Martin Ziegler

Well, I think it is a World Cup bingo.

I remember in South Africa in 2010, the Jabulani, that was a similar thing.

Yeah, I mean, I think Joe Hart, he's been talking about it a lot, but actually other goalkeepers have as well.

Hugo Lloris, for example, he's mentioned it.

There's actually an academic paper produced by South Korean and Japanese academics, which has looked at this.

It does say that there is this nature of the ball that

bizarrely, at a certain speed, it can actually speed up.

It's something to do with the drag and the turbulence.

And maybe that's what's catching goalkeepers out, that they're expecting it to come.

And then it suddenly zips a little bit faster towards them, which obviously would be quite alarming if you're a goalkeeper.

Yeah.

It's probably not the worst thing in the world for football as a sort of spectator sport, is it?

Seeing these sort of stunning girls from outside the area.

And maybe, you know, players might be more tempted to have a strike from distance instead of a sort of more concerted build-up.

But from the goalkeeper's point of view, nobody would like it at all.

I think it's interesting... Sorry.

I was...

No, it's interesting that actually there's been a complete redesign of the ball in terms of the number of panels.

There's only four panels on this ball.

And if you think back to Qatar four years ago, there were 20 panels on that ball.