Simon Cooper
speaker
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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Does that mean they'll win?
No, most likely not.
Yeah, well, in our news economics, we say that for the first time since 1966, if England win, it would not be a surprise.
All the last 60 years, it would have been, oh, my God, England won.
That's insane.
But now they're consistently in FIFA's top five for nearly a decade now.
They've always been in the top five.
And then, yeah, you have a very good chance if fluke lands your way of winning it.
And you see England are now a competent passing team.
They're so good that they've left out Trent Alexander and Phil Foden and Cole Palmer.
This is astonishing.
This is unthinkable in previous years when even a drunken, fat talent like Paul Gascoigne was just essential and always had to go even if he only had one leg.
And now there's a lack of quality.
And so you have England have learned the continental virtues.
I would call them the Dutch virtues.
But they've kept this one English quality of they're the strongest team in the world in the air.
So...
Other teams are terrified of conceding free kicks and corners against England, especially now you're not allowed to arm wrestle during corner kicks anymore.
So you have somebody like Harry Kane and not this time Harry Maguire coming in for high balls.
England are just astonishingly good in that department.
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