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Chapter 1: What are the main highlights of the World Cup tournament?
Just slide behind the wheel. How does it feel, everybody? Welcome to the Football Ramble. Just two more sleeps until the big kick-off. It's Tuesday 9th June. I'm Marcus Speller. I'm Luke Moore. I'm Jim Campbell. And I'm Pete Donaldson. Hello, everybody. You better believe it. We've got World Cup fever and there's only one cure for that.
And it's listening to new episodes of the Football Ramble every single day throughout the tournament. That's right. We'll be here every single day through the World Cup or the Cup of the World, as they say in Spanish, all the way to the day after the final on the 20th of July. So hit subscribe to make sure you never miss a thing. Pete Donaldson, you're back.
Check it out.
Don't bring other languages in, mate.
Not in a World Cup yet. Sorry.
I'm so sorry.
If English is good enough for the official language of the World Cup, it's good enough for you, Peter. Exactly.
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Chapter 2: How do the host nations impact the World Cup experience?
Japanese or nothing, please. I am fresh from Japan and the Samurai Blue love is in full effect out there. I've got World Cup fever, but it's an Asian variant.
There's so much World Cup fever, you left your camera in your hotel room. I did lose it.
And trying to work with the time.
I'll tell you what, don't find out what's on that fucking camera reel. That camera reel is going to be hot property, baby. The Dog and Zaka police will never let me back in the country.
Hi Peter, a message from Japan. Can you pop back here for a minute?
Can you come and pop back here?
We've got your camera. No, thank you. Not going to fall for that one. So yes, now good news everybody, fans of real music. The official World Cup album dropped last Friday. Yeah. Have you been bopping away to it, Luke?
I played some of it on Spotify yesterday and I'm happy to report it is almost universally abysmal.
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Chapter 3: What are the predictions for the favorites in the World Cup?
Anybody, I mean, I know who 21 Savage are. I know Major Liz, Rolling Stones. There's a lot.
Stormzy's in there. Jelly Roll. You'll know some of the artists. Right. I'm not denying that. Okay. But does that make it good? No, it doesn't.
I listened to about 30 seconds of the song by I Show Speed.
Champions. Champions track six.
And I just couldn't do any more.
Just couldn't do any more. Are they running out? I mean, FIFA are finally running out of ways to spend their money.
Yeah. I mean, it might be funny. That's the only track on the album that's over four minutes long. Thanks, Eyeshore Speed.
Thanks.
Do we need it? Who's it for? The thing about this is, who's it for? It's that cheesy kind of international sort of stuff that nobody ever buys, isn't it?
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Chapter 4: How will the opening ceremonies influence fan engagement?
Marcus, you presumably like it, do you? No pitbull, no party, presumably? No.
Nelly Furtado. I've heard of that one. So, yeah, so enjoy that as the lads have been doing. And also, again, if you are wanting that little bit more music in your life, each host nation, of course, is getting their own opening ceremony before the first game. Mexico kicking things off. Jim Campbell, they know how to host a World Cup.
They do. They've done it many times. Shakira's involved. She is weirdly not a World Cup unless Shakira's involved at the moment. Yeah, you're right. Shakira, I think, has got to be involved.
Well, she basically shot to the very top doing Waka Waka in, what, 2010? Yeah. And she's been kind of very... I mean, she had a big career before that. She did, but what I'm saying is... That was her heyday, too. That's when she wove herself into the fabric of the World Cup, and she's not come out of it again since.
She got found not guilty of the attack stuff as well, so she's probably high on the hog. She's not welcome at FIFA, then.
LAUGHTER No, she is. She's a shining example of how you do it.
Would you like a job? Would your lawyer like a job?
But as Pete said, she's definitely high on the hog.
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Chapter 5: What are the expectations for the underdog teams in the World Cup?
Do you know the phrase, living high on the hog? It means enjoying the finer things in life. Pete does live quite high on the hog, actually.
Low on the income, high on the hog.
Literally, people he knows, all his family is saying, can you come down off the hog? Can you come down off the hog, please? It's getting ridiculous.
It's heartbreaking. Even the hog is begging. Yes, indeed. There is going to be a pre-match ceremony for every single World Cup match, you'll be pleased to know. Bear in mind that there are 104 matches at this World Cup.
And some of them at like 3am our time. 5am? Yeah, but 5am you could just about get up for that. You can't get up for 2 or 3 a.m. It's been said in the office earlier, 2 and 3 a.m., they're too late to stay up and too early to get up.
I mean, on the U.S. side of things, I am genuinely worried that the World Cup is not going to kick off in the U.S. because obviously Katy Perry's going to be featuring in the opening ceremony, but Thai-born star Lisa from K-pop band Blackpink, Nigerian artist Rima, and Brazilian singer Anitta are all performing. They're not getting through. They're not getting in.
They're not getting in. Although they're already...
Yeah, hopefully so.
We should say they're not performing at every match.
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Chapter 6: How does past performance affect current team dynamics?
All the squads.
Are they going to respect... 26. Will there be room and time to respect the ball, Marcus?
It sounds like it. They're going to be gathered around the centre circle for the national anthems, which is utterly pointless, of course. Yeah. But just get them out in that sunshine a little bit longer.
Firstly... In what way is two groups of people lining up and facing each other immersive? It's just not, is it?
It depends on what the camera's doing, I suppose. Immersive for them.
But it's immersive for them, whatever they're doing.
For me, whenever I hear about these kinds of things, I always just feel like football was really good as it is. I actually like football, so I don't need all this shit going on. I don't want to be immersed. I'll be honest. I do a podcast every day.
I prefer this because... presumably the alternative was what they did in the Club World Cup, right, where every player came out one by one and it took absolutely ages.
Yeah, we could have had that, couldn't we?
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Chapter 7: What role do supercomputers play in predicting World Cup outcomes?
We probably will.
I think we'll see the national anthem.
Are you excited for Katy Perry, Marcus?
Yeah, I'm excited for all of it. Bublé in Canada is the one.
Oh, he's got three Velociraptors back in season. Exactly.
We're very much looking forward to that.
Alanis Morissette as well. Great stuff. Isn't Alanis Morissette, she's great. She is great. Lasted me last year. Sensational. One of the highlights for me.
She's had a good career.
Not an astronaut though, is she? So Katy Perry wins again. That's true.
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Chapter 8: What are the memorable stories from World Cup history?
It is. Really backstage sort of intrigue. But fundamentally, it's really good to sort of see an ex-pro, like, speaking charismatically... About his infidelity. About his friend's infidelity, yeah.
Now, that is really good.
The tension between...
Really good to see that.
Really good to see.
I'm in Timothy Way's camp here.
But the tension is from the fact that I think the current squad obviously get a lot of pressure put on them. The game is very different now, you know, 30 or 20 years on.
They get absolute pelters from some of these guys.
And these guys are basically, I think the way the current squad feel is the older guys get put on a pedestal just because they're in USA 94.
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