If you had to play your games in the baking African heat, would you rather play in the midday sun, or in the evening? The evening, yeah? It's obvious. I noticed that most teams of the 32 have a good mix of noon, afternoon and evening games.

You would think every team should play one game at 1pm, one at 4pm and one at 7 or whenever it is, African time. However, some teams play two at 7pm, one at 4pm. How can that be fair?

Any thoughts on whether you think this might make a difference, or do you have any other dodgy conspiracy theories?

That's 35-40 degrees Celcius, Aaron; That's like 90-100 degrees Fahrenheit, which is, insanely hot. The low is 36 F, though. So the soliders have good and bad days.

So really, Afghan is a lot hotter on average. Nearly half.

I guess, though there IS a disadvantage to night games. It was 40 F last night (sorry to those used to Celsius.... Or Kelvin? ) which is basically the average temperature at night, but it dips down below freezing at night occasionally.... According to wikipedia lol. But if you are playing a night game and it start diping from 40 to freezing I would say warmer countries are at a definite disadvantage