Fin Taylor

But have you not yet become the monolith that I will be when I'm Gavin Plumbing behind them or Watson in a cave?

Anyway...

For France, this is a huge political success because it's... Gavin Plumb is a fucking adjective.

Gavin Plumbing it as a verb.

Stalking behind a film star as a huge fat lump to Gavin Plumb.

Charlie, could you get Gavin Plumb on the Mount Rushmore, please?

Add him as our fifth member.

Anyway...

So this is a huge deal in France, 98, because it's... This is also around the time that La Haine, the film, was made.

So it's like the whole Paris race tension.

The banlieue, the suburbs.

But this is the first time.

So all those stars, Mbappe and Dembele, they all grew up in the shadow of watching this team, this like rainbow team where you've got Vieira, Desailly, Zidane, Henri, you've got Dugarie.

Zidane's Algerian heritage.

So the Rainbow Nation.

Now speaking of Rainbow Nations, we can skip the kind of early noughties, 2002, obviously South Korea.

That's quite a good World Cup.

Yeah.

2010 is the next big one because this is the first and only time to date the World Cup has been in Africa.

But there's also the real start of the downfall for FIFA's architects because this is the fruition of Sepp Blatter, who we haven't introduced yet.