World Cup: Who Stops Messi?
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The Football Daily Podcast. At the People World Cup 2026. With Rick Edwards and Lloyd Griffith.
Hello and welcome to the Football Daily with Rick and Lloyd. We are in New York. Well, we're not in New York. We're in Jersey. We're in Jersey. Is it New Jersey? I think we're in Jersey City. I think is the bit we're in. We're in Jersey. So right on the... Getting a nod too. Yeah, getting a nod. An approving nod. So we're right sort of staying on the water overlooking Manhattan, but not from the way that you normally do it. So if I was to show you a photo, you'd be like, is that Manhattan? And you'd go, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's just that everyone takes photos from the other side.
Should we say the cheaper side?
Yeah, I mean, it is definitely the cheaper side. We're in the cheaper side. That's also getting a nod to approval as well. But it's still very nice. And when we landed yesterday, we had been told about the air quality and we got various warnings on our phones. I don't know if you saw that. But when we got off, I was genuinely surprised at how A, hot it was at sort of, 8.30 at night. And B, the smog, the sort of haze was like Blade Runner.
Well, usually when you get to New York, you can see Manhattan. You can see that beautiful skyline. See some stuff. Probably millions of lights, I'd say. Hundreds of thousands. No, I think millions is probably right. And you couldn't see anything? No. You could not see anything because the smog slash smoke from Canada was just covering everything. But woke up this morning. It's cleared. Clear as a daisy.
Yeah.
Is that the phrase?
Clear as a daisy? Yeah, it should be. My friend texted me and said, oh, now the smog's cleared, do you want to go for a run in Central Park? And I was like, of course not.
Yeah.
Of course not. Did you not? No. I don't want to go for a run anywhere.
Yeah. I had a bit of a howler on the plane coming over from LA to New York. I watched the film Hamnet on the plane.
Yeah.
What are Rick and Lloyd’s first impressions of arriving in New York and local conditions?
So I haven't seen it. And the reason I haven't seen it is because I have been told that it's so incredibly upsetting.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I cried inconsolably in between two men I'd never met before. Yeah.
For four and a half hours. And I saw you sort of towards the end of the fight when you walked past me and your little eyes were all red and puffy.
Well, can I say, so there was a moment where I was watching it and it's an unbelievable film, okay, but not a film you should watch when England have been knocked out of the World Cup. You haven't really seen your family for, well, really, about four months. And you're 30,000 feet in the air where your senses are... heightened. So there's a moment where it was just so sad and all I couldn't watch the screen. I was blubbing inconsolably. Luckily, the bloke on my right had had some sort of gummies that he was dead to the world. The guy to my left, I think, was quite liberal. So it was like, oh, this this man's in touch with this, you know, his emotional side.
Yeah.
And I was just staring at the toilet sign because I couldn't look at the screen because it was so sad. And then I just saw you get up to go to the toilet. I was like, oh no. So I just started scratching my face so that you didn't see me crying uncontrollably. Come on. I know, I know. We're close enough. We are close enough. You can cry in front of me. But honestly, it was unbelievable. You've cried off the table tennis. I didn't cry. I had hay fever. I had hay fever. The pollen was really bad in wherever you were. But yeah, so just a little word of warning. I kind of, I say, you know, just trying to help the viewers here. Never watch Hamnet. In a plane. Because you'll just cry your eyes out next to a guy called Raymond.
Did you and Raymond speak afterwards?
No, not at all.
Not at all.
He was like, should we never speak of this again? Yeah, thank you. At one point, I had my eye mask on.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–2:54
2
What are Rick and Lloyd’s first impressions of arriving in New York and local conditions?
2:54–6:55
3
How did the hosts react to emotional travel moments and Hamnet on the plane?
6:55–13:54
4
Who are the guest experts and why are they relevant to the World Cup final?
13:54–19:16
5
How can teams realistically stop Lionel Messi in the World Cup final?
19:16–30:16
6
What evidence is there that Spain could exploit Argentina’s out‑of‑possession setup?
30:16–40:11
Speakers
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