World Cup 2022 Preview: The Favourites
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The Times
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🗓️ 17 November 2022
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Hugh Woozencroft is joined by Gregor Robertson, Alyson Rudd and Tony Cascarino.
Tony Cascarino shares his favourite stories from representing the Republic of Ireland in two World Cups (00:00)
Which South American teams are in the running to lift the trophy? Are Brazil favourites or could Argentina cause them a problem or two? (07:41)
What about the European teams? Can France become the third nation ever to win back-to-back World Cups? (16:12)
Which players are likely to stand out and create World Cup memories? (33:38)
Several players are possibly playing in their final World Cups - and it’s not just Messi and Ronaldo (38:32)
There’ve been some iconic World Cup goals, but which are our favourites? (51:30)
Tony picks his favourite World Cup moment from his time playing at the finals in 1990 and 1994 (60:02)
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| 1:00.9 | who are the big favourites to win at Andard Dark Horses too. We'll talk about our standout players |
| 1:06.1 | and those like Messi and Ronaldo who it's our last chance to see. We'll discuss our favourite |
| 1:11.5 | World Cup memories and our favourite World Cup goals as well. This is the game. |
| 1:16.6 | Hello again. Welcome to part 2 of our World Cup preview on the game. We've already spoken about |
| 1:28.5 | the home nations. If you like, we'll be taking part. I'm Hugh Wasn't Croft by the way alongside |
| 1:33.1 | Alison Radtoni, Cascarina and Gregor Robertson this time around. We're going to relive some of our |
| 1:38.4 | favourite World Cup memories for you as World Cup fever. If you like, takes hold, sweeps the |
| 1:44.0 | nation, sweeps the world in many ways. Of course we know some of the negative subplots at this |
| 1:48.4 | tournament and we've spoken about some of those already. So we're going to talk about some of |
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