Alistair (Ali) Bruce-Ball

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

Some of the corridors and higgledy-piggledy,

And there was another route, which I think I put on social media.

One route out of the stadium was like a cobbled street.

It's like a winding cobbled street within the stadium that led up and outside of the ground.

And just all of the unusual nature of the inside of the Aztec Stadium, which has been renovated, obviously, for this World Cup, but still has a little bit like the stadium in Napoli, which you'll have both been to.

there's a lot of it that is still the same as it was, probably not too different from when Pele was winning the World Cup there in 1970.

And it's great when you see that.

And some of the pictures along the tunnel, Diego Maradona was there, Hugo Sanchez, some of the great moments, obviously, from Central American football that I didn't particularly recognize, black and white, but they're big pictures on the sides of the walls of the stadium.

And another experience I had there was when the match finished,

I was off quick down to do the interviews and I was down one of the winding corridors that took me down to ground level.

And suddenly I reached the point where there were quite a number of stewards who were saying, stop, stop, you cannot go any further.

And I was saying, well, I have to go further because I've got to do the interviews.

And they said, no, no, stop, stop, and wouldn't let me go any further.

Next thing, this stretcher whizzes by and I'm looking at it and thinking, that's an England player.

Because I saw his shorts.

I saw his shorts.

It's an England player.

And he clearly had, he was having oxygen administered to him.

But they were all gathered as the stretcher whizzed by.

They were all gathered around him.

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