Rafa Honigstein

Yes, I work with the Austrian national team apart from doing a bit of journalism on the side these days and I follow them and I go to their games and of course I keep an eye on Germany and all these other big sides and it's been really good.

The first game against Jordan was very pressurized because with Algeria and Argentina to come, it was a sort of game where if you win, you're in a fantastic position.

If you draw, you're in a really terrible position.

So it almost felt a little bit like a final.

And you could feel the tension.

And also for a team that haven't had any World Cup experience for 28 years, that is a long time to just turn up and play as if it wasn't a very kind of special game.

You could feel it a little bit in the first half, but yeah, it's looking good at the moment.

I don't have such a problem with keeping up with the matches because I don't think there are more matches than we used to at this stage of the tournament.

I think it's usually four games or has been four games a day for quite a while now.

The problem is the amount of teams.

I cannot remember what team played who and what is the story and...

It's a bit like following three different TV series at the same time.

It kind of blurs into each other and you're thinking, hold on, this episode, was that in this series?

There's a lot of pausing.

There's a lot of pausing going, who's that?

Why is there an annoying teenage girl in it?

Oh, no, every TV series has annoying teenage girls.

It's a kind of trope.

But anyway, and I say that as a father of three teenage girls, so I pick up on these things.

But it's really hard, I think, to engage deeply...