The Atlantic Voice Podcast

The 2026 World Cup is in the books, and with it this edition of the World Cup of Tea (well, there might be a little bit more in the next couple of weeks...). So if you're already beginning to have that slightly lost, a little bit down, pinching yourself that it was all real as the every day takes you back in its grasp, well, we have at least a couple of takeaways to give you solace!

We have reached our destination - at least the tournament part of it (the WCT still has at least one, maybe two, episodes left). So it's time to total up World Cup Bingo and then make the big selection for the big game! Oh, and an "old friend" of Zeff's gets a TACO.

Day 38 of the World Cup of Tea, and it's also the 3rd Place game, well, Zeff will have to find something else to talk about. So he's enlisted AI to script the episode. There's also TACOs to give out and some hot dog business.

Frustrated with the use of VAR during this World Cup? You're not alone. Fortunately Zeff is on hand with some solutions - not little ticky-tacky stuff, no, big stuff, real big stuff, that can save VAR from itself.

England earn a trip to Miami and the glamour of a (high) stakes battle with France to earn the right to be the 2026 World Cup's.....third place team! No doubt David Beckham will be along for what is sure to be an emotional, rip-roaring football classic......

It's time to put a bow on our review of "series featuring first episodes of reality TV shows featuring celebrities buying football teams"(copyright, Atlantic Voice). Zeff has watched them all and now gives his final thoughts and recommendations. Yes, there will be one - as if you somehow thought he'd be short of an opinion....

A 64-team World Cup is coming? Or is it just some misdirection from the President, no not that one - our one, Mr Infantino himself (so yes, it's coming). And a word on the passing of actor Sam Neill.

Math guru and soccer coach Joey stops by to talk statistics in soccer and if and how they entice the general sports fan into following the beautiful game. Or if the game truly lends itself to the kind of statistical interpretation that comes so naturally to other sports.

Our "series featuring first episodes of reality TV shows featuring celebrities buying football teams"(copyright, Atlantic Voice) reaches the entry "Welcome to Wrexham." It's the grand-daddy of them all (copyright, the Rose Bowl) but is it the best? And later in the final week, Zeff will contrast and compare all the shows reviewed.

England v Norway later in the day, and Zeff is explaining what it means whenver you hear a football fan or media member refer to a "Golden Generation." And then it's a look back at the 1981 England-Norway World Cup qualifier and the famous bit of commentary that comes from it.