World Cup TV: Duff laments Wales lack of famed 'fighting spirit'

Anyone hear what that England v Wales half-time show was like, by the way?

ON THE BOX: RTE's World Cup coverage.

Another quartet of fixtures today but, these being the first of the final round of group games, no more pesky 10am or lunchtime kickoffs. Life has become sane again. Now the problem involves how to punch in the hours before 3pm.

In due course we’re over to John Kenny and Stephen Kelly in the Khalifa Stadium for Senegal versus Ecuador. Qatar are simultaneously taking on the Netherlands down the road in the Al Bayt - 51.5 kilometres down the road, to be precise, if Google is to be believed - but that’s a dead rubber.