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But I suppose Haaland, as Ken mentioned there, yeah, he's definitely going to be one.

I think it's Norway's first World Cup in 28 years.

So given that he's scored 16 goals

in just eight games of qualifying I think he'll definitely be one as well to watch out if they do manage to progress along the tournament obviously they're not one of the favourites but he could stand out and yeah as we mentioned Lamal as well whether he'll be good to go coming off the back of an injury Neymar is coming off an injury as well a groin injury recently for Brazil so

You know, people would be tipping him to be one of the stars too, but it'd be hard to see if he's not at 100% how well he can perform.

But I think the Portuguese midfield as well, the PSG duo of Neves and Vitinha as well, they just won the World Cup last weekend with PSG.

Sorry, the Champions League with PSG.

They'll be hoping to see if they could top that with the World Cup too, but definitely their midfield will be one to watch out for.

Yeah, they really are.

When things are going right, they're flying it and I suppose they're praising the team.

But if England were to have a poor start even in the opening game, you'd wonder will it backfire against them.

They've been close in recent times, but I suppose they will be hoping that this could be their year and it would be really big if they were to do it.

Yeah exactly no definitely I think we will be cheering both of those on and I suppose it gives us something to look out for just given that there are so many games at least we can narrow them down and kind of have an Irish interest in at least the group games Ghana and Cape Verde it'll be

Yeah, it really will be.

Logistically, it's just a bit of a nightmare.

I mean, if we were even before we qualified, if we were to qualify, I was looking up and I think Irish, like Czechia now, they'll have to travel about 5,000 kilometres even just in their group games.

And even the stadiums themselves aren't easy to get to.

Like the one in Boston, Gillette Stadium, or they're going to call it Boston Stadium now for the tournament.

It's an hour on the train from Boston and even hiring a car in Boston

won't be the option for many fans because the parking has actually been drastically reduced at a lot of these stadiums mainly due to security but also because hospitality it's been reduced in that Boston stadium by 75% so it's gone from 20,000 parking spaces to only 5,000 spaces for