S2 Episode 2: Heat, football, sleep repeat

So true but Mel since we last spoke a couple of weeks ago now there's been a whole whole range of activity in the sporting world and obviously the World Cup's well into it now and lots of other things so I think as we always do are you going to kick us off with a bit of a roundup?

I am and yeah fortunately this time I've only got two weeks to cover not not two months so it was slightly easier but there has been a lot going on as you've said So we're about halfway through the World Cup now in terms of the number of games played.

I think we've just passed the 50th game out of 104 major headlines so far.

All the host nations have made it through their groups, which I think is generally good for the tournament.

Mexico and the USA, the USA will have their final game tonight, but both look very likely to have home games in both the last 32 and if they make it the last 16.

So that's always good for the tournament.

From an England fan perspective, they had a very exciting start against Croatia and a slightly less exciting second game against Ghana.

But they're on four points, look well-placed to progress to the knockout round.

Scotland, they've had a more difficult campaign.

They are on the brink, I would say.

Steve Clarke, in his typical and slightly dour fashion, basically said they were out at his post-match interview last night.

They will need things to go their way to have any chance of progressing.

And we've still got quite a few games, a few groups to sort out.

But a few shock results so far.

But mainly in the form of 0-0 draws.

So Curacao and Cape Verde.

And Cape Verde then actually got a 2-2 draw in their second game against Uruguay.

So those teams have been the stars really so far.

We've had some golf.

We've had the US Open.

Wyndham Clark won in the end.

He won by a shot.

But most of the tournament, his lead was a lot bigger than that.

The headlines on the final day really were the New York fans continuing to make the headline for booing him as he came down the stretch.

New York again, the Knicks, they did complete.