Horatio Gould

Yeah.

Get the referee up there in the corner.

activate the referee um so yeah the even ivan ecklund he not not only did he i guess this is so before var uh yeah i mean i mean this is like we should you're all standing in the stand and it's normally olympic um stadiums you're so far from the pitch yeah you can't see anything nor can anyone

No one has glasses.

I mean, no one can see anything.

So when Italy beat Austria in the semis, Ekland allowed a highly controversial goal where the Italian forward bundled the Austrian goalkeeper into the back of the net while ruling out multiple Austrian attacks for offside.

Right.

So he had like ghost offsides.

He was like, yeah, that's offside.

Yeah, why not?

Did he even have a linesman at this point?

One of the goals had been like a Maradona-esque solo goal and the referee ruled it offside.

no passing is when that's offside pretty awesome I kind of rate him anyway shout out Eklund friend of the pod so I mean the referee playing for the other team you've got to respect that that's legendary behaviour so Mussolini so Italy eventually win the World Cup partly I think they were quite a good team but also Mussolini just rigged it so anyway who knows once again we need to strike all these World Cups off it's a load of bollocks the first World Cup that really someone won was 66 yeah come on

We'll get to that next episode.

Anyway, so they win.

Mussolini hands over the World Cup and the Copa del... The massive World Cup that he got made.

It was bigger.

It's like a trophy pump.

He asked the players what they wanted as a reward for winning and one of them said that he desired nothing more than a signed photograph.

So they all give him that.