Roger Bennett

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657 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 30 Jul

Roger Bennett’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Trust me, I did not know any of this before they kicked off matched

And this is the joy of the World Cup. matched

It changes identity. matched

It changes geographic understanding, changes balance of power. matched

Ten islands, I think eight of them are populated. matched

They'd never qualified before. matched

The players are partly in gathering of diasporas, partly low level, the equivalent of, I think, double A, triple A baseball. matched

And they played Spain. matched

Spoiler alert, Spain end up winning the World Cup. matched

But in that first game, there'd never been a bigger gap between two teams in a World Cup. matched

I think it was second in the world playing 67th in the world. matched

And Cape Verde, no hopers, duffers. matched

We expected it to be an absolute one-sided avalanche and they held Spain to a goalless draw. matched

It sounds terrible. matched

It sounds like every American's worst nightmare of football, but it was ecstatic. matched

Because Spain absolutely smothered and covered Cape Verde. matched

But in goal, they had a journeyman goalkeeper, a 40-year-old, who'd only become professional when he was 25. matched

I mean, this is like some kind of Hallmark movie of a gentleman. matched

And he had the game of his life. matched

He had seven or eight saves. matched

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