Dan Bardell

This was...

I can't even remember myself.

I think it was 11pm, Dan.

Was it 11?

I nearly said it was 1am then.

It definitely wasn't 1am because I definitely got a little bit more sleep than that.

Yeah, it's tough to try and cover.

Barney asked me what the mood was like in this country, some of the kick-off times.

do make it difficult when you're working in football and you then have stuff to do in the day as well.

When I saw the link to Riverside for us to come on and do this podcast and it was all 8.15pm kick-off for all you guys, I was thinking, surely it's not 4.15pm.

Surely producer Joel has made a mistake here.

Cards on the table, I made that game but did not make the final game of the run before this podcast.

That just wouldn't have been possible.

Sometimes you wonder if the goal is going to come.

For Spain, you felt like it would and it didn't.

This Uruguay one, it was always going to come.

They were all over them.

Bielsa made some changes, didn't they, for the second half.

Uruguay weren't terrible.

in the first half either but they really went at them and the keeper had a good day he'll probably be a little bit disappointed with the goal obviously both goals in that game were rebounds but Uruguay just full of energy and it's not a terrible result in the first game of a group especially in this iteration of the World Cup and for the second World Cup running I'd say Saudi Arabia have come out with a more than creditable result in the first game