Shaka Hislop

That's as well as I've heard it ever put.

I'll be honest.

Listen, it's been...

One trial after the next with this World Cup, and for any number of reasons.

The amazing thing to me is that FIFA are now adding to those issues.

of their own doing, of their own accord.

This was always going to be a difficult period to navigate for reasons that I don't need to get into on this show.

The one thing you hoped, given the spectacle that it is, that it always is every single four years, that FIFA would have figured this out by now, understand what it means to the fan base,

and how to make this as seamless a process as possible for those fans from all four corners of the planet.

Yet somehow it's gone horribly wrong as well, in a way that I can't explain.

And it just seems to be again centered around how can we make as much money as possible out of this?

How can we get another dollar out of the fans who have been saving for four years and planning for four years, praying that their country qualifies so that they can be here?

And now we are left even more confused than before.

Not quite sure what we're looking at.

And again, with everything else that fans have to navigate, you would have thought tickets would have been the most simple and straightforward of those issues.

It does.

But here's the other aspect to this.

I wonder once it starts, if we can forget about it, if we can forget about a lot of the issues and the challenges and we're more worried about them right now, feels more scary now.

I'll say this.

2022, there were a lot of questions about Qatar's hosts and any number of issues, social issues around that.