Jonathan Liew
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187 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 4 Aug
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But pragmatic coaches are not necessarily defensive coaches.
When pragmatic coaches go defensive, I think it says a lot about their mentality and what they think of the players they've been given.
Well, I mean, in terms of where the Malvinas-Falklands conflict stands in kind of Argentinian society, this is an open sore.
It's an open wound that's been running for four decades.
If anything has become deeper and more traumatic for them in recent years, you know, the Falklands, the Malvinas veterans are an incredibly powerful vocal group in society.
Most towns in Argentina will have a kind of a veterans group.
It is there in their consciousness, perhaps in a similar way to how the Second World War was in Britain.
feel boldly enough about it that they would stand behind that flag shortly after kicking England right you know a lot of the songs the players have been singing reference the Malvinas the the reference the victims you know of that of that conflict whereas you know I guess if you asked I'd love to see the 26 players in the England squad play one of those GeoGuessr type games and try and pinpoint the the Falkland Islands on a map and how many of them would get remotely close to it
So it does occupy a different space in Argentina than it does here.
And, you know, unveiling that banner, which I think has happened before, and they did in a friendly some years ago, but not on this stage and not to this kind of audience.
And FIFA is extremely stringent.
It's extremely clear about its stance on this.
on political statements.
And we wait to see if they have the backbone to speak out against its darling team and its darling player in the same way they did about, for example, Poppy's.
Yeah, it just adds layers and layers to it.
I mean, Jonathan Wilson, a colleague of ours, calls it an Oedipal relationship.
Every time they play, which is not often these days, it's not been since 2005 in a friendly, not competitively since 2002.
And absence has not made the heart grow fonder.
Proximity, you know, a lot of these players play in the Premier League or play in leagues around Europe.
They are well acquainted with each other.
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