Picking an England national team XI, with Sam Tighe from B/R Football
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🗓️ 31 March 2020
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
England were functional at the 2018 World Cup, but now they're exciting. And maybe even good. Daryl is joined by B/R Football Ranks co-hosts Sam Tighe to discuss the current England set-up and to pick an ideal starting XI.
There's some coronavirus, Messi v Ronaldo, and Marvel Cinematic Universe chat up front. If you have no times for pleasantries and want to get straight to the football, skip to 8:25
Also, as you'll learn in you listen, Sam is celebrating his 30th birthday and can't go out! If you see this on March 31, please tweet a happy birthday message to @stighefootball
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Total Soccer Show. |
| 0:24.6 | My name is Daryl Grove and I'm joined by a man who is physical distancing himself from me by 3,000 miles. |
| 0:31.4 | His name is Sam Thai from B.R football. |
| 0:33.6 | Hello, Sam. |
| 0:34.3 | Hello, mate. Yeah. |
| 0:34.9 | I mean, look, I'd be distancing myself regardless of any quarantine measures, |
| 0:38.3 | but just so happens that I've got a pretty good excuse to do so right now. |
| 0:41.8 | You sure do. You sure do. So you are here to talk to me about the England national team. |
| 0:47.3 | This is one of those topics that I always want to talk about and never find the right time. |
| 0:51.6 | And this whole coronavirus situation has given me a chance to, |
| 0:54.7 | you know, dig into some topics that maybe I, I wouldn't have had time to otherwise. |
| 0:59.3 | I wanted to ask you, for the benefit of our American listeners, what's going on in England? |
| 1:04.0 | Like, what's the situation? What are the rules? Like, what's Boris Johnson got you doing? |
| 1:08.2 | Well, we were quite slow on the uptake, I feel. I started |
| 1:12.1 | self-isolating approximately six days before Boris Johnson first, our Prime Minister, first basically |
| 1:19.6 | asked people very nicely to stay at home. That's the first thing he did. He said, please stay out of |
| 1:25.0 | the pubs. Please don't go out. And then a couple of days later |
| 1:27.8 | after that, everyone had ignored him. And he just went, right, seriously, you have to stay at |
| 1:31.9 | home now. Yeah. I woke up one morning to a text from the government, which I thought was very |
| 1:38.6 | weird. That was last Tuesday. So just over, yeah, just under a week ago. |
| 1:42.9 | New rules in force, you must stay at home. More info here.gov.com. U.K. slash coronavirus. Stay at home. Protect the NHS, save lives. So that's when it got genuinely serious. But for approximately 10 days before that, when everyone was going, seriously, we should be doing something about this. Like, we should be being, we should be more proactive. he just kind of asked everyone nicely to stop doing things and it just didn't work like no one listened |
| 2:04.7 | but now we are in like genuine lockdown you go to the supermarket you have to stay two meters away from |
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