1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:01,520 Speaker 1: Here's a voice you'll recognize. 2 00:00:01,639 --> 00:00:06,960 Speaker 2: Well, come to much just united. Yes for England, David 3 00:00:07,040 --> 00:00:09,000 Speaker 2: Beckham has done it big time. 4 00:00:13,760 --> 00:00:16,320 Speaker 1: Yes, Martin Tyler on the stands. Today it's Spain take 5 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:18,680 Speaker 1: on England at the Euro Finals in Germany. Martin Tyler, 6 00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:19,599 Speaker 1: willis morning. 7 00:00:19,640 --> 00:00:21,439 Speaker 2: And a good evening from Berlin. 8 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:24,520 Speaker 1: Not far to go. How you're feeling. You're full of vermin, 9 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:28,880 Speaker 1: vigor and excitement and expectation, all. 10 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:34,000 Speaker 3: Of those things, but mostly because it's a really important 11 00:00:34,040 --> 00:00:34,600 Speaker 3: football match. 12 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:35,720 Speaker 2: My whole life has been spent. 13 00:00:36,159 --> 00:00:39,199 Speaker 3: I've been blessed to be able to come to these 14 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:42,760 Speaker 3: games and be part of them. And clearly it's slightly 15 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:45,440 Speaker 3: different when your own country is involved. But it's the 16 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:47,720 Speaker 3: game that I really care about and I hope the 17 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:51,479 Speaker 3: final lives up to the potentially. Certainly, Spain have been 18 00:00:51,560 --> 00:00:55,280 Speaker 3: terrific and England have got better and have match winners, 19 00:00:55,320 --> 00:00:57,560 Speaker 3: so I think it's a tough one to call, and 20 00:00:58,240 --> 00:00:59,800 Speaker 3: obviously it's a professional. 21 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:02,240 Speaker 2: I want the better team to win. As an Englishman, 22 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:04,080 Speaker 2: you know my answer. 23 00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:07,600 Speaker 1: Stree of it all that we all know how important 24 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:09,639 Speaker 1: does a victory today? What would it mean to England? 25 00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:15,920 Speaker 3: I think a defeat would mean a real crashing setback 26 00:01:15,959 --> 00:01:18,880 Speaker 3: because we've started to build a team that's come very close, 27 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:22,600 Speaker 3: as you know, runners up on a penalty shootout back 28 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:27,160 Speaker 3: three years ago, the euro delayed Euro twenty twenty, you know, 29 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:29,440 Speaker 3: getting to a World Cup semi final and coming so 30 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:33,320 Speaker 3: close to getting into the final, missing a penalty in 31 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:35,840 Speaker 3: the last World Cup when England looked like they might 32 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:39,160 Speaker 3: actually get the better of the team that went on 33 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:42,120 Speaker 3: to get to the final, France. So I think in 34 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:45,720 Speaker 3: the end it might be one defeat too many. I 35 00:01:45,720 --> 00:01:47,960 Speaker 3: think it would be a crushing blow. But you know, 36 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:50,880 Speaker 3: the nation's really got behind England as they've improved as 37 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:52,280 Speaker 3: the tournament's gone on, and there was a lot of 38 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:54,880 Speaker 3: I'm surely whether there was a lot of nitpicking in 39 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:57,720 Speaker 3: the early games, but the one thing one knit they 40 00:01:57,720 --> 00:02:01,560 Speaker 3: couldn't pick was the word wi n. I kept on 41 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:05,440 Speaker 3: producing progress and here they are underdogs, which will suit 42 00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:09,800 Speaker 3: the English mentality and hopefully ready for a challenge that 43 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:13,000 Speaker 3: will It sounds a bit of an exaggeration, but having 44 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:16,440 Speaker 3: spent most of my life sort of worshiping the Boys 45 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:19,280 Speaker 3: of sixty six, the World Cup winners, who still remain 46 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:22,639 Speaker 3: the only team to won a major tournament for England. 47 00:02:22,919 --> 00:02:23,639 Speaker 2: They would make. 48 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:26,360 Speaker 3: Themselves pretty immortal, certainly in sporting terms, if they can 49 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:27,239 Speaker 3: get the result. 50 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:30,280 Speaker 1: Here, explain the Southgate factor. Why do we love them? 51 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:32,280 Speaker 1: Why do we hate them? Why is he such a thing? 52 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:38,560 Speaker 3: But personally, yeah, he's a top bloke and I've done 53 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:40,200 Speaker 3: him a long time since he was a young player. 54 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:47,760 Speaker 3: So you're talking about professionally where professionally he's hugely admired 55 00:02:47,760 --> 00:02:49,880 Speaker 3: for what he's done for English football. That he took 56 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:52,320 Speaker 3: over in a bit of a mess when the previous 57 00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:57,639 Speaker 3: manager was demoted in truth some aladas after just one game. 58 00:02:57,720 --> 00:03:00,760 Speaker 3: It was an off the field incident. It was very 59 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:08,000 Speaker 3: tough then and Garrison worlded it all together. He's produced results, 60 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:10,959 Speaker 3: he's produced a very good behavior from the players, that 61 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:13,560 Speaker 3: the national team is now loved by the country, which 62 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:16,000 Speaker 3: there were times when it wasn't, where it was seen 63 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:17,360 Speaker 3: as a group of underachievers. 64 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:19,680 Speaker 2: So he's pulled everything together. 65 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:23,160 Speaker 3: But the silverware and this might be his last game, 66 00:03:23,320 --> 00:03:25,400 Speaker 3: you know, either way, it might be his last game 67 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:29,919 Speaker 3: and I think probably only when he's left the post 68 00:03:29,960 --> 00:03:32,799 Speaker 3: people will realize what a wonderful job he's done. It's 69 00:03:32,919 --> 00:03:36,200 Speaker 3: very competitive world football, and I know this isn't the 70 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:40,400 Speaker 3: World Cup, but the European nations at the dominant force 71 00:03:40,480 --> 00:03:44,480 Speaker 3: in the world game. And some South American listeners won't 72 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:46,480 Speaker 3: like me say that, but the by lives they are, 73 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:50,400 Speaker 3: and I do think that it's time for you. 74 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:53,080 Speaker 2: Fifty eight years a long time. But it's one game. 75 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:55,080 Speaker 3: We can talk about all the build up, all the history, 76 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:57,240 Speaker 3: but the truth of the matter is it's one game 77 00:03:57,720 --> 00:04:00,160 Speaker 3: which starts in a couple of hours time, and it's 78 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:04,160 Speaker 3: what happens here on the night in a stadium incidenta 79 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:06,440 Speaker 3: where England have never lost. I don't know whether that's 80 00:04:06,440 --> 00:04:10,080 Speaker 3: an omen or not. Spain, of course, I've had a 81 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:13,640 Speaker 3: wonderful run of wins in the tournament, a better progress 82 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:16,120 Speaker 3: than finally you would say that England. But it starts 83 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:19,840 Speaker 3: again and it's about temperament as well as talent, and 84 00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:22,840 Speaker 3: we'll see, we'll see. It's got to be decided on 85 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:24,960 Speaker 3: the field. I hope it doesn't go to penalties. That's 86 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:28,400 Speaker 3: always a little bit of thorn in the side of 87 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:30,200 Speaker 3: England or though they've won a penalty shoot out in this 88 00:04:30,279 --> 00:04:32,760 Speaker 3: tournament and are much better at it, much more practiced 89 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:36,520 Speaker 3: at it, but the country wants to win but really 90 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:38,359 Speaker 3: wants to win where they're not a man, sure they 91 00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:40,640 Speaker 3: cease they have been for most of the knockout game. 92 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:43,000 Speaker 1: In the loss of Martin, you enjoyed kickoffs not far 93 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:45,040 Speaker 1: Away Martin Tyler, one of the great so former Sky 94 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:46,400 Speaker 1: Sports UK commentators. 95 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:49,800 Speaker 3: For more from the mic Asking Breakfast, listen live to 96 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:53,000 Speaker 3: news talks it'd be from six am weekdays, or follow 97 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:54,599 Speaker 3: the podcast on iHeartRadio.