Jonathan Wilson

And he was saying one of the problems is it's not really a culture of grassroots football.

And that still hasn't started.

It hasn't begun.

So if you want to play, basically your parents have to pay for you to join a club.

And that, A, means a lot of people who are playing tend to be middle class.

There's a whole load of people who just can't afford it.

But, B, if you've paid, I don't know how much it costs, $500, $1,000 a year for your kid to be playing there...

At the end of the year, you go to the coaches and say, well, how have you made my kid better?

And positional awareness or first touch or technical ability, it's very hard to measure that.

What you can measure is sprinting speed, what weights are they lifting.

So the focus is very much on the physical side of the game.

And then you look at somebody like Christian Pulisic, you can see physically he's great.

Is he good at doing anything other than running in straight lines?

Yeah.

Probably what we've seen before.

I think Qatar, one of the reasons football was so good was precisely because it was in the winter.

I mean, 20, 25 degrees, it's fine.

Whereas this, which could be talking 35 degrees, high humidity.

I think also Qatar, the football was benefited because people who played in Europe were only halfway through the season and not knackered at the end of the season.

So Anthony Barry, Thomas Tickle's assistant, he was talking about a heat-proof game model.