Jonathan Wilson
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first heard Oct 2025
last heard 1 Sep
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The Overlap · 2: Football's Coming Home: How England Won The 1966 World Cup | Part Two · 24 Jun 2026
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He knows you can't really dribble against them because you're just going to get fouled.
You've got to keep the ball away from them.
but obviously the public hate this in the mail Brian James speaks of Uruguay as unambitious and uncompromising which I think is probably true I think if you're Uruguay why would you not just go and sit deep and it's the opening game of the World Cup it's at Wembley it's against the hosts a draw is fine for you but the headline I think is what really sort of gives you a sense of the mood of a nation after this game angry baffled goalless England
Jay Albano is amazing.
I don't think there's any figure quite like him now.
So, well, okay.
But here's the photo byline.
He looks like a very stern man, probably aged around 60 with big glasses.
He's actually 42.
But he's got this kind of old man, fussy, angry shtick.
And he's got his tone.
He's not going to change it.
Anyway, so he's I mean, he's perpetually disgruntled and he's not a man to kind of think maybe this is clever tactics.
So he says, even the commentators are going all foreign.
Thinking about football, that's a terrible sort of foreign affectation.
They talk down to us as if football was a new television panel game, which the natives are seeing for the first time.
You know the clever, clever fellows I refer to.
There are those who say, arrogantly of course, some people thought it was dull, but we in the game were fascinated by the tactics.
It's a great pity football crowds are not better educated.
They would enjoy it so much more.
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