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Reflections on the World Cup: England's Journey and Tactical Decisions · Team of the eighties

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  Taylor.
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  Oh, welcome to team of the 80s.
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  My name is Gary Spencer.
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  You probably know that by now.
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  Yeah, and summer March is on.
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  But the World cup is over.
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  Spain defeated Argentina.
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  If you don't know that already.
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  If you don't know that and you're watching or listening to this podcast, you're probably listening or watching the wrong podcast yet.
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  Defeated Argentina.
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  Pretty dull game I thought.
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  But you could see how England struggled to beat Argentina in the semi final.
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  I'll get to that in a bit later on and hopefully towards the end of the show we'll get Peter Nicholas on and he's going to let us know exactly what he thought of the World cup because even though
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  he's a Welsh fella and even though he represented Wales many times, he actually tipped England heavily to win the World Cup.
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  So he was disappointed too, I know that for a fact.
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  So hopefully we'll get him on.
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  If not, we'll get him back next week and I'm sure he'll give us his thoughts on the World Cup.
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  Palace players featured very well at the World Cup.
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  You may remember in my last podcast I was saying how much I was more of a, a country before club player.
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  I wasn't, I wasn't too enthused when the club were putting out on their socials players that were doing well in the World cup and some of those players were going to play against England.
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  Of all four, obviously Crystal Pilot's players doing well except when they're playing England and of course consequently later in the tournament, Chelsea, when they put up Fernandez got bucket loads of stick for doing that and they had to
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  pull it down because all the England fans were like, what are you doing posting him up?
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  He's just knocked England out.
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  So you know.
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  Yep, all about it.
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  But when we're competing against each other, let's wait till the domestic season.
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  Having said that, well, well pleased for the palace players.
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  Some good players in there too.
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  Munoz, Strand, Larson, Mateta, obviously Dean Anderson with England as I used to be with this of course, Elise.
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  Wow, what a tournament Elise had.
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  And it goes on and on.
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  Lacroix.
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  It goes on and on and on.
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  We have plenty of palace representation in the World Cup.
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  So very pleased for the boys.
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  Hopefully we can keep hold of them.
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  Looks like the Quads on his way to Chelsea.
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  But let's see.
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  Football's a funny old game.
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  If we can stick together and add to the squad, I should think we're gonna have a decent season.
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  But you know, let's see one thing at a time.
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  Who were you pleased with and disappointed with at the World Cup?
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  Did you.
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  Did you disapprove of Argentina's tactics?
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  They've always played that way.
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  I can't remember a time when they haven't played that way.
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  One thing I will say in the final is that if you remember when they were down to 10 men, they were knocking on the door against Spain, you know, and they could have easily got an equalizer there at
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  the end.
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  So they've got a pattern to play.
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  I think they're more than talented to play without the dirty dark arts, I do.
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  But that's the way they want to play.
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  And in my lifetime I haven't seen it change.
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  So maybe that's the way they're always going to play.
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  Who knows?
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  Going back to England and their World Cup, I thought we did okay, you know, I thought we were okay.
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  Obviously in, in the group stages, a fantastic effort and performance against Mexico, a very professional performance against Norway where I'd said before that I couldn't see Harlan scoring and he didn't score and he never looked like scoring.
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  And with the Argentina game, I thought we did.
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  I thought we did well.
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  I thought we was in the game.
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  I do feel that they were knocking on the door long before Churchill made the tactical changes and I do feel that his tactical changes didn't help.
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  But again, would we have won the game?
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  Would we have seen that the game?
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  My heart says we would have done.
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  My head, I don't know.
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  I don't know.
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  We were in retreat.
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  We weren't looking good.
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  They were knocking on the door.
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  But one thing I will say, when Chuchu says it's down to our DNA.
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  Not sure about that one, mate.
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  And if it is, then that's got to be the worst German tactical decision since the Third Reich went on the Russian front because I tell you, he didn't help us.
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  But yep, you know, that's the World cup and it's a great tournament.
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  It was great for America.
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  It was great for the teams involved.
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  It was great from a monetary point of view.
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  All in all, a very good tournament.
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  Could England have got there to the final?
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  Yeah.
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  Could that have been Spain?
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  It's football, you know, we beat Manchester City in the FA cup final on a one game off.
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  You never know what's going to happen.
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  Looking forward to the season.
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  We had a preseason game the other day, Swindon.
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  We did okay.
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  I think we won like 651 or something.
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  It was a 51 or something.
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  I don't know.
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  I can't remember.
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  Frank has called a hat trick in catcher scored.
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  I don't play well.
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  First of all, I watched the highlights of the game.
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  I didn't see all of it.
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  And if I'm honest, I'm a bit footballed out right now after having the end of the season, the European game, the World Cup.
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  So a little bit of a break, I think will do us all good.
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  To tide us over in that break with the podcast, I've got Barry Siltman coming up.
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  I've got Phil Order coming up.
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  I've got Vince Alaire coming up and Stevie Lovell.
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  So by the time we get through those, we'll be well into the season.
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  So lots of great interviews coming up, lots of great guests coming on the show.
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  And I'll be revisiting with Nico as well and Fen and yeah, I'm really, really looking forward to that.
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  Send me your comments.
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  Get involved.
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  I love to debate.
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  Football's all about opinions, right?
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  And this show's all about opinions.
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  And the more people that give me an opinion and debate me and question my opinion, the better the show is.
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  So I'm all there for it.
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  Let me see if I can get Nico on later in this afternoon and I'll come back if I can.
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  If not, I'll catch you next time.
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  Thanks for watching and thanks for listening.