Ben Whittaker
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 23 Jul
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Stick to Football · Kane to the Rescue! Mexico Will Be Tough & Who Stops France? · 2 Jul 2026
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They've been so sharp on VAR during this tournament to get in and out on decisions and make sure that they don't re-referee the game.
He must have watched it, as you say, Jill, 10, 15 times.
Once you've watched it past three, four, five times...
You've told yourself, actually, I'm not sure.
And then the referee goes over, he spends another two minutes looking at it, so he's not sure either.
And I think when you're looking at it that much, in the last minute of a World Cup knockout game, I'm not sure that's a penalty at all.
But he's going already and he touches it and he's already fallen before.
I don't think the VAR that did that decision on Belgium, Senegal, is getting another game.
Why do you think that's a... He's going home with Senegal.
They've been quite strong around re-refereeing and they've been quite good with it and they've been quite quick on decisions.
And you might think, OK, they've got things right or wrong at certain points, but they've been really sharp on it and they've thought, right, we're not re-refereeing games, we're not interfering.
And he's gone and interfered there in the 119th, 20th minute of a...
Not for me, Clive.
The Belgian manager also, he'd taken De Bruyne off, he'd taken Doku off, almost a little bit like Bielsa did, almost like, I'm going to go down.
I'm just going down fighting.
I'm going down in flames, you know what I mean?
Literally, I'm going.
I'm taking everything with me.
There's like an implosion happening though, wasn't there?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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