Nicky Bandini
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1,942 appearances
16 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 15 Sep
Nicky Bandini’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You just think it's not just...
The fact he's seen everyone and understood what they are.
It's not just the fact his feet move that quickly.
It's how he uses that body that doesn't look big enough to shrug off someone like Harry Kane and positions it to get himself between the ball and the opponent.
He's so good to watch.
And in the end, yeah, that's the difference between sitting back and trying to defend a lead against Mexico or Norway.
And yes, the best player I've ever seen play football.
It's a really, when you take a step back, it's a really odd situation, isn't it?
Because reaching the semi-final of a World Cup has really constituted drastic failure.
I mean, reaching the semi-final of a World Cup is, by definition, it's a rare thing to do.
It's certainly a rare thing for England to do.
And so the fact that it's being received in this way as such a failure, I think is on a level remarkable and on a level it isn't because you look at the talent in this England team and it is an incredibly strong England group.
We have got absolutely world-class players in that team, got players who are not just world-class, but in incredible form, like Harry Kane has had the season of his life.
You've got players like Jude Bellingham who had a fantastic tournament and
And so the expectation has jumped up so much.
And I think that in a weird way, that's also partly Gareth Southgate's work, right?
Gareth Southgate made England a team that get to finals.
Gareth Southgate made England a team that no longer had this inferiority complex about itself and started to think, no, we really can compete for these things, even though they haven't actually won them.
um so so yeah i don't know i think that's an incomplete thought because with a night of i haven't taken that thought all the way to its conclusion yet but i do think it's interesting that a semi-final is is being treated as a profound failure and also that i don't necessarily disagree with that because it did feel like this was two girls fault it's the manner of his defeat right it's you know if england had lost that game 2-1 in a game similar to the defeat of france four years ago you sort of go
You were asking me about World Cup fever in England.
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