Messi Abides, Conspiracy On The Nile, Non-Stop World Cup
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What was the immediate atmosphere in Atlanta after Argentina’s comeback vs Egypt?
It is not war and death and famine.
It's not that at all. It's the opposite of that. It's to persuade that there's a world outside of that. That's why sport's important.
Yeah, you can laugh. That was the war cock. Maradona turns like a little eel and comes away from trouble. Little squat man leads us for dead. Dennis Beckham, let the ball in! Dennis Beckham! Dennis Beckham!
Okay, World Cup 2026, you've had your rest day.
Now get back to work. Welcome to your weekly World Service promo. Only two teams in the history of the World Cup have ever successfully defended the trophy. Italy in 1934 and 1938. Who could forget them? Brazil in 1958 and 1962. Argentina are three games away now from adding their name to that illustrious list. You could argue they've been given a kind enough run through the knockout so far. Drawing Cape Verde in the round of 32. Egypt in the round of 16. But they are making heavy weather of it. Heavy, thrilling, emotional, insane, controversial weather of it. They may not be the greatest defending champions of all time, but they're always worth a watch, Messi and his mates. First, there was the five-goal thriller.
They survived against Cape Verde in that round of 32 game on a Tuesday night. Another five-goal thriller that had to survive against Egypt with an absolutely remarkable comeback in the round of 16. Ken was lucky enough to be in the Atlanta stadium and he was on top form, as you might expect. So for your World Cup taster this week, we're going to play you Ken's report from Atlanta.
There's a voice. Oh, my God. Sorry, mate.
That's actually my seat. What you think doesn't really matter. I think it's an annoying twat. What do I say to the word cusser? I had a number of good boys here. I've got friends in low places. I'm going to have to re-register myself as Aaron Aardvark.
The hotel staff were like, oh, you need to go to the hospital, sir.
Well, what's next for you? What's next for Hathaway? See for too many years, baby. What a boy you are.
Ken, is that the sound of Argentina fans still singing 20 minutes after the final whistle, after what they've just said?
They're still going. They are still going. I mean, it's just amazing what we've seen here. It's just absolutely mind-blowing. I mean, what am I supposed to make of this? This has just been absolutely incredible end to this game. I don't know if it's the best game of the World Cup so far. I mean, it's between this and the previous Argentina game. Also, 3-2 against Cape Verde. But they were dead. They were gone. This was over. This was over. My immediate reaction at the 2-0 was, well, that's it. These guys are not coming back. Not the way that this game has been going. No chance of a comeback here. But the thing was that the rest of the game didn't go the same way as the rest of the game had been going. It went very differently in Argentina in the quarterfinals.
What happened? How did they pull that around from 2-0 down to 3-2? Is there a two-word answer beginning with Leo?
Yeah, that's it. It's that simple. Messi happened, Messi happened, that's all that happened. It was just that Messi finally just said, no, this is not going to happen. Not like this. This is not going to be the end. I'm not going to accept this. And before you know it, he's got them back in the game. It's just incredible. I mean, I don't know. You'd have to watch it again to really figure out how that happened, how it went from 2-0, completely sluggish, totally dead, a team that was embarrassing itself with the inadequacy of its performance, to this irresistible force just powering past Egypt. There was nothing that they could do. There was just no answer to what was coming at them. And, yeah, I mean, it's just astonishing.
It's just amazing.
That sounds great, Ken. The fans, because you were at the 3-0, weren't you? You were at the hat-trick that he scored in the opening game. It looks like another hero-worshipping, cult-like moment, but it's even more intense because of the circumstances by the sounds of those Argentinian fans.
And more intense for Messi as well, judging by his reaction at the full-time whistle.
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