Rob Draper

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The Overlap · 2: Football's Coming Home: How England Won The 1966 World Cup | Part Two · 24 Jun 2026 podcast

I mean, that is quite smart, although it might have cost him had he lost against Jurgen.

And does this also show the values he talked about in part one of going to Mundalito and he's really broadened the side's knowledge of playing against South American sides, because obviously that's a key part of the World Cup.

So he's got a specific plan for Uruguay, which is probably honed because of his experience of South American football.

Yeah, well, speaking as a former journalist, I can imagine Brian James going, I didn't write the headline.

Did you read my match report?

It's quite considered.

And then someone back at a desk has just gone, right, this lot's rubbish.

But there's another male journalist very much in the tone of the mail.

I love that you've quoted JL Manning.

Tell us about JL Manning and what his diagnosis of the problem is.

Completely alien to the male of today.

Can I just say that when snoods were a thing that the editor of the Daily Mail launched a campaign against snoods because it was sort of damaging the English game.

As a man who's devoted his life to advice about football tactics, I'm sure you concur with... What's his name?

JL Manning, I was going to say LL Cool J for a second there, but that's a different personality altogether.

The only thing I would sympathise with him on is, it does annoy me when there's a tactical nil-nil and people go, I mean, sometimes they are fascinating, but normally they're not.

And there's a lot of affectation around that, oh yes, but you know, normally it's a bad game.

But you see echoes of that, absolutely.

Well, I actually think that attitude's more common if you talk about data.

You would absolutely see that written about data in football today.

There are jargon words that are used, which I don't understand in football.

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