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Chapter 1: What investment insights are shared at the beginning?
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Buongiorno, hello and welcome back to, I thought, oh, it's the calling show. I don't miss it. I'm back with Callum. How are we, mate? I'm great. How you feeling about, ah. He's so fucking, he's got such big hands. I'm a bit worse for wear after yesterday. Actually, I don't feel that bad. I'm just really hot and I keep needing a shit. But we're going to kick the show off.
As always, bring on the beers. It's the beer battle. Come on. Come on. Now, I didn't realise last week until I saw a bit of it back that you'd labelled them. You'd labelled the mugs. Yeah, one or two. Obviously they're the other way, so I didn't even clock. Right, beer number one. I think I know what that is. What? That smells familiar. Right, come on, bring on beer number two.
Oh, you tried it already? You're going up straight in? Sorry.
I'm a bit giddy. Thanks, man. Well, that... Well, what's that one then? Look at colour of your other one. What?
What the fuck is that? That's not beer. By the way, this is clear. You can't see. What's it taste like?
Shit. Try it. No, but what's that? It smells quite nice. It's a bit fruity. There's something going. Well, it's obviously got like, it's got tequila or something in it. I have defo had that before. 100%. I don't know what the actual lager is, but I have 100% had that before. It might be a buzz ball or something. No, no, no.
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Chapter 2: How do the hosts feel about their current state after the last game?
They're definitely beers. They're beers, yeah, yeah. Like, how? That is the most mental thing I've ever taken.
Oh, that is rancid.
That's awful. Oh, it's so sweet. It's... Oh, my taste buds are like fighting with each other because it does kind of taste nice, but it just doesn't taste like a beer. It tastes really, that's strong as well. Yeah, that ain't good. That's like, that cannot be beer. Right, anyway, we'll keep sipping on this and then we'll decide which one wins. I'm trying to figure out.
Hmm, that's got to be some sort of, what's it called? Moonshine, some shit like that. Again, is it a game that's been played? Is it an upcoming game?
No, it's an upcoming game.
Right, anyway, let's talk about a game that did happen yesterday, England-Ghana. Thoughts? I didn't think we were that crap. Do you know what I mean? It was a tough watch.
I don't think we actually defended that well either, in fairness, because they got through a couple of times.
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Chapter 3: What is the significance of the beer battle segment?
But who else is going to do that to us for the rest of the tournament, apart from Panama? It's going to be a lot more Croatia-type games than that one. Is that? I think so. Even Mexico would come and have a go at us. I don't think they would. At their own ground?
I think they'd probably do that. No. Yeah, but really silly. If that's a round of 32 games. Yeah, but if that was a round of 32 games, we could have lost that on penalties.
Yeah, of course we could. Yeah, but then how many times would Kane miss that, for example, as well? True, but then they should have had a penalty. Yeah, I agree with that as well. Well, I'd start John and then it wouldn't have happened. Really? Yeah. I'd start John and go in, but then Gordon, there's obviously question marks with Gordon now.
I think you're being a bit biased there, because he wasn't great in the first game. Or do you think he should start over? We're so slow and sluggish on ball, and I think he can just pick it out a little bit faster.
Yeah, I don't know. To be honest, I really don't think it's that... I was disappointed, and it was a tough watch, but... I don't think we should get too high on the Croatia result and we shouldn't get too low on this result. I think it's kind of, we're still in pole position. If we get the job done against Panama, which I expect us to do, we're still going to top the group.
You're not going to be able to play class every single game, are you? True, but it was a tough one. I know, yeah. It was a tough one. But still, when we beat Panama like 5-0, then we're all right, aren't we? Well, breaking them down like we did yesterday? I think so. Yeah, but they're out already, aren't they, I think? Are they?
Are Panama out? I'm sure they're out. They've lost two games.
Yeah, but I mean, if they beat us like 3-0, they could probably qualify.
No, it goes off head-to-head, doesn't it? And they lost to Croatia. So they're finishing last regardless.
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Chapter 4: What are the hosts' thoughts on England's performance against Ghana?
That's football, yeah.
In this tournament, with the temperature that's there, you're going to run into a wall eventually. Going through the knockout stages, you can't just keep, whenever the chips are down, you have to run harder every time. Right.
Did you watch that game? It could have been eight. Yeah, but... Yeah, but, yeah, but, there's no yeah, but. There's no yeah, but. They're a top 10 international side, Croatia, and we could have scored eight.
Yeah, it was a good result. It was a good result.
It was an unbelievable performance for the first game in the tournament against a top 10 nation. A top 10 nation, by the way. The hardest game any of the big nations had in the opening game. And we ran them over. Absolutely buried them. It could have been eight.
look i think further just going on from that as well i just feel like the sort of the squad and the fans english fans in general just have a weak mentality like the fans aren't playing the fans aren't playing culture like i i watched the review show this morning yeah and at least reeve conveyed an air of frustration with the mindset like with the sort of with the squad and actually expects better from them
Yeah, of course we expect better against Ghana. But the bottom line is Ghana played well. They defended well. They probably should have had a penalty. They come out with a really good game plan and we just come unstuck. It's one game. The same way I'm not going to jizz my pants over Croatia. I'm not going to get too low on one performance against a Ghanaian team.
We come out and played really well. They surprised us. They were really aggressive. They were physical. We just couldn't... Even though all that happened, in the end, if Kane scores the chance, which nine times out of ten he does, we end up winning the game and nicking it. Then you look at it, oh, it's a great performance.
I don't know what the fans' mentality has got to do with what the players do on the pitch.
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Chapter 5: How do the hosts analyze England's chances in the World Cup?
But what I don't get with that is his whole point was, oh, well, you don't hold your players to account. Then when I told him we do, he goes, well, I don't know. I'm not around it. Which one is it? How does he know what the Portuguese fans or the Brazilians do? Exactly. Just look, I get it. You hate the English. It's fine. I get it. We're a threat.
I think if all English players come under more scrutiny than anybody else. I mean, yeah.
Black media and stuff like that. That's what I mean. We are kind of typically known as the nation that just tears our own team down. Because they had a Becks and all when they missed that. It's so much stuff they used them before. What, when they were hanging him? Exactly. I mean, yeah. Mental, isn't it? You can't get that anywhere else. He recovered it in 2002, didn't need to be fair.
But, I mean, moving on. Oh, I'm looking forward to this one. Can you remember this? Oh, is it the Swedish bloke? We've got the Swedish bloke back. Oh, my Jesus. And I only tuned in last week.
Chapter 6: What criticisms does the caller have about England's coach?
He said they go further than England. Yeah, before we get him in, let's just recap what he said last week. So he was saying they've got the best firepower. Yeah, yeah. They've got the best firepower. They were going to beat the Dutch and top their group. Yeah. I agree with that. They were going to go further than England. Apparently, they're really underrated.
only to go and lose 5-1, 5-1 to Holland, who, by the way, are probably like seventh or eighth favourites. Like, a team we beat. And a better defensive side than going forward. Yeah. And obviously, I was bringing up all their results in qualifying. He said, don't pay attention to that. It doesn't matter. It's now that matters, just because they won one game against Tunisia.
Who, by the way, who did Tunisia then go and play? They got battered. They got battered twice, didn't they? Yeah, so Tunisia have lost 5-1 to Sweden, then 4-0 to Japan. So good team, by the way. But let's get him on. I'm looking forward to this. I just want to hear what he says this time. I just want to hear his excuses. Henrik, welcome back, buddy. I've been waiting for this one, son.
How are we? Come on, mate.
How are we? I'm not bad. I'm in the garden with a beer.
What happened? I just want to... Just a simple question, mate. What happened? What happened to that firepower?
It looks worse than it is.
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Chapter 7: What are the highlights of the caller's perspective on Ronaldo?
I'm getting arsed all fine. What happened?
Chapter 8: What final thoughts do the hosts have about the World Cup predictions?
It looks worse than it is.
Go on then, how's that?
Looks like I watched the game. I watched it in the pub with some of my mates.
I watched it as well, mate. It was hilarious.
They were more than happy to see what happened. After the first hydration break... Excuse me. After the first hydration break, I genuinely think we controlled most of the game.
You lost 41? !
We did. We controlled most of the game. We had most of the possession. We had more shots and more shots on target. They were just more clinical.
Yeah, but your firepower should have surely nailed some of them in then. You know what I mean?
Yeah, you'd like to think so, Callum, wouldn't you?
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