Max and co discuss France’s World Cup final triumph over Croatia, another penalty, another controversial VAR incident, the tournament’s highs and lows and players taking shots to the conkers

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Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Paolo Bandini and Andy Brassell to look back at a World Cup final in which France took the trophy, beating Croatia 4-2. We dial up Philippe Auclair, who’s not as sober as he was at the start of the final, but not as drunk as he’ll be by the time you listen to this.

We begin part two by calling Barney Ronay, who was at the game, to talk about the atmosphere inside the stadium, the tournament as a whole, and the strain this tournament has put on his friendship with fellow writer Jonathan Wilson. We take a look back at the tournament’s highs, lows, funny bits, best bits and celebrate the time a player started a counter-attack by blocking a shot with his conkers.

In part three, we take a little look to the future, with this being the final 32-team summer World Cup, and consider what the last four-and-a-half-weeks have taught us.

Back in a couple of weeks!



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