England set for centre stage as the world champions suffer Mexico mauling in Moscow
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🗓️ 17 June 2018
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
With Gareth Southgate’s men 24 hours from Tunisia, Natalie Sawyer, Jonathan Northcroft and James Gheerbrant ask will we see the real Harry Kane? And what’s to be done about those Volgograd mosquitos?
Tom Clarke gives us a tactical breakdown of Tunisia, the panel analyse a lacklustre start from Neymar and Brazil after their draw with Switzerland and Oli Kay is in Moscow where Mexico upset and outsmart World Cup holders Germany on matchday 4.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the game World Cup Daily from the Times. I'm Natalie Sawyer and |
| 0:14.0 | thank you for joining us. Over the next month we continue to bring you |
| 0:17.1 | podcasts every match day of the World Cup after 10 o'clock UK time every night. |
| 0:21.6 | In the studio with me from the Times it's Mr. James |
| 0:24.4 | Gerebrandt and in Volgagr anxiously awaiting England's opener against Tunisia |
| 0:29.2 | it's Jonathan the Darting Don Northcroft. a moment. Later I will be speaking to the Times |
| 0:36.0 | Chief Football Correspondent Oliver Kay in Moscow who has witnessed the biggest |
| 0:40.0 | shock of the tournament so far, the holders, Germany, beaten by Mexico. |
| 0:44.3 | And the bookie's favourites, Brazil, have just dropped points too, drawing with Switzerland. |
| 0:49.0 | But let's start with the England cap 24 hours away from that first match. |
| 0:54.0 | Jonathan, good to speak to you. |
| 0:56.0 | Let's get more on that important issue out of the way first. |
| 0:59.0 | And the reason that I refer to you as the darting don... |
| 1:02.0 | You played Delhi Ali at darts. You kept that quiet. to you |
| 1:05.0 | keep that quiet on Saturday night. |
| 1:06.0 | Oh Natalie, I think I'll be haunted by my personal tournament failure |
| 1:12.0 | for many years to come just like one of an |
| 1:15.0 | England player played Iceland in 2016. Yeah I think as people know the |
| 1:19.9 | England team have been trying to be a lot more open, accessible and |
| 1:24.3 | friendly with the media and as part of that they've arranged a sort of daily darts |
| 1:29.1 | competition. We were asked as a Sunday group of journalists to nominate someone and well I have to say I kind of fancied myself to be honest I played a bit of darts in my time |
| 1:42.1 | You know I thought okay they're professional international |
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