THE GREEN SCENE: The on-the-ground experience as a fan at the 2026 FIFA World Cup
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What insights does Niall Caraher share from his experience at the World Cup in Mexico?
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Ben Symes Tired. Tired?
Sleep deprived. What has you tired been? You look sleep deprived. Staying up watching every single game under the sun has me a little bit sleep deprived. But it's been good. It's actually, it's been a good tournament. As in, on the pitch, it's been a good tournament. Off the pitch, it's been a bit of a mess. But on the pitch, most of it's been good. Couple of grim games. Like, there's times where you're finished the end of Ecuador, curse out the other night, pass three in the morning, you're like, what did I do staying up for that? Like, that was... that was maybe a little bit silly but all in all I think on the pitch so far it's been a success and the 48 teams so far has been a success with the likes of Cape Bird and to fair Cursehouse result as well yeah absolutely the quality doesn't seem to have diminished too much no too much maybe it might catch up at some stage but I think regardless when we get into the last 16 or so it'll
yeah I think the next round the last 32 is going to be cracking like when it's just pure knockout I think the final round of group stage fixtures is where we might get down a little bit where we'll see teams who are guaranteed to be true teams who are guaranteed to be out teams who know that a draw for both gets them both through because so many teams go through I think that might let us down a little bit but I think so far it's been a success on the pitch yeah I think that's maybe a little bit of a mistake in their judgement there in prioritising head to head over goal difference and I do think
In general, head-to-head should be taking the priority, but in this instance, because it's such a short format, I think the goal difference makes it a little bit more interesting as far as entertainment goes. But a little peep behind the curtain, actually, this morning I was coming into work, very early start, I was in there for six o'clock, and I caught the last 25 minutes of Algeria's incredible clash with Jordan. And as I walked in the door of the office, I had my phone as I was walking, I got to the door, I stuck it in my pocket, and walked up, left, maybe, takes about a minute, walked in, and Algeria had gone 2-1 up, so... I watched about 25 minutes of it and missed the only remotely interesting thing that happened.
But I'm going to address the elephant in the room here because as you can see in front of you if you're watching on YouTube, we've got four people in the studio. It might be the first time we've ever had four people in the studio. We've been talking about the World Cup, how decent it's been on the pitch and how whatever, it's been off the pitch. But we're going to get to the bottom of that whatever because we're joined by a man by the name of Niall Carraher, right, who has been in Mexico. for the World Cup he's back now of course wasn't staying for the duration naturally Niall how are you getting on good thanks for having me and how long are you back in the country about 48 hours at this stage 48 hours he's not back from the jet lag 48 hours and first stop has come up to off the ball terrace you gotta respect it privilege for us absolutely absolutely and I suppose we should give a bit of a bit of background as to how we've managed to get Niall in here today so you might remember a couple of weeks ago Ireland had an incredibly enthralling encounter against Qatar in Dublin and Niall was at the game I believe you were at the game with your mate and I wasn't at the game I had some pre-planned things that led me to a pub in Dublin I won't give any
kind of free promo but it rhymes with pogans and at some stage that night I stumbled upon a man by the name of Andrew not Niall but Andrew was of course your mate and we got chatting and he told me that you were heading to Guadalajara and I have a message here he sent me on Instagram later on that night and he said how's it going Matthew good chatting to you in the pub that I just mentioned
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