Miguel Delaney
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1,634 appearances
13 recordings
6 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 5d ago
Miguel Delaney’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And look, I think it's been very entertaining.
I'd say it surpassed my expectations in terms of kind of the quality of the football, the quality of the side, the expansion that hasn't had any sort of, I think, negative effect in terms of the standard, given there's been so few thrashings.
I mean, the only really big one was Curacao in Germany.
And also, I suppose, it does feel FIFA has got away with it to a degree.
I mean, look, the Iranian situation, it was Turani that spoke out after they went out in controversial circumstances again.
He was right to criticise FIFA.
And I think that, funny, that Iranian situation, especially because the way they went out with...
the incredible spectacle of that very strange game between Austria and Algeria.
And that's almost symbolic of the tournament, I think, in many ways, in that the football is entertaining, the football endures, and it just sufficiently obscures all the concerns.
People are going, like, oh, wow, what a finish to Austria, whereas the Iranians have legitimate grievances.
And by the same token, FIFA have got away with it to the extent in...
that there's been no political focus, essentially because Donald Trump hasn't been at games.
And as someone in football puts me, maybe the best thing that could happen for FIFA was actually that Trump got booed at the Knicks, which seems like an eternity ago, all the Knicks stuff in New York.
Because, you know, well, we don't exactly know if this is true, but a lot of people in football are surmising that because of that, he stayed away from these, especially the US games, which are in liberal heartlands.
Also, yeah, you're right, the attendances have been quite good.
But I think they were always expected to be good regardless of the price because of the American entertainment culture.
But that doesn't mean that... That doesn't justify FIFA pricing tickets in the way they did.
Because essentially, there's no need for them to price them in the way they did.
And I suppose that, yeah, I think...
That's my overriding feeling.
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