England vs Croatia Preview: Thomas Tuchel’s tall boys | 2026 FIFA World Cup
Football Ramble
Stak Production
4.6 • 9.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
The wait is nearly over, England are in action tonight! Who else would you rather spend the pre-match time with than Marcus and Jim?
The lads are here to preview England’s revenge mission against Croatia. What’s more, they are excited about the potential of this squad. Who would have thought? Hop on the England bus now and get us in your ears.
Get your Ramble World Cup watch party tickets here
Get your Football Ramble x Admiral kit here
Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.
Sign up to the Football Ramble Patreon for ad-free shows for just $5 per month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.
***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!***
The Football Ramble, the original and best football podcast. Brand new podcasts every single weekday throughout the Premier League season and every day throughout the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
No cliches. No ex-pros like Peter Crouch or The Rest is Football. Just the funniest football conversation out there. Your guardian for the season, daily not weekly. Stick to the Ramble, totally.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody. |
| 0:16.0 | Welcome to the Football Rumble. |
| 0:18.0 | It's time for England. |
| 0:19.7 | Yes, England versus Croatia tonight. |
| 0:22.0 | Oh, my goodness. |
| 0:23.1 | The wait is nearly over. |
| 0:25.5 | Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, everybody. |
| 0:27.1 | It's a pleasure to have you here, |
| 0:28.5 | England versus Croatia in the World Cup. |
| 0:31.1 | 9pm, Greenwich Mean Time. |
| 0:33.1 | This is the Football Rambble preview of that match. |
| 0:36.9 | Jim Campbell is nearly here. We've waited a while. Jim Campbell, it's nearly here. |
| 0:39.0 | We've waited a while. |
| 0:40.1 | Here we go. |
| 0:40.9 | I'm so excited. |
| 0:42.2 | Group L finally is here. |
| 0:44.6 | L for late. |
| 0:45.3 | Yeah, I'm privileged to be with Marcus Bela on the morning of a World Cup day |
| 0:52.2 | in which England play for the first time. It's exciting. I'm excited. I'm sort of talking myself up into a bit of a frenzy now. I've been, you know, doing some reading around it, doing a deep dive in my own brain about England's chances. And I've worked myself into a frenzy. I'm looking at this team and I'm looking at this manager. And I'm looking at all the sort of unknown quantities we have in front of us. And I'm just really, really looking forward to it getting going. You look suitably frenzied. I have to say. Look, it's a big game, England versus Croatia. Croatia, obviously. Let's get this out of the way. They've beaten England at a World Cup in recent memory. Well done. Good. No, I want that. Got it out of the way. No, we want to scalp them. Straight away, this is a revenge mission. I'm bored of Croatia. I'm fed up with playing Croatia at tournaments or qualifiers. Yeah. They're the new Poland. Let's crush them. They are the new Poland. |
| 1:44.7 | Yeah, they used to get Poland all the time. |
| 1:46.6 | But it's Croatia and it's tonight. |
| 1:48.1 | And Croatia head coach, Zlatko Dahlich. |
... |
Transcript will be available on the free plan in 16 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Stak Production, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Stak Production and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.