A bookie, a stand-up comedian and a reindeer herder walk into a podcast. What am I on about?

Well, in the words of Wright said Fred, Kniefer here. And so is the Totally Football Show to keep you up to date with everything that's happened since the Paddy Power World Football Cup touchdown in London Town,

and the bits just outside it.

From the magical Cascadia, the mystical Abkhazia, and the Madcap, Matabelle land,

we've got it all here on the Totally Football Show.

I am joined in the studio today by an array of wonderful people.

First of all, Lee Price from Paddy Power.

Hi, Ian. How are you?

I'm very well, thank you.

And then we have Pear Anders Bland, the Kenefa president, a former referee and a current

reindeer herder.

I have many questions.

I'm going to save them.

I have many reindeer-related questions. Hello. Hello. Pleasure to be here.

It's wonderful to have you. You are from the Sapmi region of Northern Scandinavia where the Sami people live.

That's correct. I have many questions of this also. We couldn't get Paul Watson, who was on our last show, but we did get the next best thing. It's his brother, internationally renowned stand-up comedian Mark Watson. Yeah, much easier intro than talking about reindeer herding and stuff like that. Well, I may have questions. My career is easier to sum up, in a sentence. You've been at games, haven't you? Yeah, it is true that I'm the brother of Paul who's sort of pulled this together.

So I was at Brower against Ellen Vanyan yesterday. Nice. That's Isle of Man, isn't it? The Isle of Man by another name, yeah. And, well, both of them could have gone through, but it depended on the other game, which was Cascadia's game, which Paul was at. So we were texting. but normally when you're a game trying to follow what's happening

there's quite a lot of international coverage, as it was. Me and Paul were the only people keeping the two stadiums informed. So when Brara scored at my game, I texted Paul to let him know and someone went to tell the Cascadia bench at his game. So that's real hands-on. You really feel involved when... It's good communication though, because

famously Alan Ball didn't have that at Manchester City. If it had had you and Paul there, he might not have played for the draw that eventually got City relegated. I remember that, but of course, they didn't have texting in those days. No. Mobile technology has changed the way managers approach the game, I think. And as it turned that, it was really important because Cascadia scored two very late goals in the other game,

which knocked out Ellen Vanning at our game. So really exciting stuff. I am getting obsessed with Cascadia. But more on that later. Lee, we've had the group stage. What's been the highlight so far? It's been a tournament of shocks so far. I think all the teams I talked up in the first episode are probably out of the tournament now.

So good knowledge by me as always.

The reigning world champions Abkhazia

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