Craig Burley

in any way shape or form, I don't know.

Probably not.

But why else would he say that?

You know, it's just, you're almost saying to your players,

Listen, you just can't have an opinion on anything.

Stick to sports.

Just stick to what our narrative is and don't comment on anything else.

That's not the way the world has ever operated and it certainly doesn't operate that way now with the social media platforms and the vast way to get news out there.

So I just don't... I'm with Nadim.

I'm really surprised at this.

I mean, he could have handled this a different way.

He could have went, well, you know...

Pochettino that is, he could have said, well, you know, to be fair, it has been a big talking point and we're hoping FIFA will address it because we want, particularly the American fans, the paying public, to be able to go to the game in their thousands because it's very affordable.

And what we want is affordability.

It's a very simple way to answer it if you engage your brain rather than coming out and it's going to be interesting going forward if any of the other US men's national team players talk in any other subjects around the World Cup that are not involved on an actual playing perspective and whether Mauricio Pochettino tries to come down on them as he has to a certain extent on Timothy Weir.

There's going to be more U.S.

fans at games than you'd imagine in any other country.

I would imagine there's going to be a lot of influx from different nations, even with all the sort of stuff that's going on at the moment.

Come the summer, there'll be a huge influx of foreign nationals supporting their team.

But I would imagine...