Jul 1, 2026 · 33 min · 11 segments
What happens when a dog finds a stolen trophy? Or when a referee brandishes 3 yellow cards...to the same player. Well, in this episode Mark and Marcus take a look at some of the craziest moments the…
Mark PougatchHost
Marcus BucklandHost
Actually, I, I quite like the ones which are old school, which, which people may not know masses about.
The police had to intervene four times during the match, and the referee was an Englishman called Ken Aston.
And he used to have to write everything down, "I've booked you, Marcus." And apparently the story goes that afterwards he's at the traffic lights back home and he sees the traffic lights going, obviously red, amber, uh, green, and he goes, "Oh, actually, that's quite useful." So apparently the actual, the thought and the idea of cards comes from this match.
Like, like everything in, in life and in sport, there's always a context and there's always a background.
So you might be thinking, "Well, why would a game between Chile and I- and Italy go off so badly?" Listen to this.
The Italian journalists, Antonio Ghirelli and Corrado Pizzinelli, I make no bones for saying it in my cod Italian accent, this is what they wrote in the build-up to the game.
"Santiago is a backwater dump where the phones don't work, taxis are as rare as faithful husbands, a cable costs an arm [laughs] and a leg, and a letter takes five days to turn up." I would have thought in 1962 that was completely normal, but anyway.
Uh, to, sorry, to open prostitution, and the population is backwards." Well, as you can imagine, this goes down like a cup of cold sick, and so the atmosphere is free- febrile around this match.
Actually, I, I quite like the ones which are old school, which, which people may not know masses about.
The police had to intervene four times during the match, and the referee was an Englishman called Ken Aston.
And he used to have to write everything down, "I've booked you, Marcus." And apparently the story goes that afterwards he's at the traffic lights back home and he sees the traffic lights going, obviously red, amber, uh, green, and he goes, "Oh, actually, that's quite useful." So apparently the actual, the thought and the idea of cards comes from this match.
Like, like everything in, in life and in sport, there's always a context and there's always a background.
So you might be thinking, "Well, why would a game between Chile and I- and Italy go off so badly?" Listen to this.
The Italian journalists, Antonio Ghirelli and Corrado Pizzinelli, I make no bones for saying it in my cod Italian accent, this is what they wrote in the build-up to the game.
"Santiago is a backwater dump where the phones don't work, taxis are as rare as faithful husbands, a cable costs an arm [laughs] and a leg, and a letter takes five days to turn up." I would have thought in 1962 that was completely normal, but anyway.
Uh, to, sorry, to open prostitution, and the population is backwards." Well, as you can imagine, this goes down like a cup of cold sick, and so the atmosphere is free- febrile around this match.
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