Beckham-Mania, Italian Conspiracy & Ronaldo's Redemption: 2002 World Cup Revisited
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
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🗓️ 30 June 2022
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Host Ian Irving is joined by The Athletic's Dominic Fifield and Laurie Whitwell to reflect on the 2002 World Cup in South Korea & Japan, twenty years on this week...
Uri Geller's bizarre effort to repair Beckham's broken metatarsal on live TV, Rivaldo's histrionics, Rustu's war-paint, South-Korean spirit, Roy Keane's civil war and whether or not Ronaldinho actually meant to catch Seaman out from that far away.
Plus, Mr Football Cliches, Adam Hurrey's own personal Top 5 moments, what happened when George Caulkin got caught in a lift with R9, if James Horncastle (and the rest of Italy) has finally forgiven referee Byron Moreno and more!
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:03.1 | The First World Cup in Asia, the first across two countries, Japan and South Korea, |
| 0:19.9 | early alarms for the action, corn flakes and lager, classes cancelled and school assemblies assembled |
| 0:25.8 | to catch the matches. |
| 0:27.5 | The metatarsal of David Beckham, his recovery, renaissance and revenge, a first glimpse |
| 0:32.6 | at the Golden Generation ended by Ronaldino's cross-cum shot and then flow of Siemens' tears. |
| 0:40.2 | Saipan, the Irish Civil War, Roy versus Mick and what might have been. World champions |
| 0:45.9 | France flopped, so did Italy and Argentina and Portugal, and when the Holland kick off. First |
| 0:51.6 | time as Senegal shine, Turkey surprised and the host nations |
| 0:55.1 | did far more than just host. Brazil were back, Ronaldo was back with a fresh trim. There's |
| 1:01.2 | Rustu's war paint, Rivaldo's play acting and questionable Sven trims and even more questionable |
| 1:06.7 | referees. Welcome to the Athletic Football podcast special on the 2002 World Cup Finals 20 years off. |
| 1:18.6 | We're on the board. |
| 1:20.6 | We're on the board. |
| 1:22.7 | We're on the board. |
| 1:24.7 | Right. |
| 1:25.3 | What a treat we've got for you today going back over this. Some of you have contributed to your memories, and we're going to get a lot more from our senior writer for the athletic, Don Firefield, who was in Korea, while Laurie Whitwell's with us as well, and he was in class. Of course, he's the Manchester United correspondent for the Athletic as well. Over the course of the show, we'll hear from the likes of James Horncastle |
| 1:45.1 | on how Italy were robbed. |
| 1:47.6 | Mr Football cliches, Adam Hury, |
| 1:49.4 | will give us his own personal top five moments. |
| 1:51.7 | Plus, what did Luis Philippe Scallari |
| 1:53.7 | tell Jack Lang about that England game |
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