Mark Langdon

And, you know, there's a kind of heavy contingent of Sundowns players.

But I saw their coach was complaining they've arrived later than they wanted to in the US due to.

visa issues for some of their players that he was unhappy with and probably not the only country that's kind of going through that at the moment which is suboptimal you would have thought for you know a world cup i read somewhere that any south african fans who want to travel to the states have to go to the american embassy in pretoria

I mean, Jesse Marsh is quite a positive person.

I think everyone would agree that.

Some Ted Lasso vibes, aren't there?

There are Lasso vibes, aren't there?

There definitely are.

He is talking a good game.

I mean, the general view is that this is the best Canadian team ever.

Unlike Barry, I thought that they did do well four years ago.

They just struggled to put the ball in the net.

I'm not saying they didn't.

it was it was a long time it is crazy because like we'd never talk about a kind of you know in terms of form you'd never go back four years to discuss a team that was playing in the Premier League and yeah it's what we do at the World Cup but they they were unfortunate um

back in Qatar because they played well but just struggled to make the most of their opportunities like I agree that this is quite a balanced group I would expect Switzerland to win it but then that kind of second spot I think is there for Canada's taking and then just in terms of the question I think that all three host nations of you know I expect them all to qualify and I wouldn't be that amazed if they made the last 16 all three of them and then

From there, who knows, maybe even one of them gets to the quarterfinals.

I think that home advantage has potentially been slightly underrated.

I just think that it is going to be a very foreign tournament for a lot of teams.

Yeah, very surprised that they came through those playoffs, first of all.

I expected them to lose to Wales in Cardiff, and Italy shot themselves in the foot as well with the red card.