Phil Hay

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1,219 appearances 10 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 12 Jul

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The Totally Football Show with James Richardson · Bellingham inspires England to a semi-final with Argentina · 12 Jul 2026 podcast

And he's really interesting, actually, Delefuente, because in comparison to Tuchel today, you know, his comments after the game, Delefuente does this thing where he makes the players feel a million dollars all the time.

Everything he says is kind of... He's not pandering to them and he's not being kind of...

You know, he's not being over the top with them.

But he manages them really well.

He was quoting Marcus Aurelius and saying, you know, what's bad for the bee is bad for the hive, or what's bad for the hive is bad for the bee.

I can't remember which way, because I'm not a man of letters.

But he was basically saying, I can't have anybody here who's going to cause us a problem.

And that was basically his way of saying, this group is fantastic, and I love them to bits.

And then you saw Jamal's comments afterwards saying France should be worried about us.

I think they genuinely think that.

So I have a sneaky feeling that Spain might just win that.

But if you were asking me to bet my mortgage, I would go for France.

I think it would be pretty odd if Tuchel wasn't saying to England, the pace of this game has got to be really high.

If it's slow, you're inviting Messi to do exactly what Messi is doing, which is to... That amazing piece that was done earlier this week of him, it wasn't so much actually the 64% of walking on the pitch.

It was the fact that when you boiled it down, he was sprinting something like 0.8% of the time.

He basically never, ever sprints.

He does run from time to time, not very often, but he just never sprints.

So if it's a really slow tempo game, you're basically saying to him, you do your thing, you do what you do.

And I think that is the key to getting Messi at 38, 39, is you've got to be all over him and you've got to make him play your game.

Is it a good host city?

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