Mark Critchley
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1,840 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 8 Jul
Mark Critchley’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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despite all those advantages, they've fallen short.
And I think there will be a sense of even allowing for American exceptionalism, shall we call it.
I think there will be a sense of that they could have gone a little bit further and maybe if it's not a complete failure, it's around about where they expected and probably a little bit less than what they were hoping for, given how well they started the tournament.
I think that's the point, actually.
You know, I think the game was, I don't know if overshadowed, but it was completely affected by it.
And it was within that context in which all the events played out.
And on the US side, I think it's quite hard to tell because to me, they were playing within themselves a little bit.
It looked like that.
There wasn't that intensity that I was talking about before that we saw in the earlier games.
You're never sure quite...
From the outside, whether that relates to the controversy that's going on at the same time, and I know Henry's answer there, he's saying the players said they weren't affected by it.
They are going to say that in more private moments.
I imagine they might say something slightly differently, maybe, but it's really the effect that it had on Belgium, I think, is the key point.
You know, they're going out...
After Lukaku's goal, they're doing the little Trump YMCA dance in celebration.
You have the quotes from Kwartai.
We have Tielemans as well.
They held a meeting after they heard the news.
We told ourselves we needed to do our talking on the pitch.
That's what we did.
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