I know you since you were a 20 I was 20 and thought that saw me years from now

a purple little little lady will be perfect for dirty old and in the

a cool well it's been a really good tournament so far hasn't it we we talked

last time without about how good the first week of

matches had been and I think it's continued in the same vein.

Yeah and you said look forward to the knockout stages and boy am I looking forward to

the knockout stages. It's been an extraordinary week of drama and fine quality

football and amazing goals and also England played. I think that's right, yeah. I guess we'll do a similar

format to last week, shall we? Should we talk through each of the groups now they're all

decided and and people have gone home and some people are through and we're

recording this on Thursday night so we won't be talking about the upcoming

Portugal and Czech Republic game.

It will have happened by the time you listen to this.

But shall we get to England later and we can discuss the wonderful free-flowing football

and Tiki tacker style and the class and technical abilities of the English players.

Yeah, absolutely. We'll get on to that.

Group A has been, it was really interesting in the end. An absolute, I mean talk about drama, that was probably the dramatic high... the Russia games were pretty stunning. I mean I'm not sure they were very good quality

games more nerves than three flowing football and lots of goals or anything like

that but some pretty surprising results and I think last week I think I think we both picked Poland and Russia to go

through and got that completely wrong. Yeah and us and the entire football community

apart from Jonathan Wilson of course who predicted the Czech Republic to get

through that group and they won the group with negative

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