Dan McDonnell

I think I wrote this at the time and the taxi driver stopped at the red light in Johannesburg and I was like, I think we're meant to get fatally attacked now, you know, because you have these sort of fears and these eyes in your head and, you know, Brazil had an element of that around.

I mean, Brazil, I know you were there as well for that one.

Like Russia,

A lot of this stuff was hanging around it.

And yeah, often the USA existed in the distance as this sort of like... At least we have that to look forward to.

At least you have this sort of apparent sort of sanctity there or something.

And obviously, no, there's a massive degree of apprehension around it, you know, and there's definitely going to be...

a lot going on you know and I think I saw something there as well like extreme heat waves been spoken about as well too and so the Club World Cup last summer you know there was real issues even in terms of just how notwithstanding the stuff that John mentioned there about just the pure treatment of supporters but even just the on the ground treatment of supporters you know and being ferried around the place and expensive yeah

cheap or sorry expensive sort of expensive tickets but in cheap transportation and bad situations so yeah it feels like you know I did see today I think Brazil like one of the beers in Brazil has put out like a World Cup ad that's like a throwback to the old sort of the great night ads in the day and

I just know for all that we are talking about this now, and I know in my head that when I'm there, I'm going to be covering lots of things that are nothing to do with football.

I still also know that the football is also going to come through as well, too.

It always does.

It always does.

Take the Khashoggi situation.

I was gripped watching that live press conference that day.

It was sublime stuff.

Get where they want to be.

That was the line, yeah.

I flicked it on last night and, you know, Carlos Ortiz over at the 12th and he chips the ball in.

It was one of those golf moments where they go to a random guy you haven't seen playing a shot from the trees.