The Inside Channel with Alex Crook and Sam Matterface
Jul 6, 2026 · 43 min · 12 segments
England are in the quarter-finals. A 3-2 victory at the Azteca - with ten men, in one of the most hostile atmospheres in world football - has sent Sam Matterface and Alex Crook into raptures. Was this…
Sam MatterfaceHost
Alan PardewGuest
Alex CrookHost
But you've got the altitude, you've got going down to 10 men, you've got the intensity of the crowd.
And again, I'll go back to the second half against Croatia when I asked you on this podcast earlier.
I mean, just to give everybody watching and listening back at home a sort of insight into the Alex Crook mentality.
Why is he putting 10 men behind the ball? Why is he trying to defend this? You know, he should be doing this, that and the other.
And I had to remind him at one stage that England were still leading the match because he was absolutely pulling his hair out.
But you've got the altitude, you've got going down to 10 men, you've got the intensity of the crowd.
And again, I'll go back to the second half against Croatia when I asked you on this podcast earlier.
I mean, just to give everybody watching and listening back at home a sort of insight into the Alex Crook mentality.
Why is he putting 10 men behind the ball? Why is he trying to defend this? You know, he should be doing this, that and the other.
And I had to remind him at one stage that England were still leading the match because he was absolutely pulling his hair out.
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