John Brewin

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1,873 appearances 15 recordings 4 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 14 Sep

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Football Weekly · Football Weekly’s summer mailbag: World Cup 2026, the off-season and more: part one · 27 Jul 2026 podcast

And you actually look at the substitutions, they were much more attacking. matched

Let's not re-litigate that. matched

I imagine by the time this goes out, everyone will have had quite enough of that. matched

We might even have had enough of Thomas Tuchel. matched

Him and Keir Starmer could be holidaying together in Ibiza by the time this goes out, couldn't they? matched

But yeah, listen, I think we've said this after various finals that England have lost or various big matches that they've lost, is that there is a corner of a football match that is forever England, which is an England player chasing, knackered, after a ball, losing it, no one getting the second ball and the opponent's going back against them and them having to hack it clear and have to live forever. matched

and see out this danger. matched

And maybe that's why the Mexico game was such a swell of national emotion, because this time it actually worked. matched

And it felt like the Dunkirk spirit, the Mafeking, hey, let's just go all the war images, whatever. matched

It's probably a little regrettable that we have to do that. matched

But that's something about the mentality, isn't it? matched

That we celebrate stuff that... matched

defensive the underdog spirit the bulldog spirit such as it is and you know it's it's something you've got to be a little bit careful with in in these times but the rearguard effort is something we find heroic and the thing is the rearguard effort hasn't really worked for us like we've got to be honest about this and that's why basball worked for england for a matched

I don't think England needs to be quite as evangelistic and talk about how we're saving international football because that's doing okay for itself, I think. matched

But there has to be someone to come in. matched

And weirdly enough, Thomas Tuchel, as a pragmatist, maybe wasn't the correct fit because we maybe need an evangelist, someone to change the culture. matched

Yes, we got there. matched

We got there. matched

Yeah, I mean, I think the grace and favour, sinecure and patronage stuff that Jonathan talks about, that will go on while, you know, everyone's on the gravy train. matched

But this is what happens, isn't it, where when things fall down, when come down, look at the previous FIFA regime. matched

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