Miguel Delaney
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1,834 appearances
19 recordings
7 series
first heard Jan 2026
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I mean, Iran are at an obvious disadvantage now.
Senegal have been talked up as classic dark horses, potential outsiders, maybe not to win it, but to go really far.
They've been subjected to the humiliation of a tarmac security check.
And also, it's not like FIFA wouldn't have been kind of given forewarning on this.
I mean, one of Trump's executive orders was even referenced to as the Muslim bans.
All of these
these issues relate to Muslim countries.
And so, yeah, it could, there are bigger political issues here, especially as regards to what the World Cup is supposed to be about, but it could also affect the way this World Cup goes.
Yeah, and let's see what happens with ice as well, which is another kind of... There's a great deal of uncertainty about how that's going to happen.
I think you're right.
Generally, you can tell, this is basically FIFA's calculation, that once the football starts, the football takes over.
In Qatar, because I remember I was obviously writing about all these issues a lot, I think a lot of the kind of...
the noise, but everything off the pitch, it really kind of stayed live for at least a week into the tournament and then regularly bubbled up throughout just because there were so many issues.
I mean, remember the kind of controversy over the one love armband.
I think that's going to happen here.
Also, like I did a piece in this during the week that about basically how, despite his obsequiousness to Trump, Infantino has basically got nothing off him.
The visa issue, one of the biggest illustrations of that.
Um,
But, and because of that as well, because of that proximity, the Democrats, this is where usually Infantino and FIFA, they see kind of the tournament starting as the safe space.
Well, this time it might be.
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