Mark Critchley

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1,840 appearances 10 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 8 Jul

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The Athletic FC Podcast · Argentina are inevitable + Ornstein on Man United transfers · 8 Jul 2026 podcast

They can't be stopped.

One of my favourite moments was after the third and it cuts to Scaloni on the touchline and the look of almost disbelief on his face and that he's an absolute passenger in the rest of this like the rest of us.

All due respect to him as a World Cup winning coach, it feels like he's a spectator just witnessing events because this team will just find something from somewhere and

I was in Qatar and I did a lot of Argentina's golfing, quarterfinal onwards.

And there was a, there was a sense of destiny about it.

You know, it was inevitable that there would be because it's messy because it's the World Cup because we all thought it would be his last time.

And,

And you would always feel that, I don't know if inevitability is the right word really, but you always feel that they would get something and push themselves over the line.

I didn't think that would be here this time because we've seen this episode before, you know, it's been there and done it, but it's still there.

They're still doing it.

And I don't know how good they are still.

I still think they look beatable.

I think if there's an England-Argentina semi-final and they're way off that, Norway have got something to say about that as well as Switzerland.

I would still like fancy our chances.

But he's just undeniable.

He's irrepressible.

He's Lionel Messi and he's the best player that any of us have ever seen.

I love the fact that he misses penalties.

I like the fact that he misses penalties because like, bear with me, but like a penalty, it's not really football.

Do you know what I mean?

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