Ray D'Arcy

And that's on Saturday.

I was looking at some of the stats people love stats because if you're not into the football you'd be into the stats so you know that there's 104 games there's 48 teams it's over 16 cities 16 different venues I'm looking at the biggest one is the AT&T Stadium in Texas that's a capacity of 93,000 and then the aforementioned BMO field in Toronto has 46,000

more than 1,200 players will be taking part in the World Cup because it's the biggest ever with 48 teams.

So the first round is 48.

I won't go into the stats of that because I'll bore you.

And what about the money and the tickets?

Well, there were over half a billion requests for tickets to go and see matches in this World Cup.

And the number of tickets sold, between six and six and a half million.

The revenue for FIFA, $9 billion.

They reckon that the impact of the World Cup on the economies of Canada, Mexico and the United States of America is $80 billion.

But how much do the players get out of it and the various football associations?

Well, the winning team gets $50 million.

They also get $1.5 million for participating, so that's $51.5 million.

The runner-up team, $33 million and then third place, $29 million.

Yeah, and they probably have to play eight games, I think, if they're going to win.

Who's going to win?

Well, there's loads of predictions all over the place.

I see the BBC asked all the pundits across all the TV stations.

And France came out on top, just for your information.

Spain came second, or England came second, of course, and then Spain.