Gab Marcotti

your tickets.

I wonder how many of those requests are just Billy Bob, right?

You know, some nerd writes a program and then the bot just keeps applying for tickets.

And so, so, you know, there's, there's a lot of things that we have 4 billion in the bank.

You're going to make a ton of money off this world cup.

You'll be able to redistribute the money.

He even went so far in the, this was back at the globe soccer speech.

I'm going back a while, but he came out and he said that there's about 150 nations in the world that wouldn't be playing football if it wasn't for FIFA support.

Now, I will say there's 150 nations in the world where FIFA plays an integral part in giving them money and funding the game and helping the women's team, youth football and so on.

I'm pretty sure they would still be playing football even without FIFA.

So I don't know why he needs to lay it on so thick.

Well, under-promise and over-deliver.

That's all you have to do.

Jules, you like awards for individual players much more than I do.

Are you sad that FIFA's coveted the best award will now be run not by FIFA, but by the Dubai Sports Council?

Because you get to vote in the Bravo.

Yeah, I think it's like a licensing deal for a certain amount of time.

They're going to run it.

You got the sense that maybe FIFA were just too busy, but the last FIFA The Best Award, which was held in Doha around the Club World Cup,

There were no media there.