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Chapter 1: What were the opening match results of the World Cup in Mexico?
Well, the World Cup kicked off last night with victories for host Mexico and for South Korea. After months of drama off the pitch, they finally started playing football. For the latest, I'm joined by Damien O'Mara from RT Support. Morning, Damien.
Hi, David. How are you?
I'm very good, I believe. I'm sorry, we'll talk about the World Cup in a minute, but I believe I'm interrupting you doing something more important.
Well, sorry, I'm carefully monitoring the Katie Taylor ticket sales on your behalf. So the tickets went on sale at nine o'clock this morning. There was a couple of pre-sales earlier in the week through the promoter and through some of the sponsors. Now, Eddie Hearn, who's Katie Taylor's promoter, said after the pre-sale that 40,000 tickets had been sold, which would be...
have had them well on the way for half of Croke Park to be sold before the general sale. So I joined the queue about 20 minutes ago. There's 40,000 people ahead of me, and it's now telling me the ticket availability is limited for this event. So I would think that this, maybe even by the time you and I are finished chatting in a couple of minutes' time, this could well be sold out.
That's extraordinary. What's the capacity of Croker? 82,000, something like that?
And presumably they'll have seats on the pitch as well. Yeah, but I would imagine that there's going to be blind spots. Firstly, I don't know if Hill 16 is fully operational. Equally, I would say if you're at the back of the top deck of the stands, there might be blind spots to the ring. So I'm not sure what the official capacity is.
But if there's now 38,000 ahead of me in the queue and 40,000 tickets sold, they're well on the way. The only caveat I would throw in is I know people were on a pre-sale for...
one of our sponsors during the week and when they got to put the tickets in the basket they were 766 euro each so unless people get spooked but if if the ticketmaster website here is saying ticket availability is now limited uh they're well and truly on the way to a sellout
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Chapter 2: How did the host nation Mexico perform in their opening game?
I think by the time we get to the business end of it, like the round of 16 onwards, it's going to get very, very competitive. We need a couple of big stories, either a real dark horse to come through or one of the big teams to suffer a defeat early on. I think by the end of it, it's going to be very clichéd. I think we're looking at...
France, Spain, potentially Argentina if they can repeat what they did four years ago. But you've got the USA and Canada making their debuts tonight. I don't think either of them are going to be left standing towards the tail end of the tournament.
OK, Damien O'Mara of RT Sport, thank you so much and I hope you get to the top of the queue for Katie Taylor.