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Jason Pine: Weekend Sport Host previews the FIFA World Cup clash between the All Whites and Iran · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Less than eight hours until the All White stack on
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  Speaker 1: New run O FIFA First World Cup match kicks off
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  Speaker 1: at one PMTV and Z there's already trouble that comp
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  Speaker 1: midfielder Matt Garbett miss captain's run yesterday because of a
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  Speaker 1: bad hommy and we'll likely miss today's game as well,
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  Speaker 1: and that's a problem. How much of a problem is it,
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  Speaker 1: Jason Paine, Voice of Football.
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  Speaker 2: It's a bit of an issue, Andrew, good morning. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: Matt Garbt I think probably would have started the game
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  Speaker 2: had he been fit. So there's a starting eleven member
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  Speaker 2: who won't be playing. However, having said that, there is
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  Speaker 2: good depth in his position, so it's not absolutely catastrophic.
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  Speaker 2: Other than that, by the sounds of it, it's a
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  Speaker 2: fairly fit in firing squad that Darren basically has to
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  Speaker 2: choose from. So yeah, Matt Garbett aside, well, a fully
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  Speaker 2: fit bunch of men ready to go this afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: Even with Matt not being there. Matt's one of the
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  Speaker 1: few guys there who can score goals. And I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if you've noticed in football you've got to score goals.
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  Speaker 1: And I know if you've noticed about the All Whites,
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  Speaker 1: they haven't been scoring goals.
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  Speaker 2: We score goals, Yeah, goals, goals, goals is what we
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  Speaker 2: need this afternoon. You bang on Andrew, Look, you're right,
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  Speaker 2: Matt Gabtaut has got an eye for it, and somebody's
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  Speaker 2: going to have to do that because yeah, New Zealand's
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  Speaker 2: historically and in the last couple of years particularly, haven't
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  Speaker 2: been able to do that consistently against top sides. Chris
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  Speaker 2: Wood is the obvious source of goals, but you can't
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  Speaker 2: just rely on one guy. Look, I think set peace
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  Speaker 2: time is where perhaps we might get a lot of
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  Speaker 2: change this afternoon and across this tournament. There's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of good set piece deliverers in the side, the likes
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  Speaker 2: of Lebecacaci, Francis de Breeze he gets on and others
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  Speaker 2: are Tim Payne to So that might be where we
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  Speaker 2: get our best chances when they do come. Got to
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  Speaker 2: be clinical. Just have to take the chances. They're not
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  Speaker 2: going to come along very often, must take them when
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  Speaker 2: they do.
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  Speaker 1: Enough about the game, how about the show, because you
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  Speaker 1: know the political tensions around the run team, it's quite remarkable.
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  Speaker 1: There's three hundred thousand onions in LA and they're all
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  Speaker 1: going to have a bit of a protest, either four
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  Speaker 1: or against. It's the first time ever in a World
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  Speaker 1: Cup a host has actually been in conflict with a participant.
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  Speaker 1: I mean there's a lot of drama, a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Of drama, and we don't know how that's going to
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  Speaker 2: play out this afternoon. Look, and it's going to happen
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  Speaker 2: outside the White Lions, inside the white lines, on the
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  Speaker 2: on the grass. What does that mean for these two teams,
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  Speaker 2: in particular for Iran Andrew How what has that done
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  Speaker 2: to them? I mean they're they're their build up has
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  Speaker 2: been anything but ideal, completely disrupted. So does that really
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  Speaker 2: affect a team or in fact, does it galvanize a team?
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  Speaker 2: We won't know until they take to the grass this afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: But you're right, no football game, no sporting A few
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  Speaker 2: sporting contests, but no World Cup game has ever been
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  Speaker 2: played out against the backdrop of of of one of
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  Speaker 2: the nations being at war with the coast.
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  Speaker 1: Behood on hold on the war stopped the day beforehand.
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  Speaker 1: Any coincidence?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean football, the great uniter.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, here's here's a real here's a real trainspot a question.
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  Speaker 1: Both teams their home strips are white. Who's going to
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  Speaker 1: be wearing white today. The all whites are Irun, no
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  Speaker 1: Irana and white today.
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  Speaker 2: The all whites will wear black today, but they will
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  Speaker 2: wear white against Egypt and Belgium.
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  Speaker 1: As I understand why, as around the home team when
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  Speaker 1: they're the bad guys.
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  Speaker 2: I'm really not sure how it works. Is it a
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  Speaker 2: toss of the coin? I'm not sure. Is it alphabetical?
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure, but I do know where we're in
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  Speaker 2: black this afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: You're up early today. You wouldn't have to be catching
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  Speaker 1: a plane, would you not?
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  Speaker 2: Today? I am on a plane at some point in
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  Speaker 2: the next little while, looking forward to getting to Vancouver
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  Speaker 2: to watch the Egypt and Belgium games. But no, no,
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  Speaker 2: I'm just I'm up early to talking to you. This
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  Speaker 2: is my sole reason for being awake at the moment.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I thank you very much, Jason. And when I
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  Speaker 1: heard yesterday that you're off to Vancouver, I think those
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  Speaker 1: are going to be the two best games of our games.
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  Speaker 1: And Canada's a lovely place, Vancouver is a lovely town,
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  Speaker 1: and you will have a great time and you will
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  Speaker 1: give us great insight. And I thank you so much
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  Speaker 1: for wake up early, just for me to day
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