Carl Anka

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1,124 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 14 Aug

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The Athletic FC Podcast · Why were England so flat against Ghana? · 24 Jun 2026 podcast

I keep yelling about that.

So travel is also important in terms of... Topping your group is really important because it does look like this is a tournament where the top teams are all topping their groups, so therefore should avoid each other.

The only real wrenches I can see right now are Cape Verde now having two points and possibly having an outside chance of finishing second in their group if they get a result against Saudi Arabia, which could mean one of Uruguay...

Likely Uruguay end up taking a different route, which might be annoying for a team.

Or Belgium are underperforming at this point in time.

And theoretically, that could be a problem if you face them earlier.

But much like some other European nations, they're not as strong as they used to be.

So facing Belgium in 2026 isn't as scary as facing them in 2018 or 2022, for example.

I mean, 2022, they didn't get out of the group.

So yeah, top your group, get things done, and we'll figure out planes, trains, and all the wheels later on, I guess.

It's been really, really good.

I think there's been two or three brackets I've experimented with that aren't the athletic one that particularly when Spain drew, Neil Noah Cape Verde kept putting Spain

in areas where, come on, be serious.

They're not going to end up there.

Let's sort this out.

Or indeed, there's two or three I saw with the United States where they're going, oh, United States could play Ghana in the round of 16.

I'm going, if Ghana makes it to the round of 16, I love them, but let's be serious.

You might have to fly out.

Whatever supercomputer Duncan Alexander and the rest of the team have got power in the FX1, I think it's just been a little bit

cleaner in estimating the strength of record teams.

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