John Sopel

Don't belittle him.

He's won the first ever FIFA Peace Prize.

And look, the World Cup is just over a month away.

And invariably, in advance of these huge international tournaments, there are the odd glitches and things that are going wrong.

But what's happening in America right now is...

It talks to FIFA.

It talks to America.

And it's a pretty unhappy combination.

I mean, just as kind of the one example that stands out about the way that fans are going to be ripped off is that this normally $12 train fare return from Penn Station in New York to the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey is now going to cost $150 or $160 during the World Cup.

It's about 20 miles.

And that applies to kids and seniors alike.

They're all going to have to pay $160 just to get out to a stadium.

And there are complex reasons for it.

But the fans are going to be absolutely royally screwed by this World Cup.

And then you've got the whole issue of certain nations, not whose fans won't be able to get there.

You've got the issue of whether people...

Unallowed to get there.

Banned from getting there.

And who can possibly afford to go to a World Cup in the way that people have done, you know, at previous World Cups, where it hasn't been that prohibitive, but the costs are astronomical.

This is all spiralling out of control about FIFA imagining itself to be this kind of supranational body that is above any nation state, that you can charge whatever you like for tickets, that you can make whatever amounts of money that are available.