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 · Germany hit new low + Ornstein transfer latest · 30 Jun 2026 podcast

Although I'm saying this, I think if you are Gen Alpha or whatever now, and you're what, 15, 20 years old, you might remember 2014.

But you probably don't.

You probably don't even know what people are talking about when they talk about Germany as this World Cup team anymore.

So I think there was problems and questions coming into the tournament.

And I think those remain now, they leave it.

dragged on longer than kind of you would expect it to it's like three match points at the end I can't remember the last time I saw something like that where they have two penalties and also Germany had to score theirs as well and not to put it away and then for Tata to blaze it over the bar after that like that's your reprieve you're back in and

And there's been that whole sort of dynamic between them from the very start of the tournament where Klopp's been on German television and commenting on the performances, criticising Nagelsmann.

Then in that, did you see their interaction after, was it after the Curacao game where he basically apologised to Nagelsmann face-to-face for some of the criticism that he'd been making about him, which was very...

tense and sort of awkward moment where Nogsman clearly didn't want to be in the conversation and didn't want, you know, to have to go through that on national television publicly.

It's a strange dynamic.

I think Jurgen Klopp looks about 20 years younger for not being in football management.

So if I was here...

If I was him, I would stay well away.

But I think, you know, certainly it's a job that he's always been sort of linked to.

It could be an ambition of his one day, but I'd stick to the Budweiser ads and the Trivago ads.

I know it didn't have that much of an impact on the game in the end, but Vinny Jr.

's little dribble, where he puts it through Tommy Asu's legs and then goes through on goal.

Honestly, if that had gone in, I think that's one of the great individual World Cup goals.

Never mind just this tournament.

I was watching it on telly.

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