Simon Cooper
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334 appearances
5 recordings
4 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 10 Jul
Simon Cooper’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That is how it's turned out.
But the original plan for a US-Canada-Mexico World Cup is conceived under Obama.
where it's to showcase the country's cooperation and friendship.
You know, we're going to do it together.
We might even have one visa where fans can go from country to country and so on.
We're going to show how great we get on.
But then something happens in American politics.
I want Holland to win.
The thing is that you can't actually predict.
You can predict a league with reasonable confidence, usually the team with the highest salaries.
And over 38 games in a league, the best team generally wins.
World Cup is just a random walk.
So most games in the knockout rounds are just by one goal or penalty shootouts.
So there's an enormous amount of fluke involved.
So I've learned from my folly of making predictions, e.g.
predicting that Brazil would win in 2014, never to make predictions.
So who is the strongest team?
Probably Spain.
They're the strongest in men's and women's football.
Amazing for a country of 46 million.
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