George Hamilton

But don't stipulate it's going to be at 22 minutes.

The referee is going to blow his whistle and say water break, which is not in the spirit of the laws of the game, to my mind.

I do.

I think it's very fair.

I can't believe what I'm reading about what it's going to cost to get from Manhattan to New Jersey to see the matches, you know, jacking up the ticket prices.

Unashamed gouging is what it appears to be.

And I think back to, for instance, the World Cup in Germany in 2006, where one of the sponsors they got on board was Deutsche Bahn, the railway company.

And everybody had subsidised travel basically around Germany because the railway company was making sure that the fans could travel for a reasonable fare.

And what they did with people who were accredited like ourselves, we got free travel around the venues.

Absolutely.

Yes, and when you realise at every turn that somebody's putting the arm in because they can.

And that's sad.

It really is sad.

And the very fact that it's... If we look at where the World Cups have been in one country, like Germany, or like Spain, or like Italy, it's possible to kind of...

condense the spirit of the World Cup and it becomes part of that country's life.

I mean, the Italians called it Un'estate Italiana, an Italian summer.

That was the catchphrase they put to the World Cup.

What are we going to call this, an American summer?

What are the Mexicans going to say about that?

Or the Canadians, especially the Canadians.