Hey there, welcome to football with Grant Wall, thanks so much for joining me.

Before we get going, you can subscribe to my writing site at grantwall.com, I am in

Qatar doing daily coverage of World Cup 2022, that is grantwall.com, we got a USA game

here.

Let's talk about it, bringing Chris Whittingham, how are you Chris?

Doing all right, been a busy one, and the US get a point from their opening game.

And it's interesting, myself and Mike Ryan Ruiz on the Dan Levitard show did a reaction

show like 90 seconds after the full time whistle went, and I thought my reaction was measured.

I was disappointed that the US dropped the result after leading, and then ultimately in

the end after a good whale second half, I thought, well, fair enough, I think they earned

a point.

I come back a couple hours later here to record this podcast, and I didn't realize that

the world has gone mad over this US result, that there's a lot of down feelings that

US are going out of the group, it feels like it's a much more negative reaction than

I would have imagined.

That's interesting to me, because I've just been reporting, I just got back to where I'm

staying after getting back from the stadium doing post game interviews in the mix zone

with different US players, Christian, policy, Tyler Adams, Matt Turner, didn't get Walker's

Intermin.

I don't know if he came in later or earlier or what, but you know, look, the US fanbase,

the US fanbase, it's passionate, it can be a little bit, the sky is falling sometimes.

This is a point at the world cup.

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