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Hello, we're in the 95th minute of England versus Iran at the World Cup.

I mean, I thought football matches were 90 minutes, but I'm learning a lot already.

And it's 6-1 to England.

And Faisal Islam, economics editor, who is supporting England in the newscast sweepstake.

And Marianna Spring, the disinformation correspondent, who is supporting Iran in the newscast sweepstake and marianna spring the disinformation correspondent who is supporting iran in the newscast sweepstake have just walked into the newscast studio let's monitor the reactions in the closing minutes of the match

look at him smiling that is the amazing story here isn't that you've got half the goals scored by two of the lads that missed.

That's exactly.

Yeah, that's exactly.

We thought it would be difficult that England would find it hard to break through Iran,

but they did it six times, and they did it with a sparkling show from young and old.

They think it's all over.

It is now.

Faisal, your instant reaction to that match? That was an incredible win for England, for the boys, and also see all those young players doing so well and smiling. It's kind of uplifting. And Marianna, like actually this whole World Cup, there was quite a lot going on there that wasn't just the actual football. So if you're not interested in the football, there was still kind of stuff happening. So right from the very beginning, the Iranian team didn't sing the Iranian national anthem. And it's interesting that Iran appears a year. Oh, we go, Iran. Iran, Iran. Oh, we missed that. They didn't. And that seemed like a pretty big deal, actually, including to a lot of the Iranian fans who are watching in the crowd, some of whom were in tears, because they usually sing the anthem,

but with ongoing protests happening in Iran after a young woman died in police custody, it

seems like the team are deciding to take a stance.

And there's lots of discussion about people taking stances during this World Cup, whether

it's against homophobia or

whether in this case, it's the Iranian team, who are my sweetsteak team, deciding actually they don't

want to sing the anthem, which could come with various repercussions, including for them and people

they know and family back in Iran. Yes, so it's something for you to actually monitor that's not

just how Iran are doing in the football. I know. I think I might be on for the wooden spoon. Do we have a wooden spoon in our sweepstake? No, you know, there's actually people where the odds are less than Iran. Go Iran. I forget. That's my actually my team. At least it won't actually supposed to support them or are you? Or are you sort of... Just for this. Okay, right. I am... You actually want them... I am in a very impartial way an Ingram fan. And obviously as we're recording this, Wales haven't played yet. So we will give you a full roundup of how well Wales did in their first match in the next episode of Newscast. But on with this one. Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. We will deliver. We will deliver. We will deliver. Build

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