Gerard Whateley
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Appearances Over Time
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In the first game, they had that beautiful ambush mentality, didn't they, against Turkey, where they were sort of, hey, you're hitting us off.
We're going to get down and desperate here.
But this one, it was like USA in USA.
We all probably didn't realise the magnitude of just how down big it was.
And I just felt that they were...
Almost, you could almost see them, you know where you see it sometimes?
Swimmers at the Olympics.
Sometimes they spend all their time getting there and it's such a unique occasion.
They stand on the blocks and literally just almost becomes an out-of-body experience.
It was just so disappointing because we played... The Americans had been obnoxious, let's be honest.
Clearly not all Americans.
There's one loudmouth and he's had far too much coverage.
But the idea that we're sort of...
an uncouth backwater team.
And we played like it.
Their own goal was a shocker.
The level of physicality was really unsophisticated.