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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Yes, I can. Doubt better leave, everybody. Welcome to the Football Ramble. South Africa and Canada make history, but Scotland have to wait.
Chapter 2: What went wrong for Scotland against Brazil in the World Cup?
It's Thursday, 25th of June. I'm Marcus Speller. I'm Luke Moore. And I'm Jim Campbell. Hello everybody, welcome to a thrilling Thursday here at the Football Ramble. I had to check the day sometimes during the old World Cup.
You can forget, you can forget, but not I. Now, before we get on to the football, there are still a few tickets available for our watch party for England versus Panama this Saturday at 40 Foot Brewery, Blackhorse in North London. Join us for a, we're going to do a live on stage chat. We say stage, it's a load of pallets really stuck on top of one another.
Wooden pallet. with an old off-cut of carpet over the top of it that we can stand on.
Exactly, yeah.
Apparently it's what rest of football are doing on Netflix.
Yeah, well, if you can't do it on an old pallet, on an old cut-off bit of carpet on a Saturday night, where can you do it?
Underneath the carpet, are they crystal pallets? I strongly doubt it. It wasn't worth it. It seems financially incomprehensible. It wouldn't be worth it. A lot of money on stuff that's covered up. But yes, we're going to do that. We've got DJs pumping the tunes. You can have a conversation. Okay, let's be honest. You know, we're all of an age now. As long as you get on the mic. Well, indeed.
There's good food. Very good food. Pints of my physiant. Physiant's gone down very, very well.
It's a great pint. It is.
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Chapter 3: How did the Ghanaian witch doctor lift the curse on Harry Kane?
But Cole Palmer's is more naive though. It's not like sinister and kind of grumpy. Cole Palmer's just like, I don't fully understand why I've got to do this. I'll just do it. I don't think he's rude, Cole Palmer. I just think he's, well, okay, he's not intentionally rude. I'm not suggesting that Steve Clarke is kind of generating this type of mood around the camp more broadly.
Because the camp seems like quite a good one.
But it's like, it just leaves a bit of a bad taste in the mouth.
You don't do that to someone like Ellie Barber.
Well, quite. She's just doing her job, isn't she? But look, I think ultimately, to answer your original question, it doesn't actually matter. It doesn't matter if you decide you're going to be brave and use Ganon Dirk as an outlet. It doesn't matter if you're going to play Shank ahead of Adams because he's more of a threat.
It doesn't matter that you're going to play McTominay a little bit further forward and give him a platform of which to operate. Because ultimately, you've got no chance of being able to operate against any competent team if you make those kind of individual errors. I'm not criticising McKenna personally or anything like that. It can happen.
The occasion is massive and they're playing up against a good team and the weight of history is on them. I get the pressure is high, but... you know, I don't think you can blame the manager for that type of stuff because ultimately the basics have got to be done.
And people make that kind of, I think people make that kind of category error when they're talking about really philosophically concrete managers like, say, Guardiola. Like, oh, yeah, you always have to pat the back all the time and, you know, if you make a mistake, you make a mistake. It's like, well...
yeah but you are you're not you're not lobotomized yeah you do have to better make a decision for yourself like if you're running back towards your own goal for example there's no options it's not that bad to stick it out for a throw in and get your shape back like with this type of thing you know you're up against one of the world's best forwards you know how quick he is you know how good he is
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Chapter 4: What were the results of Mexico vs. Czech Republic and Switzerland vs. Canada?
It is harsh.
I agree it's harsh. But he instinctively flies out a million miles an hour.
I think a lot of players, though, you can smother them in that situation. But Vinicius Junior is such that he's got the skill to just essentially do that little swivel pivot, little stop, little lay of the land, tap into an open net because he's such an elite player. He makes all those decisions and executes that so, so quickly.
The Nathan Paterson defending for his header as well wasn't great.
He gets dragged, gets sucked in. And it's right at the end of the half as well. The second goal was a sort of systemic failure though, wasn't it? Three or four players who should be doing better in that moment.
I think though that when we talk about Scotland-Brazil, there's a lot of goodwill towards Scotland. And we are forgetting...
Brazil are a better side of course and I think that you know and it was exhausting you know the heat and all the rest of it and as well Scotland are probably used to I don't know how much this is a valid point or not but Scotland are used to their fans being the noisiest in the stadium you heard the anthems you know flare up Scotland's belt and suddenly the Brazil one you go oof this is like a home game for Brazil and it cuts to that one bloke yeah
louder than about you know half the other exactly yeah so like it all goes into it and the second goal is the type of goal it's disappointing it can happen it's disappointing but because of the first one it's done really at two nil and then though angus gunn makes a good save at that point it's extremely unlikely that they're going to come back into it but even at half time he kept them in because looking at brazil's performance we were all saying in the group chat during the game and i think this was kind of
proven to be the case, I suppose, a little bit later. It's like, this is not a vintage Brazil team. It's, even though they've won 3-0 here, and obviously Vinicius Junior is really standing out in particular, and the third goal is excellent. It's like, I still don't quite know what their true level is.
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Chapter 5: Why is Jesse Marsch's coaching style criticized in this episode?
The chat in Brazil is that actually he hates Hendrik.
Yeah.
He doesn't want to... As in, he never plays him. And they're a bit like, can you get this lad on the pitch? And there's a bit of chat there. But Neymar coming on... I'll tell you what...
Was it good to see him? I think it was.
He's a funny... This is definitely a talking point. He's definitely a talking point. I mean, producer Rory, when Neymar came on at 3-0, he says, on the WhatsApp, if you don't mind me, Rory, quoting you here, nothing says we're shit like the opposition manager bringing on a player he literally wishes wasn't in the squad.
He's like, get him on the pitch, I haven't got to talk to him for 10 minutes.
This will shut him up for 10 minutes.
He can't take his phone with him on the pitch.
is he doing an Instagram live yeah I haven't Neymar can I haven't seen Neymar play football for I don't know how long long time yeah two and a half years since he last played for Brazil probably that was it then blimey O'Reilly but yeah he was on there he didn't score but he didn't need to they ran out winners one thing I would say about Brazil is at times in the game zipping the ball about they've got good pace in that team and they get
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Chapter 6: What individual errors did Scotland make during their match against Brazil?
It's like the Bella Goopman thing, isn't it? It is a bit. Just like that. You can't really in any way prove that. Yeah, you've got to judge him on the results. And the hex, you can't prove it didn't work.
You can't say that you didn't see Harry Kane blaze that one over the bar off of Nico O'Reilly's crossbar header and not think there was some kind of hex on the man.
It does seem strange. It does seem strange. In the other match in Scotland's group, Morocco beat Haiti 4-2. It's a brilliant game. Yeah, it was. Haiti, come on. Do you know what? It's so annoying the way that they've changed the system in this World Cup.
A lot of people saying this about head-to-head from goal difference because, like, at 2-1, Haiti should be thinking, we've got a chance here to slip into third place.
They lost all three games, though, so it doesn't really matter. Head-to-head or goal difference if you lose every game.
No, but the fact is they go in. it was on well indeed Jim but also going into this game you've got other than pride and my goodness they've got some of that nothing to play for it's piss poor is it not just the reality that there is simply no way to eliminate dead rubbers it's just well I feel we've got more this time round but maybe I don't know if that's
I think what they should do is they appoint an independent adjudicator for the next World Cup for each group and they will decide based on vibes which system is in play for each group.
One of these spiritualists.
Use that Ghanaian witch doctor.
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Chapter 7: How does the referee's performance impact the Brazil vs. Scotland game?
Yeah, I got the reference.
Good.
I wouldn't be surprised if the same person who voiced Pinocchio also voiced Mickey Mouse.
Yeah, and they're both Jordan Peterson.
Or Darren Cantor. Just raw beef for me. LAUGHTER
Oh, dear. At least have it medium rare. Now, Mexico beat Czech Republic 3-0. The co-host made it three wins from three in Mexico City.
They look good.
World Cup vibes, Jim Campbell.
It's one of those ones where you know the score, you put the nine-minute highlights on, first five minutes are an absolute drain. You're like, oh, this is going to be good for them. This simply has to be amazing from now on. And it did not disappoint.
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Chapter 8: What does the episode say about the future of Scotland in the tournament?
I don't think they're a great side, but on the old vibes alone. Done the business.
They're going to knock England out of the World Cup. Okay. That's what I think is going to happen.
All right, fair enough. Well, keep your powder dry. In the other game in this group, South Africa, sensationally, have gone through.
They came from nowhere.
after that first game when Mexico beat them 2-0 it was 2-0 going on about 5-0 two men sent off there is nobody on the planet who thought South Africa were going to turn this around and even when they drew 1-1 with the Czech Republic literally I think the first line on the BBC report was well this result was no good for either team
And then they go against South Korea, who look pretty good against Czech Republic. South Korea, okay against Mexico, but they were very poor. And now they've got to wait for, you know, how the, you know, they're in the waiting room, the third place waiting room.
The purgatory. Yeah, third place purgatory.
They're in there at the moment.
my goodness and also as well with South Africa not a great side an awful start to the tournament they've never been to the knockouts before in a World Cup such an unlikely result there was nothing you saw from them to think they would be able to do that against South Korea who aren't amazing but have got some quite good players and look quite well organised and all the rest of it it was a surprising result they've been really disappointing
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