Captain Kane wrestles back victory for England
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🗓️ 18 June 2018
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
The rollercoaster ride of following the Three Lions continues as England leave it late to secure 3 points in their World Cup opener against Tunisia.
Natalie Sawyer is joined by Matt Dickinson, Matt Hughes and Alyson Rudd to salute the bagger of a brace Harry Kane, debate the non-appearance of VAR in Volgograd and discuss whether Ruben Loftus-Cheek can fill Dele Alli’s boots.
The video officials do help deliver Sweden’s first opening day victory since 1958. Plus Ian Hawkey is on Panama Watch for the podcast in Sochi as England’s next opponents succumb to Belgium in their first ever World Cup match.
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| 0:00.0 | May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get |
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| 0:16.5 | Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. Hello and welcome to the game World Cup Daily from The Times. I'm Natalie Sawyer and |
| 0:36.4 | thank you for joining us. We're bringing you podcasts every match day of the |
| 0:39.6 | World Cup after 10 o'clock UK time every night. It is match day five and Gareth Southgate's |
| 0:45.6 | England have finally made their World Cup bow. In the studio with me it is Mr Matthews. |
| 0:51.1 | Good evening? |
| 0:52.1 | You think. Allison Rudd is evening. You think. |
| 0:53.0 | Allison Rudd is an England fan abroad. |
| 0:55.0 | She's in Kazan for the Times and joins us for her reaction. |
| 0:58.0 | Has it warmed up now in Kazan? |
| 1:00.0 | It's a bit weird. |
| 1:02.0 | It's when I last took, I was shivering, and today it was too hot. |
| 1:07.0 | Oh, you can't win. |
| 1:08.0 | Not that I'm a owner or anything. |
| 1:09.0 | No, not at all, not at all. |
| 1:10.0 | We'll speak too shortly. |
| 1:12.0 | England's group g rivals Belgium beat Panama in |
| 1:15.1 | Hawkey will be with us later having watched that one in Sochi but we start of |
| 1:19.5 | course with the three lions Allison it was the talisman, the captain, Harry Kane, who hadn't |
| 1:25.9 | scored in a major tournament that got the goals for England then. |
| 1:29.7 | Yeah, he could argue all Harry Kane did was scored an extremely important goals, one of them quite beautiful, |
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