Barney Ronay

There are so many ways of describing it.

There's so much detail.

And to be fair, you could feel the Fox commentators and pundits trying so hard to communicate this.

They obviously understood this, even though they're Americans.

And they understood this and trying so hard to communicate to their viewers that what they're watching is incredible.

Don't turn off, don't turn off.

No one's scoring.

Please don't turn off.

At one point, the commentator called Lamin Yamal a super duper star, just to make the point that he's a real star and this guy's having to mark him.

But you get what he's trying to say.

He's really trying to explain that this is important to someone.

It's like really, really trying to explain to a classroom of 11 year olds why they need to read every single volume of Proust because it's really interesting.

And and they did it.

They did a good job.

And hopefully the kind of romance of the stories, the players, the backstories kind of communicates itself because this is the kind of game that makes people fall in love with football.

Well, I watched this game with Lars Siversen in a bar while eating a really, really massive burger.

And while Lars told me a story about Thomas Myra doing his...

Everton medical in the nude being forced to remove his pants in a room with a really old man at the top of the terraced house I'm just being made to do the splits and take everything off because there's an example of how primitive English football so my mind just kind of reeling with burger Lars naked Thomas Myra take your pants off while I was watching this so that's kind of similarly

All I really took from it.

I'm always impressed by the athleticism and energy of Saudi Arabia.