Jack Lang
speaker
459 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 4 Jul
Jack Lang’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Chronologically, I'm afraid.
Of course, I caught up with it when I was growing up.
But the iconography of it, I think it would be one thing for a player, a prominent player, to be crying on that stage.
But...
To have the camera picking out Gary Lineker saying, you know, keep an eye on him with Gaza in the background.
Just cinematography like that cameraman should be the star, you know, one of our great World Cup heroes, really.
And then just I think Gaza was such a fascinating figure psychologically and just as a as a kind of.
as a moment for masculinity to see this guy who was brilliant and unpredictable, but also everything was there on the surface.
And, you know, I'm not a cultural historian or whatever, but I...
I think people who study history would probably have a lot to say about that.
The relevance of this guy, this big star, letting it all out there.
I mean, whether or not it helped England in that moment is another question.
But just what a rare sight to see on a football field, especially for, you know,
stiff upper lip English culture.
It's no real shock that that image has endured, I think.
I want you to have the deciding vote, so I'll say Gascoigne and pass it on to you, Duncan.
Yep, England against Argentina.
The sublime and the ridiculous, really.
So Michael Owen announcing himself on the world stage after his first kind of breakout season at Liverpool.
I think England, obviously, at this point had missed the previous World Cup and there was a slight...
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