know. Yeah, he needs to hang the boots up now, doesn't he? Yeah, he's had a good career, like you know, for a player that's been all around, made a lot of money, won a couple of trophies.

SPEAKER_01 6:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 6:45

Do you know when he just looks like a nice guy? Great footballer, destroyed Ireland a few times. I remember I remember the same year for anyone that doesn't know my my better half is from Poland, and remember that before. It was the Euro 2012, well no, it's 2016 or something. Something like that, yeah. But Kristen Ericsson destroyed Ireland and a week later destroyed Poland.

SPEAKER_01 7:07

Yeah, I remember that. It was just what the hell like you know in the playoffs. He'd be worth 5-1 there, didn't he? He just beat him on his own, didn't he really? But you know what he was. He's such a clever player, and and and as you said, uh a good human being and great. It'd be great to have a board as a coach somewhere on the way. He could join up with his national team and or go in with side now and and like this just for him to say it again. As a clever footballer, so you'd be listening to him if you're an up-and-coming midfielder. Yeah, I think playing wise, I think now he should hang his boots up, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 7:36

Yeah, definitely. Look, I'm sure it could have happened walking down the street for him, but definitely playing football, surely didn't help.

SPEAKER_01 7:43

No, Mary's wife will have something to say about that. Definitely. Do you know what I mean? Like she doesn't want running around in the claps again on the pitch. No.

SPEAKER_02 7:51

No, yeah, yeah, absolutely. Yeah, hopefully he makes the right decision. Yeah, true, eh? So hopefully he's he's alright in the end.

SPEAKER_01 7:57

Yeah, thank God he he he was alright and that you said did the fib later walked, and that was it. Like that's what that's what was for him for. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 8:04

Right then, we uh introduced our old transfers last week, so we're gonna do the same again this week. Just sort of mentioned a couple of the big ones around Europe and the Premier League and whatnot. So uh force and then Dumfries gone to Ren Drid. 20 million, sort of. We were talking about it today, but I think Mourinho's there just to get as many players in for the next two or three years. Yeah. Like I think he's like 27, 28, so he doesn't care when everything. Yeah, he won't care when he's 21, 42, get him gone. He'd be gone as well. I mean, like so he went to Canate last week, so that's another defender into uh didn't realise he's that tall and big, sort of yeah. He's a big fella. Can big ones. Well he is, yeah, but Montum Friesa's not too far off. Or someone who's a flyer up the wing, like you know, you wouldn't expect someone that to be fast, but he's uh he's agile and stuff, you know. So yeah. Um Marine's obviously fast and that's it, but he wouldn't be moving like a fallback, you know, if that makes sense for the size of them.

SPEAKER_01 8:58

But look, Mourinho likes big flowers, doesn't it? Yeah, you'll have Rey in Madrid now who's all six fours. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 9:03

That's why I think he won't sell to me unless he has someone else to bring in instead of him. Well, in that case, unless he gets Rodriguez, which is sort of impacts us. Uh Fernandez, West Ham are saying you want 85 million, it'll obviously be brought down. Yeah, blah blah blah. Supposedly Real Madrid are in from now. And look, if Real Madrid are in from, there's only gonna be one place he's gonna go, isn't it? He's got he's he's gonna got the Real Madrid and Century United if he has to choice like so. Well, a bit of luck, it's gonna it's not well, Bruno Fernandez has a bit of a bull on him as well as well, doesn't he? I think you're thinking about getting rid of your man Camavinga. So hopefully night don't go for him. He's a he's too injury prone. I don't from the reading and what look at him, obviously he's a he's a fantastic footballer, really good player, left foot, all the attributes, but probably just doesn't look after himself, he doesn't train hard enough, he doesn't do the the face bats the whole he does not enough. Why is he always injured? I don't know. We can't just stay away from him.

SPEAKER_01 10:03

Have you still got Rodri? I'd say so, yeah, after the World Cup, but see then like if you get Rodri then and just say they got your man Fernandez, and then you have Bellingham, then you have Kamavinga, then you said you mean he'd have too many midfielders, so you have to get rid of you have to get rid of Valverde. Valverde is a midfielder and he's that captain. So I mean still have to get rid of two.

SPEAKER_02 10:29

I suppose only time will tell with them players because they've got to walk up and then.

SPEAKER_01 10:34

I know if Ray and Madrid come in, like I think he likes his favourite football players is old traffic and all, isn't it? So he he lo he he says that like and he's good pass when they're with the party's team with Fernandez like so.

SPEAKER_02 10:46

We'll find out hopefully for now if you Real Madrid piss off someone else because like you said, there's no chance of him picking you a very slim chance of him picking United over Madrid anyway, isn't it? Um more midfielders than one that we thought was 100% going to City was Anderson. But there's sort of rumours the last couple of days that as the the longer Forest keep rejecting it, the more there's a chance that Anderson's still sort of 50-50 and whether he wants to go to City or United.

SPEAKER_01 11:13

Yeah, for a long and all this has come on as long as as long as possible.

SPEAKER_02 11:17

It sort of it'll remind you of a United thing where you can't get the deal done and someone else just nips in and gets it done.

SPEAKER_01 11:23

Yeah, well United want to come in and say, look at um 105, yeah, 10 105 million. They tried to do that with rice, didn't they? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 11:32

City tried to swoop in there with that. Yeah, no. But I was reading Romano's or Brittany Romano's um reports on saying that the city are willing to pay uh eighty million plus whatever. But like the pluses that they want 120. Is it 85 plus five? So they're miles away from the evaluation. You know, so you want their trans British British transfer record. So what did Rice go for?

SPEAKER_01 11:57

100 or 105? 105, eh? It's worth 105. He's he's better than nice, I think, or equally in the different team, he's younger now, he was 23 to say, but um like if if them if they're talking about 85 for Fernandez and all, like for like and last year they were talking about 100 million for Belavit and all well if you haven't got a fucking patch on on Anderson, have to. So I mean if it was a hundred million and and and the United board get together and say, Right, come on, get into this and get this done, swoop in the back door and just do the deal.

SPEAKER_02 12:29

There's a reason why everyone's willing to pay that price. Yeah, well, I think it's a Madele price for something that we only really found out about this year. I think we know about him previously, obviously every year he has to improve, which he has. Yeah, yeah, true. That's just my own reason.

SPEAKER_01 12:43

Look at the way it was like when Roy came was on the doorstep, right? Had one foot in the door for for Blackburn, and he was going to sign and and and and over the weekend he went on the holiday or whatever it was, and and then but before you knew it, Alex Ryan was up with his tower. Sign up United, British record fee.

SPEAKER_02 13:00

And he got relegated. You know what I mean? So people are saying that because he got relegated, relegated so it has to be cheap enough. No, you send a British record, so so he comes almost as you need is to just tune your brain in a bit better. Could it change the history of United? I think he was Thorty, fair enough for example. He's an up and coming up. Top mid class midfielder. He could be dealt with ten years.

SPEAKER_01 13:20

You're talking about the long haul with him. Yeah, that's it.

SPEAKER_02 13:23

Er three more. Uh two involving Wolves. Uh Trippyard signed for Wolves. Carron Trippy is going to play with him in the championship for he went signed on a free transfer. He left Newcastle. Um, and then the other one they ended up trying to sign back then is Raoul Jimenez. Again from Fulham. Wolves.

SPEAKER_01 13:40

Yeah, he was with them before, so yeah, he was a good player with them actually as well.

SPEAKER_02 13:44

Like two good signs. Obviously, Trippyard would be a good sign for the championship. Jimenez would be a good championship player then. If he was to sign for them like so.

SPEAKER_01 13:54

Interesting. Look at you need to build up as well, don't you wolves as well to get back up.

SPEAKER_02 13:59

Yeah. Especially man looks like he's gonna go to Atletico, doesn't he? Gomez. Yeah. So replace him as well.

SPEAKER_01 14:05

And then look at he he showed in a couple of games, probably for four or five in a row, then like too late in the end, and then he fell apart at the end. That's there is something about them. Do you play like so they could be good in the championship? Yeah. Like they could be, like, yeah. And with them two signs, like like that for that long, he'd bring lower experience. You need to get back up loads of experience in them two players.

SPEAKER_02 14:25

Yeah, true, well. And then the last one sort of again it involves United because you get a a sell-on clause as Greenwood. Ern the Fair Abache. Now they've supposedly everything's done with the player, and uh the age and fees and wages and stuff was done. They just need a sort of fee out between Marseille and Federabace, but United get a 50% sell-on clause, I think, is it? It's yeah, it's 50% sell-on clause of the profit you make. Right. So it's not as much as people think. No, it's not going to be. We'll get twelve and a half. The profit on him is twenty-five, yeah, it's about twelve and a half. It won't be 40 million or something. It won't be half what you sold for. No, no, it's twenty it's fifty per cent of the profit that you make from the United. So yeah. Pay twenty-five from United. Look, it doesn't matter. It's about money, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, we're looking still adds to the exactly if you get rid of home in Malaysia, it could be close to twenty million. Yeah. You know, so that's a look at it. Yeah, definitely. So uh yeah, look, that's all the news. Um transfer news. So this week, like I said, any more transfer news and next week we'll we'll call her out. We still don't know what's out of Rashford either do. No, it's just a mission, isn't it? Like I say, most of them now coming into the World Cup will be in a couple of weeks, don't they? I'd say the chances of it.

SPEAKER_01 15:36

Like the Vandal can't we thought he'd make his decision before, but just starting out tomorrow tours there already. Yeah. So there's no no big deals and no nothing going to be done. Parkman, like it's an alliany now, like he was it's uh he was linked to your night, like everybody on the player just say, but some things can get done if you're not at the World Cup. But anybody's at the World Cup, no, you can forget all about it. I forget, is it Mexico said I forget? But I think it's on about nine o'clock in the night, isn't it? Like it's all right, we're not walking till the next day at six. Yeah, yeah. A lot of the games you'll like that in a couple of little mail in the morning and all, isn't it?

SPEAKER_02 16:09

Yeah, we'll be watching a lot of highlights, so that's just the way to do it when you get to the day games. Yeah, so uh yeah, look, that brings us on to our World Cup. Like you said, the first match there was Tworcy. Um I think it was uh 2010 when the World Cup was on, that was the same opening match in South Africa. South Africa and Mexico. There's one I'll draw but now it's the opposite way around, so it'd be interesting to see if the Mexicans have a little bit of grudge against them.

SPEAKER_01 16:36

Like you know what I mean. Yeah, but look at Korea, there's still a South American team or whatever, like no matter what way you look for. And all through the years they were a half decent team, so do you have good footballers? They'd be surprised players won't that we don't know about them. Alright, always pop up. Always pop up.

SPEAKER_02 16:52

Right, we're gonna start off with our winners and who we think are gonna win it. Like I said, these are all on Instagram if people do want to check and keep in mind what we wrote down for the group stages and whatnot. So Finn, we'll start with you. Tell the people who you have to win it and why do you think that team will win it?

SPEAKER_01 17:11

Well, do you know what? I'm going for Argentina because obviously they're not obviously because you can't say this, there are any champions to say right. And if we're good side, if a good squad, it's over in it's over in in in South America, it's in America, it's in um Mexico and it's in uh Canada. So the heat is certainly not going to bother them. But look, Messi's still there and he's still playing and he's the captain. Now we know this is his what is this his fifth or sixth World Cup as well, wherever it's the fifth or something, whatever it is, like and um I know he's 48 and all, but he's still scoring goals over in America and all, and like he's getting assists over there, and he's looking just you and I just think that's pretty much my money's gone on.

SPEAKER_02 17:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 17:50

Good squad, don't they? Yeah, like too.

SPEAKER_02 17:52

Alvarez and all the front, like yeah, they're a good thing.

SPEAKER_01 17:54

Like there's a lot of good teams in it, don't get me wrong, like France and then all in Spain and all, but like you say, I'm I'm going for them because I think I might stay over there and that's all because the weather's gone my god you're playing over there, it's gonna be scorching. Yeah, it's yeah you had to be used to be five, 46 degrees, isn't it?

SPEAKER_02 18:09

In fairness, yeah. We were in America a couple years ago when G honored me, and that was some of the hottest things. Oh, it's the hottest I've ever gotten.

SPEAKER_01 18:16

To the beach and we lasted 40 seconds and we walked back up.

SPEAKER_02 18:18

Yeah, it's the hottest place ever been. Imagine we'd have to play football and that yeah. I think the matches to be played at a very fast pace anything. It was un unbelievable. That was it, wasn't it? We walked down to the beach. Yeah, and that was in the shade as well. It's just the heat was glistening off the sand. I was like, I can't do this. Yeah, get me out of here. Three men in the magic running around it, yeah. It was horrendous. So that is going to play a big part. Oh you which I think booking you, if you're not used to it, like yeah. It might help the leaks are messy and we'll grant Ronaldo then in a little while. Um we'll grant him now because Sean, you have yeah, I picked Portugal, yeah. Yeah, I think because obviously they have Ronaldo, and I'd love to see them win it for him, and that's not the reason. I just think they've a really, really good team. You know, it's not is it the best team? Probably not, but I think they're a really bit of depth off the bench and flare players and you know, and the midfield's very, very good. Yeah, but Bruno's at the scoring again today. So you're players that in form like that, you tend to go far enough in your Ronaldo at the end of most things. You won't play every game, but no, but they have like really good full backs and um it's good to good defenders, centre midfielders. You guys can go open them again. Is it Costa? Yeah, he's a good deal. Yeah, he's a good goalkeepers as well. Look at you know what to win.

SPEAKER_01 19:35

If you're a good sides from fans, there's uh good goalkeeper and all, haven't you?

SPEAKER_02 19:38

Like from fans, like he plays well in the middle, don't he? Fitina. Fitinia and Eves play the middle, yeah. Champions League winners and they've cancello flying up down the wings and uh Ruben Diaz, is it? Yeah, centre half or Man City he plays centre half. If you look at the team, it's really good. Yeah, exactly. The best fullback in the world, the best fullback in the world isn't like the best that allow. Look at Camera Chilema. So that's just the way I think, you know.

SPEAKER_01 20:09

Good for IT, isn't it?

SPEAKER_02 20:10

Spain, yeah, just the same thing. I think they're they're a squad overall. Um like you said with Portugal, you don't have the best, like if you look at a team on paper, like you don't have the best like team. And you're like, oh in every position. Yeah, like they set the hats and all, and like right well, I say right and the goal in goal, but usually a man seaman plays instead, doesn't it? He doesn't play right. It's a bit like the hay, like he didn't really play the hay when he was there, like even though technically he's supposed to be the the best keeper and and whatnot, but like the defence, you look at the defence and think it's a bit iffy, but he won the euro sort of I don't say easy, but he won it well, didn't he? Yeah the last time. Especially then when the 40 you get forward there with Rodery and Gabby and Pedry in the middle, and yeah. Even the players like Danny Almo and Fabian Ruiz, they just work, don't they? Like they should that these players seem to do well in tournaments for some reason, and then obviously the lads up front, Lamal and Williams. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:06

Look, you need everything to go for you, don't you? Yeah, it's like it's looking forward to it. But like people always say the best teams sometimes you need a bit of luck. Like to go through, like stupid teams could bring it to Pandas and all, and you just need to get through, but um you definitely need luck on your side, like for like it's even when you're playing Snooker and all, like you like you could be the best player in the world, but you could you just be unlucky and just get knocked out with something. This is the same. When it gets to the knockouts, all the main teams, like a lot of the S4J teams, and there's what, like 16 teams going out in the fourth round just there, they'll say 11 for 32. Um when it gets down to the knockout stages and you need to win games and all, that's when you see the World Cup. Yeah, really. That's when that's when they'll really kick off. Yeah, yeah, you're right.

SPEAKER_02 21:46

Yeah, not just affected the teams, but you wouldn't No, but that's it though. That's good for other teams haven't been there before. So I know it's great. So if there's anyone listening, enjoy enjoying moment that for me it's great for the five. I remember before Ireland was the last one, thousand and two thousand two yeah. Even ninety eight, then he has two thousand and two, yeah. I remember watching Penospain. Yeah. Yeah, watching that in Scholars. Yeah, that's true. I remember watching that. I remember that, and that's the last one, and that's it's 2026 now. So whoever's out there listening, make sure he's enjoying it.

SPEAKER_01 22:19

Yeah, if you're not in it every year, you're not. Okay, it's a big seller. Look at me, put it this way, Scotland had to get into the World Cup their first game of Sunday. Yeah. Right? And give they're all getting a day off work on Monday as a bank holding Monday in Scotland. Very late, that's great.

SPEAKER_02 22:33

I think Scotland are gonna get four than some big teams.

SPEAKER_01 22:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 22:37

I can't know enough group, haven't you?

SPEAKER_01 22:39

Like Brazil are in their group as well, isn't he? And Brazil are in their group, yeah. And uh so so it won't be easy for them, you know what I mean? It'll be tough, Morocco could be. Morocco got to the semi-finals last, didn't he? It won't be an easy group. But look at it's three teams, they could get they could come towards the best, and then still go through like injured, didn't he? For Morocco do you know?

SPEAKER_02 23:00

He's come here, he's another injured brown player, isn't he? So apart those three, is there anybody else that we can see when obviously France, England, Jeremy, like is there like them three you could definitely see when France you could definitely see when is there anybody else? Like are they are they the only four teams that you could like Holland are the same team as they used to be? No, neither are Germany. Germany had the same team as well. Japan. Brazil and Dark horses, somebody like that. They haven't lost in I can't remember. I was just looking back the last ten games. Something like that you haven't been eaten in.

SPEAKER_01 23:30

You look at any of the players that are playing in any of the teams around like the always filled with good players, aren't they? Yeah, yeah. True, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:37

That's the next um category then are our underdogs or dark horses. So I think me and you are agreeing on Japan, Vin. Yeah. Or just to get four. No, I happen I happen to go well. Yeah. I happen down to get to the semi-final. Yeah, to go well. That's like I think Scotland. I have Scotland down. Yeah, you don't know what it is. You're out of group, they might make it past the next one. I think to get into the You have Scotland to get down to the quarter. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just something about them. Yeah, I think that was Japan. Now the only thing is you've had to get a couple of injuries the last couple of days. See a man at home at all of Brighton is injured. And there's another lad that plays him he plays for um or neighbor who's I think is out injured as well. Now they do have the lads that played by Celtic. Yeah. There's a chap that plays for Real Sociedad and Endover that played by Liverpool. Kim and Jesus, are you from Korea? He's from Korea, yeah. Uh now they do have decent backup players.

SPEAKER_01 24:32

It's a good football team and they'll all work hard and they'll run around like blue ass flies, you know what they're like, they won't stop. Yeah, like if you beat them, you'll be you'll be putting your effort in.

SPEAKER_02 24:40

But they maybe did it last time, yeah. They beat Spain and Germany in their group last World Cup, and then they just about lost to Belgium. Remember in the last game? I think Lukaku scored, I think, in the last second against them. That's what I'm saying, man.

SPEAKER_01 24:53

They'd be eagerly as good this time. Like they'd they'll be benefiting from the last one.

SPEAKER_02 24:57

Yeah, because we'll say Japan or Spanish. I think Japan. Where do you other ones as well? Like see, like Senegal and Morocco, and there'll be one or two, Colombia are all be sort of there about. How many Euro go like these South American teams? Yeah, like you know Brazil and all, you know. Well, Brazil brings us on to the team that are gonna be the biggest flop. And I think Brazil are gonna be the biggest flop uh with this World Cup. I don't I actually I actually have Japan to knock them out, I think, in the in the uh I think Brazil is gonna win an open World Cup, do you?

SPEAKER_01 25:33

No, I I don't yeah I think um I don't know why I just give a good side, but do you know what? I think you have a lot of um do you don't have a lot of flare players like you did have from years and years ago just say alright? But they're getting the best fair in the world on over there now, wouldn't they? Edison, you know what I mean? So go on. Edison. But um, I think um they'd be a tame team, so it'd be still hard to beat because they'll have to look at it be silver still. But I think I have mine down the biggest flop to be England. I think I can see them having a heart to group even a grow with that group. Yeah, if you're a tricky group. Yeah, like I don't think they're the best teams in the world and England you think should get it. But it's like it's just it's like it's a hard group, just there's no standout teams in the in the far teams in that group. Like they could go to Panama and News that they could like Croatia and all that be good. So like every game to them I think it's gonna be tough.

SPEAKER_00 26:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 26:28

True, true. Yeah. That's a bit shoot, but they might float their way to the final and it might be as impressive as what you think. Yeah. But uh there's always one in there. Like there'd be one now. In Belgium, they're not the same team either. No, no, no. Yeah. It's nearly impossible not to get out of the group. So like if they lost in the round of 32, that'll be sort of a bit of a flap, wouldn't it? Or the last 16. Yeah, oh yeah. Oh yeah, exactly. But for their calibre, like if Brazil didn't make it out of that so that's the end of the last 16. I think quarter final at least. Yeah, I should have to be too. That'll be a disaster, you know. They'd be gone. They have Japan to knock them out. Um yeah, I don't know. They're just not as some of the players of the roll, remember. I think Casanero and Martinels and you think about it like let's put it like this the top the striker, striker he brought was Tiago of Brentford, only he sort of came on the scene the last year, basically, more or less. And then he left Joe Predro at home, which still he's the last couple of years been alright, compared to Ronaldo back in the day. Yeah, like it it's not but to him 50, 40 fucking stone, wherever he was at playing his last game, is better than them bearing put together. But you know what it's not the same, isn't it? It's not the same Brazil.

SPEAKER_01 27:45

But you look at Jeremy, you just say like not half as good as the team the teams that they were in the past.

SPEAKER_02 27:50

There's two cards here, man at Newcastle, isn't it? Yeah played in Falter Marana.

SPEAKER_01 27:57

No, you know what I mean, like Kirk Muller or any of them who played by Jeremy, any of them like even the other fella that played for Brian Munich for years up front is his name like Thomas Muller. Thomas Muller, he banged the goal that fighting centre. Yeah, Polish. But anyway. When we say we should have the whole season of the podcast, like to like probably the rest of the world that we don't know about, as you said, could be a surprise to say, right? Um like football in Europe, like in all the leagues in the Premier League, was powered this year.

SPEAKER_02 28:29

It's it's just a standard of the whole look at this World Cup, look who it's been fed on. Messi Ronaldo again. Well 84. Yeah, it isn't as far as Messi's 8040. Yeah. Like the game hype up your mal all you want, you can hype up. You should be there to go against the city. It should be, but it's not that good. But just that's the best calibre we have now. But they're nowhere near what they were. And we won't have it. I think the the look and a bit these how do I say like the world looks at them as better players than they are. I think because they're the social media, the the the the focus, you can you can get whatever you want them at a click of a button. Where when Messi Ronaldo were coming up, it wasn't like that. You have to watch them, yeah. You know, they're just being hyped up from every angle. They have the social media. Which brings us on then to who do we think is gonna be the player of the tournament? Alice. You can't remember. He's got an attribute, didn't he?

SPEAKER_01 29:30

Yeah, for God's sake, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 29:32

So it's only when you look at that, they do have a good team, don't you, if you're honest, for that's like yeah. It's just really putting them down, isn't it? Yeah. But do they have too many superstars that'll be Could be like the PSG team and Abappi was there, Messi uh the time. They just kept when they left he won for three in a row now. It's mad, it's not high mass should be like and there was a couple of times where Abbey was shooting, and Elise was one-on-one a goal, or Dembele was shooing, he was shooting, and then Dembele was doing the same thing. And I'd say Elise's goal was almost like that as early. He's like, I'm probably gonna shoot because he shot me outside the box. Like, so I wonder will it be like that. Oh, a big game like be a team like you know, who was your player this ornament?

SPEAKER_01 30:21

Messi.

SPEAKER_02 30:21

Messi.

SPEAKER_01 30:24

Go with Messi, don't you? Look, we still think you have you'll have one over there, and that's it. He's still Messi at the end of the day, isn't he?

SPEAKER_02 30:29

I mean, I tell you, do you reckon as if he's one of them, even if he hasn't if Argentina were to win it and he has an RE tournament, they'd probably just give it to him anyway. Yeah, yeah, they wouldn't. Yeah, they wouldn't. Yeah, we'll be surprised. Yeah, right in his hell. Yeah. I've gone with the mall just because I picked spay to win it. I think if they're gonna win it, he's gonna be the one that lost all the goals and the assists, isn't he? What old is he? Sixteen. Is he even twenty yet? I'm not too sure, I don't think so. World Cup. Yeah, it's bad actually, isn't it? It was crazy, yeah. This was this is his fourth World Cup as well, isn't it? Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:08

He'll enjoy it, and that's it.

SPEAKER_02 31:10

Probably just concentrates on his football and not just being a town.

SPEAKER_01 31:13

Yeah, it's real, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 31:15

Outside of like it drives me mad.

SPEAKER_01 31:16

Outside the influence. Yeah, fucking them up like yeah, like do what Ronaldo did, like for all I focusing on football for f for the 14 years and the 15 years taking a professional, then you can do what you like after that. Yeah, it's real, yeah. Concentrate on the football, you know.

SPEAKER_02 31:32

Um top scorers, wife and Ronaldo. Well that party will get to the final. Yeah. And it's sort of more so looking at that group, isn't it? It was better than Columbia would be a tricky game. And then Who's the Last in the Plains? Another sort of game where you think uh they should be leading Democratic Republic or Congo, I think, is it? They're there in that group as well. I think so. There's two matches where I think they came out with a group with like four goals, you'd be like, right.

SPEAKER_01 31:58

That's a good start. That's a good start. And they put it in Batman. I think but look, I think you get chances, and like you're only the same as technical, like with you with the other play elite saying on and no, like and uh um they'll they'll have to assist each other now and score. Well, they can't be greedy in the World Cup when it's the when it's when when the World Cup starts. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 32:18

No, I mean yours. I don't think Batman'd be the same as Ronaldo. I sort of picked Ronaldo because he takes penals and free kicks and stuff, so they're bound to get at least one or two, wouldn't they? Yeah, Rodi. Definitely, yeah, I think, which would add to the to the collection. Yeah, did they put down the top score? I can't remember. Er, top scorer, who did you put down my top scorer? It's on Instagram. Robbie Kane. Er top goal scorer, Sean Twoth. Dude to do one second. Harry Kane. Harry Kane, sorry, yeah. Jesus. Harry Kane, yeah. He's gone with the English fella. Jesus Christ. Yeah, so good. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 32:57

Exactly. All Sean's predictions if you write.

SPEAKER_02 33:09

Yeah. That's it. For people that don't know, we did a prediction table for the Premier League. Yeah. Comes down to Argentina and Spain now, doesn't it, winning it?

SPEAKER_01 33:17

Yeah, well it comes here, it's a nice look forward to, isn't it? Like yeah, be good, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 33:22

That's it. The World Cup would be hard and we look forward to. Well er, we have as always we get a couple of questions. So we could have um sort of gone through a bit more, but Sean has a couple of questions regarding the World Cup. So any points that we wanted to make, we sort of we left them because the questions are all at the World Cup, I think, this week are being World Cup teams and whatnot. So uh yeah, this roll into us by um Dennis. Um Will the World Cup decide who wins the Ballandor? Um yeah, I would imagine probably would.

SPEAKER_01 34:02

I think well well do you know yeah, depending on if which team win it. Like the way I look at that is right, just say is right. If if England won it, then Hattie Kahn should get the Ballon d'Or, shouldn't he? He should. Yeah. So, and seven assists. So, I mean, and then look if you if you're talking about the Ballon d'Or, but you put Fernandes into the Ballon d'Or like a Portugal won the World Cup. That's a great show. You know what I mean? Yeah, I would. I reason what I'm saying is because you don't he only play 45 games this year and and he's like he's contributed to 30 goals. I know everybody goes on about he's a he he's he's assist, he got twenty-one, but don't get me on it's brilliant, too. We still scored nine goals, but people might forget that he's got nine goals as well. And then you go over to the to this Elise sort of in you know what I mean, like and and then you say he played 52 games and he he contributed to 53 goals, he's too he got 21 assists. That's ridiculous, isn't it? And 22 goals. So like if England, if Portugal or France win it, either one of them would have to get it. And if none of them win it, I don't have use of anybody any different. I think if none of them win it, I think you still probably have to give it a Hardy Kane for for having 68 goal contributions this year.

SPEAKER_02 35:18

Your man could get it because they're gonna try and push him, I think. Yeah, he seems to be the guy that everyone wants to like me, I don't like him at all, but he's a good footballer, but I'll I'll watch and click on everything that he does, so that's why they're gonna push someone like him who has the talent also. Yeah, but he could win it. Yeah. Couldn't really argue with that, but I hope Kane or Elise wins it.

SPEAKER_01 35:35

Yeah, I would look forward to watching the likes of the man now because you don't really get the same that often. Do you know what I mean? Like so when the Champions League is on, you get the same idea. But the World Cup now be different.

SPEAKER_02 35:44

I think well we're on the World Cup, I think um I didn't write it down here, but I was talking to uh a guy who comes into the job and he's I was saying to him that will the if you say it to me, sorry, will the the the record be broken for the amount of goals that particular for a goal scorer in one competition, not overall. Oh yeah, yeah. But it could be well it won't be overall, Jesus now close to a 16, I think, isn't it? Well it could be Bat Bay as a f is he's not that far behind. Well Bat Bay might be could get the golden bill, I'd say, if they do go and break the recording also. And would he deserve the battle in the overall? I don't know. Do you know? So he could be a shell too. Yeah, I don't know. They didn't really win anything, didn't he?

SPEAKER_01 36:23

Depending on because it's 4J teams and now, like, it's it's easier for them to score goals, and they like it's not easy to score a goal, but you'd be more opportunities because they're playing against obviously lesser known country teams that it wouldn't be like great for to get there well well done for getting there, but some of them might be expecting to be to be doing great, they'll enjoy the party, they'll enjoy the fun and the fans and they'll put their effort in. But you the likes of the good good World Cup player like and World Cup team playing against a sort of mine of him. 'Cause you're right, Sean, the likes of my back and all and Kane cut score like a few goals and do you think it would be right? Well, look at that's the rule. What can you do? You know what I mean? Like if they get you guys.

SPEAKER_02 37:03

Yeah nowadays, isn't it? Like years ago it was always either Messi or Ronaldo winning it. But they were always winning the leagues or the Champions League. Like they were always playing for the best teams, wouldn't they? Yeah. Like fair enough. Like you said, if KM win it for like he won the Bundesliga with Elise. And then Fernandez, like I saw it, was it BT Sport or T and T Sport put her up to the day? They were like, oh, the most assists at a World Cup was six. I wonder Fernandez beat it this time round. You never see that ever before.

SPEAKER_01 37:34

No, but but it could happen. That's what I'm saying. Like what that did happen, they went on to win it to say like you couldn't rule him out for force.

SPEAKER_02 37:41

No, no, so no, definitely not. I think the only other one that's not on that list would could be a man Cavaras Gallia. Yeah. Maybe. But then, like you said, if France win it, then does then Bellet probably come into it more so than him, wouldn't he? Yeah, if Portugal win it, then maybe Vitinha or Sierra Neves would probably come into it more so thanks.

SPEAKER_01 37:58

Look, come here and knob your nose, and that's it. But like if one of the teams do win it, like definitely to answer the question is it would have a big impact on the Valandal, obviously when they woke up.

SPEAKER_02 38:09

Thanks for that. Uh Peter O into this again. Would Portugal be better with or without Ronaldo?

SPEAKER_01 38:16

Well, do you know what? Look, it's it's a hard question to answer because like he's the leading goal scorer by a million miles, isn't he? Yeah. And he's a focal point. But then like, do you play quicker football when he's not when he's not playing because he'll deal he'll attack and he'll defend quicker from the front line when if he's the centre forward, I mean look he's 40 or 41 now, he's not going to be charging all over the place. Do you know what I mean? Like so, like it's 50-50. You do you do you play him because he's just gonna be an actual goal scorer? It depends on what way what way do you want to play the football. So I mean like he will play, but he won't play all the games though. Like it's 50-50.

SPEAKER_02 38:51

Yeah, it is 50-50. I'd say in some of the big games it might be better out of around. Sometimes you when you look at Hawksville, they're all so desperate to get the ball to him, wouldn't they?

SPEAKER_01 39:01

Too much. Yeah. Fernandez they look for him too much. Yeah, you know what I mean? When there's other options, but you just want to see him as the focal point. It's like as if he's not he wouldn't be putting Fernandez under pressure to to to pick him out as as as a pass to say, but he has to all it about and that he just wants the ball all the time. So it's like as if you thought they had to pick him out.

SPEAKER_02 39:17

Yeah, if you don't pass him, he throws his hands up. I think they will, I think they need him. Who's the next striker? I know we by saying they're they're gonna win it, but yeah, that's because of him, I think. Yeah, well, not only because of him, but I'm thinking they have players in there that remember Spain, Javi Iniesta in the middle. They have two boys in there now, the flyers for the wing well, the low gets up done. He gets into great positions alone, no matter how much we slag him. But the play no, he might even play. You've got Joe Cancellos there, Beniz is there, then you have Bruno just picking people out of lineup, you know, but his eyes closed, you know. So I think if you have him up there who's not gonna run out all over the place, he won't give you that. Look at all the hard workers he has behind him. And if he gets a chance, he's gonna score. And he's very clever at staying on line on side, he's very good in the air, left foot, right foot. You put him in, he's gonna score a goal. So it's the I think the team behind them is gonna obviously really benefit him if that's sort of me. That's a bit obvious. But he knows how to exploit the space, you know.

SPEAKER_01 40:15

He'll have to work harder for the stuff he won't do if that's what they're going to do. And if they leave him out with some games, then they'll play quicker football, I think, without him, and they could look at they could score more team goals. I don't understand that. So it all depends on what games they're playing, but you'll need them in the team. Like he's not going to the World Cup to sit on the bench. This is probably his best chance ever to win it, as well, isn't it?

SPEAKER_02 40:38

I keep it on that as well. Um it was broken into us sort of a couple of times, but in accounts that just have numbers on them. Um so is tournament experience more important than current form? Um I think it depends on your depends on the age, I think. So like just say Jordan Henderson is going to England, obviously his experience for other tournaments is probably more important than how he's actually playing. This is just a season with Brentford, like whereas like you said, Riuno Fernandez going into that horse team, is probably nearly the most important player.

SPEAKER_01 41:21

You would have said that probably last year, like yeah, and I I'd say the same thing with your league, but the same like like experience definitely helps previously young flip and your bra because you're you're you're in form. Like there's got to be a few picks for different teams, like and disappointed players because it's not being left left behind because there's only playing better. You need to bring that form into the World Cup because the World Cup could could swamp you as well. Do you know what I mean? Like so um it's hard to know which is which is more important. Or mix, I think. Yeah, like if you had like realistically, your experienced players playing really well could drag the youngers up because it's it's the World Cup is a different competition.

SPEAKER_02 42:02

Yeah, I think you have players who have experience and youth, I suppose. Yeah, if you want to call it. Like if someone who's 29, 30, who's been there, like if I go to Roger, your age, Roger, he's won it he's won all, hasn't he? More or less. Yeah. You ever take? And he's 27. No, he's 29. Yeah, so he's won it all, and he's still fit enough to get around and be the best midfielder in the tournament, more or less, you know. So someone players, teams who have players like that have a better chance, but they all sort of have players of that, you know. So look, you need a mixture of everything. No, a mixture of everything, I think. So like that's it. So like I mentioned Hemison there. So like he's gone obviously covered for his experience, but I wonder if would England fans rather Adam Wharton be there because of the season he's had, he's just won a tournament to Crystal High. Maybe the better season. Yeah, yeah. But like you said, he could go there and not play, or he could come on and make one mistake. I'll show we see what happened at Rashford and second on the younger.

SPEAKER_01 42:56

Yeah, Lewis Hall didn't send him out his own young friend, he brought Dan Bourne. And there's Lewis Hall played in the Champions League, and he was marking your your Shelley might be good Yamal. So had a good game against him, so he's gonna be disappointed he wasn't brought out there as well. So look, it's just like it swings around about, doesn't it? But when you get to the competition, you just need everything to violate.

SPEAKER_02 43:14

That's it. Yeah, that's Grant. Thanks for that. Uh Ryan wrote into us. Is there a group of debt? And I think yeah, I think there's a few. So I think the more you look for it, the more you realise that some of the teams are actually Jesus, that's gonna be tricky. Especially in the group side, it's like not everyone's gonna be like let's say 100 miles an hour, but like you said, look at Brazil's group with Scotland and Morocco. Like Morocco are technically the best team in Africa. So that's not gonna be easy for them. Same with France, Senegal, like they're again. Yeah, I think that's the hardest team in Africa, like along with Norway. So I would probably pick that one. Looking at it from like a what big team could struggle in a group, France's group could be a good one, that could be maybe hot at Haaland, sorry, putting across here.

SPEAKER_01 44:00

I know the guard, yeah. I know him. Although he doesn't get a game. Sagaman, he's the place for Sandigal, doesn't he? Uh yeah. I'm not saying he's getting older, but they'd have experienced players still for them, didn't you?

SPEAKER_02 44:12

Man and Joy and the many and goal.

SPEAKER_01 44:15

So that's what I think that's the hard look if you're going to call a group, there's no need to stand out. Like, do you know what? That's like to me is the hardest group because there's good footballers and the good teams in that group. Now don't say England is not a good team to say and you and you have just say Croatia. But I think England's group is a hard group because I just think it's a hard group. I think there's there's no standout team. Like France you could say is a standard team in Senegal, and then you just don't know what Norway is going to be like because you have them players we're talking about just say Iraq we just don't know too much about, just say. But England, just say Croatia, Ghana, and Panama, to me that's just an open group.

SPEAKER_02 44:48

Yeah, for real. It's a hard group. Same with uh Holland, Holland, Japan, Sweden, and Tunisia. Like I said, you might say Holland at a standout, but if they came towards you wouldn't be surprised. So would you like to be a good one?

SPEAKER_01 45:00

Yeah, look, and then obviously then a lot of the best tour teams go through, so like because of the way it's the way it's it's run this year. So a lot of the three of the best teams should should nearly be going through. What do you think?

SPEAKER_02 45:11

Do you think there's a group of things like the French one as well, sort of? Yeah, I think um the group there's gonna be a big team that's gonna come second somewhere along the way. Group F for Holland, Japan and Sweden. Like if I was Japan, you wouldn't be guaranteed getting out of your Sweden, you're not guaranteed out of your Holland, you're like, geez, them too. Well, not the same team as we'd hope. If you put my money on them, I'm obviously one of the others. Tunisia, obviously, Tunisia. Kimber is out injured as well. He's kind of missed the war. That's right. So Holland could Japan could come first and Sweden could come second. Yeah, couldn't you? You wouldn't know. That's a hard group, you know, and sort of similar teams. Or the real, as you said, the rest of them, yeah. Jeremy's group is a bit tricky as well. Ecuador and I think it's the Ivory Coast as well. Like you said, Germany aren't what they used to be, so it's only a group of day. Slip up and look in second, and second of all, all you know they're playing England in the last 40 year or something.

SPEAKER_01 46:04

It's gonna happen to somebody. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 46:10

Yeah, that was a good question. Um and then where am I here now? We got another question now. Do we think it'll be a memorable World Cup?

SPEAKER_01 46:20

Um Well, I think they're all they're all memorable in certain ways, you know what I mean. Like, so you just hate to go down with all the World Cups, but I know there's some great ones, and but I'm looking forward to it, I just say, and um I just hope no matter what happens in it, when it gets down to the end, that there's good games. But like I'm not expecting brilliant games, but then sometimes with that, when you're not expecting it, you get it. When you're expecting too much, it's not like going to a party, you're looking forward to a big party, you say the lovely torchit coming up or a 24th coming up or something, or it might turn out a 60th. And you're going in and you're disappointed because it wasn't a good night. But we have to be looking forward to it all week in San Juan's disappointment. But then you the same thing, then it fucking has to go away. I'm not even looking forward to it, and it's a brilliant night. Yeah. It's a bit like that, isn't it? Like, I'm not expecting much of this World Cup, but I'm hoping it's gonna be a brilliant World Cup.

SPEAKER_02 47:09

Yeah, I I don't know. It depends on if the referees have a good game, or not. I can say they're gonna get everything right, but they have fire there, so we'll get a lot. I hope they don't go too I don't know, I haven't even checked the referees. Who's gone? Well, all the big ones in Europe is not gonna be any like MLS ones around, is there?

SPEAKER_01 47:26

Ah yeah, there will be.

SPEAKER_02 47:27

These might take things literal.

SPEAKER_01 47:31

Now we're all the changes.

SPEAKER_02 47:32

We said something under the jumper and walk past them. Red card. I'm hoping it's something stupid like that. Because that I know that sounds far fetched, but I don't know here if anybody can see me on the mic. What you're saying, that if they put their jersey over the nose and or over the handle or just saying something and uh and they can get red card for that you know that way. I think um they better not do something stupid like that. But maybe if it happens, it happens, right? But just hope the referees have like it they're gonna be a big part, but like they are everyone that would referee is just let the games flow, like you know. Right, yeah. Like you said, I think from the knockoff stages onwards it will be. Some of the group games might be a bit monotonous. Like you just like Uzbekistan and Congo. Obviously, for people from them countries, it's gonna be the biggest games you'd love game of the year. Like something for us as neutrals, like we even watch that match. I don't know. Like there might be five or six games like that in the group stages where you're like, ugh I don't really want to watch this.

SPEAKER_01 48:33

Can we have some of them we've got to be on at two o'clock in the morning, don't you? So you say I'm not gonna be watching them.

SPEAKER_02 48:37

No, yeah, no, but memorable for the right reasons and not the wrong reasons and stuff's pattern and the fact that it's in America and all. Hopefully fans can actually afford to go over and get tickets because they're saying it's just ridiculous prices, isn't it? Yeah. Hopefully it's not just full of like you said, MLS fans that don't really have a clear what they're talking about. Like you know what I mean.

SPEAKER_01 49:01

Yeah, yeah, look at me, as we said, you don't know what to expect. We're just hoping that, like, I'm not expecting great, but I hope it's better than what I am expecting.

SPEAKER_02 49:09

There's one thing here as well, just um the Patrick and Walker's talking to him. He said, Do you see the new um some of the time wasting rules starting from next year in the premiership? Yeah. Or the trolls and all taking too long. Yeah, throw in the same substitute player must leave the pitch when the same ones are coming in. So that's Arsenal fucked. That's what I said. If you get down injured as well or something, but I think it is the goalkeeper goes down injured, one of the opposition players has one of your players has something. Oh, yeah. That's good, that's good. But anyway, that's for next year.

SPEAKER_01 49:38

Look at the speeder up next season, and it'll change it'll change the bullying that's going on when it's corners. Because it literally it was like wrestling games, doesn't it like a lot of them this year? So put that out. That's it. And look at the way it cuts all that out and it makes it a better and faster game, but then there has to be a better premiership next year than it was this year.

SPEAKER_02 49:56

There's Romano there. Um Real Madrid offered 150 million to sign Julian Alvarez, but Atletico rejected it. Sign it for Alvarez, that's leading that's dangerous, isn't it? Yeah, it is. Julian Alvarez's release clause is 500 million when to get out of here. Why don't you? It's ridiculous. Just set a troll that in there anyway. Jesus Christ. I don't know. We'll see.

SPEAKER_01 50:19

We could wear the money to get on Byron United. What did you say? 150,000.

SPEAKER_02 50:25

But er, look, for the time you do this now next week to be probably six or seven World Cup games happen, so we'll be able to speak about speak about them and then um hopefully Ireland's women's teams are gone to the 2027 World Cup. Yeah, true, yeah. And then we were asked last week to touch in the League of Ireland, so that's back now this Friday. So again, we'd be able to keep an eye on that. Shells are playing rovers and whatnot. Should I make rovers top of the table? Yeah, they're top of the table. So we'll be able to do that. So we'll yeah, we can just do that a little bit like yeah. But uh yeah, look at so thanks for having me that listen. Hopefully you enjoyed the little brief World Cup preview and you know who our our uh allegiances are for this year. Yeah, prediction. They're on Instagram for people that want to check um our pathways to the final and whatnot, so it's good to keep an eye on them and see how many we get right and how many we get wrong. And hopefully come to the end of Spain or lifting another World Cup and I'm writing. Liverpool be shite. That's it. Well, maybe hopefully. But uh yeah, look, thanks for everyone that's listening. And if you are new that listens, um give us a little like and a follow and whatnot on Instagram and Spotify helps us and leave our comments and fling our questions into Sean there and uh yeah, that's it.

SPEAKER_01 51:47

Enjoy the World Cup. Yeah, thanks for enjoying all these all these values that are from all over the world. If we have World Cup, good luck to you as our countries in the World Cup. Yeah, definitely, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 51:58

And like you said, America and all over the world. So best of luck to you.

SPEAKER_01 52:01

Best of luck for our own countries in the world cup and made the best team win. Yeah, that's it. That's great.

SPEAKER_02 52:06

We'll be back next week to touch on it the first couple of games and yeah, carry on. We'll be off from there. And uh yeah, one. Thank you for listening.

SPEAKER_01 52:15

Thanks very much, bye.