George Hamilton
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741 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 31 Jul
George Hamilton’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But the World Cup has been part of my life, such a big part of my life, ever since I was a nipper, that I couldn't fail to be excited by the prospect.
of a tournament coming up again and the fact that I've been associated with it one way or another for so long since 1978 when I did my first World Cup.
It's a punctuation mark in the long-term calendar that every four years there's going to be this and it's going to be terrific.
The only downside of it is, to my mind, it's gone bloated at 48 teams.
And it's almost harder to get knocked out than to progress from the first stage because there are so many teams.
And I don't really think that the tournament is going to benefit from having so many teams that I think the first couple of weeks, there'll be an element of take it or leave it.
I mean, are we all going to get up in the middle of the night to watch matches?
I don't think so.
Even if we have an interest in it, because we'll know that the team that we're interested in is likely to progress and that we don't need to see every last second.
No.
Every match, every match, regardless of the conditions, the water breaks, they say, are for player welfare.
But to be fair, they're going to have them in every match, whether they need them or not.
But then you read into the regulations and you see that there are stipulations for the broadcast partners as to when they may leave the pictures and when they must rejoin the pictures when there's a water break on.
And then you realise, well, this is actually America and American sport doesn't tend to be played in halves.
It's played in quarters.
And what we now have are football matches in quarters.
Every World Cup match will be played in quarters.
So you think this is a disruptor, obviously?
It is a disruptor.
I mean, the very basis of the laws of football are that it's a game of two halves with a 45-minute duration.
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