Bellingham inspires England to a semi-final with Argentina

**SPEAKER_1** (0:02)
Magnus Carlsen, Edvard Munch, Royxop, Adder Hegerberg, Morten Harkett from AHA, Magne and Paul from AHA, Martin Sleepnes, Roald Dahl's parents, your boys took a hell of a beating, your boys took a hell of a beating.

**James Richardson** (0:30)
Saturday at the World Cup, Norway lay between the hard rock and a semi-final place for England, but Jude the dude came good. We salute Bellingham, ask why Tuchel was yelling him, and whether the victory for England actually did go down to the wire. While Vikings take a hiking, next up, England's face Argentina, who played Switzerland over the course of what seemed many hours on Saturday before Yulin Alvarez won it with a worldie. All that in this Totally at the World Cup. Saturday night in Los Angeles, almost certainly not wherever you are. Thank you so much for joining us for this Totally at the World Cup. On the surface today, we have an Englishman, a Colombian and a Scotsman.
Welcome Tim, welcome Felipe and welcome back Phil Hay.

**Phil Hay** (1:10)
Thank you very much.

**James Richardson** (1:11)
Lovely to see you all.

**Felipe Cardenas** (1:12)
Full house.

**James Richardson** (1:13)
Yeah. Well, it's been a big day. We had last semi-finalist confirmed, that England-Argentina matchup.
Also, possibly saw the goal of the tournament, would you say?

**Felipe Cardenas** (1:26)
Potentially. Potentially, if we add the drama to it, I think so. Yeah.

**James Richardson** (1:31)
A lot to discuss. Hundred matches, hundred matches with today's two games and just four teams left standing. Are they the right four teams, Tim?

**Tim Spiers** (1:40)
According to FIFA, yes.
It's interesting to note that neither Messi, Harland nor Kane scored today, which I don't think any of us would have predicted at the start. But I didn't take away any of the drama. It's a pretty controversial day and in the end, FIFA wins. There you go.

**James Richardson** (1:58)
Football won.

**Tim Spiers** (1:59)
Football won as well. Yes. It's the first time since the rankings were introduced in 1992, FIFA's rankings, that numbers one, two, three and four are in the semi-finals.

**James Richardson** (2:07)
Okay.

**Tim Spiers** (2:07)
Of course, these were also the seeds who were separated thusly in a sort of a tennis style.
At the start of the tournament, which is new for this year. So with the idea of creating these blockbuster matches which we're now going to get.

**James Richardson** (2:20)
Well, I'm not going to lie. I quite like the matchups that we got for the semi-final. Phil, let me ask you. What's been your moment of the day?

**Phil Hay** (2:27)
Moment of the day is the did it, didn't it clearance from Nyland, the Norwegian goalkeeper that everybody except for FIFA and the ball apparently thought hit a cable that was on the sky camera over the pitch in Miami.

**James Richardson** (2:41)
Did it hit, Phil?

**Phil Hay** (2:42)
Well, FIFA say that there is a sensor in the ball. Obviously we know that because it can pick up the flick of hair as it did in the Portugal-Croatia game.
FIFA say there was no alert from the sensor at all. They say it was working the whole time. The problem is that looking at the videos, everybody thinks they can see the trajectory changing and the spin of the ball and people on the Norway bench are absolutely adamant that it did hit the cable. But FIFA say no, it did lead to or at least that clearance led to England's equalizer. So it's kind of significant, but we move on as pair.

**James Richardson** (3:15)
There were two angles. The first one which circulated quite widely was from behind so you couldn't really see. It did seem that the ball dropped, but we now have seen a sideways one.

**Phil Hay** (3:25)
It's very hard to explain why the ball just suddenly goes unless it's catching.

**James Richardson** (3:30)
It's the triumvir, isn't it?

**Phil Hay** (3:31)
Yeah. Well, that's it. Odd 12
But I don't know. It wouldn't be much skin off FIFA's nose really to just say, yes, it did, if it did. It seems odd to lie about it. If it did happen, then they could just hold their hands up.

**James Richardson** (3:45)
There's already a bunch of people out there in Croatia who feel that the Snickometer isn't the world's most reliable indicator.

**Phil Hay** (3:52)
The only thing I will say though is that our referee expert, Graham Scott, said that he didn't think he should have stopped the game. He didn't think there was enough interference. He said it's similar to if the ball hit a paper cup or something like that, which I don't agree with personally, but that was his view.