Chris Whittingham

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4,617 appearances 12 recordings 4 series first heard Sep 2025 last heard 20 Jul

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The Dan Le Batard Show · The Fancy Lad Returns: Chris Wittyngham On The World Cup | Hour 2 · 20 Jul 2026 podcast

What's the other sport? matched

I'm missing the other sport for a lot of these. matched

What do you mean, what's the other sport? matched

How about Tom Glavin being picked in the NHL draft ahead of Brett Hull and Luke Robitaille? matched

Yeah, I mean, the only two real embarrassments were the treatment of the Iran national team throughout the tournament, which was not great. matched

And then, of course, the Faler and Baligan situation, the degree to which the administration did or didn't get involved with those decisions was pretty embarrassing and it made the world kind of hate us. matched

But yeah, I agree with you just in terms of the amount of fear that I had going in that matched

it was going to kind of be ruined by everything that surrounded it. matched

It was fun. matched

Everyone loved this tournament. matched

A lot of the number of people in my life that very rarely watch soccer that have texted me at various points going, that was amazing. matched

Where could I watch more soccer? matched

Where can I embrace this even more? matched

Can I watch a Premier League team? matched

Can I watch my local MLS team? matched

Whatever the case may be, there was a level of embracing of this, which I didn't expect, both in terms of matched

you know, America towards the world sport, but also America towards the world's communities. matched

I mean, the number of ways in which we saw cultures meld with people in Lawrence, Kansas, loving the story of Algeria, training in their city with, you know, South Koreans in Mexico and the Dutch Orange Army all over the place. matched

I think it was a real festival. matched

And there was that sense that maybe the US was gonna be the first country to not really provide that, that you go back to Brazil 2014 and South Africa 2010, matched

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