George Hamilton
speaker
741 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 31 Jul
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He was none the wiser.
But that was how we got back after the final.
Well, I told the Tim O'Connor story about getting into the VIP car park in Mexico City.
That is a fact.
You do have to be resourceful.
And if you don't have your wits about you, you're not going to make it, basically.
My favourite World Cup per se?
Well, for personal reasons, it's Germany in 06.
Because I'd lived in Germany, I'd done Euro 88 in Germany, the World Cup, I'd missed the 74 World Cup in West Germany because I hadn't started commentating in that stage.
But
06 was so significant after the reunification of Germany 15 odd years before.
This was the first opportunity the Germans had to kind of hoist a flag and say, we're proud to be Germans.
And they did that in a big way.
Because it was Germany, it was a very well-run World Cup.
They had Deutsche Bahn on board the railway as one of the sponsors, which meant it was dead easy for the fans to get around.
The whole thing was just a magnificent experience.
And to go to Leipzig, where the big old central stadium from the Soviet era was a listed building, so they built a new stadium inside it.
So the actual main stadium, Red Bull Leipzig Stadium, is a modern stadium inside the walls of big Centralstadion that had been there before.
That memory lives.
Arriving into Hamburg for a game and the dusk,
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