The Bugle - Bugle 272 – WORLD CUP!

Episode Date: June 12, 2014

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Dancelaguard fans, you will be thrilled to know a book is coming out if you fund it via Unbound. We are publishing the Dancelaguard Reader by Alice Fraser and Dancelaguard, a glorious insight into the world of Dancelaguard, self-published romance maven, and online bestseller. If you would like to find out how to support it, go to thebugelpodcast.com. If we get enough support, we will publish the book. That's a real thing that's going to happen. Thebugelpodcast.com to a real thing that's going to happen. TheBuglePodcast.com to support the Danciler Guard Reader. This is a podcast from TheBuglePodcast.com. Hello, buglers and welcome to issue 272 of the bugle audio newspaper for an unapologetically
Starting point is 00:00:55 visual world with me and his ultimate live in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I am heading back home in an hour, I just had to come out here to pick my kids up and as the last time. I tell them not to come home until they found one of the two largest Jesus statues in the world Particularly the one in Rio isn't even top two anymore equal third after the polls Wacked up a 34 meter messara a couple years ago pair of losers My kids that is not the Jesus is two of them though. I wondered the tricks one told the stories anyway and joining me from Rio de Janeiro from New York same ocean basically continent, different hemisphere, it's John Oliver. Hello Andy, hello, Bueglers, quick story. No, there are no stories. There can be no opening stories
Starting point is 00:01:35 this week, Andy, nothing else is relevant. Top story this week, well cup, well cup, it's the f***ing World Cup! Oh, World Cup, Andy. World Cup, John. Yeah. World Cup, World Cup, World Cup is here. Hamlet's last words, Andy, were the rest is silence, and I presume that what Shakespeare meant was that everything other than the World Cup is silence, in other words, everything other than the World Cup is pointless. Hamlet was so excited, Andy, he just died of joy thinking about future World Cups.
Starting point is 00:02:07 That's what I took from the end of that play. The World Cup is nature's anesthetic Andy. Nothing's gonna hurt for the next few weeks until England get knocked out and it's over and then everything is going to be pain, everything, pain everywhere. There are so many benefits to the World Cup, not to the host nation financially, but that's not the point. There are a much bigger considerations than that. I was thinking this morning and I realised that for me, so much of what I know about the human body Andy is learned in the run up to the World Cup from medical reports on players. The only reason that I and most people in England know what a metatarsal is, is that David Beckham broke one in his foot in 2002 and the whole nation decided to learn more about the human foot. And what I learned then has actually stayed with me.
Starting point is 00:02:53 I learned that the human foot has five metatarsals and the worst one to break is the fifth one. And if you break the second one, like David did, you'll be out for four to six weeks. That's what I know. And this happened again as I've indirectly received secondhand knowledge this week about malaria pills, because the England team are going to be playing in the Amazon, middle of the Amazon rainforest for no clear practical reason whatsoever. And there've been in depth reports all week in the English papers pointing out that the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine have prescribed malarone for the 23-man planes of 49 additional traveling back room with administrative staff.
Starting point is 00:03:33 And the England team apparently were given their first pill at breakfast on Tuesday, Andy. That is just good coaching. Before a meal, you take it, don't take it on an empty stomach. Could you, great start to the World Cup, Andy. They took those malaria pills very effectively as a unit. Yeah, well, I can testify to how difficult malaria pills can be. From when I went to India and could not for the life of me get the mosquitoes to eat them. A lot of those pills are actually considerably bigger than an actual mosquito, what you're suppose to do? Chop it up.
Starting point is 00:04:06 It led to a spectacular statement from the England manager Roy Hodgson, who said to reassure people, that bottom line is, it's better to have stomach cramps than have someone contract malaria. True, Roy. True. That's good coaching Andy, because that is true. Stomachrams is better than malaria. He's got that written's again, that's good coaching Andy, because that is true. Summercramps is better than malaria. He's got that written up on a whiteboard with little magnets and arrows everywhere. He's the full philosopher king of English football.
Starting point is 00:04:34 So well, everybody, it's a World Cup special, as always, some sections of the bugle going straight in the bin this week. In the World Cup special, a number of sections in the bin including a commemorative supplement, detailing the World Cup's greatest mill-nil draws. Chosen and explained by the legendarily defensive Italian tactical genius, Jan Luigi Plotty-Grotzi, who evolved the Italian Catanatio defensive tactic into the even more defensive doganatio and led small town ASC Blagromio to the 1974 Skudato title without conceding or scoring a single goal, still viewed as the high point
Starting point is 00:05:12 in the history of Italian football. Also in the bin, a where were you when section? So let me just tell us where they were when great World Cup moments happened, including Marlon Brando. Where was he when Brazil scored their legendary fourth goal in the 4-1 final win against Italy in 1970? Marlon says, I was on the Italian bench getting into character for the godfather movies, Don Cullionri started off as a left-sided midfielder in the Italian leagues. We talked to Red Rum, where was he when Croyf pulled off the Croyf turn in 1974? Turns out he was standing in a field eating
Starting point is 00:05:45 some grass. And we speak to David Seaman, England's goalkeeper and ask him, where the f*** was he when Ronald Dino stuck one over his head from 40 yards in 2002? Clearly, he has no f***ing recollection because he wasn't paying attention at the time. Also, in the bin, where are they now section? We catch up with heroes of past world cups including the winning goal scorer from 2010 andres in the ester where is he now he's still a footballer England squad player James Milner also starting to he's also still a footballer and the US forward climped empsy still a footballer and from 1930 Pablo Dorado the ure a coin goal scorer the first goal in the final where Where is he now? He's dead.
Starting point is 00:06:26 Juan Botazo, the Argentinian goldkeeper in that game, also dead and Bert Pattenord, America's Star Stryker, six gold and four games dead. All those sections in the bin. There have been calls all this week for the head of FIFA set of Blatter to resign, even you Waiver said that he should go at the end of this year, but it's the World Cup, Andy. He's not going anywhere and not this World Cup or probably any f***ing World Cup. And he said he was angered by the calls for him to leave, saying this was the most disrespectful thing I've ever experienced in my entire life. And that's probably true, and because he's never been subjected to himself.
Starting point is 00:07:09 So unfortunately, he's removed that barometer of painful judgment from himself. Well, he was subjected to you this way, you gave him a job of a slant down on your TV show. I didn't say he should resign. I just said that he should, I don't say he should resign. I just said that he should... I don't think I... I think I just imply that he should just leave everything earth, but he should just go away.
Starting point is 00:07:30 Just go and live in a hole. Well, it is one of the big questions on everyone's lips in Brazil this week. Had set bladder gone into politics instead of sports administration, would the world still exist? Oh, don't think so. No, I'm not saying he would definitely have nuked the world,
Starting point is 00:07:46 but I am saying that he might plausibly have nuked the world. Now, it's certainly true that God, as the Bible tells us, gave the world light so that we may see. He gave the world plants and fruits and shit like that, so we might eat fish and birds and animals so that we might have stuff to shoot for fun. And he gave the world sports administrators so that we might get thoroughly f**ked off at the needless reundition of our favourite form of recreation.
Starting point is 00:08:11 And he specifically gave the world set blatter to show that he is merciful for instead of because we got a set blatter of the sports administrator rather than set blatter, the 1970s desplot. He said some extraordinary things, talking about the storm against FIFA, relating to the Qatar World Cup. I think you've clearly stung him, John. He said, there is a sort of storm against FIFA relating to the Qatar World Cup, sadly. There is a great deal of discrimination and racism. Now, if by this he means racism against the race of dodgy 78-year-old white men who have clung to power at the head of a highly questionable global organization amidst the pervasive stench of corruption.
Starting point is 00:08:49 Then yes, I guess there is a slight hint of that kind of racism. And if it's discriminating against obviously corrupt votes about where sporting events are held, then again, I guess we do have some discrimination on our hands. But by playing a race card, John, Blatter seems to be casting himself as a kind of 21st century Martin Luther King. I have a dream that the world's biggest sporting event can be held in a tiny country that is a cross between an oven and a sand pit. I have a dream! But footballers will one day compete in a competition where they will be judged not by the quality
Starting point is 00:09:20 of their skills or by the vision of their play or their ability to go box to box full for the full 90 and do a job for the team, but by their capacity to run around in 50 degree heat for an hour and a half without dropping dead too often, I have a dream today! Here, O'John, one of the great men. Overall though, has set bladder done any good for the game of football? Overall the year he's been involved? Well, was Joan of Arc wearing a pretty dress at her execution? By which I mean, it was very hard to tell by the end given what had gone on since she started being executed. Just tended to overshadow everything else. You said that awarding the World Cup to Qatar as FIFA did so controversially and well let's say tubiously you compared it to the Super Bowl being in a lake. I compared it to the world's snooker final being held at the bottom of the Mariana's trench in
Starting point is 00:10:12 the Pacific Ocean. The deepest point of the world's oceans, conditions completely inappropriate, the cloth gets damp, the balls don't run fast enough, it's really hard to get a good lighting rig down there so you'll probably be playing in the dark. T is to put off by the inhospitable conditions and more importantly there's just no culture of snooker there the locals don't even give a shit about it. You did yours on a TV show in the States. I did mine at an Edinburgh Preview in Windsor, to an audience of five people, John. Five people saw my joke. That's where we belong Andy. Yeah, that's where we that's where we belong. It's just I'm temporarily inconvenienced television. I'll be back in Windsor in front of five people. And of course 10 years ago as we've talked about them before we had four people at an edema preview in the at the day couldn't lost we've talked about a hundred percent walk out there. I had five and bear in mind when we had four that was two of us
Starting point is 00:11:05 So my crowds have gone up by less like a hundred and fifty percent. I slept two and a half Times the crowd I was getting Ten years ago, whereas do you know I mean do you know I don't if you get figures for how many people Switched off your television show while it was on John imagine you know many more than four. So you're actually hemorrhaging audience members far faster than you used to, and where's my audience is growing? So, you know.
Starting point is 00:11:31 I don't think people are turning up to Yorkic up before angry screaming. I thought gamer fucking thrones was on. And then, I'm then going into a different room instead. So, it's different, you know, horses for courses. That's right. As a French restaurant, I would say. In terms of trying to explain exactly the power of the World Cup, it's the World Cup for the way Andy's. Oh, the World Cup. That's the World Cup. Yeah,
Starting point is 00:11:59 the World Cup's happening. It's been a bit overshadowed here because also on this day, one of the most hype sporting events in recent history, the first day of the England versus Sri Lanka test series. Yeah, that's going to go overshadow because it's also the World Cup. Oh, yeah, if you heard that, that's a good time. In Thailand, they of course had a military coup, the ruling junta or junta. They've realised they need to pacify the population. So they've ordered TV regulators to ensure that football fans will not pay to watch any matches at the World Cup. That is going to work. The military said it's all part of their quote unquote happiness campaign, which has seen a number of policy gimmicks such as free haircuts of concerts. Look, it's time to have a free haircut Andy and you know concerts of fun on a case by
Starting point is 00:12:48 case basis. But the World Cup business is high quality, hontering. Here's a little bit of World Cup history, John, famously in 1966. The World Cup trophy was stolen and it was recovered by a dog called Pickles and he found it in a hedge about half a mile from where I live, about a mile from where I used to live in in South London. I can still feel that doggy trophy-finding magic in the air in South London. That heroic doggy saved the World Cup. Without him, John, all those famous photographs of England captain Bobby Moore holding up the trophy
Starting point is 00:13:29 after beating the Germans would instead of been picked as a Bobby Moore holding up a large marrow with the words world cup written on it in Markerpen. Matter of thing, is this the fucking best you could do? You've had weeks to make a new one. Pickles tragically died the following year in 1967 according to Wikipedia, quotes,
Starting point is 00:13:46 when he choked on his leash whilst chasing a cat. Now, that's an obvious cover story, isn't it? He choked on a leash, chasing a cat. That was autohorotic asphyxiation. Clearly Pickle the Dog could not handle the fame and the glamour. He was, of course, Britain's biggest celebrity pooch for a while, romantically linked in the papers with a string of celebrity girlfriends Petra, the dog from the hit kids TV show Blue Peter, the queen's favourite corgi at the time Heather, Paul McCartney's dog
Starting point is 00:14:17 a poodle called Ethel Weisingstein, I don't know why McCartney always gave his dog Jewish names, also linked with Popstar Lulu and with Chi Chi, the giant panda from London Zoo. But when the tournament was over and the celebrity appearance is dried up, poor ol' pickle struggled to come to terms with normality. And he turned to increasingly high-risk solo sex games, just to keep his tail wagging at all. So it never did pull really.
Starting point is 00:14:37 There's always victims. BLEEPING BELLS So a special feature for our World Cup special is a bugle, World Cup Q&A. Thank you to those of you who tweeted in your questions in what turned out to be about a 15 minute window of opportunity. I thought I might need a few hours to get enough questions to make this work. Within 10 minutes of me posting the tweet, we had an absolute deluge of questions of a frankly heroic range of qualities. So let's get cracking John and both of you and me of course essentially professional football pundits. So let's shed some light to those
Starting point is 00:15:20 bugleers who maybe aren't quite as touched by the glory of football. This question came in from Nick Bryan, who asks, can it really be a coincidence that the World Cup slightly resembles a hand-copping a testicle? Well, of course it's not coincidence, Andy. That is how it was designed. That's how it was modelled. In fact, that's an actual hand and an actual testicle cast in gold. It was a man, captain's own testicles, put molten gold over it, it set and the man died obviously
Starting point is 00:15:55 like gold finger style. We've all been there. It was cut loose and that's what the greatest athletes of today or the greatest underwear models in the world, they're now no. That's what they hold up over their heads. And his actual hand, his actual testicles, World Cup. I think there can be no more appropriate symbol than the hand-capping the testicle for the World Cup. It shows it's a kind of medical check for humanity. It's football checking that we are okay every four years. It's an assertion of both masculinity and virility, but also the need for coming
Starting point is 00:16:32 together to help each other through our problems. And of course, this trophy dates back to 1974, the original trophy, the jewellery made trophy discovered in the head by the late great pickle of the dog, was kept by Brazil in 1970. They'd be Italy in the final, whichever team would won that, would have won it for the third time and got to keep the Zools Room A trophy. Italy, if I may slightly contradict your fact about the origin of this trophy, Italy has losing finalists there, their runners-up prize was to design the new trophy. And so they designed it on the classic Italian nut grab. So that's the origin of that.
Starting point is 00:17:08 There's another question here from Nick Cheney who says, what is the biggest animal that Lionel Messi can throw over a crossbar? That's a good question. Very few pundits are prepared to address this question head on. They mostly talk about how, if he's going to really replicate his club form in an Argentinian shirt, but I think that might have distracted him in the last
Starting point is 00:17:29 World Cup, this unresolved question over what size of an animal he can throw over a crossbar. Now, the interesting question here, the thing is Lionel Messi has incredible control, and as you've anyone who's seen him play well know that any object in the air near his foot is kind of magnetically attracted to To his boot. So actually small animal. He could he could not throw over a crossbar because they just all end up Stuck on his foot. So the actual question should be what is the smallest the smallest animal that messy could throw over a crossbar? The answer is a seal adolescence seal
Starting point is 00:18:06 There's another good question of regarding America and the land that I love saying what positives can the US take away from this world cup? I would say that there's honor in unremitting defeat. I think that's when you stare into the void, sometimes there's something interesting the other side. It's not going to be a good world cup for America, Andy. Yeah, well, it's good to find a good judge a woke up on number of wins. It's good to take the positives before you've even had the defeats. I think that's, that's an important thing. To do another question on a similar subject from Matthew Broad, I said, US coach, Jürgen Klinzman wants to play quote, an American style of football. What would that look like? And would Jetsky be involved?
Starting point is 00:18:45 Smash-Mail Football, Andy. That's what it's going to look like. It's going to be using your body as a human missile and slamming your head into someone's chest. That means he danded it first, but the Americans are going to do it harder. It's just basically picking it where the ducks left off in the last World Cup final.
Starting point is 00:19:00 Four years ago, leds, of course, by the midfield monster, Mark Van Bomel, who we may take you back into the bugle archives, of course, kept a diary after he sadly had to retire from football. Today I woke up. I excitedly looked in the mirror, but my hopes were swiftly dashed when I was still clearly Mark Van Bomel. I kicked my basin, then raked my studs down the side of my bath cup. I then brushed my teeth with my new electronic toothbrush, which I had specially made. It has little replica football boot on the end, and when you switch it on, the boot repeatedly
Starting point is 00:19:32 kicks your teeth and gums until they're clean, helped me cycle up for the day ahead. I went downstairs for breakfast, siving my two-year-old daughter down as I went. Before running away before, my wife could tell me off. I walked into the kitchen, elbowed the coffee machine right on its cappuccino frotha, that had to hurt. Then sport some cornflakes into a bowl. I put the bowl on the floor, then clattered into it from behind, studs raised, shattering the bowl and sending the cornflakes flying all over the kitchen floor. Yum, I said to myself, the perfect breakfast. Darling, I shouted to my wife, I'll just take the
Starting point is 00:20:03 dog for a walk. I wouldn't do that, replied my wife out a little angrily. He snapped to a kill his tendons and did his knee ligaments after you walked in yesterday. Come on, I hit back. I was going for the ball. Rover hobbled past me, growling. F*** you, I mutter that impsurrupthiciously treading with my full weight on his bandage, real helpful. I'm Mark Van Bommel. I'm Mark Van Bommel. LAUGHTER This is a very interesting question. John and I know your wife is in the medical profession.
Starting point is 00:20:37 So she might be able to help with this from Will Davis, who says, The mere mention of sport of any kind makes me ejaculate exactly one pint of blood. Okay. What can I do to survive the World Cup? I mean, you got to, you don't hate to go full vampire in this. You need to drink a lot of blood.
Starting point is 00:20:54 Yeah. It doesn't sound great. But you have to do it. I mean, pomegranate juice is close to blood, so I'd go with that. Right. Not actual human blood. I mean, look, if you want to be absolutely, it's a potato, potato, isn't it? I hate that. That's right.
Starting point is 00:21:12 Well, I mean, it's very interesting you should touch on this because there was a report in a British newspaper recently that there are 15,000 active vampires alive in Britain today. This is discovered by a man doing some university research into vampires, 15,000, which means that statistically there simply must be at least one premiership footballer who is a vampire, but will any of them have the courage to come out and say they're vampires in public? I'm just not sure. Football is quite ready for that yet. A lot of it's been blamed on the prevalence of Vampire TV series. Buffy the Vampire Slayer, preferred Buffy the Vampire Prosecutor when she went
Starting point is 00:21:51 through the proper legal channels. There's a question here from Joe Carlos, he says, if he ever do in the World Cup again, will the universe self-destruct? I don't know what I'll do Andy, if he ever do in the World Cup. I just don't know what I'll do. Paul, I mean, you'd be basically running around New York on your own, aren't you? Just pretty much. Shouting and screaming and blending in with all the other locals who do the world.
Starting point is 00:22:14 I don't know what I'll do. I don't know what a one-man riot looks like. Yeah. I can't really overturn cars on my own. I might throw my back out trying to flip them. But it's interesting that if England ever do win the World Cup, will the universe self-destruct? Of course, we did win it once in 1966 and I think the world has moved pretty rapidly closer to Armageddon since then.
Starting point is 00:22:36 I don't know if the two were linked, but... Perhaps a more relevant question is from Michael Dere, you says, which individual are you ready to blame for England's failure at this World Cup? Ooh, I mean, he's spoke for choice. Do you get, there's always Margaret Thatcher. Yes. She's laid the groundwork for the future failure. That's the problem, isn't it?
Starting point is 00:22:57 Yes. She destroyed communities, Andy. She did. And these guys have been raised in a less communal country. That's right, because I also actually sold off a load of school playing fields. Yeah, and so the miners strike destroyed the British mining. So of course most kids, it was an old British tradition
Starting point is 00:23:14 to play an old game called Kick the Column, which you had to kick a piece of coal with your left foot. But when the miners close down, kids stop playing that. And so we've not really produced a decent left-sided midfielder ever since. So yeah, it was basically a fact at all. But a player will always get the blame and Michael in the second half of a sentence said, who is looking likely to be blamed within 2018 World Cup? And that's interesting to think ahead.
Starting point is 00:23:39 Because you're looking for a player that's going to have a good World Cup this time, but who the public could easily turn on. And I think the young Liverpool star Rahim Sterling is a pro candidate for that he's a very exciting flair player. So he's likely to be burdened with completely unrealistic expectations and then maybe miss a penalty and be handed for the rest of his life. That was exciting isn't it? This is going to be a big world cup for him. He's got four amazing years and then his life is going to be ruined. Eileen Drewery. Eileen Drewery, now she was the the faith healer or something? Yeah, the blood and whole news. She's got to be in the mix for a comeback.
Starting point is 00:24:17 Well she must have, what is she, could she, could she commune with the dead? Yes, right. Because that'll be good. I think, you know, I know, John, you're a massive fan of the inspirational halftime team talk. You've done some outstanding ones on the bugle and elsewhere. But there could be no greater halftime team talk than one delivered from beyond the grave from one of the great heroes of, you know, if you could get, if she could get Bobby Moore from the other side to to England half time, Neil, Neil with Italy on Saturday night,
Starting point is 00:24:49 that we are going to win that game. Simon Coleman asks, does Roy Hodgson look uncannily like an owl or is it just me? He actually looks canily like an owl. It's certainly entirely deliberate. He's also learnt to rotate his head through 360 degrees and a hoot because he believes it makes players, players respect him. The footballer respects the owl, but does not respect the puffing. And Bertil Frouland says how small or England's chances compared to Napoleon's item? Well, that's a very good way of... I thought I'd like to see, because
Starting point is 00:25:27 obviously we talked about Napoleon's tiny little penis in a recent bugle and that should come into football commentary, I think, having a chance as small as Napoleon's penis. Would Gary Linnick have say that on the BBC coverage? I think he should have the... Oh, you know, here in commentator he's taken a shot from 35 yards there frankly He had an Napoleon's penis penis his chance of that one going in Richard Fox asks what are the odds on Carlos danger receiving a late call up to the Mexico squad? Would you know who Carlos danger is Andy? a go squad. Would you know who Carlos danger is Andy? You did a piece on him on the daily show didn't you? Yeah, that's Anthony Weiner. That's his alter ego. That's his penis texting
Starting point is 00:26:11 alter ego. So, I mean, look, never say never because Carlos danger always turns out where you least expected and where he's least desired or required. So So yeah, there's every chance he'll turn up. But he won't necessarily be playing for the Mexican squad. It's just the Mexican squad will get a text in the middle of the game. We're like, Oh, God, why would you do a third time? Your poor wife. Was Carlos Danger his nickname for his pendulum or just that was the nickname for the person who sends the pendulum right okay yeah the nick the nickname for the penis itself I believe was the macarena there is a player in the I think the Costa Rica squad called Carlo Costa Lee which is I mean that is a that is a one-man satirisation of the financial
Starting point is 00:27:06 values of modern football. Mark spokesman, what's the likelihood of little Tommy Waffle single-handedly taking Belgium to World Cup success? Well I mean I think you know Belgium got a squad of very good young players but if they did have a player called Tommy Waffle they would be basically unbeatable I think. They've just got to be really be careful with their waffle intake because you can't eat too few waffles before a game but you also can't eat too many or you get sluggish. So it's very difficult you know obviously they have their famous waffle trainer who you know for player goes down hungry he'll just run out very quickly with a with a pan and he'll press them a fresh waffle. That's right. Now the referee will try and move them
Starting point is 00:27:52 off the field and we can do that at the side of the field. Sankin, there's no need to make this waffle now and stop the game but it's just not the way things are played. Now are they? So, sadly. Expect if Belgium wants to waste time, expect all the players to go down and a lot of waffle pan presses being brought out. And finally, this came from at FIFA 2022 revote, who picked up on this World Cup Q&A, the FIFA Revolt Petition. Said, will you please support our campaign by signing off petition and retweeting hashtag FIFA 2022 Revolt? So I have to show the power of the bugle, John.
Starting point is 00:28:36 We can bring down the guitar world cup. So if you do want the World Cup to be moved from guitar, do sign that. Of course, you might want to see football as attempting to play football for a month in a furnace so in which case and if you might enjoy slave labor as well so you might be your bag so sign it if you want thank you very much for your cues for the Q Q and 8 we'll be we are the only media outlet license to cover this world cup so we will keep you up to date with all the scores as the tournament progresses.
Starting point is 00:29:08 Just a couple of quick lines of World Cup news coming in. FIFA have unveiled the new ball for this World Cup off the controversial Jabu Lani ball, basically completely ruined the last World Cup as it transpired to be in specifically designed to make things like shooting, passing, controlling the ball and playing football much, much more difficult. And this ball was of course used for the very first time in the world's most important tournament.
Starting point is 00:29:33 Why you may ask, do tri-entering that question without using the words FIFA, certifiable idiots, and money-grubbing imbosils within the same sentence, a best of luck with that? They've unveiled the ball for 2014, the wobbled atenio ball, which is modelled on a pineapple and made of a pineapple. The FIFA say the pineapple symbolises the footballer, hard and spiky on the outside, but soft and delicate inside with stupid hair. And when it is put
Starting point is 00:30:01 to them, the pineapple doesn't really work, makes football really hard to play, favorite applied, that doesn't fucking matter. It is shifting units like hotcakes. And hotcakes, incidentally, is the, are gonna be the 2022 Qatar mascot? A giant cake burning. And opening ceremony news, Jennifer Lopez has pulled out. I believe it's a one woman protest against football as football's continuing refusal to implement a stopping clock which would instantly eradicate the scourge of time-wasting.
Starting point is 00:30:28 I assume that's what it was about. Other suggestions are that you received a much bigger offer to perform in the opening ceremony at the Hartfordshire and District Cran Green Bulls over 65s championships starting next week. So that is it for this week's Bugle World Cup preview special. Do enjoy the football next week. We'll have a full update on all the stories. We are able to ignore, including Iraq going more tits up than Dolly Parton, something backstruck.
Starting point is 00:30:56 But we don't need to pay any attention to that, John. Don't know. No, no, because the rebels, they've taken over the insurgents. They've taken over Mosul. They're talking about. They've taken over Mosul They're talking about they managed to Restrain themselves. They didn't they didn't put up a mission accomplished banner, which is rather inconvenient They've pushed up. Well, we're not even done in to take any notice John because the world's bad timing rebels No one's gonna know the world cup
Starting point is 00:31:19 This the world cup. I've been doing some videos on the ESPN.co.uk that I'll tweet I've been doing some videos on the ESPN.co.uk that I'll tweet. Links to, I think, the first one's just gone up today, and we'll be back with full exclusive coverage on the World Cup through the tournament. Do keep your remarks coming into info at theBuglePodcast.com. Don't forget to check out our SoundCloud page, SoundCloud.com, slash the hyphen Bugle, and you can buy all your non-world cup bugle merchandise, which you can pretend if the bugle sponsored the World Cup and did some merchandise that had no mention of the World Cup
Starting point is 00:31:51 on it, then that would probably be very much like our current range of merchandise. And you can buy that at thebuglepodcast.com. Until next time, may the foot will be with you, our men. Bye!

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