Will O'Callaghan

But it's really good.

Really, really good.

I don't even remember a controversy around then.

It was obviously a big story coming out of the World Cup, but I think we probably didn't know the nuances of how bad it got in the camp.

And that's why I was saying last night, it makes Saipan look like a picnic.

Like one guy complaining before the World Cup started.

Yeah, it's only one player.

They actually had the Minister of Sport at one point come in to try and break the argument.

And apparently she was really, really nice to them.

And Bakri Sagna, I think, is one of the players he's interviewed.

Yeah, the France defender who used to play for Arsenal, yeah.

And basically afterwards, she got up in the Parliament and said, ah, these players are thugs.

And definitely a strong implication that it was like, it was the black players who were the thugs on the team and stuff as well.

And he was like, he couldn't believe what she did.

She was apparently like the nicest woman of all time when they met in Johannesburg.

And then the minute that she got back to France, she got up in the parliament and sucked the knife into them.

And yeah, no, it was really, really good watch.

But the reason it made me feel really old was like when they kept on referencing, this was 16 years ago, this was 17 years ago.

I'm just there going, oh my God, 16 years ago feels like the 1990s, not 2010.

A terrible but magnificent World Cup in many ways.