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Mark Taylor @emarktaylor.bsky.social
Jul 12, 03:33 PM

⚽ #FediFC #FIFAWorldCup #Soccer #Football #DeadRingers I'm loving these sketches where Gary Lineker asks Thomas Tuchel questions using Football clichés but receives answers as if they were interpreted literally. This week they chat after England's victory over Doctor Congo ...

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"Welcome to the Restless Football with me, Gary Lineker, so glad not to be hosting the BBC coverage this year and having to pretend that anyone's ever going to scan that QR code to pay the TV licence. Joining me to discuss England's nerve-shredding win over DR Congo is England manager Thomas Tuchel. Hello again, Gary. At half time in that game, Thomas, you must have been tearing your hair out. No, Gary. As you can observe, my hair is currently too short for me to gain sufficient purchase to remove it myself manually, even if I should want to, which I did not. You seem to be making very effective use of the hydration breaks to tweak your tactics, but would you agree that by introducing them in the first place, FIFA has rather moved the goalposts? No, Gary. The hydration breaks do not involve any repositioning of the goalposts, whatever, and I do not think that would even be possible given the goalposts are extremely large, very heavy and firmly anchored to the playing surface at all times. Right, well, what about your captain, Harry Kane? He really got us out of jail, didn't he? We were not in jail, Gary, so no, Harry did not get us out of jail. I cannot, in fact, envisage any kind of scenario in which you and I would be imprisoned together, Gary, still less one in which Harry Kane then served as our liberator, so your entire question is predicated upon dilution. Thomas Tuchel, it was ever a pleasure. No, Gary. And whatever doubts there may be around this team, England can still go all the way, can't they? No, Gary."

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Mark Taylor @emarktaylor.bsky.social · Jul 10, 11:27 PM

⚽ #FediFC #FIFAWorldCup #Soccer #Football #DeadRingers I'm loving these sketches where Gary Lineker asks Thomas Tuchel questions using Football clichés but receives answers as if they were interpreted literally. This week they chat after England's victory over Doctor Congo ...