Matt Cooper

Now it's going to 48 teams, which means that with 16 extra teams, 40 extra games, 104 games, even for those of us who've always loved World Cups, is that too much?

I think there were probably more UEFA teams back when there were 24 now than there are with 48.

And as Dave Hannigan pointed out last week, that's why we're going to have the beauty of Congo versus Uzbekistan.

You'll be staying up to watch that, will you?

What time is that on?

Does it matter what time it's on?

I don't know.

Miguel, what do you think?

Are there too many games in this?

Particularly when you actually think, on a more serious note as well, the demands this is going to put on the players.

Heat and altitude, travel, an awful lot of perhaps even exhausted players coming into the end of club seasons who are going to have to add an enormous amount of minutes unless they're managed very carefully by their coaches.

You'll get there from Mexico against England, I think, is it, in the round of 32 or 16?

But Dion, when you talk about getting excited, I wonder how excited are they really in Iran, for example, about having to play their three games in the United States, being discriminated against in the sense they're not allowed to bring a large number of their backroom staff with them, and being told they have to fly in on the day of the match and fly out immediately afterwards.

Again, why didn't FIFA just switch their games to Mexico or Canada to get around that?

He did it in Russia he did it in Qatar and he's doing his giant suck up act again

And if the results go a certain way, they could meet.

Can you imagine if they played each other?

Can you imagine if we got to it?

We'd be all up watching it at two in the morning, whatever time it's on at.

Well, everyone would, and everyone, I'm not... It'd be bigger than the Super Bowl.