Gary Lineker
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Not sure.
In terms of the football, I'm looking forward to it.
The world's a little bit bonkers at the moment, particularly over the pond.
I've covered so many World Cups and I've been to them as well.
And all the talk before the World Cups is always about the issues and possible issues.
And, you know, we had Russia, didn't we?
It was in Russia.
It was in Russia in 2018.
And it was just a few years after Putin obviously invaded Crimea.
And then we got...
Even before that, you've got 2014 in Brazil, where there were mass demonstrations right around the country saying, we shouldn't be spending all this money on stadiums, we should be doing it on the people and the health service and all that sort of thing.
Then you've got 22 with Qatar and LGBTQ rights.
So there's always something building up to the World Cup.
I mean, it was then.
I don't know whether that's changed now.
And building of the stadiums, people losing their lives.
So there were, you know, and a bit of talk of corruption about when they got the bid.
So this World Cup, we go into it and, you know,
America's been attacking one or two countries, which will make it interesting.
But I find from my experience of these World Cups that once it starts, we concentrate on the football and it's all's well with the world again.