Pogba peaks and Mbappe mesmerises as France are crowned world champions
The Game
The Times
3.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2018
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
After 32 days and 64 games, it is France who take home the World Cup after a pulsating 4-2 win over Croatia in Moscow.
For our final episode, Natalie Sawyer is joined by Oliver Kay and Matt Hughes to analyse the final. What next for Kylian Mbappe, a player with the world at his feet? And will Paul Pogba be allowed to replicate that level of performance under Mourinho at Manchester United?
With Croatia feeling hard done by with VAR after Perisic was penalised for handball, are slow motion replays misleading to match referees? And have we seen the advent of the VAR handball?
Plus The Times chief sports writer Matt Dickinson helps us review the best bits of a sensational World Cup in Russia. Can anything top Michy Batshuayi smashing the ball into his own face?
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| 0:00.0 | The After 32 days and 64 games it is France who take home the World Cup. |
| 0:26.4 | Felicitation to France commiserations to Croatia. |
| 0:30.8 | Hello and welcome to the game World Cup Daily from The Times. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm Natalie Sawyer and thank you for joining us. It seems like only yesterday that Robbie Williams was gesturing obscenely into a camera and |
| 0:57.0 | Diego Maradonna was channeling his inner Robbie just days later. |
| 1:01.0 | Spain sacked their coach two days before kickoff while the players of Argentina |
| 1:05.2 | allegedly overthrew their manager mid-tournament. |
| 1:08.4 | VAR brought added drama, Neymar, amateur dramatics. |
| 1:12.3 | Holders Germany were packing their bags before the knockout stage. |
| 1:16.4 | And it's been the summer where English optimism in the national team has been restored, |
| 1:21.1 | as we were all swept away in a sea of cane goals, |
| 1:24.4 | McGuire memes and record wastecoat sales. |
| 1:28.4 | Football didn't quite come home, but it is close, it's just across the channel. |
| 1:32.3 | In the studio alongside me for our final |
| 1:34.2 | podcast it is Mr. Matt Hughes. Hello. And in Moscow having watched the final it is |
| 1:39.8 | Oliver Kay and Ollie I understand you're a little bit soaked. |
| 1:43.0 | Yes I am indeed I am indeed I was sitting on the front row of the press conference |
| 1:49.0 | working to hear from Didier de Chame. He sat down and just as he began speaking, the French players led by Paul Popper and Benjamin Mende and all of them basically, they all ran in with Champagne and Powerade in some cases |
| 2:07.4 | and other energy drinks and proceeded to soak Deschamp so the rest of us soaked my laptop, soaked my clothes, started singing |
| 2:18.4 | Deschamps me and then they kind of apologized and then they came back in again and did it again. |
| 2:23.6 | It started jumping on the desk. |
| 2:25.2 | And it was all very funny. |
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