Key events42m agoTeams44m agoPreambleSome more mails:“Hello Daniel,” says regular correspondent, Krishna Moorthy. “Can’t believe this is your first MBM!”Good to be here!“This will be a lively contest. Not many European teams understand or assess Bosnia properly . I will not be surprised if they notch up a win. I spent 8 months of 2025 in that country and boy! Are they passionate about their game! South Africa and Czech can make their plans for the summer. They can’t beat Mexico or South Korea . Tournament over for them.”I agree, sadly. Anyway, here’s David Marriott:“Greetings from sunny Vancouver Island, Canada. The parochialism is the same here in Canada, with TSN now going on about the black Canada kit. Having said that, we do have pretty good pundits in Kevin Kilbane and Steven Caldwell. The commercial breaks are there too, usually about two and a half minutes long -- sadly, the future of football, I think.”I get it. Got to pander to the home crowd on occasion.Glad to say we’re now seeing the experts analyse this game.Steve Gisselbrecht has written in to provide some real world perspective on the water breaks:
double quotation markHi there. I just want to say, as someone born and raised in the US, that soccer will never be a truly major sport here until it’s shown on regular TV, and that’s not happening without ad breaks. I don’t write to praise US capitalism or the media landscape it produces! I only acknowledge that that’s the country I live in.
