Big magicians, AI-powered football commentary and the Pure Qatar 2022 World Cup XI
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The Athletic
4.8 • 538 Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's Adam Hurrey is joined by Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker on the latest World Cup Adjudication Panel. On the agenda: Other possible group-stage tiebreakers, the mythical status of tiddlywinks, a curious mid-tournament friendly result, kit colour combinations, a brief history of World Cup lanyard sizes and the ominous first words of a new artificial-intelligence football commentator.
Meanwhile, the panel select the first names on their Pure Qatar 2022 World Cup XI teamsheet and wonder why you never hear about "big magicians".
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:03.0 | I'm sorry, you can sit there and look and play with all your silly machines as much as you like. |
| 0:10.0 | Is Gas going to have a crack? |
| 0:12.0 | He is, you know. |
| 0:13.0 | Oh, he fell! |
| 0:14.0 | Brilliant! |
| 0:16.0 | He's round the goalkeeper! |
| 0:21.1 | He's done it! |
| 0:22.8 | Absolutely incredible! |
| 0:24.7 | He launched himself six feet into the crowd, and Kung Fu kicked a supporter who was eyewit without a shadow of an out giving him lip. |
| 0:35.4 | Oh, I say, it's amazing. |
| 0:38.4 | He does it tame and tame and tame again. |
| 0:41.4 | Frank of the music, charge a glass. |
| 0:45.4 | This nation is going to dance all night. |
| 0:49.5 | Understanding the Group C tiebreaker chaos. |
| 0:52.3 | Why Tiddly Winks is still the hypothetically over-competitive go-to scenario? |
| 0:56.7 | Why can't you have a big magician? |
| 0:58.9 | The shock hybrid-friendly result of the week, |
| 1:01.4 | a brief history of World Cup accreditation land yard sizes, |
| 1:04.6 | the pure Qatar 2022 World Cup 11, |
| 1:07.6 | when does a player have only one thing on his mind? |
| 1:10.5 | And watch out football |
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