Oli Kay
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329 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 17 Jun
Oli Kay’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Well, yeah, an awful lot of brilliance.
When Jack spoke earlier about the rarity value of the World Cup and the fact that it only comes around every four years.
So Diego Maradona had been an incredible player as a 17-year-old in 1978 who had been considered too young to be in the squad, on home soil, was devastated, was sort of
Rare, you know, by the time it was the 1982 World Cup, he was 21.
He was absolutely desperate to make an impact on that tournament.
And he struggled, really, in some ways and got frustrated, kicked out a Brazilian opponent in the second group stage as it was and was sent off.
So that's two World Cups during his playing career.
First, he's left out.
The second, he's sent off and sort of sent home in disgrace, really.
And so by the third one, you know, he's only 25, but he must be thinking, and I think this is a common feeling with some of these great players that they haven't yet made their mark on the World Cup.
And what transpired in Mexico in 1986, and I sort of remember it so vividly as a 11-year-old who just watched basically every minute of that World Cup, was...
I think the greatest individual World Cup campaign that there's ever been.
Slow start in one sense.
He scored against Italy in ice goal in the group stage, was playing well, but hadn't really sort of dominated the group stage.
Then there was this game against Uruguay in the...
round of 16 as it's now known where he it was just this incredible performance that is forgotten really because it was eclipsed by what came later but an incredible performance where he almost sort of single-handedly played Uruguay and it was a it was it was one nil but it should it was you know it was an utterly brilliant performance by him
Then it comes to the quarterfinal against England and there's so much emotion around the game.
The Falklands conflict is still fresh in people's minds between Argentina and UK, but obviously it's...
It's perceived as being Argentina against England.
Maradona, the greatest player in the world at the time, desperate to make an impact, was kicked to pieces, really, in the first half of that game.
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