2014-06-14
12 分钟Hello, and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish presents the World Cup of Facts.
This is the only World Cup podcast out there that makes absolutely no mention of football whatsoever.
Brought to you by the QI Elves in association with visitinglun.com.
My name is Dan Schreiber and I am joined by James Harkin,
Anna Czazinski and Andy Murray and today's match is Uruguay versus Costa Rica.
Let's begin with Uruguay.
I've got a fact, it's actually the only fact I've got about football for any country I've researched.
Wait a minute, this is supposed to be a non-football football contest.
Ok, I hope you just heard the intro.
I'll dress it up as a newspaper fact.
The first time that Uruguay won the World Cup, 1930, the fact was not even reported in the Times.
That is how little esteemed sports news was then.
So they're just really aloof.
They might be fantastic at football.
They are actually pretty good, aren't they?
Well actually they are very good at football
because they've managed to win the World Cup twice despite having a tiny population.
What was it Andy?
You were saying?
It's three and a half million, which is about the same as the West Midlands.