Joey Durso

Yeah.

And if they're a massive, I mean, a big thing, the whole ICE immigration stuff in the US.

And when Latin American teams win the World Cup, the culture is to have massive street parties.

You know, they were doing that in Qatar, in Russia or wherever else.

But there'll be Colombians, Mexicans.

And will that be an opportunity to round up undocumented people?

I don't know.

It could be.

So in the Club World Cup last year, which America hosted as a sort of trial event for, which was sort of beset by problems, but also I don't think a massive failure, I think kind of worked.

But, well, sort of logistically, not necessarily, no one in Europe was interested in the football particularly.

But they posted on an official account, you know, we're going to be outside the stadiums checking, you know, basically immigration.

And then they had to delete that.

I think it slightly depends on what the football throws up because the Qatar World Cup final happened to be possibly the best football match of all time, which was certainly useful to Qatar.

And when the Emir of Qatar put that robe on Messi, which was bizarre, but fundamentally people just wanted to talk about the match.

Whereas you look back at previous tournaments, the World Cup finals are often dreadful because no one wants to lose.

So people are really defensive.

So I think that's partly down to it.

But I think another interesting part of it, which makes this tournament different, is that the US is forced to confront its own mediocrity because the football team is not any good and won't, you know, if they get to the quarterfinals of the round of 16, that'd be an amazing result.

The US will not win it.

And it's kind of the only sphere in the world where the US is a bit rubbish and could, when we get thrashed by Uruguay or Portugal.