Verdammt: Don’t write off the Germans, respect Sweden and get ready for England…
Football Ramble
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🗓️ 24 June 2018
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Germany are back and almost certainly invincible again. We knew it couldn’t last. You have to respect it though. Damn it you have to respect it. Mexico also kept their Group F party going, having harnessed the power of red meat, and Belgium revealed that Tunisia aren’t that good after all.
Elsewhere Matthew Kelly is the latest figure to get an inexplicable mention, the Argentina team picks itself, literally, and Senegal delight us with a joyous warm up exercise.
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Further reading
Germany rub it in:
Injury doubt for Romelu Lukaku?
Granit Xhaka and Xherdan Shaqiri could be in trouble:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44592846
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Pete Olson, the Bachelor of Radio and I'm somehow said yes to this |
| 0:04.4 | These gentlemen who are looking after me are currently professional wonderful |
| 0:08.1 | It's a Christ we're high, but it'll be okay. It will be okay. You ready? Yeah, let's do it |
| 0:15.0 | Oh, the next morning. Yeah, I'm told over |
| 0:30.0 | Never write them off ladies and gentlemen welcome to the World Cup rambles sponsored by bet365 my name is Marcus Speller Lukemore is here |
| 0:49.3 | Oh, and Jimmy Campbell |
| 0:51.3 | Guten Tag |
| 1:07.6 | You can never write off the Germans |
| 1:10.2 | Yeah, you can't do it. No, I forgot. I'm not do it if you did you're a fool |
| 1:15.0 | I've forgotten to because they haven't given us an opportunity to write them off for a while |
| 1:18.9 | Yeah, so I forgot that you weren't supposed to do that and I started to do it in my head |
| 1:22.8 | Can I just say yeah, I'm the same in my living room yesterday yesterday evening |
| 1:26.4 | I spent about an hour and a half writing off the Germans and it's come back to bite me as well |
| 1:31.8 | You fool so if you're listening at home or on the commute or wherever you are as a son |
| 1:35.4 | They say won't be commuting but maybe some of you will be yes |
| 1:37.5 | We share your pain unless you're German and listening in which case we say congrats right up there |
| 1:43.7 | Congratulations |
| 1:45.7 | I can even get it out. He stuck in my crawl so much |
| 1:48.3 | I was gonna say if you're German and listening congratulations and fuck off |
| 1:53.7 | Stop this yeah, the last time they had they didn't reach at least a semi-final the World Cup 1998 |
| 2:01.1 | Amazing it feels like they've had their one now doesn't it? It feels like they're gonna be away now |
| 2:05.6 | Do you never absolutely like they've they've had these couple of games to see what the problems are in the squad |
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