Alistair (Ali) Bruce-Ball

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Football Daily · World Cup: The Commentators' View Special 2.0 · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

And I've had a rerun of the second half of that game that you did, John, which, by the way, that wasn't too shabby either, in Atlanta.

Argentina-Egypt.

Argentina-Egypt, yeah.

I'm not sure I necessarily needed that two days after Mexico-England, in all honesty.

I suspect you didn't.

Do you know what?

I mean, this is a slightly different point going off on a tangent.

I was just thinking, you know, Cape Verde had been a brilliant story at this World Cup, and they pushed Argentina really close, and so did Egypt.

We're about to do France-Morocco in Boston.

And actually, I was just doing the stats on it, in knockout games at the World Cup, if you look at African nations against European nations, there have been 18 games.

And the European nations, as you'd expect, you know, because the African nations have obviously got stronger and stronger, but the European nations dominated.

But Morocco have three of the four African wins.

They're the one African team that's been able to get to a position like Egypt did against Argentina, but actually see it through and go a little bit further.

And I think France will probably be, possibly be beyond them.

I think it's really encouraging, isn't it, to see how well the African nations, particularly at this World Cup, have performed.

I mean, nine out of ten of them made it through, didn't they, into that last 32.

And some of the performances have been superb.

Yeah, but then fell pretty quickly.

and um i think that i think that morocco are quite an inspiration you know they're setting the they're setting the standard because as we were saying yesterday during the commentary really egypt's world cup record is terrible it should be much much better than that than it is and you know they almost produced the greatest result that they've ever had at the world cup but um

You know, I think it's a bit like, you know, Ali, the golf that we watch when you get like the Masters, you know, when the European players broke through at the Masters, you know, others follow.

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