Do England have it in them to beat Spain at Wembley?
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What are the expectations for England vs Spain at Wembley?
Together football show, international break, it's underway. Let's get through this together, eh? Today we're talking England Spain and also England's Pain. Do they not have it in them? Netherlands have Havy in them, Catalan, one of a host of new managers as these international fixtures roll round, Klopp, Zidane Pocignoli, among the others. We'll hear about their plans as the Nations League starts up, remind ourselves what it is, and look at some further flung fixtures too. Brazil in India and USA with their teenage sensation Cavan Sullivan. It's the total Football show. Thursday the twenty-fourth of September, very exciting lineup for you today. We got Duncan Alexander, Tom Williams, we got Felipe Cardenas on the way.
And Jack Lang as well. Hello. Hi, Jack. Close your eyes. You could almost be back in the Ranchido Avenue having a World Cup. Marooned in Mexico.
There are worse places to be Maroon. But yeah, it was it was twenty eight nights in the same hotel was an experience. On your own hotel. On your own. Largely on my own, yeah. What what do you mean by that? Well, I had big plate. to some degree. Colleagues dropped in for a couple of games. Yeah. Uh very fleeting on the edge of my consciousness. Right. Mostly it was me and the hotel staff who I I grew to knew rather too well, frankly.
A World Cup meets Alan Partridge, meets the shining.
Yeah, strong shining vibes. When the lots were drawn and you got Mexico, I think everyone thought, wow, that's so Jack's gonna get the real World Cup down there. But from we would see you from time to time from your lonely.
It was great. It was a great gig. And I it did mean I skipped out a lot of the US-based doom and gloom. Don't remember any doom.
No. Just sunshine. Twenty four seven. Well not twenty four seven, that would be where two meters of in Stockholm perhaps. Yeah, maybe. Yeah.
Maybe. I don't want the listener to feel too sorry for me. I'm eating like
well, you got to go to England England, Mexico, where you were probably eating the turf. Did you eat grass at the after that?
Didn't eat the grass. Uh didn't get anywhere close to the actual pitch, but I uh something of that game will stay with me, I'm sure. Excellent.
I don't like the phrase eating the grass. I know Thomas Techle said he wished he had after that game.
Do you
think that's a Something from German? Is that a thing in your book, Tom? Eating the grass. No. Although the thing that it brings to mind in a football context is No, I was gonna say Gerard Houlier, remember the controversial Robbie Fowler goal celebration when he scored against Everton and he appeared to be pretending to snort the white line. Well uh and Gerard Hoolier said, No, no, no, they're just joking around. He was pretending to eat the grass.
There you go. Well for me, England played the Netherlands in a friendly at Wembley and Huntela hit the ground and sort of sat up and he had a mouthful of like actual Wembley tub and it's I don't know, it's something really quite unpleasant about it. Like it's being sort of waterboarded with grass.
But on specifically on the subject of the grass at as the Azteca. Yes. I mean, I think Tuchel has been uh slightly mocked for saying he wished he'd eaten it. But I once I've only ever been to Mexico City once and I did the stadium tour of the the Azteca and I did I ate the whole fetch. I g I grabbed a fistful of turf surreptitiously. And no, I just put it in my bag. Okay. So I'd have like so I would so my I would be imbued by the spirit of the Azteca and specifically Maradona's handbook forever. Hello, Hey Throw Customs.
I bet that wasn't as surreptitious as you thought it was. So you went
you left Mexico with Mexican grass in your bag. Yes. Yes I did. Live to tell the tale. Wow. Jack, I know there's a lot of other memories. Some musical. That track that you
Yeah.
What's
it what's the guy called again? Juan Gabriel.
Juan Gabriel. He's quite a performer, isn't he? Yeah.
I mean that's my my son loves that song now. Demands it in the car.
Right. Yeah. What song is it, Jack?
Des de quite conessi.
Yeah. Since I met you. Yeah.
It's a nine minute opus and it starts very slowly with clock guitar.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What are the expectations for England vs Spain at Wembley?
0:00–4:46
2
How did Thomas Tuchel react to Argentina’s failure and what does it mean for England?
4:46–11:05
3
What tactical changes did England make after the Argentina loss?
11:05–19:50
4
How will the new Nations League format affect England’s chances?
19:50–27:49
5
What impact will Xavi’s appointment have on the Netherlands vs Germany clash?
27:49–35:50
6
How is Zinedine Zidane expected to shape France’s Nations League campaign?
35:50–45:29
7
What does the USA’s 16‑year‑old wonderkid Cavan Sullivan bring to the national team?
45:29–52:11
Speakers
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