Rory Smith
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first heard Apr 2026
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The Anfield Wrap · The World Cup, Wirtz & On This Day | The Breakfast Wrap: LIVE · 9 Jun 2026
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And the reason you don't feel as excited is because you're not a child anymore.
Yes.
Because there's a brilliant piece by Paul Howard in the Irish Times of the Day about how the best World Cup is the one that you experienced when you were 11.
You're chasing a feeling that you cannot get, but also it always feels like this before the world cup every single time.
Yeah.
And then it starts.
And I mean, I went to Qatar three and a half years ago, like mired in cynicism and like dreading that I've been away from, but we, my, my little girl was, um, was nearly one and yeah.
Like, you kind of have this dread, and my son was four or five or whatever, and you're away from the family for all this time, and I wasn't looking forward to Qatar as a country.
There's none of the travel that makes World Cups fun, all that stuff.
It was obviously morally mired in all this stuff.
And I didn't feel any excitement at all.
And then by the time the group stage knockouts were coming around, I came back halfway through and I was like, I can't believe I've got to miss Argentina against Mexico to go and see my kids.
And that's the power of the World Cup.
That's what happens every single time, no matter how compromised the whole tournament is.
In the negative, the thing to watch out for, I'd say, is I think the ticket prices, the cost of travel, all that stuff, the festival of gouging that's happened, I think is a real problem.
I think that more than anything else...
I think a lot of the scandals around Infantino and Trump and all that stuff all feels very abstract.
And also you have to factor in a lot of people just don't care.
There'll be people who quite like Trump.
There'll be people who aren't in the slightest bit interested about that aspect of sport.
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