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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North Korea had reached the quarterfinal.
back in 1966 but apart from that Saudi Arabia did the last 16 in 1994 but this was new ground particularly for East Asian teams and I think it's so important for a World Cup that the host teams do well if you're there on the ground I was there in South Africa in 2010 and they got knocked out
early and it did it did dampen the whole atmosphere the atmosphere never really got going in Qatar in 2022 because Qatar were never were never at the races but it was but yeah South Korea getting to the getting to the semi-finals those two huge wins I think that was that was really big for football in a global sense Anyone want to posit a case for Roy Keane and Mick McCarthy?
Yeah, it's a wonderful human redemption story.
Not that he had anything to apologize for, but it's a wonderful resurgence and the crowning glory of his career.
I was reporting on that game in Bloemfontein.
I was basically at the other end of the stadium.
And you could tell, even from the press box, that it was over the line.
It was crazy.
But while we were talking, I've just pulled up my match report from it.
And it's confirmed that, as I hoped, what I'd written was that, yeah, there was this...
obvious scapegoat and that might normally play to English scapegoating culture but England were so terrible in that game and at that World Cup that there was a need to look deeper but it's funny that 16 years on it feels like the bigger story wasn't
one of England's worst ever performances at a World Cup.
The biggest story is the legacy of that decision, which is goal line technology very soon afterwards and VAR further down the line.
But yeah, it was actually that game.
that persuaded FIFA we have to do this probably because they knew the English media would kick up a stink but yeah there was a lot of soul searching in English football as well about that World Cup
But the second one, could he have got his head to it?
I was at the game in Belo Horizonte and I'd been there.
for their round of 16 game against Chile maybe a week, 10 days earlier, which had been this sort of incredibly overwrought game where they were terrible, really.
One on penalties and it was just this outpouring at the end.
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