Gary Lineker

You take it on to Russia, I remember they'd invaded Crimea just a couple of years before that, and that was a massive issue.

Even going back to Qatar and you had the LGBTQ rights and people dying making the stadiums and there was uproar over those sort of things.

And now we've got another one.

Now I just hope somehow we can get peace and the world gets a bit more stable.

But obviously at the moment it's...

you know what I mean this is this is what we do this is what we like to talk about but the politics is dictating what we are talking about which is this is very sad you know yeah it's impossible to keep you know people say you should separate sport and politics you can't because it's it's everything it's all consuming politics is involved in everything so I don't know let's hope it I mean I've got a feeling that

I think he'll just pull out and claim victory shortly.

But I mean, this is going to do massive damage to that area for a long time to come.

But in terms of football and the World Cup, hopefully it all calms down.

And normally the World Cup, once they start, everyone focuses on the football.

If only tribalism was left to football, just not everything else in life.

Yeah.

Worrying times, but hopefully, hopefully peace will come soon.

On that note, goodbye from me.

Goodbye from me.

Laminia Mal stepped up with another exquisite finish.

I saw Pep Guardiola interviewed and they were saying, how do the pressures compare of managing a club in England to managing one of the giants in Spain?

And he said, it is a thousand times more difficult in Spain.

Hello and welcome to the Rest is Football La Liga episode with Alex Algier and me, Gary Lineker.

Alex, as is customary, you are once again, it seems, in a hotel room.