England’s World Cup Winners & Losers | Final Player Ratings
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How do the hosts sum up England’s overall World Cup performance?
Hello everybody, welcome to the Fozcast. Don't be sad, it's over. Smile because it even happened. Yes, the World Cup has finished. We are devastated that we haven't got football matches on our TVs at 10, 11, 3, 4, 5 in the morning, aren't we? Algeria versus Tunisia was an absolute highlight of all of it for me. Anyway, we've got a bit of a World Cup wash-up awards show, England player rating episode for you today, haven't we boys?
We have, we have. And actually, I can't get enough of the football, which is why I'll be at the Bescott on Saturday watching Wolves versus Real Sociedad. That's the saddest thing I've heard. Isn't it?
That is horrible, honestly.
That is absolutely horrible.
It's not even a Molyneux. Honestly, wow, wow, wow, wow. Right, what have we got today? What awards are we giving out today then, Tom?
Right, we're going to do a run-through. So we're going to do like a player scorecard, so stay tuned for that. And we're going to do player of the tournament, GK of the tournament, breakout player of the tournament, defender of the tournament.
Save of the tournament. midfield of the tournament, goal of the tournament, and moment of the tournament.
All right, beautiful. Tozer, did you enjoy the World Cup? I loved it. I loved most of it, especially the group stages. When there's a game every day, like three games on every single day, it was amazing. And do you remember the little lull where there was no game? The first day there was no game. Rubbish, wasn't it? It was like... What do I actually do with myself? Luckily, Wimbledon was on. I think you boys must have still been out there. Plenty of other sports to watch. Yeah, got my little fix somewhere else. But as soon as England got knocked out, my full focus went to, right, when does the actual Premier League start?
Yeah, I'm with you. It's always that way, isn't it? It's like now we've got, what, a month left now until the Premier League starts?
Preseason for friendlies.
I just need it to come. ASAP.
I just need Premier League football. I've got something for you, Ben. Listened to you as your number one fan on Talk Sport yesterday. Obviously. Did very well. Well done. Andy Goldstein, right? I love him. Because he does this whole black and white yes and no. And he asks you, did England have a good tournament?
Yes. Is my answer. That's what I said. I said, yes, England did have a good tournament. And he said, no, I didn't.
And then he went like, we did everything we should have done up to the semi-final. Then we didn't do it in the semi-final. But we had a good tournament. Yes. Tozer, good tournament, yes or no? Yes and no. Yes or no? Yes.
Just it. You? No. You don't think we had a good tournament? No, I don't know. England getting to a semi-final is not a good tournament. No. Okay, I disagree. Look at the route. Yeah, I agree. I totally agree. But, right, beginning of tournament, if you said, if we are that team now where semi-final is basically becoming the bare minimum now for us, isn't it? Semi-final. Look at our last tournaments, yeah? That's what we are now. We're semi-finalists or finalists now, aren't we? I think... Are we the best losers then? No, I think the reason why everybody's so hurt by this one is because... I'll tell you why we're going to do it. We're going to do the player ratings in a bit, right? And I guarantee you when we do them player ratings, if the marks that we give them could have been a mark higher, which they should have been, it's what we expect from some of these players, then we might have actually won this World Cup.
I would say more so, though, when you look at... It's not like we scraped through, right? Well, we did kind of scrape. Yeah, we kind of did, actually. No, but as in, what I mean is, you're right, we've got a tournament history of finals, semifinals, quarterfinals, really strong showing over the past eight years. My issue is Italy final was there to be won. Like, that was within our power. to win it. And this time around, that was within our power. That was in us to win it. I still stand by the Italy game. I know this isn't about that game.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
How do the hosts sum up England’s overall World Cup performance?
0:29–25:40
2
Which England players do the hosts rate first and how do they score Jordan Pickford?
25:40–32:13
3
Why are England’s full‑back and centre‑back options debated and how are Spence/Konka/Stones rated?
32:13–1:02:31
4
How do the hosts evaluate England’s midfield – who impressed and who underperformed?
1:02:31–1:07:28
Speakers
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