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Ruth Alexander. Do you know what, Ruth?

This is the best World Cup ever, isn't it?

Oh Wesley, Stevenson, finally torn yourself away from the TV screen.

No, I don't think so.

Not if you're English.

Spanish. Gorn Spanish gone own South Korean

Italian or georgio Kaleini shoulder no no it's not well yeah I see what you're saying

but speaking as an England fan you know it should have been a miserable experience, but it hasn't been.

So it's been better than 86, has it, where Diego Maradonna almost single-handedly propelled Argentina

to victory, or 1990 when England went through to the semi-finals,

and better than France was it, 98 when the French won the cup for the first time?

Yeah, absolutely.

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