WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.419 You're listening to the FootGlish podcast. Love 00:00:03.419 --> 00:00:08.960 football, learn English. So, the Czech Republic 00:00:08.960 --> 00:00:12.019 versus Ireland in the World Cup play -offs semi 00:00:12.019 --> 00:00:15.380 -final. Is that a dream draw or a total nightmare? 00:00:15.820 --> 00:00:18.339 Did Troy Parrott's last -minute winner against 00:00:18.339 --> 00:00:21.920 Hungary actually change Ireland's destiny? And 00:00:21.920 --> 00:00:24.699 be honest, was Hungary's defeat a bit of football 00:00:24.699 --> 00:00:28.469 karma coming back to bite them? And what on earth 00:00:28.469 --> 00:00:31.570 happened between the Czech Ultras and the players 00:00:31.570 --> 00:00:56.039 with Socek and Sofal front and center? Hello 00:00:56.039 --> 00:00:58.659 everyone, welcome back to the Footgrish podcast. 00:00:58.880 --> 00:01:01.200 My name is Denec Lucas, I'm an English teacher 00:01:01.200 --> 00:01:04.739 and I do this podcast for all English learners 00:01:04.739 --> 00:01:08.019 around the world who love football. And today 00:01:08.019 --> 00:01:12.120 I have a guest from Ireland and you might be 00:01:12.120 --> 00:01:15.379 wondering why? Why have you invited a guest from 00:01:15.379 --> 00:01:20.400 Ireland? Well, the reason is this is as follows, 00:01:20.519 --> 00:01:24.579 because you see... A few hours ago, the Czech 00:01:24.579 --> 00:01:31.239 Republic national team drew Ireland in the World 00:01:31.239 --> 00:01:35.719 Cup qualifier playoffs. And I think there was 00:01:35.719 --> 00:01:40.000 a fantastic story of the Irish national team, 00:01:40.099 --> 00:01:43.299 this qualification group. So I think it's actually 00:01:43.299 --> 00:01:45.599 a great opportunity to talk to an Irish fan here. 00:01:45.780 --> 00:01:49.430 Welcome to the podcast, Carl. Welcome back. Thanks 00:01:49.430 --> 00:01:51.849 very much, Danny. Great to be back under such 00:01:51.849 --> 00:01:54.469 great circumstances again, being back, you know. 00:01:55.609 --> 00:01:58.670 I think actually you will be prouder of your 00:01:58.670 --> 00:02:02.510 team than me. But we can discuss that here. It's 00:02:02.510 --> 00:02:06.409 like a reaction, like a sort of draw reaction 00:02:06.409 --> 00:02:11.810 or preview of our match, which is in March next 00:02:11.810 --> 00:02:15.610 year. So we're super prepared. It's like four 00:02:15.610 --> 00:02:19.280 months time or was it? even longer than that 00:02:19.280 --> 00:02:21.659 something like that five months time maybe yeah 00:02:21.659 --> 00:02:27.259 yeah right so how on earth did you pull that 00:02:27.259 --> 00:02:30.439 off because from what i heard i wasn't really 00:02:30.439 --> 00:02:33.199 following your group much until this started 00:02:33.199 --> 00:02:36.479 happening yeah so then everybody knew and we 00:02:36.479 --> 00:02:39.139 will talk about your new national hero parrot 00:02:39.139 --> 00:02:43.800 you know the the guy that scored five goals to 00:02:43.800 --> 00:02:46.389 to make this happen for you but At first, you 00:02:46.389 --> 00:02:48.229 were not doing very well in your group, were 00:02:48.229 --> 00:02:51.389 you? No, not at all, in fact. And we actually 00:02:51.389 --> 00:02:56.770 ended up losing to Armenia. So the team that 00:02:56.770 --> 00:02:59.389 ended up bottom of the group after everything 00:02:59.389 --> 00:03:02.889 was said and done, we actually lost to them away 00:03:02.889 --> 00:03:06.229 from home. So it's just one of those things where 00:03:06.229 --> 00:03:10.509 every result had to go right for us in the last 00:03:10.509 --> 00:03:15.240 three games. And somehow... It did. And I tell 00:03:15.240 --> 00:03:19.599 you now, the mood around the Irish football team 00:03:19.599 --> 00:03:23.060 has just completely turned on a sixpence, as 00:03:23.060 --> 00:03:25.879 they might say, completely flipped 180 degrees 00:03:25.879 --> 00:03:30.379 in the last week and a half because it went from 00:03:30.379 --> 00:03:33.460 total doom and gloom. You know, this is the worst 00:03:33.460 --> 00:03:35.740 Irish team we've ever seen. This is just like 00:03:35.740 --> 00:03:40.439 a calamity. They obviously, a lot of the media 00:03:40.439 --> 00:03:44.550 were making fun of the fact that... The national 00:03:44.550 --> 00:03:48.650 manager, Heimer Hallgrímsson, is a practicing 00:03:48.650 --> 00:03:54.229 dentist in Iceland. He's the same coach that 00:03:54.229 --> 00:03:57.810 coached the Iceland team that beat England in 00:03:57.810 --> 00:04:03.090 the Euros a couple of years back. Then he went 00:04:03.090 --> 00:04:05.770 and took over the Jamaican national team and 00:04:05.770 --> 00:04:08.150 then subsequently took over our national team 00:04:08.150 --> 00:04:13.039 after that. He's got a good track record. You 00:04:13.039 --> 00:04:16.899 take me back. So you said the first three games, 00:04:16.959 --> 00:04:19.079 after three games, you had like how many points? 00:04:19.100 --> 00:04:20.939 Was it like two points or something like that? 00:04:21.399 --> 00:04:26.680 So we had lost away to Armenia. We had drawn 00:04:26.680 --> 00:04:30.899 at home to Hungary. And then we had lost in the 00:04:30.899 --> 00:04:35.160 last minute to Portugal away. So we needed to... 00:04:35.160 --> 00:04:39.079 Two points after three games. So it looks like 00:04:39.079 --> 00:04:42.750 it really... One point. Yeah. So then we had 00:04:42.750 --> 00:04:45.629 to win three games. You lost to Armenia, right? 00:04:45.790 --> 00:04:47.949 You lost to Armenia, lost to Portugal, only one 00:04:47.949 --> 00:04:50.529 point against Hungary. So basically, it looked 00:04:50.529 --> 00:04:53.430 really desperate after three games with one point. 00:04:53.430 --> 00:04:55.730 You're bottom of the league, probably. Yeah, 00:04:55.790 --> 00:04:59.269 completely. We were Halgrimson out. Everybody 00:04:59.269 --> 00:05:01.889 wanted the dentist to go back to Iceland and, 00:05:01.910 --> 00:05:05.720 you know, leave the national job. He was on the 00:05:05.720 --> 00:05:08.920 chopping block for that. And yes, just somehow, 00:05:09.060 --> 00:05:14.120 I think a mixture of desperation and courage, 00:05:14.360 --> 00:05:18.720 let's say, has managed to get us through. Not 00:05:18.720 --> 00:05:20.579 even for the World Cup, to the playoffs, you 00:05:20.579 --> 00:05:22.800 know. Right, right. You didn't win the group, 00:05:22.920 --> 00:05:26.519 but Portugal topped the league. But you finished 00:05:26.519 --> 00:05:29.279 second, which was good enough for you to get 00:05:29.279 --> 00:05:35.220 into that playoffs draw. Exactly. So you had 00:05:35.220 --> 00:05:39.680 to beat, you had to, as you said, three result 00:05:39.680 --> 00:05:42.379 had to go your way. So you had to get nine points. 00:05:42.720 --> 00:05:46.360 Yeah. And if you got one point less or two points 00:05:46.360 --> 00:05:49.319 less, it wouldn't have happened. Would not have 00:05:49.319 --> 00:05:51.720 happened. Yeah. It would have been hungry going 00:05:51.720 --> 00:05:55.060 to the playoffs and Dominic Shabazlai and his 00:05:55.060 --> 00:05:57.680 team would have been knocking on your door instead 00:05:57.680 --> 00:06:05.490 of me. Okay. But, but I think, Firstly, that 00:06:05.490 --> 00:06:08.029 was a remarkable victory over Portugal of all 00:06:08.029 --> 00:06:10.230 teams. Portugal, as we know, is one of the best 00:06:10.230 --> 00:06:13.689 teams in the world. They also have Cristiano 00:06:13.689 --> 00:06:19.250 Ronaldo, but Ronaldo actually got his first ever 00:06:19.250 --> 00:06:22.569 red card for the national team against Ireland. 00:06:22.870 --> 00:06:25.870 And it was part of the reason you managed to 00:06:25.870 --> 00:06:31.670 beat Portugal 2 -0. Am I right? Well, I wouldn't 00:06:31.670 --> 00:06:33.370 say that was the reason because we were already 00:06:33.370 --> 00:06:36.129 2 -0 up by the time Ronaldo got his red card. 00:06:36.329 --> 00:06:41.209 So we went up very early on. And, you know, a 00:06:41.209 --> 00:06:43.290 lot of people might look at that scoreline and 00:06:43.290 --> 00:06:45.649 think, oh, well, Portugal must have played, you 00:06:45.649 --> 00:06:47.970 know, their B team or, you know, put out a lot 00:06:47.970 --> 00:06:50.689 of youngsters. But no, all the big hitters were 00:06:50.689 --> 00:06:52.870 there. You know, you had Vitinha, João Neves, 00:06:52.889 --> 00:06:55.329 as you said, Cristiano Ronaldo was there, Bernardo 00:06:55.329 --> 00:06:58.610 Silva. All the kind of unusual names that you 00:06:58.610 --> 00:07:00.889 think of when it comes to Portuguese football 00:07:00.889 --> 00:07:03.170 were there, but went ahead through a set piece 00:07:03.170 --> 00:07:07.610 in the 16th minute and then Troy Parrott doubled 00:07:07.610 --> 00:07:10.170 his account. Troy Parrott. Everybody in Ireland 00:07:10.170 --> 00:07:12.350 knows this guy now, right? He scored a brace 00:07:12.350 --> 00:07:16.449 in this game. Two goals. Yes. Yeah. So it was 00:07:16.449 --> 00:07:19.810 emphatic. He was a hero in that game. And if 00:07:19.810 --> 00:07:22.410 that was not enough, he scored a hat -trick in 00:07:22.410 --> 00:07:25.509 the following game against Hungary away. And 00:07:25.509 --> 00:07:28.490 Hungary only needed one point in that game. And 00:07:28.490 --> 00:07:31.589 I think, were they in control most of the game 00:07:31.589 --> 00:07:35.910 or was it a bit nervy for them? I have to say, 00:07:36.050 --> 00:07:40.209 we kind of, watching it live, we came out a lot 00:07:40.209 --> 00:07:42.730 more timid than I thought we would. I mean, we 00:07:42.730 --> 00:07:45.550 were still playing positively, but Hungary are 00:07:45.550 --> 00:07:47.430 the type of team where they have the players 00:07:47.430 --> 00:07:50.329 to be able to kind of hold the ball for longer 00:07:50.329 --> 00:07:53.759 spells than we would. especially with the way 00:07:53.759 --> 00:07:56.540 that Ireland set up. We set up a lot more on 00:07:56.540 --> 00:08:00.759 the counter -attack with our kind of wide wing 00:08:00.759 --> 00:08:03.639 backs as well, providing that too. But yeah, 00:08:03.699 --> 00:08:05.660 it was just kind of, it was such a strange game 00:08:05.660 --> 00:08:09.279 because there was penalty shouts. There was all 00:08:09.279 --> 00:08:11.720 sorts of pushing and shoving an awful lot of 00:08:11.720 --> 00:08:14.899 the time. A lot of time wasting was going on. 00:08:14.959 --> 00:08:18.579 So it was kind of... A couple of times I kind 00:08:18.579 --> 00:08:21.259 of found myself laughing at the commentary team 00:08:21.259 --> 00:08:24.439 who were almost like saying, you know, this is, 00:08:24.459 --> 00:08:27.019 wow, Hungary are really wasting a lot of time 00:08:27.019 --> 00:08:28.860 here. I wonder how much the referee is going 00:08:28.860 --> 00:08:31.120 to add on at the end of the match. And it turned 00:08:31.120 --> 00:08:34.220 out to be just enough time for us. It was six 00:08:34.220 --> 00:08:37.639 minutes. They added on six minutes. The result 00:08:37.639 --> 00:08:40.500 was 2 -2 for a long time. Again, Troy Parrott 00:08:40.500 --> 00:08:44.409 scoring two goals. Again, a brace. But that wasn't 00:08:44.409 --> 00:08:46.909 enough for Ireland. You needed one more goal. 00:08:47.509 --> 00:08:51.470 And the clock was ticking. Yeah, they literally, 00:08:51.509 --> 00:08:54.529 so the Hungarians cleared the ball on the 95th 00:08:54.529 --> 00:08:56.289 minute and you could see up in the top, it says 00:08:56.289 --> 00:09:00.909 plus five, 501, 502 and it gets cleared away 00:09:00.909 --> 00:09:02.750 to the halfway line and everyone in the house 00:09:02.750 --> 00:09:04.710 and I'm sure everyone across the country is going, 00:09:04.809 --> 00:09:07.720 oh no, that's it, it's all gone. And then all 00:09:07.720 --> 00:09:10.019 of a sudden, the referee just lets us play on. 00:09:10.100 --> 00:09:12.620 And Kevin Callagher just pings this ball perfectly 00:09:12.620 --> 00:09:17.799 into the box, scales, gets the nod on, which 00:09:17.799 --> 00:09:20.019 is just as important, I think. You know, if he 00:09:20.019 --> 00:09:21.700 doesn't win that header, we don't have a chance. 00:09:21.799 --> 00:09:24.440 But he gets it on, gets it onwards towards the 00:09:24.440 --> 00:09:27.139 goal. And the man himself, the man of the moment, 00:09:27.200 --> 00:09:29.919 Troy Parrish, just touched it in ahead of the 00:09:29.919 --> 00:09:33.639 keeper. There was a lot to do for him. I saw 00:09:33.639 --> 00:09:35.820 that goal. Of course, at the clip, I think everybody 00:09:35.820 --> 00:09:39.000 has seen that. And that was just such a goal 00:09:39.000 --> 00:09:44.379 of courage and will. He really wanted to make 00:09:44.379 --> 00:09:48.100 that happen. He had to stretch his leg so, so 00:09:48.100 --> 00:09:50.659 bloody far. And I think he hit the ball with 00:09:50.659 --> 00:09:54.799 his sole of his foot. And it was just enough, 00:09:55.059 --> 00:10:00.309 like a small flick. But just to stretch, it was 00:10:00.309 --> 00:10:05.169 like yoga stretch or something. And it went in. 00:10:05.230 --> 00:10:07.669 And then the commentators, they were wondering, 00:10:07.789 --> 00:10:12.009 could that be an offside? But of course it wasn't. 00:10:12.009 --> 00:10:15.429 And I think everybody was ecstatic at that point. 00:10:15.470 --> 00:10:18.490 The Irish players, they just couldn't believe 00:10:18.490 --> 00:10:23.389 what had just happened. Troy Parrott took off 00:10:23.389 --> 00:10:27.309 his shirt, right? Started running around like 00:10:27.309 --> 00:10:32.629 a crazy person, celebrating his last clutch. 00:10:33.450 --> 00:10:37.549 This amazing goal that meant history for Ireland 00:10:37.549 --> 00:10:40.389 and all the fans, super happy. And I think you 00:10:40.389 --> 00:10:44.669 could see the desperation in Hungarian players' 00:10:44.929 --> 00:10:47.850 faces, right? Oh yeah, definitely. And especially, 00:10:48.110 --> 00:10:54.539 I think it was quite funny that... both matches 00:10:54.539 --> 00:10:57.679 the portugal match and the hungarian match both 00:10:57.679 --> 00:11:00.500 of the star players for both teams were doing 00:11:00.500 --> 00:11:04.860 the kind of cry baby uh just towards irish players 00:11:04.860 --> 00:11:08.460 irish fans and they ended up then getting the 00:11:08.460 --> 00:11:11.240 reverse treatment why would you ever do that 00:11:11.240 --> 00:11:14.179 against a team that also like believes in god 00:11:14.179 --> 00:11:16.620 so much and such a religious team it's like so 00:11:16.620 --> 00:11:20.940 much blasphemy for hungary to get involved in. 00:11:21.100 --> 00:11:23.440 And I saw Dominic Soboslai did that as well. 00:11:23.519 --> 00:11:25.879 I'm sorry. It's just karma. Like, why would you 00:11:25.879 --> 00:11:27.740 ever do anything like that? Just have respect 00:11:27.740 --> 00:11:30.980 for your opponents. Have just some sort of, at 00:11:30.980 --> 00:11:34.840 least like a minimal respect or I don't know 00:11:34.840 --> 00:11:38.460 how to put it, but like elementary respect for 00:11:38.460 --> 00:11:40.500 your opponents. You may not like them, right? 00:11:40.600 --> 00:11:43.779 You may not, you, you, you may hate your opponent, 00:11:43.820 --> 00:11:45.820 but at least like you're playing football, right? 00:11:45.919 --> 00:11:48.789 Anything can happen. don't when you score just 00:11:48.789 --> 00:11:52.210 enjoy the moment don't don't go laughing in in 00:11:52.210 --> 00:11:54.110 the face of your opponent when that happens i 00:11:54.110 --> 00:11:56.309 absolutely hate this this sort of thing because 00:11:56.309 --> 00:12:00.070 it always backfires yeah yeah absolutely no it 00:12:00.070 --> 00:12:03.230 was it was certainly kind of quite funny to see 00:12:03.230 --> 00:12:05.570 and especially when i saw shabazlai do it i said 00:12:05.570 --> 00:12:08.850 oh i remember somebody else who did that a couple 00:12:08.850 --> 00:12:11.049 of days ago and i was turning to my brother my 00:12:11.049 --> 00:12:13.309 brother was like shut up the games the game's 00:12:13.309 --> 00:12:15.470 not gonna go that way no there's no chance so 00:12:15.470 --> 00:12:22.850 now now this happened and and of course um i 00:12:22.850 --> 00:12:24.809 can tell you a little bit about about the czech 00:12:24.809 --> 00:12:27.629 national team's journey i'm afraid it's not as 00:12:27.629 --> 00:12:30.669 exciting as yours and it's not really as interesting 00:12:31.780 --> 00:12:36.519 Basically, we ended up in that larger group of 00:12:36.519 --> 00:12:39.679 five teams. I don't think there were that many 00:12:39.679 --> 00:12:42.559 of those. I think mostly the groups had just 00:12:42.559 --> 00:12:47.320 four teams, but we had five. And so we had Croatia 00:12:47.320 --> 00:12:51.620 there, who were the main favorite, and rightly 00:12:51.620 --> 00:12:56.399 so. They gave us no chance in Croatia. We lost 00:12:56.399 --> 00:13:00.379 5 -1 to them. And that set the tone for the rest 00:13:00.379 --> 00:13:02.639 of the qualification. Because even if we had... 00:13:02.639 --> 00:13:05.539 There was a moment when we were about to play 00:13:05.539 --> 00:13:10.840 them at home. And even if we had won that game, 00:13:10.980 --> 00:13:15.200 they had a better goal difference at that point. 00:13:15.299 --> 00:13:18.200 So it wouldn't have mattered much. But we drew 00:13:18.200 --> 00:13:22.659 that game 0 -0. But something even more incredible 00:13:22.659 --> 00:13:26.559 happened after that result. We lost to Faroe 00:13:26.559 --> 00:13:32.570 Islands. 2 -0 away from home. But Faroe Islands, 00:13:32.669 --> 00:13:36.350 of all teams. So the mood in the national team 00:13:36.350 --> 00:13:38.330 wasn't very good. After that, the coach was fired. 00:13:39.289 --> 00:13:42.409 Wow, okay. Yeah, the coach was fired. We still 00:13:42.409 --> 00:13:44.769 were in a comfortable position to finish second. 00:13:45.789 --> 00:13:49.950 So, because we managed to beat Montenegro twice. 00:13:50.690 --> 00:13:55.409 And then the other teams... How many did I say 00:13:55.409 --> 00:13:57.370 there were? Yeah, Faroe Islands and Gibraltar. 00:13:57.929 --> 00:14:00.330 Gibraltar was the other one. Yeah, you beat Gibraltar 00:14:00.330 --> 00:14:03.529 5 -6 -0, didn't you? That was the last. Yeah, 00:14:03.629 --> 00:14:07.889 but that was this latest qualification. It was 00:14:07.889 --> 00:14:09.669 this latest international break, right? So we 00:14:09.669 --> 00:14:13.190 had two games to play with the new interim manager 00:14:13.190 --> 00:14:17.490 or bridge manager, Jaroslav Kessel. And the first 00:14:17.490 --> 00:14:20.309 game was a friendly. Of all teams, we decided 00:14:20.309 --> 00:14:25.289 to invite San Marino. We played against San Marino 00:14:25.289 --> 00:14:27.230 at home. So I don't know, first of all, whose 00:14:27.230 --> 00:14:29.990 idea it was to play against a team like that. 00:14:30.110 --> 00:14:31.990 This is one of the, obviously, the strongest 00:14:31.990 --> 00:14:37.230 teams you can face in Europe. And we somehow 00:14:37.230 --> 00:14:42.129 scraped a 1 -0 victory over them. Wow. And we 00:14:42.129 --> 00:14:46.769 only had one shot on goal. And that's despite 00:14:46.769 --> 00:14:49.629 having a penalty because Socek blasted it wide. 00:14:50.370 --> 00:14:53.139 Oh my gosh. We had a penalty, which wasn't really 00:14:53.139 --> 00:14:55.759 a penalty. And then Socek scored the only goal. 00:14:55.980 --> 00:14:58.299 And then we had a lot of chances, but AO went. 00:14:59.379 --> 00:15:01.580 Nobody was hitting the target. So, like, we were 00:15:01.580 --> 00:15:03.220 the better team, you could say. But, like, 1 00:15:03.220 --> 00:15:06.419 -0 against San Marino, oh, my God. Such, we were 00:15:06.419 --> 00:15:08.879 in such terrible mood. Like, the whole nation, 00:15:09.019 --> 00:15:12.580 like, very skeptical. We can be a little bit 00:15:12.580 --> 00:15:14.919 like that, the Czechs. Like, we are not really 00:15:14.919 --> 00:15:18.080 super patriotic. We are only patriotic when the 00:15:18.080 --> 00:15:21.620 team is doing okay. But when... When we are in 00:15:21.620 --> 00:15:24.299 trouble, everybody starts blaming everyone and 00:15:24.299 --> 00:15:27.100 a little bit like that. So the mood in the team 00:15:27.100 --> 00:15:30.159 was very bad. And we have like this, we don't 00:15:30.159 --> 00:15:32.220 have that many fans, to be honest. We are a small 00:15:32.220 --> 00:15:35.059 country and also people like the club football 00:15:35.059 --> 00:15:38.240 at the moment more than the national team. But 00:15:38.240 --> 00:15:42.100 there is a group of fans, they call themselves 00:15:42.100 --> 00:15:44.679 the fanaticos or something like that. It's like 00:15:44.679 --> 00:15:48.519 the ultras. Ultras, yeah, yeah. And they were 00:15:48.519 --> 00:15:50.840 not really happy about this because we also, 00:15:50.980 --> 00:15:54.419 a few months before that, we also drew against 00:15:54.419 --> 00:15:58.340 Saudi Arabia at home. Then we lost to Faroe Islands 00:15:58.340 --> 00:16:01.779 and we only beat San Marino 1 -0. So I think 00:16:01.779 --> 00:16:03.600 the fans are starting to get a bit pissed off. 00:16:03.799 --> 00:16:07.679 And on social media, they organized some sort 00:16:07.679 --> 00:16:10.080 of, they prepared some sort of mini protest that 00:16:10.080 --> 00:16:13.159 they would shout in the following game, which 00:16:13.159 --> 00:16:15.519 was against Gibraltar. They would shout a chant. 00:16:17.319 --> 00:16:20.580 seeing something like fight for fight for Czechia 00:16:20.580 --> 00:16:22.879 fight for Czechia which sounds like nothing too 00:16:22.879 --> 00:16:25.860 bad right but it's just like it implies like 00:16:25.860 --> 00:16:28.799 you should try harder try harder but it's maybe 00:16:28.799 --> 00:16:30.799 a little bit provocative but not that much in 00:16:30.799 --> 00:16:37.419 my opinion it's not it's not like I I don't know 00:16:37.419 --> 00:16:40.879 it's They did that in that game against Gibraltar, 00:16:40.919 --> 00:16:42.679 which we started... It seemed to work anyway. 00:16:42.759 --> 00:16:47.080 They won 6 -0. Yeah, we scored in the second 00:16:47.080 --> 00:16:49.799 minute, the first goal. So we started off really 00:16:49.799 --> 00:16:52.820 well and kept scoring goals. Even Sofal scored 00:16:52.820 --> 00:16:58.580 a goal. And a few times they chanted that. Fight 00:16:58.580 --> 00:17:03.679 for Czechia. And then after the game, the players 00:17:03.679 --> 00:17:08.369 decided not to go. They thanked the stands like 00:17:08.369 --> 00:17:10.369 everywhere else, but they didn't go to the ultras. 00:17:11.210 --> 00:17:13.829 And the reason for that was that they got offended 00:17:13.829 --> 00:17:19.490 by the chant fight for Czechia, apparently. And 00:17:19.490 --> 00:17:23.650 then they were like not happy at all. It was 00:17:23.650 --> 00:17:26.650 like confusion. The commentators didn't know 00:17:26.650 --> 00:17:29.869 what was going on. And then after a few minutes, 00:17:29.990 --> 00:17:33.819 so Czech and so FAL. went to the stand to explain 00:17:33.819 --> 00:17:35.720 why they didn't go, because the fans were really 00:17:35.720 --> 00:17:38.400 pissed off, those ones, the Ultras. If we say 00:17:38.400 --> 00:17:40.140 Ultras, this was just a group of, I don't know, 00:17:40.160 --> 00:17:43.200 100 fans or 200 fans, but it's still, still, 00:17:43.319 --> 00:17:49.019 right? And they said something along the lines, 00:17:49.059 --> 00:17:51.220 like they had a microphone, they were shouting 00:17:51.220 --> 00:17:55.619 at each other, the players and the fans. And 00:17:55.619 --> 00:17:58.910 Socek got the microphone and he said, We just 00:17:58.910 --> 00:18:01.829 want more unity. We want to be together. We need 00:18:01.829 --> 00:18:06.109 you. But we also didn't come to thank you today. 00:18:06.289 --> 00:18:09.529 It was just such a... And the players, they got 00:18:09.529 --> 00:18:13.289 so much stick for that from the media, from everyone, 00:18:13.410 --> 00:18:18.210 from the fans. Wow. So much heavy criticism was 00:18:18.210 --> 00:18:21.990 levied on them. And Socek, as a result of this, 00:18:22.089 --> 00:18:24.529 was also stripped of captaincy. I don't know 00:18:24.529 --> 00:18:28.309 if it's for one game only. I'm not sure. Forever, 00:18:28.430 --> 00:18:31.130 I don't know, but it was just such, it had a 00:18:31.130 --> 00:18:33.970 real impact. Can you imagine, right? So instead 00:18:33.970 --> 00:18:37.809 of celebrating a decent win, 6 -0 win, and securing 00:18:37.809 --> 00:18:41.990 the second spot in the group, there's so much 00:18:41.990 --> 00:18:44.690 negativity. The journalists were talking about 00:18:44.690 --> 00:18:47.329 that incident more than the game, obviously. 00:18:48.309 --> 00:18:51.490 And Socek is also such a nice guy, right? So 00:18:51.490 --> 00:18:53.769 there's a lot of speculation. Was this even his 00:18:53.769 --> 00:18:57.559 idea? Okay. Did they just plant him there? Did 00:18:57.559 --> 00:19:00.380 they say, hey, somebody needs to say something? 00:19:00.779 --> 00:19:04.940 Was he speaking for the players? What about Sofal? 00:19:05.440 --> 00:19:07.859 Sofal, he was crazy there. He was like, somebody 00:19:07.859 --> 00:19:11.319 was shouting things like, you dig head and things 00:19:11.319 --> 00:19:13.299 like that. Fans would do that, but he shouted 00:19:13.299 --> 00:19:15.480 back at them as well, like something similar. 00:19:15.559 --> 00:19:17.980 And it was all caught on camera as well, right? 00:19:18.200 --> 00:19:27.819 Okay. So, absolute mad scenes. Yeah? Yeah. The 00:19:27.819 --> 00:19:31.099 players didn't get the bonus as well. So there 00:19:31.099 --> 00:19:34.880 was a decision. Because Pavel Nedved is now the... 00:19:34.880 --> 00:19:38.359 Director of the national team, isn't he? Or is 00:19:38.359 --> 00:19:41.619 he the... Spokesperson? I don't know exactly 00:19:41.619 --> 00:19:43.720 the role. I can't remember the role. But he's 00:19:43.720 --> 00:19:47.160 got some sort of a role like that. Sports director, 00:19:47.440 --> 00:19:50.940 maybe? He's not the chairman, obviously. A general 00:19:50.940 --> 00:19:55.759 manager. General manager, right? So he sort of 00:19:55.759 --> 00:19:59.019 speaks for the team like that in the press conference. 00:19:59.220 --> 00:20:00.779 And they're all saying, we didn't know about 00:20:00.779 --> 00:20:02.579 this. Nobody knew about this. It was the player's 00:20:02.579 --> 00:20:04.740 decision, right? Even the coach didn't know about 00:20:04.740 --> 00:20:07.059 it. I don't understand how coach couldn't know 00:20:07.059 --> 00:20:09.779 about it. Shouldn't coach go with the team to 00:20:09.779 --> 00:20:14.240 thank the fans? I always thought that after the 00:20:14.240 --> 00:20:16.079 game, it's not just the players, it's the coach 00:20:16.079 --> 00:20:19.339 too. So how can coach not know about it? I don't 00:20:19.339 --> 00:20:24.250 get it. Basically, it was Socek's responsibility. 00:20:24.569 --> 00:20:27.029 He went there. Even if it wasn't his idea, he 00:20:27.029 --> 00:20:30.210 went there. And so I think it's the right decision 00:20:30.210 --> 00:20:35.190 to do that to him. You think it's the right decision 00:20:35.190 --> 00:20:37.130 to take the captaincy away from him? Yeah, because 00:20:37.130 --> 00:20:40.450 it was such a disaster, such a sort of PR disaster. 00:20:41.190 --> 00:20:44.589 Right before a playoff. It wasn't the first one 00:20:44.589 --> 00:20:46.710 as well. We have had so many strange moments 00:20:46.710 --> 00:20:50.299 in the game. against Faroe Islands. There was 00:20:50.299 --> 00:20:53.359 another player, Václav Černý, in an interview. 00:20:53.480 --> 00:20:55.740 He walked away from the interview because they 00:20:55.740 --> 00:20:57.279 asked him a question he didn't want to hear. 00:20:57.339 --> 00:21:00.019 Too much arrogance, basically, from players who 00:21:00.019 --> 00:21:07.380 have been playing shit. Yeah? So... It's a real 00:21:07.380 --> 00:21:11.359 mess. And now there was this draw. So at least 00:21:11.359 --> 00:21:15.059 we secured... We had to beat San Marino and Gibraltar. 00:21:15.099 --> 00:21:18.660 By the way, we had to beat even San Marino. to 00:21:18.660 --> 00:21:23.000 make this happen, to keep that pot two. Pot two 00:21:23.000 --> 00:21:25.640 was important for us because pot two meant we 00:21:25.640 --> 00:21:28.279 would play the first game at home. But we had 00:21:28.279 --> 00:21:31.559 to beat San Marino. We beat them 1 -0. And then 00:21:31.559 --> 00:21:34.599 Gibraltar. We had to beat Gibraltar. So we did 00:21:34.599 --> 00:21:37.700 it. And those are like two worst teams in Europe. 00:21:37.900 --> 00:21:40.559 Like if you look at the ranking, there are no 00:21:40.559 --> 00:21:44.019 worse teams than those two, basically. They're 00:21:44.019 --> 00:21:48.789 pretty low. And to be honest, Actually, Gibraltar 00:21:48.789 --> 00:21:51.029 were way worse than San Marino. San Marino were 00:21:51.029 --> 00:21:53.410 very, very... They kept running the whole game. 00:21:53.569 --> 00:21:55.750 They didn't give up. They just defended really 00:21:55.750 --> 00:21:59.750 well. Gibraltar was an easier opponent. Okay, 00:21:59.869 --> 00:22:03.210 okay. So how do you feel going then into the 00:22:03.210 --> 00:22:05.069 playoffs then from your perspective? Because 00:22:05.069 --> 00:22:09.109 to me anyway, obviously being able to play at 00:22:09.109 --> 00:22:11.630 home is a massive advantage. But with all the 00:22:11.630 --> 00:22:14.470 stuff that you've just explained there... Will 00:22:14.470 --> 00:22:16.710 it actually be an advantage for you guys to be 00:22:16.710 --> 00:22:18.769 at home and playing in front of those fans again? 00:22:18.789 --> 00:22:21.970 I think it has to be. It has to be because there 00:22:21.970 --> 00:22:25.430 is a massive difference if we had to play in 00:22:25.430 --> 00:22:29.990 Ireland with your crowd going crazy. It would 00:22:29.990 --> 00:22:33.509 be the same like playing in Scotland or any other 00:22:33.509 --> 00:22:35.710 team. To be honest, there was a good chance we 00:22:35.710 --> 00:22:39.309 could go to the Balkans. So we could either get 00:22:39.309 --> 00:22:47.589 you, Albania, Kosovo. Yeah, there was a couple 00:22:47.589 --> 00:22:49.430 of them that were in the kind of scene. And one 00:22:49.430 --> 00:22:53.250 more. Bosnia. Bosnia, yeah. So we were happy. 00:22:53.529 --> 00:22:56.789 It's better. Okay, 20 ,000 stadium is not much. 00:22:57.410 --> 00:23:00.970 The biggest stadiums are the Sparta or Slavia 00:23:00.970 --> 00:23:03.410 stadium. I think it will be one of those. But 00:23:03.410 --> 00:23:06.609 it will be mostly Czech fans there, right? Supporting 00:23:06.609 --> 00:23:09.250 the Czech team. So it's a huge advantage. And 00:23:09.250 --> 00:23:14.109 if that wasn't enough, we also drew... The second 00:23:14.109 --> 00:23:18.049 game would be a home game for us too. That was 00:23:18.049 --> 00:23:24.509 50 -50. So if we beat you somehow, then the next 00:23:24.509 --> 00:23:27.210 game would be against either Macedonia or Denmark 00:23:27.210 --> 00:23:31.829 at home. And yes, I know Denmark is a good team, 00:23:31.890 --> 00:23:37.130 not to underestimate Macedonia, but I think the 00:23:37.130 --> 00:23:39.210 draw is actually favorable for the Czech team 00:23:39.210 --> 00:23:42.309 because there was a chance to get Italy or Turkey. 00:23:42.920 --> 00:23:47.859 or ukraine or poland i think so this is actually 00:23:47.859 --> 00:23:51.460 not too bad now i want to ask you how you feel 00:23:51.460 --> 00:23:54.539 about this then because i don't know if you wanted 00:23:54.539 --> 00:23:57.740 czech republic or would you have taken someone 00:23:57.740 --> 00:24:01.299 else instead or oh look i think that you know 00:24:01.299 --> 00:24:05.720 as soon as the result and the kind of dust settled 00:24:05.720 --> 00:24:08.730 from the from the Hungarian game, a lot of people 00:24:08.730 --> 00:24:11.390 started looking at all the different permutations 00:24:11.390 --> 00:24:15.369 and results that needed to go our way if we wanted 00:24:15.369 --> 00:24:19.450 to have a home draw for the semi -final of the 00:24:19.450 --> 00:24:23.309 playoffs. And that was just kind of like, I think, 00:24:23.309 --> 00:24:26.529 more hope than anything else. I don't think we 00:24:26.529 --> 00:24:28.710 were really rooting or expecting to be at home 00:24:28.710 --> 00:24:32.309 for the semi -final. So I think the players would 00:24:32.309 --> 00:24:37.480 be fairly prepared for that going in there. In 00:24:37.480 --> 00:24:40.759 terms of our chances, look, at this stage with 00:24:40.759 --> 00:24:42.819 this team, I don't really know what to expect. 00:24:43.019 --> 00:24:45.259 They could come out and they could put on another 00:24:45.259 --> 00:24:47.240 fantastic display. They could come out and they 00:24:47.240 --> 00:24:50.859 can get absolutely annihilated. It's in March 00:24:50.859 --> 00:24:53.420 as well, so it's so far away. Yeah, it's far 00:24:53.420 --> 00:24:56.619 away, right? A lot can happen. Injuries, four 00:24:56.619 --> 00:25:00.140 players formed. But you have that momentum, and 00:25:00.140 --> 00:25:03.420 now this is like a historic moment, right? Everybody 00:25:03.420 --> 00:25:06.019 was talking about it. The whole world knew what 00:25:06.019 --> 00:25:08.019 happened there. It's such a great story for you. 00:25:08.099 --> 00:25:11.240 And Paris scoring five goals, like the most famous 00:25:11.240 --> 00:25:17.259 bird in years. Yeah, well, that's the thing that's 00:25:17.259 --> 00:25:20.140 going around. The slogan, I guess, that's going 00:25:20.140 --> 00:25:23.420 around is that we sent a turkey to the Eurovision. 00:25:23.420 --> 00:25:26.960 Now we're sending a Paris to the World Cup. back 00:25:26.960 --> 00:25:29.160 in the days when we sent oh my god Ireland sent 00:25:29.160 --> 00:25:33.180 like a a puppet turkey character to the Eurovision 00:25:33.180 --> 00:25:37.059 one year for whatever reason but no I think that 00:25:37.059 --> 00:25:40.900 you know the big thing for me is obviously as 00:25:40.900 --> 00:25:43.740 you say form and injuries the big question would 00:25:43.740 --> 00:25:48.660 be what happens when if Evan Ferguson is fit 00:25:48.660 --> 00:25:53.359 by the time March rolls around Does the manager 00:25:53.359 --> 00:25:56.819 stick with Parrott up top? Does he try and change 00:25:56.819 --> 00:25:59.059 things and put Ferguson and Parrott up there? 00:26:00.859 --> 00:26:04.819 Parrott has to play. Literally, he single -handedly 00:26:04.819 --> 00:26:10.859 made this happen for you. All five goals. He 00:26:10.859 --> 00:26:14.500 was second fiddle to Ferguson the last while 00:26:14.500 --> 00:26:17.019 anyway, but now that you've seen he's gotten 00:26:17.019 --> 00:26:19.420 his chance, he's really taking it with both hands. 00:26:20.839 --> 00:26:28.200 Which is great to see from an Irish fan's perspective, 00:26:28.440 --> 00:26:31.980 you know, a young guy, 23 years old. There's 00:26:31.980 --> 00:26:33.940 the possibility for, you know, building a team 00:26:33.940 --> 00:26:36.140 around him because, you know, for the longest 00:26:36.140 --> 00:26:40.079 time, the last couple of years, everybody kind 00:26:40.079 --> 00:26:42.940 of was down to the dumps about this team. And, 00:26:42.940 --> 00:26:45.200 you know, our best player we always thought was 00:26:45.200 --> 00:26:48.390 Queevin Keller, our goalkeeper. He still might 00:26:48.390 --> 00:26:50.430 be. I mean, he's a fantastic goalkeeper. But 00:26:50.430 --> 00:26:53.970 yeah, it's good to have an outfield player now, 00:26:54.009 --> 00:26:56.930 at least, that we can kind of build around to 00:26:56.930 --> 00:27:00.569 be the centerpiece of the team. Well, Arti, we 00:27:00.569 --> 00:27:03.150 don't even have a coach now. So we have an interim 00:27:03.150 --> 00:27:07.450 coach. And it's someone. He's like an up -and 00:27:07.450 --> 00:27:09.470 -coming young manager. He's younger than me. 00:27:10.190 --> 00:27:13.589 He's like 37 or 80 years old, maybe older than 00:27:13.589 --> 00:27:16.450 you, probably, right? But you're like... In your 00:27:16.450 --> 00:27:19.910 30s, right, as well? Just 30 now, yeah. Yeah, 00:27:19.910 --> 00:27:26.390 nice. Welcome, welcome. So what's interesting 00:27:26.390 --> 00:27:28.930 about this guy is that he had never been the 00:27:28.930 --> 00:27:33.069 main coach before. So it's a real question whether 00:27:33.069 --> 00:27:38.009 we should take such a huge risk. Yes, he's got 00:27:38.009 --> 00:27:42.289 credit in the bank beating San Marino and... 00:27:43.000 --> 00:27:46.599 Gibraltar. What fantastic credit to have. Is 00:27:46.599 --> 00:27:50.079 that enough? He's got 100 % record after those 00:27:50.079 --> 00:27:53.380 two games. You could say that. But we haven't 00:27:53.380 --> 00:27:57.420 played a better team yet. He hasn't coached his 00:27:57.420 --> 00:28:00.839 team against a better team. So that's the question. 00:28:02.160 --> 00:28:05.839 There are suggestions of hiring Fatih Terim, 00:28:05.940 --> 00:28:10.809 the Turkish manager who is now like... I don't 00:28:10.809 --> 00:28:15.509 know, in his 70s or 80s. Very, very old. Super 00:28:15.509 --> 00:28:23.970 old. Or Jürgen Klinsmann. A lot of experience, 00:28:24.069 --> 00:28:28.650 I suppose. Yeah, well, he coached the American 00:28:28.650 --> 00:28:30.930 national team before. But apparently, we don't 00:28:30.930 --> 00:28:33.650 have money for those. They're too expensive for 00:28:33.650 --> 00:28:37.960 us. These were Pavel Nedved's ideas. But now 00:28:37.960 --> 00:28:40.880 we found out that they are asking for too much 00:28:40.880 --> 00:28:43.240 money. So we're looking for a cheaper solution. 00:28:43.700 --> 00:28:49.240 But cheaper isn't always better, right? I'll 00:28:49.240 --> 00:28:51.339 do it. I'll do it. I'll do a temporary thing. 00:28:51.460 --> 00:28:53.980 I'll do it until March, and there'll be absolutely 00:28:53.980 --> 00:28:57.339 no ulterior motive whatsoever. Yeah, you're Irish. 00:28:57.539 --> 00:29:00.880 I don't think that's a good idea. You go against 00:29:00.880 --> 00:29:03.519 your own team. I think you would be like an agent, 00:29:03.599 --> 00:29:07.619 secret agent there. Just not going to play. Not 00:29:07.619 --> 00:29:09.380 going to play Suchek, not going to play Suphal, 00:29:09.440 --> 00:29:10.960 Patrick Schick. We'll leave Patrick Schick at 00:29:10.960 --> 00:29:13.500 home. Just leave them all, all the best players. 00:29:13.960 --> 00:29:15.880 Might be a good idea because he was the worst 00:29:15.880 --> 00:29:20.839 player against Gibraltar. He hit the post once 00:29:20.839 --> 00:29:23.839 and missed all his chances and it was other players 00:29:23.839 --> 00:29:28.200 scoring, not him. Yeah, so we are both looking 00:29:28.200 --> 00:29:31.039 forward to this game, I suppose. We're still 00:29:31.039 --> 00:29:34.029 friends. Until this game happens, I think, yeah. 00:29:34.930 --> 00:29:37.210 We'll have the common, you know, the Arsenal 00:29:37.210 --> 00:29:40.089 thing to bond over and keep close over, you know, 00:29:40.109 --> 00:29:42.930 in the meantime. But then as soon as March rolls 00:29:42.930 --> 00:29:44.569 around Zdeněk, I don't want to see your face 00:29:44.569 --> 00:29:48.849 for like a month. I think, well, whoever loses 00:29:48.849 --> 00:29:52.109 their game, I think one of us, that person wouldn't 00:29:52.109 --> 00:29:54.910 want to see the other. I think the winner of 00:29:54.910 --> 00:29:58.119 that game wouldn't mind. whoever loses that. 00:29:58.220 --> 00:30:01.059 So that's why I think we can agree not to see 00:30:01.059 --> 00:30:04.380 each other until maybe Arsenal wins the title. 00:30:04.460 --> 00:30:06.759 Then we can have another podcast to celebrate 00:30:06.759 --> 00:30:11.119 Arsenal's title victory. That would be okay, 00:30:11.140 --> 00:30:16.279 I guess. Touch wood. Nice one, Kyle. Thanks very 00:30:16.279 --> 00:30:19.579 much for featuring on the FootGlish podcast and 00:30:19.579 --> 00:30:22.180 have a good one, man. Always a pleasure. Thanks 00:30:22.180 --> 00:30:30.299 a million, Zdenek. Take care. Welcome back to 00:30:30.299 --> 00:30:32.940 the Language Corner. As always, in this part 00:30:32.940 --> 00:30:35.440 of the show, I'm going to take a look at the 00:30:35.440 --> 00:30:38.900 English language because I assume you guys know 00:30:38.900 --> 00:30:42.180 that this is an English learning podcast. So 00:30:42.180 --> 00:30:45.799 not only do we talk about football here and you 00:30:45.799 --> 00:30:48.099 have the opportunity to listen to the interview 00:30:48.099 --> 00:30:52.160 with my guest, but... Importantly, we also explain 00:30:52.160 --> 00:30:55.460 here some vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation. 00:30:55.859 --> 00:30:59.000 Usually it's vocabulary. And today I would like 00:30:59.000 --> 00:31:02.619 to take a look at some phrasal verbs that were 00:31:02.619 --> 00:31:06.599 said by us in the interview. Mostly it was Carl. 00:31:06.839 --> 00:31:10.200 That's because he is from Ireland. He's a native 00:31:10.200 --> 00:31:13.220 speaker. And native speakers notoriously use 00:31:13.220 --> 00:31:16.579 a lot of phrasal verbs. And that's why we are 00:31:16.579 --> 00:31:20.740 often puzzled and confused. And also, I have 00:31:20.740 --> 00:31:24.819 to say, it is a challenge to learn phrasal verbs 00:31:24.819 --> 00:31:27.819 because there are so many of them. They all look 00:31:27.819 --> 00:31:31.079 very similar. They have multiple meanings. And 00:31:31.079 --> 00:31:34.960 so they can be a bit of a nightmare. However, 00:31:35.279 --> 00:31:38.660 I'm here to make everything easier for you because, 00:31:38.779 --> 00:31:41.740 guys, I'm an English teacher in case you didn't 00:31:41.740 --> 00:31:45.559 know it. I think you knew that. But let's get 00:31:45.559 --> 00:31:52.039 started, shall we? I asked Carl, how on earth 00:31:52.039 --> 00:31:55.420 did you pull that off? How did you manage to 00:31:55.420 --> 00:31:58.279 finish second? So basically, I was referring 00:31:58.279 --> 00:32:01.480 to Ireland's fantastic finish in their qualification 00:32:01.480 --> 00:32:07.200 group. And to pull something off is a very nice 00:32:07.200 --> 00:32:10.460 phrasal verb, which means to manage something, 00:32:10.740 --> 00:32:13.880 to manage to do something, to achieve something, 00:32:14.039 --> 00:32:17.220 right? So how did you... Managed to achieve that. 00:32:17.339 --> 00:32:21.140 How on earth did you pull that off? P -U -L -L 00:32:21.140 --> 00:32:24.940 and the particle is off. To pull something off. 00:32:25.559 --> 00:32:29.640 Then Carl said, we didn't start well. We ended 00:32:29.640 --> 00:32:33.880 up losing to Armenia. So if you end up doing 00:32:33.880 --> 00:32:37.480 something, it is followed by another verb in 00:32:37.480 --> 00:32:41.180 an I -N -G form. So we ended up losing to Armenia. 00:32:41.400 --> 00:32:44.799 That's what happened to Ireland. And if you end 00:32:44.799 --> 00:32:48.400 up doing something, it means you finally do something 00:32:48.400 --> 00:32:53.099 or something finally happens, often unintentionally 00:32:53.099 --> 00:32:57.539 or unexpectedly. So there is an element of a 00:32:57.539 --> 00:33:01.279 surprise or there is a twist to the story, basically. 00:33:01.420 --> 00:33:05.579 And it's a result of a series of actions or events. 00:33:06.819 --> 00:33:10.619 In this case, it... The actions were like several 00:33:10.619 --> 00:33:15.619 games, I guess, or the match itself, right? And 00:33:15.619 --> 00:33:17.579 maybe they played all right in that game, but 00:33:17.579 --> 00:33:19.980 then they ended up losing. So there's like a 00:33:19.980 --> 00:33:26.240 contrast twist to the story. Right. A lot of 00:33:26.240 --> 00:33:29.640 people thought Portugal team must have played 00:33:29.640 --> 00:33:33.200 their B team or put out a lot of youngsters. 00:33:34.400 --> 00:33:39.759 So basically... That was how everyone was surprised 00:33:39.759 --> 00:33:43.380 about Ireland's win over Portugal. But actually, 00:33:43.460 --> 00:33:47.500 they played their best team with Ronaldo up front. 00:33:47.880 --> 00:33:51.519 And so Carl said a lot of people thought that 00:33:51.519 --> 00:33:54.339 Portugal must have played their B team or put 00:33:54.339 --> 00:33:57.900 out a lot of youngsters. So if you put out a 00:33:57.900 --> 00:34:01.519 lot of players who are young, youngsters, the 00:34:01.519 --> 00:34:03.720 verb to put out can have a lot of different meanings. 00:34:03.740 --> 00:34:08.710 But here it means... to sort of deploy, to like 00:34:08.710 --> 00:34:13.429 distribute, like how to explain it. Basically, 00:34:13.449 --> 00:34:17.969 this is the lineup you put out, right? If you 00:34:17.969 --> 00:34:22.690 are the manager of the Irish team, the Ireland 00:34:22.690 --> 00:34:26.409 national team, the Irish team, then you basically 00:34:26.409 --> 00:34:29.889 put out these players. You deploy these players, 00:34:30.170 --> 00:34:35.300 right? Does it make sense? I hope so. we set 00:34:35.300 --> 00:34:39.000 up a lot more for counterattacks against Portugal. 00:34:39.099 --> 00:34:42.960 That's another sort of phrase or verb that Carl 00:34:42.960 --> 00:34:46.960 used. If you set up in a certain way, it means 00:34:46.960 --> 00:34:51.059 that you establish some sort of system that you... 00:34:51.309 --> 00:34:53.769 come up with some kind of strategy. That's what 00:34:53.769 --> 00:34:56.110 it means here. You can set up a company as well, 00:34:56.110 --> 00:34:58.750 organization. You can set up a system, set up 00:34:58.750 --> 00:35:01.690 a way of working, way of thinking, right? So 00:35:01.690 --> 00:35:04.269 it's something formal usually that has some kind 00:35:04.269 --> 00:35:07.630 of structure. Right. I don't really know what 00:35:07.630 --> 00:35:11.309 to expect. They could come out and put on another 00:35:11.309 --> 00:35:13.849 great performance. They could come out and get 00:35:13.849 --> 00:35:19.610 annihilated. So I think this was when I asked 00:35:19.610 --> 00:35:23.710 Carl what he thinks about the game against Czechia, 00:35:23.809 --> 00:35:27.289 which will happen in March next year, and what 00:35:27.289 --> 00:35:30.230 he expects to happen in that game. And he said 00:35:30.230 --> 00:35:32.449 they could come out and put on another great 00:35:32.449 --> 00:35:35.610 performance. So if you come out, you sort of 00:35:35.610 --> 00:35:39.550 appear, right? You begin performing, you come 00:35:39.550 --> 00:35:42.989 out, you begin performing, you begin... playing, 00:35:43.250 --> 00:35:47.230 you appear, right? You come out and put on another 00:35:47.230 --> 00:35:49.150 great performance. This is used together, put 00:35:49.150 --> 00:35:51.610 on a performance. If you put on a performance, 00:35:51.670 --> 00:35:54.670 you present or produce a performance, right? 00:35:54.809 --> 00:35:57.789 That's clear. I think these phrasal verbs are 00:35:57.789 --> 00:36:01.769 self -explanatory, some of them anyway. Then 00:36:01.769 --> 00:36:05.489 Carl said, that's the slogan. There's a slogan 00:36:05.489 --> 00:36:09.210 that's going around. We send a turkey to Eurovision, 00:36:09.289 --> 00:36:13.860 which is some kind of puppet. of a turkey, the 00:36:13.860 --> 00:36:19.760 bird, right? Which is like a joke, I guess. And 00:36:19.760 --> 00:36:21.679 now we are sending a parrot to the World Cup, 00:36:21.840 --> 00:36:24.360 right? So basically the Irish have a good sense 00:36:24.360 --> 00:36:27.119 of humor. But when there is a slogan going around, 00:36:27.519 --> 00:36:31.820 right? That means it's circulating. It's doing 00:36:31.820 --> 00:36:36.920 the rounds. It's sort of widespread. It's popular. 00:36:37.019 --> 00:36:40.340 People are talking about it. In this case, maybe 00:36:40.340 --> 00:36:42.719 it was in the media. People were spreading this 00:36:42.719 --> 00:36:48.380 sort of joke or whatever. Right. Next. The big 00:36:48.380 --> 00:36:51.639 question is what happens if Ferguson, the Irish 00:36:51.639 --> 00:36:54.380 striker Ferguson, is fit by the time March rolls 00:36:54.380 --> 00:36:57.219 around? I noticed Carl used this phrasal verb 00:36:57.219 --> 00:37:00.940 to roll around twice in this interview. And it 00:37:00.940 --> 00:37:04.300 basically means... comes when march comes as 00:37:04.300 --> 00:37:08.179 you can see it's often used with certain time 00:37:08.179 --> 00:37:10.780 expressions like in this case the month month 00:37:10.780 --> 00:37:15.400 march when the mars comes around or rolls around 00:37:15.400 --> 00:37:19.389 or comes in this case Okay, guys, I think that's 00:37:19.389 --> 00:37:21.510 it for today. I know it was a bit longer. I hope 00:37:21.510 --> 00:37:24.190 you enjoyed it. Please let me know what you thought, 00:37:24.349 --> 00:37:28.789 how you enjoyed it or not. You know, we are ready 00:37:28.789 --> 00:37:32.369 to accept critical comments as well because it's 00:37:32.369 --> 00:37:35.590 part of this business. It's not really a business 00:37:35.590 --> 00:37:39.110 for me. I do this just for fun. But you never 00:37:39.110 --> 00:37:41.630 know. 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