How has World Cup fever, Sam, differed, differed if you like, city to city, even state to state?

Yeah, do you know what? When we first got here, I thought it was a little bit sort of, you know, is, is there a big event happening? It s- it took a little while to catch on.

I think by the time we got to sort of Dallas and then went to Philadelphia, when we went to Philadelphia for Brazil, Haiti, I mean, the color, the sound, the, the city was absolutely awash with Cape Verdean supporters and Brazilians.

And when we went to Lincoln Field that night, the stadium itself was yellow and blue everywhere.

It was just absolutely fantastic.

But like I say, you know, I think the TV coverage has been really good, the fact that they've got Zlatan and Thierry Henry on almost back to back every single day.

I think it's attracted a lot of people.

England, Sam, under Thomas Tuchel, can you make any hard and fast judgments two games in?

He was basically admitting that he's not up to the job and the players aren't playing for him.

him.And he gets accused of not really speaking in a manner that resonates with the supporters on a, a number of occasions, especially since he walked into the Chelsea job.

He, he, he didn't really help himself in, in that manner.

But I think last night he spoke from the heart.

Last night he was shell-shocked.

He was visibly shaking when I was speaking to him, and I knew talking to him that the game was up, and it was something that I said to you when I walked into the press room because afterwards I just felt that there was no way that he could continue after saying what he said, but also in the manner in which he delivered it.

But he is only part of the problem, and we've discussed the, the other issues.

Chelsea got a lot of soft boys.

Which one are you going for?

Do you know what? It's so difficult this, isn't it? Because you've got loads of different sports that we do, cricket, rugby, um, darts, football.

Obviously, our main ones, boxing.

You know, so many brilliant, brilliant moments that, um, have sort of stood out, and trying to whittle it down is very difficult.

I've stuck to football, mainly because that's what I do, so I listen to most of that.

Um, I thought Jim Proudfoot's call of the Crystal Palace Cup Final, as I call it, the, the whole day was just brilliant.

Do you know what I mean? It was...

Uh, which one are you gonna go for, Sam, Game of the Year?