Rory O'Connor
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Certainly for me, it was kids killed.
Yeah, his Premier League performance wasn't a whole lot better than what they're producing at the moment.
But it was interesting, was he on TNT's coverage on Wednesday in Paris and he was being asked to talk about it and he was trying to appear uncomfortable while actually quite enjoying talking about what was going on and what he would do.
The whole thing is increasingly grotesque.
There doesn't seem to be any will or even talk of a will within football to oust Infantino or to even challenge him.
He seems to be this...
unimpeachable figure whose position is just not really questioned.
I know they hold the purse strings for all of the FAAs who are completely reliant on this thing going ahead and then the revenue from it being redistributed around the world and it's similar to the pickle that the FAA are in with the Israel fixture in that they can't
get on the wrong side of UEFA because UEFA basically control their revenue streams.
But surely there's an FA, even as I say this, I know there's not, but there's an FA out there with the backbone to challenge this man, you know, and just call out the blatant inconsistencies of how Russia are not allowed to play football at an international level, yet Israel and the United States are.
And not only are the United States allowed to play football, they're...
hosting the large majority of the World Cup and it completely sours it because I know everyone's going to get excited in the next couple of weeks about the Ireland game but this part of me doesn't want them to qualify because I just don't really want to engage with this World Cup
I know.
Neil Tracy from Orti came up to me and said, have you seen, I actually could not give a damn about someone's boots.
They don't do anything for me.
I swooned.
This is a whole subculture that's passed me by in life.
I just got to buy the cheapest boots.
No.
The cheap is size 12s in the box.