Tim Spiers
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2,293 appearances
13 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 6 Sep
Tim Spiers’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And there's no way that England win the World Cup without back four.
I'm sorry, but they don't.
And yeah, as soon as they come up against a really good attacking team, which they haven't yet, by the way, then I don't see that defence holding up, to be honest.
He may sort of stumble on a formula, but I don't think he knows his best 11, to be honest.
Other than sort of Pickford and Kane and then the midfield trio of like Rice, Anderson and Bellingham, no one else has sort of cemented their place during this tournament.
He's rotated in the other positions, but it feels like he's trying to work out what his best 11 is.
And I guess he hasn't necessarily been in the job sort of too long, 18 months, but to be at the World Cup and still sort of trying to find your best team and your best almost style of play as well,
So again, England may get to the semi-final great, but we're looking for them to win the tournament.
That's their stated aim.
And I'm not sure how they do that while they're still trying to figure out their best team.
And, you know, the actual sort of the intent and the movement of the team, as Art was saying earlier, particularly at the start of the game, was really good, to be honest.
It was just that the quality was really, really bad, like ballooning crosses out of play or really bad misplaced passes.
And we know that they can do better than that.
So that perhaps bodes well for me.
We know Rashford and Saka can do better overall.
But in Bellingham, yeah, he provided that quality that was really lacking with his finish for the first goal and then his assist for the second.
And this was like the best of Bellingham.
All action, taking the game by the scruff of the neck.
A bit of a virtuoso performance with his main character energy.
This is him at his very best.
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