Ray D'Arcy

And yet we still had to broadcast to the nation.

Mind you, as you said, nobody was probably watching.

Yeah, it was for the main matches, but I was doing my homework while everyone was enjoying Ireland's win against Italy.

And I was scared, you know, out of my wits because I'd been plucked from young people's television to do sport, which, you know, as it happens, I shouldn't have been doing.

But there you go.

These things happen.

So you're doing the opening game, Mexico versus South Africa.

But it'll be a great summer though.

I'm just looking like there's 12 groups to start.

It's just to keep your head around that.

So the top two from each go through and then there's eight third place that make up the 32 for the next playoffs.

And then it's across three countries, Canada, America and Mexico.

Thousands of miles between the most northerly and the most southerly.

It's a vast competition.

Vast.

But that's what I was thinking.

Surely we must be better than a lot of those teams.

Yeah.

So who will you be supporting then?

I saw somebody saying there, who said they were going to support Scotland?