Miguel Delaney

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The Pat Kenny Show · Miguel Delaney On The World Cup · 13 Jun 2026 podcast

The World Cup is still the World Cup.

Once the football takes off, people are drawn into storylines.

You can't get a book get captivated by it.

On the other side of that, FIFA obviously makes a calculation that once the football starts, all the pre-game issues go away.

I don't necessarily think that's the

case, though, A, because I suppose they've written that there's so much, there's so many politics swirling around this, not least how the Democrats almost see FIFA as a fragile or a vulnerable point for Donald Trump because of the proximity, but also because some of these issues have continued right in.

I mean, at the Korea-Czech Republic game, which I suppose had a bit of an interest for Ireland, given the checks that knocked us out,

of the qualifiers.

There were swathes of empty seats and this after so much controversy over ticket prices.

And then you've got this new controversy, which speaks to a lot of the issues around this World Cup and just how much of it has been about revenue and just how greedy FIFA have become, which is, I know there's been a bit of it in Ireland, but it's so conspicuous here in the US, which is ads during the water breaks for games.

Yeah, and even America here, I have to say, I mean, first of all, is really conspicuous on Fox, which is showing the majority of the games, I think.

And for only the second water break here, they came back after the football has started, which is inevitably going to happen just because of the way these things go.

And it would serve people right if they missed the goal or something like that.

And also, despite, I suppose, an expectation that American audiences would be used to this, given, you know, sometimes with basic half-hour TV shows, there's four commercials,

break in that time there's been real fury about it because I think it's just it is even before you get to anti-football arguments which I think it is there's also a bit of basic experience where it just takes you out of the game and like in the second half in particular given it's 22 minutes in let's get into the crunch point of a match especially if it's tight it takes you out of it and it does change the rhythm of the game as well

but that's an evasive argument though because I mean no one is saying players shouldn't have water breaks I mean we had them in like the 2014 World Cup Louis van Gaal famously used them to make a tactical change and swing a game against Mexico for the Netherlands and

It's the fact the brakes themselves are being used for commercials.

So if you're watching on TV at home, it literally takes you out of it, given people are leaving the room, but also it cuts away from the stadium.

If they were standing there for two minutes and you were still seeing the live scene, that's different, because you're still absorbing the game.

There's still discussion going on.

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