The Halcyon Podcast

THEY THINK IT'S ALL OVER. IT IS NOW!

It's the FINAL episode of World Cup Nuggets Daily and last but by no means least are Wales, hoping to cause the sort of damage they did in their last World Cup, a scarcely believable 64 years ago.

Rob, Adam and Richard  tease out some Nuggets from that 1958 tournament and look at Welsh chances in the group, which in case you need reminding includes the might of the world's 20th best team, the USA and the small matter of the English.

Richard completes our World Cup Nuggets Daily quiz - we'll be putting out info on submitting your answers and letting you know who's won in due course.

In the meantime, thanks for listening, do give us a rating and let us know you've enjoyed the podcast, and we'll see you during the tournament.

It's the penultimate episode of World Cup Nuggets Daily - not long to go now troops! Today's nuggets centre on the very unimaginatively nicknamed Stars and Stripes - it's the USA.

Rob, Adam and Richard look at the various permutations of a group that as everyone knows also features Wales and England - spoiler, it's going to be close. There are even some red-hot gambling tips hidden within.

Richard also sets the next-to-last question (I've run out of permissible uses of 'penultimate') in the World Cup Nuggets Daily quiz, which you'll soon be able to find in its entirety here.

You can also BUY WORLD CUP NUGGETS HERE.

World Cup Nuggets Daily enters the home straight and up next it's everyone's second or maybe third or maybe not at all favourite team, Uruguay.

Richard, Adam and Rob look at their illustrious early World Cup history and slightly less further back in time where we find their next-most controversial contribution, which will at least serve to set up the mother of all grudge matches in their group.

Beyond that there's a culinary expansion beyond nuggets and then very quickly back again via the delights of Fray Bentos, and Richard poses the 30th question in our mammoth World Cup Nuggets Daily quiz.

The links you need:
World Cup Nuggets Daily quiz questions
Buy World Cup Nuggets direct from us

A sensational nickname, a side who currently hold an international trophy and a particularly outlandish prediction are the key ingredients for today's World Cup Nuggets Daily.

Rob, Adam and Richard preview Tunisia's chances, which in truth don't look great in a group that seems to have a fairly clear delineation between the top and bottom half - or does it?!*

It may be a fairly predictable path for the Tunisians but what's much more difficult to predict is the outcome of our World Cup Nuggets Daily quiz, for which Richard provides one of the final questions.

And finally a reminder, as if one was needed, that you can buy World Cup Nuggets on the Halcyon website. Get it while they're hot / stocks last! Because cold Nuggets are horrible.

* Yes. Yes it does.

Up next on World Cup Nuggets Daily it's the Swiss, whose despite their slightly confusing nickname showed ample clarity of thought when it came to their qualification for the World Cup in Qatar.

Richard, Adam and Rob assess a potential 'dark horse' (some caveats apply) and look forward to a potential final group game winner-takes-all showdown, because who doesn't love one of those.

We also ask the 28th (28th!) question in our World Cup Nuggets Daily quiz - the previous 28 and now this one can be found on our blog. And as if you needed any more reminders, you can buy World Cup Nuggets on the Halcyon website. If you're quick, there MIGHT still be some great value bundles left on there as well.

La Furia Roja are next up on World Cup Nuggets and Richard, Adam and Rob are by and large predicting good things for Spain in Qatar, even if they have a few questions about Luis Enrique's squad selection (well, two questions, but they are legit).

We also look at their propensity for goals and clean sheets and welcome another very special guest on the podcast to ask today's World Cup Nuggets quiz question.

The questions are available in their entirety on this blog post - the person to submit the most correct answers to us will win the entire suite of Halcyon Publishing books. If you want to buy World Cup Nuggets to brush up on your tournament facts and figures before it all kicks off at the weekend, you can do so here.

It's probably right to begin this with an apology to Serbia fans - you do feature, honest, but you also don't feature for long stretches of this episode.

Richard, Adam and Rob comb over the usual Nuggets in relation to not-a-one-man-team-but-still-quite-reliant-on-one-man Serbia, including yet another encounter with their old mates Brazil and a tough-looking group.

Things also get completely irrelevant for a time, including foreign football trips, the England-supporting priorities of a Scotland fan and where or where not one of us may have been sticking fireworks in our twenties. You can skip those bits.

Richard also sets the latest question in our Halcyon quiz, which you can find on our website. The winner gets the full suite of Halcyon books, a heady prize indeed - details on submission to follow.

Next up to get the Nuggets treatment are Senegal, who join the hosts, the Dutch and Ecuador in a group that Richard, Rob and Adam expect them to escape, even if that is somewhat dependent on the fitness of Sadio Mane.

Plenty of Nuggets to get your teeth into here including their most famous World Cup performance against France in 2002. Richard also enlightens us on the regulations that may see Senegal miss out on qualification in a particularly cruel way for the second time in their history and we also go completely off-piste for a bit, which is always fun.

The latest quiz question and indeed all the quiz questions are now up and available on our blog, and as if you need reminding, you can buy World Cup Nuggets on the Halcyon site.

What do Saudi Arabia, Jimmy Hill and exorbitant amounts of nuggets have in common? They all feature in today's World Cup Nuggets Daily podcast - not quite in even amounts, but nevertheless, it's a diverse episode, to say the least.

Rob, Adam and Richard discuss Saudi Arabia's chances in a not-quite-Group of Death but nonetheless very tricky set of games, and speculate as to the precise length of Jimmy Hill's legacy on their football (if you've not heard the story, it's worth listening for that alone).

Richard also sets the next question in our World Cup Nuggets quiz, and the answer to the eventual tie breaker MIGHT be in this very episode. For all the questions just check out this page and for all the books up for grabs (and to buy Nuggets!), click here.

It's the turn of the hosts on today's World Cup Nuggets Daily and Richard, Adam and Rob are back to discuss whether or not Qatar are a glorified pub team or if a lengthy training camp under a manager of pedigree could see them spring a shock or two.

Either way a group stage exit looks likely, although opinion is slightly split over just how close it'll be. Richard also sets the latest question in our World Cup Nuggets Daily quiz.

To view what you could win if you enter/get the most questions right, and to browse all Halcyon books INCLUDING World Cup Nuggets, head over to our website.