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The Christian O’Connell Show

MINI: Bruce McAvaney

The Christian O’Connell Show

GOLD and iHeart Australia

Comedy, Music Interviews, Music, Comedy Interviews

4.7823 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

We had the legendary Bruce McAvaney on the show ahead of the Matilda's debut in this year's World Cup

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

0:05.0

It is to Women's World Cup.

0:06.1

It begins this afternoon, kicking off the opening ceremony in New Zealand, who are co-hosting it with Australia.

0:10.9

And then all eyes are on the Matildas tonight at 7.30.

0:14.1

This is exciting.

0:15.1

I'm really excited.

0:16.0

I'm watching it tonight on the couch with my daughters.

0:18.7

It's a big moment in sporting history.

0:22.3

And it's right here in Australia.

0:26.8

The world is going to be watching. Just in Patsy's news there talking about a record breaking,

0:34.0

1.4 million tickets have been sold, which is incredible. On the line right now, he's always the Master of Seminese. He's the voice of sport in Australia. He really is the goat.

0:38.5

You can't have sport on TV without this man.

0:41.4

He's on the show right now.

0:42.7

Bruce McAvaney, good morning.

0:45.3

Christian, good morning to you.

0:47.1

It is an exciting night.

0:48.5

You've summed it up so well.

0:50.7

Now, before we get into the women's soccer this week,

0:56.0

it's been a big sporting week here in Melbourne with Dan Andrews announcing that we're not going to have the Commonwealth Games

1:00.6

What's your take on that Bruce?

1:03.9

Look I was pretty shocked I didn't see it coming and disappointed

1:08.3

Surely there could have been a way that we could have hosted these games in Victoria.

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