Horatio Gould
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And then they're just like, oh, yeah, it's a bit of a ding-dong, isn't it?
It's just a game.
And these guys are assassinating defenders for scoring an own goal.
No one's laughing, though, are they?
No.
It's intense.
Anyway, so Uruguay and Argentina hate each other.
So they get to the final and they don't trust each other.
So they have to, I think the first half, Argentina play with their ball that they bought, like their three.
Yeah.
and Uruguay play with their ball, and Uruguay end up winning.
There's a black player, and pretty much early on, everyone, they don't have the most enlightened opinions about black players to this day in Uruguay and Argentina, I would posit.
But back then in the 30s, so they're throwing rocks at the black player, then the black player pick up the stones and throws them back to the crowd.
Then also there's a guy called like the maimed one.
What's he called?
El Manco the maimed he'd lost part of his right forearm in an accident with an electric saw and despite the disability he scores Uruguay's first ever World Cup goal amazing but do you agree we should sort of chalk these titles off
They win 4-2.
And the first people to lift the Jules Rimet trophy, which is this 14-inch gold statuette of Nike, the Greek goddess of victory.
Nike.
Yeah.