Dion Fanning
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888 appearances
15 recordings
5 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 7 Jul
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But because of all the factors you mentioned and the fact that you don't really need
to go for it, it could actually be cautious from the get-go.
And then you're into a last 32, which is when... It's knockout from there.
It's knockout then from the numbers, from 32 teams, which is what we've been used to.
And you could actually then, and this could be interesting, and I know from talking to Miguel about this in our own conversations, there's a limit to it, you could actually start getting a lot of shocks because you're going to have 32 teams in a knockout situation and big teams could get knocked out.
And that's great for a while, but ultimately, I think, I'm of the view that when it comes to the crunch, you want the big teams in the quarterfinals, semifinals, you want the big beasts there.
Somehow.
No, I don't think so.
I think that's probably the issue for them.
And in the conditions, it's going to be something they're going to struggle with.
But again, like that is, you know, four years ago, we thought Messi, that was it.
Like he was going to be, you know, why would you continue after that?
And, you know, there's still this iteration remains the same.
And it's... But it's hard to imagine Argentina without Messi.
Yeah, absolutely.
There's that too.
They could have looked too.
As Miguel says, because of the way the tournament is structured, they're into a knockout and then anything can happen.
Well, it's funny, I have this sort of feeling of like France aren't going to, you know, just that sort of general sense of kind of scepticism about France doing it.
And then you look at the attacking talent, you look at whatever it is, nine players, they've nine forwards valued at close to a billion between them, like this extraordinary level of talent.
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