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What are the key talking points as the World Cup approaches?
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Hello and welcome to The Rest Is Football with Micah Richards, Alan Shearer and me, Gary Lineker, all in the same room. Feels good, doesn't it? It feels really good. Nearly there, we're nearly there. The big one's coming up very shortly. We're going to have a little bit of a chat about possible winners by looking back a little bit. So I think we should probably start with the defending champion.
Can we start on Alan's attire first?
It's the best I've seen him. You're matching. Didn't get the memo, no? Didn't get the memo, yeah. No, I didn't, which is a bit of a shame. But I'd go with a little bit of Argentina. Yeah? Do you think?
Yeah.
Should we start there, Argentina? Let's start there. Do you think that was the best? I think that's definitely the best final we've seen. Yeah.
I was sulking there, wasn't I? Do you remember I told you this? I didn't get picked for the big one, did I, the World Cup final, and I was supposed to do radio, and the radio binned me too. Yeah, I know. So I was just there, World Cup final, effing a Jeff into myself, thinking, how's Big Mix not on the big stage? I've gone there.
I remember when... The guys came over to chat about the final team.
You got to pick the pundits as well. How could you not pick me?
You must have been so bad.
And he wasn't on either because he was co-commentating. Oh my gosh. So what's your excuse?
You know who did the final? You know who did the final? Rio. Argentina. Pablo. He's all nicey-nice with Pablo. Oh, Pablo's so good. He was such a great player. What a lovely guy as well.
Yeah, lovely guy. Great to work with.
It doesn't matter, though. You prefer me.
Come on, say it. Well, we do now. Finally. Do now.
He was a better player, but... Not at all. The game, though. It was ridiculous. What do you remember about the game? What was it?
2-0 to let on, wasn't it? It was the most dominating. I was one of the most comfortable World Cup fans I've imagined or I've ever seen. And they were dominant throughout the game. Argentina. And then one more turn things. The penalty.
How do past World Cup winners influence current predictions?
Then they got nervous. Then Mbappé scores the brilliant ball with the kind of volley finish. Volley? Not again, please. It did go over his shoulder and didn't bounce, so I think even you would call that a volley. But then it was 2-2 out of nowhere, and then he said, oh, my God. I'd written, because I generally, when I'm covering any big game, just three, four minutes before, when it looks like it's all done, I write down a little, like, 30 seconds, 60 seconds, because you want to get it right. And I'd written it all down, and then Mbappe does that, and I just... Yeah, ripping up again. And then Argentina got ahead in extra time. So I thought, right. So it was different. Now I was comparing it to the final in 1986.
And I was going to do a whole comparison with Maradona and Messi, how the finals were almost identical. I mean, you weren't born. But in 86, Argentina went ahead, right? So they went two goals clear. And then they were cruising and then Germany came back and scored two goals in the last 10 minutes or so. So similar to this game. And then it went to extra time. Maradona pushes through and Borrachova scores. They win 3-2. So then when Messi scored, I thought, Christ, this is 3-2. It's going to be exactly the same. So I wrote this whole big thing. And then they give him a penalty, and it makes a 3-3 again.
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