Jonathan Clegg

They could afford PJs by then.

Yeah, I mean, I just I wonder if we should I wonder if we should talk a bit, though, about the 1998 thing that like that is really what sets up as like.

The vote for the 2006 tournament, right, Josh, is when there are suggestions that Sepp has tried to rig the vote so that it goes to South Africa.

Germany actually wins that tournament.

And FIFA responds by introducing this idea of World Cup rotation.

CEP is hoping to pave the way for South Africa to get the tournament because the U.S.

had hosted in 1994, and Asia had hosted in 2002, and Europe had hosted in 1998 and 2006.

So it seems Africa's turn, and Africa gets that tournament.

So what happens is in Zurich in December in 2010, the entire FIFA world descends on the FIFA headquarters in Zurich to award two World Cups.

And everyone is bidding.

This is the most competitive World Cup bidding process that there has ever been.

All the sort of like biggest soccer nations are trying to bid to host it.

There's England are bidding, Spain are bidding, the Netherlands are bidding, Russia was bidding.

The thought was that the first one was sure to go to Europe and the second one would go outside of Europe.

And the U.S.

was bidding.

U.S.

was strongly favored to get the 22 World Cup.

Australia bid on that one as well.

And there was a sort of quixotic and sort of rather, you know, easily dismissed bid from Qatar, which everyone thought was a sort of rank outsider and had no chance.