Archie Rhind-Tutt

You think, yeah, something is not right.

And I felt at first I laughed when I saw Elias Skiri's own goal, because that's the natural thing to do, I think, when you see that.

But then, to be honest, that laughter turned to sadness because I thought he's not really to blame for all of this.

And they're having to continually carry the can for, yeah, a weak federation above them.

The second conclusion I take, which is speaking to fans and journalists from so many countries ahead of this World Cup, I realise it's just...

It's a real minority who is happy with their National Football Federation.

I get that by their nature, they're difficult things to run and difficult to please everybody because you're having to represent so many parts of the country and obviously there's a pressure for success, but...

There was just so many poorly run ones that it seems to be a criticism of so many teams where things have gone wrong.

And it doesn't seem to land with the coach that there's so much which is going on higher up.

Kind of like the Euros, in that started by thrashing a team, and then after that, things got a little bit tighter in each game.

There's a big subplot going on, which you might not have heard about, where Jurgen Klopp...

is an expert on Magenta TV, which is showing all the games in Germany.

And right at the start of the tournament, when they were discussing with Thomas Müller, who should be in the Germany team, Klopp made a throwaway comment where he said, look, thankfully, Julian Nilsson is picking the team for now.

And then he kind of...

He kind of laughed.

Did he then look at the camera and wink?

For now.

He kind of did.

He kind of did.

But the thing is, is that in Germany, that initiated a firework.