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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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 10 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 7.

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The Athletic FC Podcast · Messi outshines Mbappe and Haaland + why Amorim for Milan? · 17 Jun 2026 podcast

When the ball comes to him, I don't know about me, I'm certainly not Lionel Messi, but I think most players would hit it in the other direction. voice-verified

You know, he's got that tap in, but the goalkeeper's fumbled it. voice-verified

The goalkeeper's correcting himself to go the other way, but he anticipates that and hits it back into the same corner that Zidane was in. voice-verified

And it's that split seconds intuition, which we've said so much about Lionel Messi, but that's what separates him from everybody else. voice-verified

And I think that was on display again last night. voice-verified

Exactly, exactly. voice-verified

Yeah, but he does. voice-verified

He gets in players' heads like that and he's just incredible. voice-verified

Yeah, but like to the nth degree, to the extreme, like there's always, whenever you talk about Erling Haaland, it's always the word inevitability comes up. voice-verified

But there was like a possession around him last night. voice-verified

Like you just knew that he was going to get on the end of those chances. voice-verified

Not just the first one that he stabs in from such close range, but him bearing down on that poor Iraqi goalkeeper. voice-verified

Yeah, yeah. voice-verified

And there's been this virtual reality stuff I think the BBC are doing where you can get inside the players' heads and it's like a virtual reality VR sort of view, point of view from the goalkeeper. voice-verified

And the goalkeeper's one, he's got the time and he's got the space to play that ball out, but suddenly he doesn't because there's this big red blob just hurtling towards him. voice-verified

It gets closer. voice-verified

And that's the, yeah, he just, he was a man possessed. voice-verified

And first, you know, World Cup debut, first two goals, you're counting one, two. voice-verified

How many more games is he going to need before he's in that conversation at the top of the bracket? voice-verified

Like, the thing is, he's got time on his side as well. voice-verified

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