The England Coach Carrying Heartbreak Into World Cup ’26 | Justin Cochrane (E410)

This week on high performance, the England coach carrying personal heartbreak all the way to the World Cup. If there was a life going well scale from 0 to 100 when I was in the mid-90s, everything was going well. I signed a new contract at Brentford, my three sons, it was just beautiful. I got a phone call to say it's come back as cancerous. There was like two existing emotions at the same time.

One of hope, okay, we're going to beat this, and one of reality that the statistics say that it's unlikely you live past 12 months. And the angels come in and said, mummy might die. The truth is mummy might die, but you've got each other, you've got the best dad that can take care of you. And it was the worst day of my life. Justin, welcome to the show.

Thank you for having me. So look, you're part of Thomas Ooh's backroom team as we gear up for a World Cup. How are you feeling? Yeah, just extremely excited, looking forward to the 1st of June when we fly out and looking forward to going with the team on this this World Cup journey where fingers crossed, things go our way, maybe we have an opportunity to win some silverware. It'll be very, very tricky, very tough, but ultimately just looking forward to it.

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