Hi, I'm Grant Wall, and welcome to the Planet Football Podcast World Cup Daily. Day 31 of World Cup 2018 is done.

Brian Strauss and I will be talking about that as part of our podcast coming to you daily from Russia through July

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review our podcast. It helps people find this. In this episode I'm also joined by Alexi Lollis of Fox Sports.

Onward.

Let's bring in Brian Strauss from Luzneke Stadium in Moscow where you have been going to press conferences today ahead of the final.

How are you man?

It's been awesome.

Where the press conferences is scintillating as I might expect?

They're never very quotable but there definitely was sort of an obvious theme that emerged from the

contrast between the two. They were like four and a half hours apart which is

just kind of tough because you know you you go to the

first one and then you sit there and you got you know not much to do in a media

center other than like you know listen to people speak really loudly and

pick your nose.

But there's the definite difference between Croatia,

you know, of very, we're going to enjoy this final Dalich,

the manager talking about you

know we're here to you know there's no pressure on us we can't be more joyous and

proud you know the people in Croatia use the term who create a seismic

event in support for us, you know, just just very powered by sort of their journey here how unlikely it's been how

chaotic it's been and and they have nothing to lose and I think there was a real subtext of him

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