Ben Fisher

And I thought he was remarkably calm about that.

I think for a guy who has missed as many chances as he has in his life, when he finally hits the sweetest volley against France in the World Cup, I think you're entitled to lose your shit a little bit if that gets given as offside.

But he was remarkably calm.

I wonder still how much the first half was France just being bad and how much of it was France taking it easy a little bit.

Because I do think this French team has come here...

thinking we're going to be here for seven eight games so we're not going to burn off a ton of powder in the first 45 against senegal but whatever they were trying to do they ended up not doing much of anything and for sure senegal had chances and and from a norwegian perspective i was watching this going i don't love this like these are quite tasty yeah we knew this already but i have anxieties about facing senegal for sure but you are top of the group lars aren't you uh after beating iraq

4-1.

How was it for you?

I feel so incredibly relieved, Max.

That's the only thing I can really like moved on occasion just by seeing like the players and the anthem and everything.

It's been 28 years.

It's been 10,227 days, I think, since the last time we played a game at the World Cup.

It's been a while.

And it's strange for me because I've ended up sort of scraping a living doing this sort of thing.

And I've watched all these tournaments and I've done podcasts and written things.

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.