Jack Lang
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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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It's great.
It was also kind of a double redemption.
Like, as Will said, a lot of injury issues at club level.
Specifically, you know, we've all got that image of him clutching his knee after going down while playing for Inter.
So it was both a redemption for the strained, slightly unexplained 1998 final and redemption for what seemed to be career-defining injuries.
I mean, they were really career-defining injuries.
They completely took away a lot of his physicality.
And yet, in this moment, he was able to bring it all together.
And, yeah, that World Cup is a kind of a definitive statement of what he could do.
I think, you know, he was a better athlete four years earlier.
But the fact, as Will said, scored in so many rounds, the fact that he settled the final, I think, is...
you know it would be a redemption story either way if Brazil had won and he was top scorer but that it was him putting Germany to bed I think really capped it off and yeah for me that is one of the great World Cup stories particularly of this century
Yeah, a classic case of them clearly deciding that before the final.
It's definitely a major story.
I think you could probably rule out on the basis that the World Cup hadn't begun.
So for those who don't know this, it's the Saipan incident.
Roy Keane being frustrated with what he regarded as poor facilities for the Republic of Ireland in their pre-tournament games.
training, fell out with Mick McCarthy about it, kind of accusations that Roy Keane had been feigning injury, a psychodrama, like a two-man psychodrama, which is why it became a recent film.
I would say that this...
To me, I've always found it really intriguing and I've read quite a lot about it over the years, but this feels like quite a local story compared to some of the others.
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