Keith Treacy

probably favourable from the England perspective and maybe it helps the players too, is that if there's anybody who's going to be the scapegoat of this, the easiest one is the old enemy, the German manager that they've got.

So that's the outcard that all the players have.

They know they won't get any blame for anything that happens at this World Cup.

It's all going to fall on Thomas Tuchel.

Morocco are 50 to 1, to answer your earlier question.

You give us direction here, and I'd take... Will we talk about the elephant in the papers for five minutes?

The Ireland...

Yeah, get them off.

we don't need to be looking at that I am fascinated by things like that though like is Sam Allardyce doing that arts and crafts in his office in preparation for the game I know he would give the nod plaster that everywhere and the young apprentices would have had to go and do the heavy lifting but

kind of moves it elsewhere and it moves it on to being more of a sporting story as well because I mean we spoke about the morality of this game in depth on the show multiple times at this stage but in terms of like the sporting context of this essentially what is now happening is Ireland having a away game which should be a home game and I presume that the reason that it's in Hungary is that Hungary is the only country that will take this fixture but

Israel have been playing their home games in Hungary for the last year or two.

So essentially Ireland have forfeited home advantage here to play in a stadium that Israel have been playing their home games.

So this is a competitive game.

This isn't just like a meaningless friendly.

In my eyes, I see this as UEFA and FIFA are okay with fairness being tossed out the window here when it comes to this fixture.

Because I guess they're saying that this is the bed that Ireland have made taking a stance on the Israel situation.

I don't know where sporting integrity comes into it.

Should Ireland have to forfeit home advantage in this game?

Could they not play it behind closed doors in Ireland?

Is that not the same as Ireland forfeiting a home advantage game?