Kristian (KJ) Jack

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OverDrive · OverDrive - July 8, 2026 - Hour 2 - Kristian Jack/Dwane Casey · 8 Jul 2026 podcast

And so I think that has been really great for the World Cup.

And as you alluded to it, just to be on our North American soil as well just makes it really special.

Here's what I make of it.

I put it in two different buckets.

One, the buckets, let's go with your three examples.

One of the buckets for me is how difficult the sport is to officiate.

And if we want the referees to be the experts in their field and then give them the video support to do so, once they've used that video support to do that, and they know the laws of the game way better than anybody, and they go out there and enforce those laws of the game using that video,

If that still does not go our way, you have to ask, why is it not going your way?

Is it not going your way because of the laws of the game do not support your argument?

Or is it not going your way because you necessarily didn't get the fact that you were able to keep a 2-0 lead?

Or you were able to not score a goal in the last second of a World Cup game to take it to extra time?

So for me, the idea that an official is going out of his way to support what FIFA wants to keep a certain player or a certain team in a tournament is ludicrous.

The second bucket is the Balogun situation.

Talking of ludicrous, an unprecedented strike by FIFA and their committee to allow a player who should have been suspended to play in a game.

that ultimately cost their team in a performance that was a shadow above everything else that they'd ever played in.

They were super in the group stages, they were very good in the last 32.

They looked like a team that carried the weight of a nation very easily.

I went to see them live in the World Cup and they looked like a team that could go out of it and handle a Belgium team that hadn't been great in this World Cup.

And in the end, they completely melted down.

So, you know, the entire world being against them.

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