Dan McDonald

In the city, Jesse Marsh was speaking at it.

But, you know, the Canadian fan culture, the chants, it's not going to be seen as comparable with, I don't know, the Bosnian send-off or you see the Paraguay stuff.

There's a huge interest in football.

The participation levels are high.

I think the viewership for it is high.

but maybe not that sort of passion that would be inspired by, you know, the Blue Jays doing something here or whatever it might be.

So they need to start well and then it might take off.

But there is a lot of, I mean, the news coverage here is very much 50-50 between sort of a degree of positivity, but also, you know, politicians go, hmm, hmm, what have we done here?

It made sense.

And I actually have found it interesting to sort of, to see this aspect of the competition and how they're sort of, you know, sort of gripped with some kind of weird question marks over their involvement in it before then, you know, moving on to the other stuff.

Yeah.

Well, I mean, as I said, it's easy to say it now, but it's so obvious that the game could never take place in Dublin, really.

And I started to doubt myself when they were starting to talk about it.

Look, the FAI have been crippled by indecision with this, right?

From...

they won.

They've just been terrified of the whole thing.

And, like, there's obviously been, you know, it's bad luck to get Israel in the draw.

Like, it is.

Like, you have to acknowledge that.