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🗓️ 17 December 2017
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Without a doubt the biggest single result to occur during our time broadcasting, Brazil's humbling by Germany on their own patch in the semi-final stage of the first World Cup they'd held for 64 years was a genuine jaw-dropper.
In number eight on our festive countdown, Marcus, Luke, Jim and Pete discuss the build up to that momentous occasion in Belo Horizonte, the game itself, the aftermath and effect on Brazil's psyche, and their memories of it all, more than three years on.
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0:00.0 | Do you know there's someone on the internet on Twitter who actually thinks this, it's Christmas is me. |
0:06.8 | It's Christmas! |
0:17.4 | Tidings of comfort and joy ladies and gentlemen, welcome to number eight of our 12 |
0:22.5 | Rambles of Christmas. It is of course our daily countdown of what we see as the 12 defining topics |
0:28.2 | in football since we began the football rambles back in 2007. |
0:32.0 | Can it have been that long ago, yes it can, we're all very old, how depressing but let's make the most of it. |
0:36.8 | Time marches on, it does, so let's fill it with something. |
0:40.2 | We are all a day closer to the grave. |
0:42.8 | Wow, that's a dark person. |
0:44.4 | It's all for nothing. Tidings of comfort and joy. |
0:46.8 | Yeah, indeed. What's number eight Marcus? |
0:49.8 | We've got two days, it is Brazil one, Germany seven, the semi-final, the first semi-final of the 2014 World Cup. |
0:58.2 | This is arguably the, I don't know how you guys feel about this but I'm going to put this out there. |
1:02.8 | As a singular event, this is arguably the most shocking thing to happen since we started the show. |
1:09.2 | Yeah, but in football. |
1:10.0 | Yeah, I would go as far as to say that I have ever seen. |
1:13.0 | In football, I've been in football. |
1:14.8 | In football, I've been in the disbelief that I felt as I was watching it, as I've never felt that before or since. |
1:20.3 | I think you're right. Badger, sky in his penalty. |
1:23.0 | That was heartbreaking. |
1:24.3 | That's the point. |
1:25.5 | It was the sense of how... |
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