Nick Miller

Honestly, I think it's the best, at this stage, it's the best World Cup of kind of my lifetime in terms of, I mean, I haven't looked at what the exact goals per game ratio is so far, but I know it has been higher than any other World Cup at this stage.

You've had some amazing storylines from, you know, the biggest players have showed up.

Messi Mbappe Erling Haaland and they've all scored goals less said about Cristiano Ronaldo the better be kind of everything and you've also had some amazing storylines from the smaller teams as well you've had

Cape Verde, drawing with Spain and then also drawing with Uruguay yesterday, you've had Curacao getting a draw and scoring their first World Cup goal against Germany, which I was there for.

They lost 7-1 in the interview area after the game.

Watching all the players walk through, you can tell which team lost 7-1 and which one of them won 7-1 because the Curacao players were just so kind of joyously delighted to sort of be there and have got their goal, got their great opening moment.

So from all that perspective, it is.

It's been just enormously enjoyable so far.

I mean, typically in the World Cup, you can get off to a bit of a slow start.

Sometimes teams are a bit cagey and they don't want to lose their first few games.

But this time, it's just been incredibly exciting.

It's been great.

What have you thought about the atmospheres?

Pretty good.

I mean, I have covered games in...

In Houston, and we've had some fantastic atmospheres here, it's felt like people are kind of getting pretty excited for the host countries as well.

I mean, that's the other thing.

The World Cup really does suffer if the hosts are no good, but all three have been pretty good so far.

People seem to be enthusiastic about the US team, which I'm led to believe is unusual.

Canada obviously doing brilliantly.