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David Wotherspoon - World Cup Special! · Not Another Football Podcast

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Speaker 1: Thanks to Tailor Snacks for keeping this fuel during the podcast.
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Speaker 1: He's a magnify.
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Speaker 2: Thanks Tailors.
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Speaker 3: Welcome to another episode of Not Another Football Podcast, a
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Speaker 3: special World Cup edition with myself, Simon Donley and Jackie
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Speaker 3: Mucka and we're delighted to have on this World Cup edition.
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Speaker 2: David wallaspon how you're doing.
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Speaker 4: Met, I'm good. Thanks.
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Speaker 3: I have to congratulate you in your promotion first and foremost,
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Speaker 3: thank you. And the season there, delighted to be the finish.
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Speaker 4: A fantastic it was. It was the aim all along.
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Speaker 4: It was the aim to get promoted. So we got
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Speaker 4: over the line. It was a bit nervous towards the
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Speaker 4: end cause their own problems, but we got there in
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Speaker 4: the end. So I still.
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Speaker 2: Tight and looking for another another season.
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Speaker 4: Hie Hi, looking for another season. So I'm hoping this
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Speaker 4: is going to go ahead, but wait and see. But yeah,
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Speaker 4: I crack at the championship, would be would be great.
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Speaker 4: When a chance to add to the medical collection, well.
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Speaker 2: I'm going to touch on that as well, because that's
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Speaker 2: a show point.
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Speaker 4: That me and.
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Speaker 2: Way back.
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Speaker 3: Thirteen back your first medal, but then madly enough you've
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Speaker 3: went on to that longevity's Johnson picked up another two.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, got the double, which I think I posted
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Speaker 4: about just recently on my Twitter was just how underrated
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Speaker 4: I think it is. She's gone, It's gone under the radar.
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Speaker 4: St John'stone Club of Saint Johnson, I have won a double
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Speaker 4: in the same year. I don't think anyone outside the
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Speaker 4: old firm's done it. I've done that in Abourdeen, which
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Speaker 4: was like thirty years ago. Yeah, so I just think
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Speaker 4: it's it's a massive achievement for such a small club
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Speaker 4: and definitely just didn't get talked about it a lot.
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Speaker 3: Definitely so world cut addition, you've been at the World
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Speaker 3: Cup KIT twenty twenty two.
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Speaker 2: How did you was.
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Speaker 3: It your mother that was a Canadian that was eligibility
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Speaker 3: because obviously you played with Scotland at different levels and
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Speaker 3: then how did the Canada think come about?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, so, I mean I went up the edges in Scotland.
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Speaker 4: I thought there's a possibility that I might get the
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Speaker 4: nod to represent the national team, but fortunately didn't happen.
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Speaker 4: And as I was going in my career, I saw
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Speaker 4: the likes of Scotti Airfield was sort of doing the
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Speaker 4: transition and he was having good success. So I just
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Speaker 4: asked the question and then nothing really came of it
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Speaker 4: as much. And then John Herdman got the job at
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Speaker 4: Canada in twenty eighteen, and they phoned me at one
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Speaker 4: point just saying, have you got your passport? Would you
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Speaker 4: be interested in coming across. I was like, I need
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Speaker 4: to get sorted. So I had to do all the paperwork,
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Speaker 4: which took a while to get done, and it was like,
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Speaker 4: if you do the transition, that's you. You can't come back. Yeah,
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Speaker 4: So it was a big decision, but one, and I
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Speaker 4: was interested in that. It would open up opportunities and
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Speaker 4: I was interested, so I took the leap and I
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Speaker 4: never looked back after that. It was until two thousand
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Speaker 4: and what twenty three I represented?
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Speaker 2: The first approach was what twitters and eighteen? Did you say?
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Speaker 4: Twenty eighteen? So they had their first camp in Spain Mercea.
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Speaker 4: They had a friendly against New Zealand, so he brought
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Speaker 4: me along with a few of the others and I
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Speaker 4: played the second forty five minutes of that game and
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Speaker 4: we won. Run now one, Yeah, that was that was
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Speaker 4: the start of it. But yeah, it's from from my
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Speaker 4: mother's side. She was she was born there, raise there
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Speaker 4: for five years in Winnipeg, so she shared a citizenship
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Speaker 4: and everything, so I was able to apply that way,
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Speaker 4: and my grandparents lived there for about twelve years before
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Speaker 4: coming back to.
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Speaker 3: Scotland, right, and that culminated us obviously the World Cup
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Speaker 3: and twenty twenty two.
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Speaker 2: Over in Guitar. How did you find that then?
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Speaker 4: The whole thing, it's unreal, unreal.
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Speaker 3: We've been over to Dohand recent times and the the
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Speaker 3: stadiums are so close.
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Speaker 4: To each other. Yeah, they set up was tremendous and
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Speaker 4: obviously you had the negativity towards it beforehand, the people
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Speaker 4: and how it would be over there and such like.
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Speaker 4: But as soon as you're over there, you just you
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Speaker 4: were like it was like a new world. Everything was dry.
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Speaker 2: Did you just go? Did you just go somewhere to
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Speaker 2: warm up for? It was enough to Qatar.
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Speaker 4: I think we went. Yeah, we went to Guitar and
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Speaker 4: then we went across to Dubai, right, So it was
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Speaker 4: like an hour fight went over by played a friendly
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Speaker 4: against Japan, and I think before I arrived they played
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Speaker 4: a friendly against or they were in by Rain played
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Speaker 4: a friendly there before I joined them. Because we were
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Speaker 4: still in our season and a lot of them were
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Speaker 4: at the end of the season. We're the ones that
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Speaker 4: were over in the We met up afterwards and yeah,
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Speaker 4: so they were over. They were in America, the sort
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Speaker 4: of North American ones. They they switch off for a
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Speaker 4: while because they're obviously during summer, during summer, and then
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Speaker 4: they have a winter break. So they went across the Bahrain,
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Speaker 4: played a friendly there and then we met and then
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Speaker 4: I went to Qatar, and then we went across the
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Speaker 4: Dubai four again. We getst Japan, which was incredible in itself,
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Speaker 4: but no, the experience of it was just surreal. Just
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Speaker 4: like you're a boy from Saint Johnston football club that's
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Speaker 4: not that big, and you've you've played in different yeah,
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Speaker 4: and you're arriving there on a flight with Maida and
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Speaker 4: Cammi Devlin and a few other other boys, and you're
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Speaker 4: just like, this.
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Speaker 3: Is because of the proximity of it. You don't realize
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Speaker 3: that a lot of folks are going to.
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Speaker 2: Be on the.
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Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, they were on a fight. I was in
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Speaker 4: the airport walking around and you just see my just
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Speaker 4: strolling about and he's going on the same place, the
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Speaker 4: same place as me. That's incredible. I'm on the same
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Speaker 4: flight as him and what.
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Speaker 3: About the actual tournament selfie as one of a difficult group,
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Speaker 3: it was it was crazy.
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Speaker 2: The heat effected as well. I think that the grounds
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Speaker 2: when you have corn a but was that.
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Speaker 4: Ground level with this You didn't actually it didn't actually
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Speaker 4: feel I've had worse when I'm over and when I
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Speaker 4: was over in America had a lot worse. But there
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Speaker 4: you didn't really feel as much. Of course I wasn't
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Speaker 4: really playing as much as the others were, but in
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Speaker 4: the stadium you felt actually quite cool. I think I
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Speaker 4: was wearing a jumper on the on the bench because
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Speaker 4: it was it was that that cool, that well air
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Speaker 4: con But no, you knew the group was going to
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Speaker 4: be incredibly difficult. I think they were favorites.
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Speaker 2: In the world.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and of course you look at their team and
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Speaker 4: you and then you look at Croatia's team and you've
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Speaker 4: got like three of the best midfielders in the world,
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Speaker 4: which Androsovich, and then you look at Rockers team. I wasn't,
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Speaker 4: to be fair, he surprised me quite a bit. I
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Speaker 4: thought they were incredible and the thing about their game
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Speaker 4: was the crowd. It was it was just one of
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Speaker 4: those crowds where you couldn't hear yourself speak or think
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Speaker 4: because they were just so louder or whistling the whole time.
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Speaker 4: But I think I think we done ourselves. We did.
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Speaker 4: We've done ourselves proud because the first game, everyone was
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Speaker 4: talking about us after it because we should have won
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Speaker 4: the game. We missed a penalty in the first.
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Speaker 3: Time I watched that game, I think that was the
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Speaker 3: first time that Alistair Johnson kind of came because yeah,
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Speaker 3: I think there was one the Celtic already.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I remember watching that one. So then on the
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Speaker 4: build up to the games, Alistair was talking about it,
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Speaker 4: and I think during that time he actually went to
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Speaker 4: go and get his medical done to go to Celtic
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Speaker 4: because he obviously from being from Scotland. He was like
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Speaker 4: asking you all, he was asking me questions and of
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Speaker 4: course I was like, this is incredible, got to Celic
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Speaker 4: and so yeah, he played that first game and we
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Speaker 4: missed that penalty in the first half and then they
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Speaker 4: went and broke on us and scored, but we dominated
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Speaker 4: I think most of the game, which and everyone enjoyed
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Speaker 4: watching us play. So everyone's talking about Yeah, it was.
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Speaker 4: It was quite a young, energetic team and surprises like
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Speaker 4: in the World Cup, you get these surprised teams that
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Speaker 4: you've never really spoke about or seen, or.
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Speaker 2: When we're killer the then the lasted was that eighty.
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Speaker 4: Two, twenty six years before before we qualified. I think
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Speaker 4: it was something. But yeah, obviously I grew up watching
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Speaker 4: Scotland and France ninety eight. It was my first memory
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Speaker 4: of football.
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Speaker 2: That makes us feel old. Was young?
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Speaker 4: I was I was only eight years old, but that
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Speaker 4: was like, that was incredible watching watching that.
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Speaker 3: So to touch on that side it because I read
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Speaker 3: up cheek you managed to come on in the Morocco game. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: which stage of the game?
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Speaker 4: Twenty minutes to go, we're too one down?
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Speaker 2: What was your thought process that? I'm just happy to
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Speaker 2: be on the pitch.
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Speaker 4: So there was a breaking play, so I think there's
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Speaker 4: someone getting treatment and someone was going to warm up.
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Speaker 4: So I was like, no, I'm not going on. I'm
9:19
Speaker 4: not going on just and then next minute someone just
9:22
Speaker 4: went it's pretty get ready. I was like what I
9:26
Speaker 4: was like running I ran down to warm up. I
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Speaker 4: think I've done two jobs, and the next minute it
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Speaker 4: was it, right, you're going on. So I ran over
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Speaker 4: and put my strip on and I'm like this is
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Speaker 4: the moment, this is this is incredible, and he's speaking
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Speaker 4: to me, and then as I'm going on, there's a
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Speaker 4: breaking play. So it's and I'm just sort of standing
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Speaker 4: looking and I'm seeing my name on like this score.
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Speaker 4: I'm just like I ran on the pitch and I
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Speaker 4: think they were still by a breaking play. So I
9:51
Speaker 4: sort of took it all in. I had that ten
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Speaker 4: seconds where I was just like, I'm playing at the
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Speaker 4: World Cup here, this is incredible, and I sort of looked.
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Speaker 2: Over with my family. It's just the family all there.
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Speaker 4: Yes, this is this is unreal, like I've dreamt of
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Speaker 4: grew up playing my brother on the backfields of a
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Speaker 4: small village and I'm here at guitar playing against The.
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Speaker 3: Reason I'm saying that is because I had a some
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Speaker 3: odd experience back in that ninety one that you're saying
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Speaker 3: is the first term that you can recollect, and it
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Speaker 3: was Morocco. The last game was unlike you and never gone.
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Speaker 3: I get told to going warm up and I think
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Speaker 3: in the days it was only three subs, I think,
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Speaker 3: and the Scott.
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Speaker 2: Booth went on before me.
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Speaker 3: So that was my realization that I wasn't going to
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Speaker 3: quite so it's just when I looked at your thing,
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Speaker 3: then i've seen came back to me.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Fortunately for you you got on the pack.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's the thing yours. You're getting that chance
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Speaker 4: of going on. But you know there's some other players
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Speaker 4: that haven't even had a chance tier. So afterwards you're
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Speaker 4: excited and you're loving it, but at the same time
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Speaker 4: you're like very aware that other people haven't got the chance,
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Speaker 4: got the chance to go on the pitch, so you're
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Speaker 4: very What.
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Speaker 2: Was the squadrons? We were twenty is it twenty in
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Speaker 2: our squad that was more than that. I thought it
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Speaker 2: was about it to think it's about twenty three hours
11:15
Speaker 2: as well, because I think they went bigger again this
11:17
Speaker 2: year and the tw twenty Sexes, although I think teams
11:23
Speaker 2: with the heat over the.
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Speaker 1: Little probably used. There's most subsequent news as well. It's
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Speaker 1: change half your team there.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, you start, there's only well, to be fair, they've
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Speaker 4: changed that. I obviously changed the schedule and the system
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Speaker 4: of it. Now there's more teams there, there's more chance
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Speaker 4: to be qualifying for the next whereas when we went
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Speaker 4: to play three games, you don't get through that.
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Speaker 2: You yeah done.
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Speaker 4: It was like the whole build up to it was
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Speaker 4: so like and then you get there and then.
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Speaker 2: It's already there.
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Speaker 4: Then for that full period by the time must have
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Speaker 4: been a month. As long as a month was, it
11:57
Speaker 4: must have been a month. I think we were there
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Speaker 4: from even just fell laid up the build up of
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Speaker 4: the games and I'm just gone so quick, and like
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Speaker 4: the family came over for like a week just to
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Speaker 4: make sure they've got the games. So then I used
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Speaker 4: to come over a week to see all the games
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Speaker 4: and I was like, right, let's go back home. That's
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Speaker 4: it done.
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Speaker 3: I think that's time as well. We were talking about
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Speaker 3: it before they come morning. The timings as well. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: the games last time. What I remembered for the guitar
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Speaker 3: one was the first game is ten in the morning,
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Speaker 3: which was good. Then you watched them through the day
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Speaker 3: because this one is going to be they're all going
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Speaker 3: to be up through at night.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the same in two thousand and two it was late.
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Speaker 2: I in Japan and ninety four I remember ninety four
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Speaker 2: in the US. Is it don't do it?
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Speaker 4: Obviously they're not going to be like Britain need to
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Speaker 4: see it, they need to see it. They're just like,
12:50
Speaker 4: what's the best for us. Yeah, and that's what they've
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Speaker 4: done and you can see the press ticket pricing as well.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, put your thoughts in the current Canadian team in
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Speaker 2: this time round.
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Speaker 3: Do you think they've got a chance for getting out
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Speaker 3: of that group with a Swiss guitar fund enough bow Well.
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Speaker 4: I feel like they made a strong, a strong statement
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Speaker 4: in appointing the likes of Jesse Marsh. Right after we
13:14
Speaker 4: had done the World Cup, they were then looking for
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Speaker 4: a new manager and Jesse Marsh was like one of
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Speaker 4: the top ones in Europe at a time. While he
13:23
Speaker 4: used to you've done well with leads in Leipsick and
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Speaker 4: he was well known, so to get land him in
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Speaker 4: the job and the style of play that he's implementing
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Speaker 4: with them and the talent that's coming through just at
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Speaker 4: this stage, and because it's not a qualifying stage for
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Speaker 4: them this time, it's more they've just been playing friendlies.
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Speaker 4: But they've done They've done the Cup of America for
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Speaker 4: the first time. They got invited to that and they
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Speaker 4: got to the semifinals, which was incredible for them. But
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Speaker 4: they've got a really strong squad and with their group,
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Speaker 4: think they've got a real chance of I've getting through
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Speaker 4: to the next stage and you never know what they
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Speaker 4: can do.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I've kind of dark Horse. Yeah, the pool Scotland,
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Speaker 2: there's the other agency split.
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Speaker 4: What we boy in Scotland top of it because all
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Speaker 4: his mates were getting on so I was like, I'll
14:18
Speaker 4: get your scott on top. But they've all got kind
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Speaker 4: of the tops as well from the last World Cup
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Speaker 4: by so will be It'll be a strange one, but
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Speaker 4: I'm excited because I'll get to work.
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Speaker 2: I could problem I have been both teams would have progressed.
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Speaker 3: I don't even know I've looked. I haven't never looked
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Speaker 3: at the World Cup chat. Yeah, I don't really know
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Speaker 3: where people can meet.
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Speaker 2: Any idea.
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Speaker 4: I have absolutely no idea.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's that many teams. Are I concentrating the first
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Speaker 2: tie game?
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Speaker 4: I think that's what everyone's That's what everyone's focuses on,
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Speaker 4: isn't it the first three games? Let's see what happens.
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Speaker 4: It's so strange that the last World Cup, the group
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Speaker 4: that they had is pretty much similar to the group
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Speaker 4: they've got now. Yeah, Brazil, Morocco.
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Speaker 2: And I know almost know. I remember I was actually
15:01
Speaker 2: going to it was a bit of Paris.
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Speaker 3: I was in Glass were putting that talking out and
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Speaker 3: you've seen Brazil Morocco and you were just waiting on
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Speaker 3: the Norway when it was amazing. What is your So
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Speaker 3: that was your first kind of memories of the World Cup?
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Speaker 3: Which is would you have been in? Which are highlights
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Speaker 3: of growing up with the World Cups? We were talking
15:22
Speaker 3: about it with something else where. I can remember eighty two,
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Speaker 3: eighty six, ninety right, I was a young kid at
15:29
Speaker 3: the time, asking me to piece things together. In recent times,
15:32
Speaker 3: it's a wee bit more difficult kind of forget the years,
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Speaker 3: you forget the years. What was the things in the
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Speaker 3: World Cup over the years that have stuck.
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Speaker 4: At Francis it was just the song, the song that
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Speaker 4: went with it. Yeah, and then obviously Scotland being involved
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Speaker 4: with it. There was a big, massive hype in the
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Speaker 4: first game, and obviously drawing with Brazil, which was was
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Speaker 4: a drop in it.
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Speaker 2: Beat Beat John Collins, Collis.
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Speaker 4: And Taffarel and gold and stuff like that. You just
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Speaker 4: you just sort of remember these things about it. And
16:07
Speaker 4: then after that, I don't think it was as much
16:11
Speaker 4: because Scotland weren't in it at a young age, but
16:15
Speaker 4: then we had one and I think it was South Africa,
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Speaker 4: the South African World Cup where I was on my
16:22
Speaker 4: cousin stag Do, so we were watching the football while
16:25
Speaker 4: having like a holiday. Remember that one for the boob
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Speaker 4: Zellas as well. It's just the balls, the ball when
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Speaker 4: I was.
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Speaker 2: If they could handle that. I can't remember the name
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Speaker 2: of the ball. South African one.
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Speaker 4: It was brilliant though, and I really enjoyed it because
16:44
Speaker 4: you just sit and watching the football constantly. And then
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Speaker 4: I remember, I think it was a Euros I watched
16:50
Speaker 4: and we got to watch some of the Euros in
16:53
Speaker 4: high school and it was like we watched the Portugal
16:55
Speaker 4: game in maths and you're sitting there watching it and
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Speaker 4: you just just loving it and join it at the time.
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Speaker 4: So I those memories will stick with you when you're
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Speaker 4: watching the football.
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Speaker 2: What about getting back to this one? Then you predicting,
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Speaker 2: do you see the team's being strong?
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Speaker 3: Teams I looked at I still think France with the
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Speaker 3: squad they've got, you can never discount Spain, but it
17:20
Speaker 3: was Portugal I looked at the other day as well,
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Speaker 3: we've got three Peter they could be strong.
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Speaker 4: Which is the teams that stick out exactly. It's very
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Speaker 4: similar I don't think you can disco to England as well, unfortunately.
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Speaker 3: Think so the only thing I looked at when I
17:36
Speaker 3: was looking at that they do have to surpass I
17:39
Speaker 3: think Brazil and Argentina, and that's right.
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Speaker 4: I mean they never really never really thought Argentina would
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Speaker 4: win it lasting, I know, but the little guy was
17:51
Speaker 4: pure magic, so it made it special.
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Speaker 2: I think him winning it because I.
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Speaker 4: Think I watched I watched one when I was in
18:00
Speaker 4: the holiday, and I think it might be neuros. No,
18:03
Speaker 4: it was a World Cup because the Argentina played, and
18:07
Speaker 4: you watched Argentina and you just like they were a team,
18:11
Speaker 4: and then you watched them the last one just like
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Speaker 4: they were a proper team and they were like we're
18:16
Speaker 4: not getting beat here, which really made the difference. And
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Speaker 4: then you've got the magic and message.
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Speaker 2: Mess in the final. I mean I've watched the final
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Speaker 2: back the finals. Maybe one of the best.
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Speaker 4: Ones, one of the best one of them, maybe the
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Speaker 4: best one. Yeah, absolutely, that saved right the end.
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Speaker 2: It's just the savor end for me.
18:34
Speaker 3: When Argentina take that El France about I'll never really
18:38
Speaker 3: And then suddenly came back with the goals from.
18:42
Speaker 4: Bappi yeah, it reminded me of It reminded me of
18:47
Speaker 4: the Liverpool Champions League final. I just watched that other
18:50
Speaker 4: day on you See My game. That was just incredible
18:55
Speaker 4: and that was sort of similar. That game was just
18:58
Speaker 4: ebbed and flowed.
18:59
Speaker 3: And then that that my Land game. I was placing
19:04
Speaker 3: France on my own. My son had just been born,
19:07
Speaker 3: and I was my wife has no interest in football
19:09
Speaker 3: at all in my Land. Three an hour and a
19:11
Speaker 3: half time and Liverpool surely come back into it and
19:15
Speaker 3: I've jumped up and she's like wait then, I said,
19:17
Speaker 3: I'm trying to explain to I says it was three
19:18
Speaker 3: now they were done, and Dusty, that's no three each, nothing, no,
19:25
Speaker 3: And I'm wanting some of them, desperate to say somebody
19:27
Speaker 3: and he's watching this. Yeah, that was incredible, but that
19:30
Speaker 3: final was pretty similar as well. The French and Argentina.
19:34
Speaker 4: One someone to score four goals and a final and
19:38
Speaker 4: not and not the trophy.
19:41
Speaker 2: That's quite maybe this year, although maybe this year if
19:44
Speaker 2: they can get it going France.
19:47
Speaker 4: M hmm, no, you're looking, Vince.
19:50
Speaker 2: I think I could side. I don't know. I think
19:53
Speaker 2: they've got a.
19:53
Speaker 4: Great squad Spain. I just love watching Spain. Yeah, I
19:58
Speaker 4: love watching Spain.
20:00
Speaker 1: I'm feeling the Dutch all I could one if they
20:02
Speaker 1: never people normally get.
20:05
Speaker 2: Which Doesney fit way?
20:07
Speaker 1: You know they kind of if it's some really good
20:10
Speaker 1: teams over the years Dutch, but they've never seen any
20:14
Speaker 1: You feel the heat most committee, Yeah, consideration.
20:19
Speaker 4: Absolutely, depending what time they play, that's it will be
20:25
Speaker 4: a good spectacle. And obviously over there the big stadiums
20:29
Speaker 4: and everything like that would be and it will be
20:31
Speaker 4: different because there's so many different teams, like people that
20:35
Speaker 4: never qualify for World Cup before, so come up against
20:37
Speaker 4: different Hell, i'd heard of them before because I was
20:42
Speaker 4: over there that was against them. I hadn't played against them,
20:46
Speaker 4: but I saw them in some of the other games.
20:49
Speaker 4: Because as soon as you, as soon as I like
20:50
Speaker 4: went over to Canada, you then get used to the
20:53
Speaker 4: teams over there.
20:54
Speaker 2: Exactly.
20:54
Speaker 4: That's is that it's right. It's right above South America.
21:00
Speaker 4: Was right above Venezuela on that coast next to Aruba.
21:05
Speaker 4: I searched the other day because I knew that it
21:08
Speaker 4: was somewhere in those regions, you know those islands that
21:11
Speaker 4: come off America right downstairs.
21:13
Speaker 2: Yeah, another one was.
21:17
Speaker 4: So we came up against them, and a lot of
21:19
Speaker 4: them were were from Holland.
21:21
Speaker 3: Because the game at the Scotland there was a lot
21:23
Speaker 3: of ex Dutch lead players. Yeah, they were saying, obviously
21:28
Speaker 3: Dick advocat in charge.
21:30
Speaker 2: The boy took his goal really well. At a start
21:32
Speaker 2: they were I thought they were all right.
21:35
Speaker 4: Yeah, see they're very physical and that's I think that's
21:40
Speaker 4: why they played them, is because they're going to come
21:42
Speaker 4: against Haiti, who are the same we've played. We played them,
21:47
Speaker 4: we played them over in Haiti.
21:49
Speaker 2: How did you find that?
21:50
Speaker 4: That was aggress That was crazy, the most intimidating place
21:54
Speaker 4: I've ever been.
21:55
Speaker 2: Seriously, Yeah, because I think a lot of their fans
21:57
Speaker 2: are going to be there as well.
21:59
Speaker 4: They'll try, but that was that was something I've never
22:04
Speaker 4: experienced before. Like we traveled during the night to arrive
22:07
Speaker 4: there at the hotel and then you go then we
22:10
Speaker 4: got like a police escort to the because we just
22:13
Speaker 4: arrived at night when the fans like just the place
22:18
Speaker 4: in general, right, And obviously we arrived at night and
22:21
Speaker 4: then went to a hotel and then we traveled for
22:25
Speaker 4: the game the next day. We literally just stopped in
22:28
Speaker 4: and then we're off again. But we got a police escort.
22:32
Speaker 4: Did you win we won one? No, I think pretty
22:36
Speaker 4: sure won one now. But they were very aggressive and
22:39
Speaker 4: the heat was ridiculous, but the fans were. Yeah, it
22:43
Speaker 4: was like a hostel and environment to be in. But
22:47
Speaker 4: the police escort down down the street because it's not
22:50
Speaker 4: a big place. So you're going in the bus and
22:53
Speaker 4: it's it's houses without any doors, and everyone's out in
22:57
Speaker 4: the streets and they arriving riving at the stadium with
23:00
Speaker 4: the police escort, and there's just it's not really a road,
23:04
Speaker 4: it's just like a path and folk are just on
23:07
Speaker 4: the road and you're just I was sitting on the
23:09
Speaker 4: bus and I was like, oh my god, what's going
23:11
Speaker 4: on here? But it was absolutely nuts. And now played
23:14
Speaker 4: the game and then went back to hotel, got everything
23:16
Speaker 4: ready and then we were just away. And then of course,
23:20
Speaker 4: like I think it was like a couple of months
23:22
Speaker 4: or a few months later, we heard the news about
23:24
Speaker 4: their their prime minister or a president got assassinated. We're
23:29
Speaker 4: like Jesus, like, we've just been that's crazy, absolutely nuts.
23:36
Speaker 4: So that would be that, yeah, we do, we do.
23:40
Speaker 2: Can I write these teams off? But at your perila, absolutely, it's.
23:43
Speaker 3: Kill us how showed is at the weekend before they
23:46
Speaker 3: get down to ten men. But I think it was
23:48
Speaker 3: a good run out for us. It gives us a
23:49
Speaker 3: wee bit of what.
23:51
Speaker 2: We're going to be up against that.
23:52
Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, just the downside a bit of Billy Gilmore, Yes,
23:56
Speaker 4: you feel, you feel for him. And there was another
23:59
Speaker 4: boy from for Canada. He he played, he played played
24:04
Speaker 4: his I think it was a final he played in
24:06
Speaker 4: and he tore his c L.
24:08
Speaker 1: You came back from injury to play and they were
24:10
Speaker 1: couped in you.
24:10
Speaker 4: Yeah, you just get back and we had I'd done
24:13
Speaker 4: my a c L in November, so twelve months before
24:18
Speaker 4: the World Cup, so I had that that was your target.
24:23
Speaker 4: That was that was the only thing that was keeping
24:24
Speaker 4: me going was that target, and I had phoned the
24:29
Speaker 4: To be fair, Canada were unbelievable during that period of time.
24:33
Speaker 4: Their physio looked after me as much as Saint Johnson's
24:37
Speaker 4: looked after me. Our physio went on maternity leave and
24:41
Speaker 4: then we had another physio part time who was coming
24:45
Speaker 4: out Saint Johnston. So it was tough. But the Canadian
24:49
Speaker 4: physio was like phone me any time, I mean, just
24:52
Speaker 4: constantly helped me through the rehab and then the there
24:56
Speaker 4: the whole squad reached out to me as well, sent
24:59
Speaker 4: me love the messages and whatnot, and they took care
25:03
Speaker 4: of me, which I'll never forget, and obviously support my
25:07
Speaker 4: family helped as well. Yeah, but then the manager as
25:11
Speaker 4: well was talking throughout the twelve months, just being like,
25:17
Speaker 4: keep yourself going, keep yourself going, and then sort of
25:19
Speaker 4: got to that stage where he was like, if you
25:22
Speaker 4: get yourself fit, there's a good chance you might be
25:26
Speaker 4: in the squad. So I was like, right, I need
25:28
Speaker 4: to keep going. That's the incentive I needed. And I
25:31
Speaker 4: was like, ready, keep going and keep going. Then you
25:33
Speaker 4: have the setbacks as well, and you're like, you know
25:35
Speaker 4: what's going to happen here, And then you got to
25:38
Speaker 4: the point where you're back playing again and you're like, right,
25:40
Speaker 4: I need to seem to be fit and playing well.
25:44
Speaker 4: And so I got that, and then I think it
25:47
Speaker 4: was I've just been pulled into the office by the
25:51
Speaker 4: man calm device at the time, and he was like
25:54
Speaker 4: I've spoken to you and he says you're you're involved
25:58
Speaker 4: in the World Cup and I was like, no, I
26:01
Speaker 4: won't say anything just now, though, Okay, how.
26:03
Speaker 2: Should resist the Gold's end of the season, was us
26:05
Speaker 2: to be back.
26:06
Speaker 4: This was so this was this would have been like
26:08
Speaker 4: just before November. So it was like we've played that game.
26:15
Speaker 4: I think it was against Mother or something. And then
26:19
Speaker 4: after the game, like I think we draw on the
26:21
Speaker 4: game and everything was said, and then right at the
26:25
Speaker 4: end he was like and just to let us all
26:27
Speaker 4: know that Spinny's being picked up for the Garadian Canadian
26:32
Speaker 4: team for the World Cup. And I was just like,
26:34
Speaker 4: I was in tears. It was just emotional, Yeah, because
26:37
Speaker 4: I thought back to when a dumb injury, which was
26:41
Speaker 4: like at Hamden twelve months ago, and I'm now here
26:45
Speaker 4: sitting going to the World Cup, the biggest stage in football.
26:49
Speaker 4: So it's just a crazy journey but one I'll always
26:52
Speaker 4: remember and be very grateful for.
26:55
Speaker 2: Well, we're going to put you on the spot, and
26:57
Speaker 2: I think we should do this, should put you in
26:59
Speaker 2: a spot. We'll go for a winner. Winner and our
27:03
Speaker 2: top goal scorer, does he need to be combined.
27:09
Speaker 4: Tops? I mean you would look at you would look
27:14
Speaker 4: at like a hurricane. But he just doesn't score that
27:18
Speaker 4: many goals in international football, does he?
27:20
Speaker 2: Hopefully not.
27:25
Speaker 4: I think I think the way things are going I
27:30
Speaker 4: think I think spans Man a sneaky feeling there. They'll
27:35
Speaker 4: come good because they've been good the past few years.
27:38
Speaker 4: And then goal scorer. I would go with the likes on.
27:46
Speaker 4: I mean, he's got to be up there. I think.
27:50
Speaker 1: I'll go with him and anyone anyone that taking penalties
27:53
Speaker 1: a chance can takes the penalties from England, don't they.
27:57
Speaker 1: I'm going to that Coss dark horse Canada.
28:03
Speaker 2: In the Canada, I think I watched. I watched last night.
28:06
Speaker 2: I quickly look any he didn't even have They're.
28:11
Speaker 4: Good, Like, I mean, did you watch the game last night?
28:14
Speaker 4: I didn't watch it last night. I saw that one day.
28:16
Speaker 2: Boy my boy was telling about him before as a
28:22
Speaker 2: ball of Daddy watched the boy score to get it go.
28:27
Speaker 4: I love those players that you've never really heard of
28:30
Speaker 4: and they come alive in the World Cup, Like when
28:33
Speaker 4: we played the World Cup with the boy for Morocco
28:36
Speaker 4: and I can't pronounce his name, but he played center.
28:42
Speaker 2: In New Yeah, and he got move.
28:46
Speaker 4: He got a move. Straight after the World Cup we
28:48
Speaker 4: went from like.
28:49
Speaker 2: I think that's the big I think that platform that
28:52
Speaker 2: you're on at the.
28:53
Speaker 3: World Cup for for terms of players unless and known
28:56
Speaker 3: if you'd you've seen it through the years of somebody
28:58
Speaker 3: stars end up getting.
29:00
Speaker 2: Move on the back of that absol.
29:01
Speaker 4: You can just play that couple of games and team.
29:04
Speaker 2: Get to the Semis. Yep, Spain put them in No
29:10
Speaker 2: the last Spell Cup. The beat spender, do not.
29:14
Speaker 4: Morocco. Moroccle got to the Semis, and so did Croatia,
29:18
Speaker 4: who were both so Argentina and France played so Argentina
29:24
Speaker 4: Beati so they did in France Morocco, so they did both.
29:33
Speaker 2: The round before. That's what I'm talking about four years ago.
29:37
Speaker 2: I can't slow slow Bubna. Well that was great mate.
29:47
Speaker 3: I look forward to Canada drawings Scotland and look forward
29:51
Speaker 3: to that will be for your household. But wish Canada
29:55
Speaker 3: all the best and thanks you time to thank you much.
29:57
Speaker 2: Thank