Mike Halford
speaker
41,725 appearances
179 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 6 Jul
Mike Halford’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 179 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 69.
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Now, a few things went into that.
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One, incredibly good stop from Bonham.
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Montreal born, by the way.
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Who's a very high-end keeper, quality keeper.
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Those differences in a match where you've got a world-class...
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Keeper, he makes a save.
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You don't have a world-class finisher.
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He doesn't put it in behind.
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Match takes on a totally different vibe if Canada goes up one in the first half.
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And we talked about this last week as it related to the big upset in the round of 32 when Paraguay beat Germany.
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They were able to score first.
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They were able to capitalize on a chance, and it tilted that match on its head.
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The other one, the near upset in the round of 32, the biggest one,
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was England-Congo, where Congo was able to score early, was able to capitalize on their early chance, and it threw that match into arrears and almost caused the second biggest upset of the round of 32.
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So from that perspective, Canada didn't follow the script.
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Canada also didn't follow the script because there were too many mistakes made in the second half.
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It was very similar to the World Cup match against Belgium in Qatar in 2022, where they were raving about how great they played in the first half, and they were down 1-0.
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And if you want to look at this tournament now, and you talk about the two highest ranked teams that they played, and that was Morocco, who are in the top 10, and Switzerland, who's in the top 20.
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Canada was outscored 5-1 on aggregate and were only able to find the back of the net once in the second half of the Swiss match.
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They went 180 minutes and were only able to find the back of the net once against the quality opponents that they had.
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