Piney's Power Rankings: Lawson's points streak ends and Argentina fumbles FIFA victory

Every Monday, Jason Pine ranks the best and worst sporting moments from the week that was - and everything in between.

This week, he talked about the final games of the FIFA World Cup, record breaking runs, and Liam Lawson's F1 points streak coming to an end. 

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Speaker 1 (00:06):
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
Okay, let's rake the weekend, shall we? As we always
do on Monday night? Pinety's power rankings, The Best, the Worst,
the year between bits from the last seventy two hours
or so. Ten Gentina with one of the worst displays
via football team, if you can call them that in
a World Cup final ever, becomes the sixth clirst we

(00:41):
said off at a World top final. And not just that,
not a single shot at goal in one hundred and
six minutes of that final. But fowls a niggle like
you've never seen. Thank god they didn't win. Nine. We're
still at the World Cup, the third place playoff between
England and France.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Race is going to have a crap, is going to
start Bryce into the back of the night.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Francs this is in seventeen's greater. It's a circus. He's
in great chance. They've got two their conference again, stay world,
Kyle Patrick for the cal sucker. They found it quite four.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
Is it going to be number six? Oh? You pad?

Speaker 2 (01:24):
It is defense totally optional in that game. It was
rather entertaining, though cheat Liam Lawson. His streak of Formula
One points finishers has ended at five after he finished
twelfth across the forty four laps at the Belgian Grand
Prix this morning.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
Every single will like Carl Ballad today I was. I
lost them fear less, baked up with traits.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
I don't know what else like it was meant to do.
But yeah, yeah, Liam, I know there was something not trait.
I agree with you.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
It's actually an unhappy outing. But Liam Lawson does remain
tenth in the Drivers Championship seven. The Warriors fending off
the Dragons twenty twelve in a scrappy effident mount Smart
to reclaim second on the latter and we'll do that.
The Warriors come away with the w Next up the
Bulldogs away on Saturday Nights six. The black Caps beating

(02:19):
the West Indies by one wicket in the fourth One
Day Cricket International of their five match series in Barbados,
and its pittory for New Zealand and off.

Speaker 4 (02:29):
The bat of their captain Mitsatner, who has pled a captain.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Snott in New Zealand, chasing down one hundred and eighty
nine with just over five and a half overs to spare.
To secure the series three to one with a game
to spare five the All Blacks at five three from
three in the Nation's Championship and their best outing of
the year on Saturday Nights.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
Fifty three straight for the All Blacks at Etam Park
forty twenty one.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
Yeah, goodwin over Ireland. Next up off to South Africa
for the Greatest Rivalry Tour.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
Four.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
New Zealand sprinter Andagra Mardy warming up for the Glass
Commonwealth Games winning bronze and justice second ever Diamond League meet.

Speaker 4 (03:11):
Yeah, I'm how over, I'm really happy. It was such
a goodsphere out there, Like the crowd were waving at
us and cheering at us as we will pass it
on the way out to the blocks, and I think
taking the time to enjoy that rather than just like
fully being like hyper focused on the race, I think
that really helped me be able to be like.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
Isn't on the start line Anagramwally's time of twelve point
five nine seconds, within point three of a second of
her New Zealand record in the t forty seven one
hundred meters se Staying with the track, British runner Josh
Kerr smashing the twenty seven year old mark in the
mean smile at that same Diamond League meet in London,

(03:46):
and surely he's going to break the run record.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
He does best the world record, just try.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
It takes down what he has been relating since late March.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
That is what you would call the busiest wooden record
in the history of real distance race.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
Josh Kirk clocking three minutes forty two points six seconds,
bettering the time set by Moroccan great Hesham el Garusian
nineteen ninety nine by almost half a second to Spain.
FIFA World Cup winners Spain half seased second star got

(04:24):
chings of Europe have toker the world here, the best
team across the tournament and worthy champions this year one
who else? Who else could it possibly be but the fantastic,
fabulous right Fox he has it, Ryan Fox, chunkin Dolphin

(04:49):
of the Year, just tremendous. I'm told it was Andrew
Aldison this morning, Andy who let out a yelp of
delight with Wendy Peter in the background.

Speaker 3 (04:59):
Who was both of them love it, love it into
the Andrew Ordison Live commentary mode. Wendy was a little
we don't have time to play the full audio sadly,
but Wendy was so excited she forgot that she still
had to read the weather.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
Ah.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
The pause of silence, the composer, sorry, you've just got
to get my brief back.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
Goes to show the magnitude of the achievement. And I
can throw utter professionals like Andrew Ordison who commentated it live,
and Wendy Victory off and it's quite something.

Speaker 3 (05:34):
My only issue finally with us is Ryan isn't two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,
nine or ten as well.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
Noted Pinty's Power Inkings Back next Monday.

Speaker 1 (05:44):
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