Spain, Mikel Merino & Who Will Actually Win the World Cup?
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What happened in Spain’s win over Belgium and why does it matter?
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Hello and welcome to the Tifo Football. Podcast. I'm Joe Devine and I had something in my mouth. Now, uh I'm joined delighted to be joined today by John Mackenzie. Hello. Also Kate Mason. Hello. They're both in the same shop though. Oh gosh,
you told me and I forgot straight away. You forgot
you forgot the well just a little reminder, you're both in the same there's a high five there. We've also got JJ Bowl. Hi. There he is. Oh it would take a while to come to me. Oh yeah. There he is. And returning special guest, comedian Alfie Dundas. Hello. Hi team, thanks for having me. You threw up an M there. Yeah,
it's for
Mickel Marina. It's for Mickel Marina.
That's my contribution to the pod. Thanks for having me.
Well you I'm sure there'll be more more M's you'll throw up on the Mm. Yes.
Does that mean I'm not a special guest?
Um pretty sure that's what it means. Yeah. I
think you've outstayed your welcome now, you've just become
Well I can head off.
Part of the furniture. If you'd
like,
yeah.
Yeah, all right.
I went through that phase as well. People used to like me and now they don't. When did
you stop
being special? About
about Three years and eight months ago.
It's a great exchange though.
Fantastic look at that, how about that? Top of the show. Now we'll be recording this in the immediate aftermath of Spain versus Belgium. Yeah? Yeah? Not bad. Now what are we gonna talk about on today's show? Well so much we've got Spain versus Belgium. That's the first thing. Oh, we're gonna check in on points of bad. I'm looking forward to checking in on points of bad, a brief one later on. Just you to go there, John. We've all made our predictions, so we're gonna find out about you. Uh we read some excellent football jokes because we've got Alfie here. Uh oh, there's a s there's another installment of the of the eBay secondhand challenge. I've you know it's been ages since the last one. I'm very excited about this.
You're gonna like this. It's very good. And also we're gonna uh we're gonna talk about who we think will win the the World Cup. We've got each of our four guests here, we'll make an argument for a different team. So look forward to that bit. Have I missed anything our producer Ryan's not here in the room either, I should say. He's not here. He's uh he he'll be back on the World Cup final day. So we'll see him next Sunday. But until then I will simply ask the room, have I missed anything?
No the next Sunday's the final.
Yeah.
It seemed to have come very quickly and also not at all.
Well, I don't remember a time before the World Cup, so I couldn't I couldn't say I couldn't say how about that. Anyway, later someone will add music to this pause.
Yes, Spain too. One Belgium Mikel Moreno scored another late winner for Spain to knock Belgium out of the twenty twenty six World Cup and set up a semi final against France. That one's very exciting. Uh Fabio and Ruiz had earlier opened the scoring, only for Charlotte de Catelara to head an excellent equalizer for Belgium. Uh Spain will face France in Dallas on july fourteenth as they seek to reach their first World Cup final since winning. the tournament in 2010, JJ Bull, despite it being won all in 80-something minutes, never really felt Like it was in that much doubt? Did it for Spain to win this one?
Uh sort of. It felt like But you think you always thought Speedman were gonna win it, but for a long time they weren't doing that. So within that p time frame, which is quite a lot of time, I'm very distracted by lots of things going on. Oh it's
what they want is more microphone to you.
Oh I see, they can do that. Well I'll move it up.
You want me to show you how to do it? Yes.
Anyway, yes, it was a great game. What a lot of goals. I think um Spain were yeah, Spain felt like the better team throughout, but that doesn't mean that you win the game. Um weirdly, like Spain always have this control of the game, but it is quite funny that you know you take off someone like Danny Olmo and the way he does things in a very, very, like very key prime Spanish way, and then put on Marino, the set piece champ.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What happened in Spain’s win over Belgium and why does it matter?
0:00–8:47
2
Why is Mikel Merino considered the key player for Spain’s success?
8:47–18:41
3
How do the hosts use the “Rondo” game to test each other’s knowledge?
18:41–26:35
4
Which arguments do the panelists make for their chosen World Cup favorites?
26:35–35:54
5
What was the “Managerial Meltdown” eBay challenge and who won?
35:54–45:52
6
How did the eBay round influence the overall competition score?
45:52–53:04
7
What football jokes did the team share and why are they relevant?
53:04–56:39
8
What are the final predictions for the World Cup winner and the next episode?
56:39–57:15
Speakers
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