Matt Cooper

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.

Miguel, I'm going to play a clip of Infantino yesterday from his press conference where at least he didn't start saying that he was a migrant and that he was gay like you said back three and a half years ago in Qatar.

But he had this response to the news that the Somali referee Omar Artan had been denied entry to the United States ahead of the World Cup.

Miguel, when a man tells you he's doing his best behind the scenes, does that indicate he's actually doing shag all?

Sorry, Miguel, you made a really interesting point as well during the week about how when Indonesia refused to allow an Israeli team have visas for the World Under-20 tournament, Infantino was able to act on that.

Okay, I just see as well, we've got news this afternoon as well, is that Somali referee who's been barred from the World Cup has been appointed by UEFA to officiate at the Super Cup in August.

Okay, the other thing, Miguel, before we get to the tournament games themselves and what teams might win the thing, the fans from Ireland had a great experience there in 1994.

I was lucky enough to be over there as well for it, and it was a terrific experience.

But it seems that...

grift is everywhere in relation to this World Cup.