Miguel Delaney

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

But if you take it out for, as here in America, yet another ad featuring Christian Pulisic or David Beckham, like it's...

It's not the feel of a World Cup game.

And you'd wonder as well, if you get to the final or the semifinals, these really epic, intense games, where you are getting to historic stakes of that, and you're cutting away again for an ad for Lay's Crisps or something like that, it's not what this is supposed to feel like.

Look, he kind of weighs over everything because I suppose one erratic decision from Trump

could basically cause chaos.

Now, from speaking to people around FIFA and all that, they would say chaos has actually been caused by almost a lack of decision from Trump because FIFA's argument of why Infantino is so craven to him, why he's always at Trump events, why he's in the Oval Office more than any kind of political leader, is basically that because of Trump's personality, he needs to be kind of played to all the time.

But despite that, FIFA have basically got no concessions out of him.

They've got no help on any of the major issues.

The biggest obviously being

Iran, who are facing a disadvantage in how they have to travel for games this tournament.

And most conspicuously, just before the tournament started, the visa issues, especially with the referee Omar Artan.

So already Trump, in this case, his kind of lack or his administration's lack of action or lack of help for FIFA has already caused exactly this chaos they were fearing.

I mean, I would have been tempted to say the empty seats, just because of the picture that painted.

There's a lot of them from the Korea-Czech game.

I suppose the greater frustration there is that we know that had Ireland qualified, those seats would have been filled.

I think Ireland would have had a decent chance, although Korea were good, to be fair.

But I think...

It already feels this commercial break issue during the hydration breaks, it's growing and growing.

And the fact there's fury about it in America, where FIFA would have presumed that this is just accepted, that feels a little bit of a change.

And this comes amid kind of...

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