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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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The Football Daily Podcast. At the People World Cup 2026.
With Rick Edwards and Lloyd Griffith.
And we are up and running.
Chapter 2: What was the outcome of England's first World Cup match?
England got their first win of the tournament 4-2 against Croatia. It feels good, doesn't it, Lloyd? It feels very good. I mean, it was a lot of stress. But first off, we were reasonably stressed. Which we will talk about later. Now we are in Ye Olde King's Head as normal but we're in a slightly different location today because as you can imagine this is the main English pub in Santa Monica.
It was absolutely rammed and they weren't prepared to give us a section of their pub. Which I understand.
Completely understandable.
So we have filmed already earlier on in, well, basically a shop, the sort of back of a shop. Yeah, so Ye Olde King's Head has a few sections. It's basically got like the sports bar, the main bit. Then they've got a little restaurant.
restauranty area then they've got a little tea room like an afternoon tea room which is quite regal which is what we're in now that's what we're in now yeah and then there's also a gift shop yes ye olde kingshead gift shop and so we were in the we were in the back of that next to the fridges with the with the drinks and the cakes Yeah, basically eye level with a Bakewell tart. Yeah.
And then actually mouth level with a Bakewell tart. Because we both had a Bakewell tart. And now belly level with a Bakewell tart. There was a lot of people coming in and stocking up, actually. I was quite surprised. And then just seeing two blokes by a fridge speaking to an Exington goalkeeper. Yeah, it's fairly... I mean, it's all quite surreal, isn't it? Very surreal.
We actually watched the game in a different bar. Jameson's, just up the road. Irish bar. Very nice. Quite... But weirdly, when we arrived, we thought it was going to... Because we'd been past and seen people watching games in there. It's been packed. We cycle past every day. Yeah. And so we were like, oh, that'd be a really good place to go and get for a bit of variety.
And when we turned up, and we turned up probably an hour or so before kick-off. Yeah, about 40 minutes. And we thought, well, there's no one here. No. And we were about to turn around, then another couple of English lads just came over and said, oh, no, this will be good. It's just they all turn up. sort of at the whistle. But it meant that we got fantastic seats in this pub.
And then it did get really, really busy. And then it was, I mean, it was brilliant. It was brilliant. It was a really great, really great pub. Loads of atmosphere, loads of English fans in there. And some Croatian fans. And some Croatian fans, yes. It made a bit of noise. It was great. It was really great to experience an England game in America. In an Irish pub. There was a lot going on.
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Chapter 3: How did Jude Bellingham perform in the match?
Yeah. And I said Nani Madoweki. At which point, you, John, and Paul all just laughed. Laughed at me. Well, it was more the fact you said Madawake and Saka. Which can happen. Okay. I said Saka. I said Saka. Sure, I said Saka. And then I panicked a little bit. I went, Madawake. And then I was like, oh, Crikey. And then you started to sweat. To sweat.
And then you went red and I could see you panicking. And I could just see John looking at me going, oh. I don't mind being judged by your average podcast listener. Not a problem if they want to send me a little bit of abuse on Twitter. Are you all right? But to see John Murray going. And your friend Paul Robinson as well. Oh, I don't care what he thinks.
He was enjoying it.
I've got a lot more dirt on him than he has on me. Picking Madawake and Saka, okay? So I was like, oh, crikey. So I was like, right, can we stop? I panicked there. Can we just edit it out or I'll do it again? He was like, oh, we'll just not put it in. Fine, fair enough. And then what happens? Madiwaki starts. Yeah.
And you're immediately on the phone to Lizzie saying, can we get that back in somehow? Hey, have we still got that? She went, no, because you didn't complete it because you panicked. You only said eight players. I was like, OK, yeah. You did only say eight players. She's from Liverpool, just in case anyone's wondering. Oh, I think that was very clear from that.
We spent a lot of time in Sunderland. Yeah. Well, let's bring in Paul Robinson. Great game for the neutral. Quite stressful for us as England fans, particularly in the first half. What was your assessment of the game?
I think looking back now on it, I think it's a really good performance from England. I think it's an excellent start to the tournament. I don't think we can underestimate the calibre of opponent that they were playing against, playing against one of the top 10 teams in the world, a team that have won a medal at the last two World Cups. They're an experienced side.
And from an England point of view, I think there was a lot of positives that they can take from that game tonight, a lot more positives than negatives. We always genuinely generally focus on negatives and that's what makes the headlines. But I think the positives far outweigh the negatives in this game and I thoroughly enjoyed watching it.
Harry Kane picked up from where he left off in the season. We spoke yesterday about him. How confident do you think he is and how good was he today?
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Chapter 4: What insights does Paul Robinson provide about the game?
We're playing rock and roll football. We're playing it to the left. We're playing it to the right. Come in the middle if you want. Come deep. He said to him, lads, do you know what? Today, do what you want. Just do what you want. Have some fun with it.
Yeah, have a laugh. How often are you going to be at a World Cup? We may as well have a laugh.
If you're not smiling, what's the point? I think Declan Rice played left back. Exactly. Harry Kane was playing centre back for a lot of it. Harry Kane played centre back. I think I even took a corner at one bit. No one cared. And I think it suited us. I think finally, maybe we found a manager. that wants to throw cautions at wind.
Did you, as we did, very much enjoy the commentators dancing around the fact that at one point Harry Kay made a block in the six-yard area with his nether regions? Meat and veg. His meat and two veg. Is that what happened? Did he do it with his privates? He did do it with his privates. And the commentators were sort of saying, oh, he's taken that in the chest. We're going, that is not his chest.
Weird chest.
Let me tell you.
Yeah.
He wishes it were his chest. That's a mark of the man. It is a mark of the man. And I'll bet you what, Thomas Tuchel's got that much attention to detail, he'll be having had a cane checked out down here after the game. Well, let's hope so. How are you enjoying, I know you're in your double bed now, how are you enjoying living on a bus or in a van or whatever it is?
I'm missing our Nicky, my wife. She said, Steve, I miss you. But she did say to me, Steve, do you know you with your tan? You look a little bit like Pep Guardiola. And that cheered me up. I've got to be honest, it's a little bit more Pierluigi Kalina for me. Oh, wow. All right, I'll take that one. Fair enough. Steve, are you managing to do the podcast while you're out there?
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Chapter 5: How did Harry Kane contribute to England's victory?
Yes, but with less clothes on. Brilliant. I love you lads. Nice one. Cheers, mate. Thanks for staying up, mate. That was obviously interesting watching Ghana-Panama, the other two teams in England's group. And I think it was actually, it was a good game. It was a good game, yeah. And I think Panama will be gutted not to have got at least a point out of it because it was pretty even.
I didn't see anything that I think England need to be too worried about. No. I mean, Ghana have got some great players, players that play in the Premier League. And I just don't think they've got the depth. I really don't think they've got the depth. So I don't think any of those teams are going to worry England. Again, happy to eat my words if we draw against Bristol or lose 4-0 to Panama.
But yeah, it was a good game. End to end, very even. And as you say, Panama will be absolutely fuming that they lost it in the final minute. Yeah, goal right at the death from Caleb Irenci. And then the game that we watched this morning. We got up early, a little coffee. Yeah, a little coffee and settled down.
You watch Portugal and Dr Congo play out a one-all draw and all eyes inevitably, as he likes. He loves it. on Ronaldo because Mbappé scored, Messi scored, Haaland has scored. Obviously, at this point, he hadn't, but now Kane scored too as well. Cristiano Ronaldo not only hasn't scored, I mean, he was just well off it today.
It's the first time I think I've seen him play where you go, oh, this is a vanity selection. He shouldn't. Like, your team is worse with this going on. I think he had 25... touches. That's the fewest in a major tournament game for Portugal where he's played 90 minutes. And he just wasn't in it. It's sort of sad.
It is sad.
But it is also funny. So there's a lot going on. I'm not going to profess that I've watched many of the league games that he's played in Saudi this year, but I've seen highlights of games. And again, you watch some of those games again. Crikey.
sad and obviously there's representation in those leagues now I mean there's a lot of players that are playing in this World Cup that are playing in the Saudi Pro League but you just kind of go in it just seems a little bit you know like when China kind of like tried to take over football about 10 years ago and just bought everyone kind of seemed a little bit like that.
And he's playing and it's not great. And you're kind of going, well, is it not great? Because he's not got the same level of service that he had other teams and that he'll probably get at Portugal. And then you saw today, you know, and you've seen like little glimpses. There was a couple of chances, actually. Two chances that he should have.
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Chapter 6: What were the fans' experiences during the match?
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