Messi Delivers, The England Plan, Ken Early's America
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What were Ken's highlights from the World Cup so far?
It's the second time it's gone on. They never got on. They never got on. They never got on, those boys.
The second captain's world service.
It is not war and death and famine. It's not that at all. It's the opposite of that. It's to persuade there's a world outside of that. That's why sport's important.
Yeah, you can laugh. That was the war call. Maradona turns like a little eel and comes away from trouble. Little squat man leads us for dead. There's Beckham, there's the ball.
Welcome everyone to your World Service World Cup taster. You might think Ken is having a load of fun over there covering this thing and you might just be right.
Just hear an arrowhead on under the big sky. Oh yeah! Yeah!
Yeah! That was Ken in Kansas City losing his mind having just watched Leo Messi deliver another all-time great World Cup moment scoring a hat-trick mere days before his 39th birthday.
González para Messi! Messi, Messi, Messi! Goal!
It has been pointed out to me that Ken letting it all go at Arrowhead Stadium and really wearing his heart on his sleeve contrasted sharply with myself and Murph trying not to wake anyone up while recording from home at half past four in the morning.
Yeah! Lionel Messi. I'm looking around at the crowd of people wearing Argentina jerseys, all of whom have Messi on the back. It's just like the most bizarre, giant, cult-like event possibly that's ever happened. I've never seen so many people wearing the same outfit. Well, to be fair, I have. The last time I was watching a Lionel Messi game in the World Cup was in Qatar. That was pretty good. I assumed that would be it. But no! He's back! He wants more! And why not?
You know, when you see him tonight, why the hell not? Ken, it's like a cult event where the cult leader turns up. He doesn't send one of his minions. The main man turns up. And not only that, he brings his fucking A-game. This guy delivers.
I mean, you can't knock the guy. You know, he just somehow keeps doing this. Do you have any idea how unprecedentedly crazy this is? That he's able to do this. He's 39 next week. 39 years old. Do you have any idea what 39 means? This is the World Cup. This is a serious level of football. I'm not going to say it's the highest level, but it is pretty damn serious. And, sorry, but 39 is just not a realistic age to be able to do this kind of stuff. I have no idea how he's still able to do it. I've literally just written a piece for the Irish Times, which is like the kind of thing you might read in a mad scientist's diary, like Dr. Frankenstein's notebooks. Like, what the hell is going on here? I feel like I just, I almost want to dissect this guy.
Like, you know, I feel like he should be dissected to find what's happening in there. Like, what is actually happening in these guys' muscles? Like, what is the story with his brain-body connection? Just seems to be of a different quality from anyone else we've ever seen in the game. Like, it's a joke. Like, all his contemporaries are, like, barely able to run. Like, Suarez, say, or Ronaldo, who, to be fair, is, like, two years older. But, like, you see these guys running, and it looks like it hurts, you know? The guys younger than him, like Aguero, Busquets, Bale, like, these guys are retired, like, ages ago. Fabregas is the same age as him. Fabregas is a manager now. Samir Nasri is, like, a chunky pundit.
These are his contemporaries. And he's out there playing football just as he was in Qatar three years ago. Okay, so he doesn't run. He just trots now. But he's still able to do everything perfectly.
How did Messi perform in his latest World Cup match?
It's just uncanny. It's unbelievable. Okay, Ken.
It's astonishing. Yeah, we, I suppose, need to understand here that people will be listening to this and will not have seen this game. Maybe they'll have seen the goals in brief on Instagram or somewhere. But, like, let's just talk through how good he was here, how good the goals were, how freely he was moving. I mean, it's not that he's sprinting around the best. He hasn't been doing that for a long number of years. But, I mean, he still looks like a footballer out there.
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