Ben Fisher

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1,033 appearances 6 recordings 5 series first heard Mar 2016 last heard 29 Jun

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Football Weekly · Messi’s record, Mbappé’s magic and Haaland’s big splash: World Cup Daily · 17 Jun 2026 podcast

But in my entire adult life, I've never actually had proper skin in the game.

And I do have a greater sense of understanding for why you all completely lose your minds about England and stuff like this than I maybe had previously.

In the same way that I understand it much more now to the point where I found it really hard to provide any analysis or forecast about this game in advance in any sort of rational way.

Because yes, clearly we are quite a lot better than Iraq.

But we've had so far the story of the tournament.

There's been so many upsets.

There's been Qatar nicking something against Switzerland.

There's been Cape Verde holding Spain.

There's been Saudis stopping Uruguay.

The upsets have been coming.

And as the match drew near, I became increasingly convinced and terrified that the upsets would come for us as well.

And then when we played not well in the first half, I thought Iraq...

Iraq should get credit.

Iraq had really done their homework, I felt.

I got the sense that they picked their moments in terms of pressing, and they really targeted those of our players who are not super comfortable on the ball.

They really made us uncomfortable, and we couldn't play the way we really want to, certainly for the...

Certainly for the first quarter, when we had the drinks break, that's definitely not an ad break, and we got into the second quarter of the game.

We obviously scored a very, very good goal, a nicely worked move, and that settled everyone down a little bit.

But then they equalized, and then, yeah, when the equalizer comes, I'm thinking, yeah, we're the Swiss now, or we are the Spain, or we are Uruguay, whoever.

I thought the upset was coming.

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