Barney Ronay

I mean, Senegal are here on a FIFA revenge mission, aren't they?

And they'll be powered by the

I guess, injustice of being stripped of the Afghan title, which they refuse to be stripped off.

And France are really interesting.

I mean, they there's a theory that

France would be much better off dropping Kylian Mbappe and basically playing the PSG front three with Michael Alisse instead of Karashvili.

But because Mbappe doesn't press, he's always a problem in teams that he's in.

They won't do that.

But I really like seeing teams who aren't England have this problem of too many celebrity players and trying to fit in people who just jam them all in there and we'll be fine.

It would be interesting to see how that works.

You can tell that Deschamps would really like to just have his front three pressing like mad.

But they have so much talent.

They have a good, solid midfield.

Spain didn't look very good.

So someone's going to have to stop France.

Yeah, I mean, I guess he's taking his lead from the, in a sense, from the Emir of Qatar, who also joined in the celebrations.

I mean, it's just preposterous, isn't it?

Why does he want to lift the World Cup?

what does it say it's a big gold shiny thing i imagine point c big gold shiny thing i i imagine that's why yeah you're suggesting he he's not a particularly humble individual i suppose it's probably true um yeah i mean that tells you all you really need to know i mean fifa have made great play of talking about

I mean, of denying that they're overtly associated with a single divisive political movement within the host who they've chosen.