Nicky Bandini
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1,942 appearances
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 15 Sep
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And he didn't do anything stupid, but did he have the game that England needed him to have?
No.
So, well, I...
Yeah, of course it is.
He's magic.
And I think that's almost been lost at times in the, listen, as easy as it is to have a go at Philippe saying that everyone was cheering for Argentina when they clearly weren't.
It is this odd paradox that Argentina did make themselves very unlikable to a lot of people.
Or maybe they didn't make themselves unlikable to a lot of people, but a lot of people following this fans from a neutral perspective saw what happened in that Egypt game and rightly or wrongly,
felt that there was a huge injustice that occurred that day.
And I think that there have been a lot of people feeling like Argentina are somehow FIFA's team.
I even thought, you know, it was interesting on this idea of who's pulling for Argentina and England.
You always expect Naples to be pulling for Argentina because of that Maradona connection.
They've always done it.
I read a thing just today in a Neapolitan football website, really well read one,
that was saying Diego Maradona would have supported England rather than Miss FIFA supported Argentina, which I think is wrong, by the way, but still.
I thought it was interesting that someone was even trying to make that argument.
But then you watch Leo Messi and you just think, how can you not enjoy watching him?
Obviously, you don't want to see him scoring against England or setting up the goals against England and knocking them out.
when you're English, but when you're anyone else watching this guy play football at 30 or 39, whichever he is.
And in that first half, even before we get into the end of the game, when he's pulling the strings and making this turnaround happen, that moment when he bounces off a tackle from Spence, shrugs off Harry Kane, sends Anthony Gordon the wrong way, and then finally gets clattered by Elliot Anderson.
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