Damien O'Mara

But the World Cup is taking place in America where his players are used to playing.

I think if it was the Irish lads that were over there in the heat of some of these conditions, we'd only be too happy.

On the commercial side of it,

Listen, anyone who watched the match on RT television last night, Richie Sadler was one of the pundits.

He was critical of the breaks.

Miguel Delaney, who I know you've had on the programme in the past, football writer with The Independent in London, he tweeted about watching it on Fox TV in the States.

how they'd taken an ad break during the hydration breaks.

And he just had a plethora of responses of people from all over the world who were saying that their local broadcasters had as well.

So I think it's part and parcel of it.

You would hope player welfare is the primary goal, but the fact that it's a three-minute break would indicate that maybe somebody somewhere in FIFA went, geez, this would be a good chance to get the sponsors another mention.

Look, listen, this is one of the great complexities of this thing, David.

It's going to take 72 games to eliminate 12 teams.

So, you know, it'll roll on.

I think by the time we get to the business end of it, like the round of 16 onwards, it's going to get very, very competitive.

We need a couple of big stories, either a real dark horse to come through or one of the big teams to suffer a defeat early on.

I think by the end of it, it's going to be very clichéd.

I think we're looking at...

France, Spain, potentially Argentina if they can repeat what they did four years ago.

But you've got the USA and Canada making their debuts tonight.

I don't think either of them are going to be left standing towards the tail end of the tournament.