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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very high profile, big name players, but they also have this younger generation coming through, which Baturina is a part of.
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But yeah, you look at 40-year-old Luka Modric last week, off before the hour mark in a game that was becoming really physical and just how his influence, his importance, it's hard not to feel that obviously something is.
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Coming to an end there, but this is what Croatia do.
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The positive case for them is that this is a country of, I think it's 3.8 million people who consistently punch above their weight year in, year out for the last 30 years that they've been an independent nation at major international tournaments.
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They've got a far better record than England have over those 30 years at major international tournaments, by the way, as we all know full well.
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So I don't think reaching the knockouts will be an issue, but I think what happens beyond that will tell us a lot about this next wave of Croatian talent coming through.
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No.
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Yeah.
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I have actually cleared my schedule for this one.
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Yeah.
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Professional.
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It's warm.
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I'm wearing a jacket, which Keris immediately picked up on.
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I think it's just the little chicken arms that I don't want to show off with the polo shirt.
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I think so.
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Although I think we've come to expect World Cups to start like this.
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I think it must be like four in a row now that I feel like we've had really fast starts, a lot of goals, a lot of people saying, is this the best World Cup ever at the beginning of the tournament?
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And sometimes it turns out that maybe not.
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I don't know if many people have been saying that about this tournament, but it does, it feels like a World Cup.
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And I think it's been helped by the fact that, A, a lot of the big stars have performed and we had that night last week with Haaland and Mbappe.
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