Barry Glendenning

On the subject of Canada, Thomas Partey has been denied entry.

to canada will not be available for ghana's first world cup game in toronto on wednesday he was charged with five counts of rape and one count of sexual assault in july 2025 by the metropolitan police pleaded not guilty he now plays for villa real he was subsequently charged with two new counts of rape in february also pleaded not guilty he was allowed to enter the us with the rest of ghana's squad on the 4th of june has been a training camp in boston

uh they're in the same group as england kickoff against panama and a statement on friday fifa confirmed that his visa application had been rejected by the canadian government rob harris from sky news reporting that u.s u.s authorities said the u.s is aware of the pending court case for mr party however at the time he has not been convicted of a crime and was admitted to the u.s after being issued a visa because the court proceedings are active in the uk we can report what's happened but we can't discuss the story

All right.

Well, that'll do for part two.

Part three, we'll look ahead to tomorrow's games.

Welcome to part three of the Guardian Football Weekly.

So Qatar, Switzerland, Brazil, Morocco, Haiti, Scotland and Australia, Turkey.

There are some big games.

We've touched on Qatar, Switzerland, not the biggest game of the day, which Seb, I'd say Brazil, Morocco is almost the first really big game we have in this tournament, right?

Yeah.

What merit in coming second or third?

I don't know.

We'd make the previews long.

That's true, right.

Scotland begin their first World Cup since 1998 against Haiti.

And obviously because Brazil and Morocco are in their group, Barry, and we've talked about it before, it is a big...

It's a big game for them.

I mean, they should be confident, right?

You've done some Haiti research and I don't want to write them off, but Scotland have to win this game.