Tommy Vietor

You're seeing it now all over social media.

German fans going to a Waffle House for the first time, having their mind blown, you know, going to eat.

lemon pepper wet what is this and also american sports fans seeing global football culture many of them for the first time seeing 60 70 you know saying seeing thousands of dutch fans march down the streets of kansas city before a game in their orange clad shirt bouncing to the left and the right behind a large bus no one quite knows why it's just what they do it's going to be quite ecstatic so scotland england i mean england are fascinating

um i mean they used to have an empire um then they lost that they used to have a monarchy not doing so well nowadays they had downton abbey no longer on the air so what they have is football and they invented it so they think they should win they've won once 1966 which is like 1066 in the english school kids imagination and since then they've always believed with great surety

They're going to win, uh, very quickly crapping the bed, shattering a nation's heart.

They're like Charlie Brown running at a football with Lucy holding part from this time round.

They're pretty bloody good, Tommy.

Um, so it is quite fascinating to think of a England winning the world cup in America when it's the 250th anniversary of independence is, is mind melding.

Maybe, although he's like mostly, I think he's the football player most likely to go like Ted Williams and putting his head in the cryogenic chamber.

The stars, young stars.

And it is that there's this aged, I mean, deeply aged.

We're talking about like footballing LeBron age.

I mean, Ronaldo is...

I mean, it's like 41.

Lionel Messi, late 30s.

This is, or should be, their last dance.

And then there's a slew of teens coming through.

Nature abhors a vacuum, so does football.

a Spanish wonder child, 18 years old, Laminia Marle, who's already won massive tournaments.

You know, he's almost, if he wins the World Cup with Spain, having won what he's won already, he'll be like Alexander the Great, you know, tearing up because there is no more world left to conquer.