John Bruin

Yeah, I watched the Harlan show, but I couldn't stay up for the Messi show last night.

It's pushing it to stay up all night.

It's tough going.

If you've got a job as well, that's the difficult part.

Are we to start switching the conspiracies about this?

I don't know if you saw the footage of when Messi's going for his hat-trick and has a shot saved, we cut to Gianni Infantino with a big smile on his face because Messi scoring a hat-trick, well, that washes away quite a bit of the

controversy, doesn't it?

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, spectacular strikes, weren't they?

Just incredible.

For a man of his advancing years, he has managed to pare down football to a series of, yeah, scoring spectacular goals.

Yes, absolutely.

Though I should say, it should be mentioned, he probably should have been sent off before this.

So, yeah, Messi scores a hat trick and stories of the treatment of the

That's right.

iran team having to fly out of the us on the day of the game that drops down the the you know the sidebar of shame or whatever doesn't it and there and therefore we we talk about messy we talk about record breaking we talk about world cup legacy and stuff like that um this is it football the the brilliance of some of the football played at world cups and the brilliance of the world cup uh

And are we to start switching the conspiracies about this?

I don't know if you...

If you saw the footage of when Messi's going for his hat trick and has a shot saved, we cut to Gianni Infantino with a big smile on his face because Messi scoring a hat trick, well, that washes away quite a bit of the controversy, doesn't it?

It was put to me that the sport washes itself, doesn't it?