Episode 1500: Pip Lets Rip, Ref Quits, LVG On Messi
The knockout stages of the Women’s World Cup are underway and England’s controversial win over Cameroon has created the biggest sensation of the tournament so far.
We analyse a remarkable series of post-match comments from the England coach Phil Neville.
“If that was any of my players, they would never play for England again with that kind of behaviour”https://t.co/0IeTOfXicn
— Telegraph Women’s Sport (@WomensSport) June 23, 2019
Also today, the latest from Don Diego’s diary.
Fascinating interview with Louis van Gaal by Diego Torres in El Pais. He talks about lots of things (he’s a big fan of Klopp’s Liverpool), but here he is on Messi (“an individual player, not a team player”), Guardiola and their fortunes together and apart pic.twitter.com/xFjyLU9rrH
— Sam Lee (@SamLee) June 24, 2019
Katie Whyatt of the Telegraph was at England v Cameroon, she joins us from France to talk about the match and the heated aftermath.
BBC say a record-breaking peak UK TV audience of 6.9m and 40.5% share of available viewers tuned into England’s 3-0 victory over Cameroon yesterday. There were also an additional 640k live programme requests for those watching on BBC iPlayer and online
— Katie Whyatt (@KatieWhyatt) June 24, 2019
And Harry McCann is in studio to tell us the reasons why he has decided to quit refereeing at the age of 20.
Today I had an U13 soccer manager attempt to strike me while refereeing.
After 4 years of abuse and violent threats, I have to decided to call it quits.
The FAI do not care about the safety and wellbeing of referees, and I no longer feel safe being involved in the game. pic.twitter.com/oU3KQz65e7
— Harry McCann (@TheHarryMcC) June 22, 2019
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Dr. Ken gives Murph a footballer personality test, live on air ??
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