World Cup: Tony Khan On The USA's World Cup
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The Football Daily at the People World Cup 2026.
With Rick Edwards and Lloyd Griffith. Live from L.A.
Hello, welcome to the Football Daily. Here's a quick round-up of the scores overnight. Cape Verde have reached the knockout stages. I'll just say that again. Cape Verde have reached the knockout stages, and I love it. After a 0-0 draw with Saudi Arabia, so three draws for them, three points. Uruguay have been knocked out after being beaten 1-0 by Spain. Going to talk about that a bit later on with Guillem Balague. But just to reiterate, Cape Verde have reached the knockout stages. Huge. It's so good. France beat Norway 4-1, although it's sort of Norway's second team. Senegal beat Iraq 5-0. Not great for Scotland, but then nothing's great for Scotland at the moment. And we're recording this as New Zealand, Belgium and Egypt, Iran are happening.
But you can check all the scores and highlights on the BBC Sport website and app. It is nice to be back after a little day off. Hey, look, I love Betty Glover.
Me too.
She's great. And she was fantastic. I had a lovely day with Mario as well. It's great to have you back. I did tell the listeners and viewers that you were playing backgammon. That's right, yeah. In LA. Yeah. Why? Why are we playing backgammon? Because I love backgammon. Well, I mean, that gammon's not going to back itself, is it? Well, exactly right, yeah. So I did win, unfortunately. How do you win? How do you win? How do you win backgammon? You win games. Yeah, but how do you win it? I was going to say, how do you win football? Well, you have to score a goal. Get all your pieces off the board. Right, will you explain that? Brilliant, thank you. I met a hustler, a backgammon hustler last night, and it was really exciting.
Sounds very gangster. Yeah. Well, this guy... Go on. I'm surprised you're still here today, Rick.
What World Cup headlines and overnight scores set the scene for this episode?
I've got his number. So I might not be here tomorrow. In a kind of, in a friendly way of a, I've got your number. A bit of both, I think. Oh, okay. Yeah. I mean, we had like a blazing row. It was really, I loved it. Right. Yeah. What do you have a blazing row about? I don't think you'll be interested. No, I was wanting to explain it because I think there'd be a lot of people thinking, what is going on? Is Rick okay?
How long has he been away?
I'm so okay. It was a position, and he thought that the correct move was one thing, and I thought the correct move was another thing, and we had a 15-minute argument about it. 15 minutes? A 15-minute argument, and it was quite heated. How long does a backgammon game go on for usually? Well, it varies. I mean, like... normally like 5-10 minutes pretty quick so 15 minutes yeah it was a good chunk and by the time we'd finished literally there was probably 40 people there we were the only people left there oh my gosh and then what you swapped numbers and then we swapped numbers and said we'll do this again and he did say oh and we'll play we'll play for money and I was like Oh, God. It's almost like a musical.
Yeah, I'd watch it. Well, you'd sing in it. I'd audition for it. Yeah, definitely. You wouldn't get the part. But you'd play it. Well, you could actually play the hustler. Do you know what I'd play? I'd play the gammon. You could be the back. I still don't know what this game is. That's the nicest thing you've ever said to me. Thank you. We played football this morning. Yeah, a game that we all know the rules. Yes. We know that you went and bought your cleats the other week. Football boots for anyone in England. But they call them cleats here. And so I didn't have any, so I needed to go and get some. So I went to get them yesterday. I went into the shop and I spotted the ones I wanted and I said to the guy, oh, do you have these in a 12, please?
Clang, clang. Is that a clang? I think so, yeah. US 12, so it's an 11, really. I didn't want to go through that rigmarole. So I said 12 and he said... And I don't really want to do an impression of him, but I feel like maybe I have to.
Yeah, I think you have to.
He said, what do you know about 12?
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–2:41
2
What World Cup headlines and overnight scores set the scene for this episode?
2:41–4:50
3
What happened during Rick and Lloyd's LA morning — backgammon, boot shopping and the kickabout?
4:50–24:08
4
Which Fulham players are at the World Cup and how is Tony Khan following their progress?
24:08–32:55
5
How does Tony Khan view the World Cup as a scouting and recruitment opportunity for Fulham?
32:55–41:56
6
How did Tony Khan describe Fulham’s coaching transition and Marco Silva’s departure?
41:56–43:39
Speakers
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