Alistair (Ali) Bruce-Ball
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608 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Jul
Alistair (Ali) Bruce-Ball’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It was an open bowl back then when I think it was the Sun Life Stadium.
And so that took a little bit of getting used to.
But the way that Cape Verde played and the ComCam, I was genuinely gobsmacked because twice they came from behind and I thought, this is going in.
And there was a couple of occasions during the commentary that myself and James McFadden were just giggling to each other like schoolboys.
And it was it had that sort of like infectious enthusiasm during the game that we were both just sort of like laughing because the way that the audacity almost of Cape Verde to, you know, the smallest nation in the knockout stages of a World Cup to take the game to the defending champions in the manner that they did.
It really was a thoroughly entertaining game.
And like you, I think we'll be talking about that goal for many years.
Yeah, well, just in case, and I think probably everyone will have heard it, but it's so good to listen to.
Just in case you haven't heard it, this is how that goal sounded on Five Live.
Montiel, back it goes out to this near side of the left.
Sidney Cabral comes on the inside.
Oh, my word!
What a goal.
It's a jaw-dropper.
I mean, I'm in disbelief.
I mean, again, we were in a bar watching that and the reaction that got in the bar we were in in Philadelphia is the sort of biggest explosion of joy, noise, of any interaction I've seen at this World Cup in bars or restaurants.
You know, we've been talking all this tournament about how engaged people are.
That goal, apart from the Argentina fans where we were in the bar in Philadelphia, it just went...
berserk it was it was it was brilliant it showed you that the world cup was was grabbing people over here with and it has it's been a great football wise it's been a really good tournament hasn't it yeah most of the matches i think have been pretty good and some of them have been excellent and i think they've been very few
I was fortunate that due to travel, I managed to miss most of Switzerland-Colombia and I need to go back and watch it because I'm actually doing Switzerland against Argentina.
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