In the lead up to World Cups and major sporting tournaments, there is always scrutiny about the long-term viability of the stadiums and infrastructure that are built.
Often times "white elephants" - as the vast vacant stadiums are known - leave a strange mark on a landscape years after.
And it appears the same fate is already occurring in Brazil, six months on from the 2014 World Cup.
It is a subject that Belo Horizonte-based Ewan MacKenna reported on in The Independent and tonight the 2012 Irish sports journalist of the year joined us on Off The Ball to talk about the unfolding legacy of the tournament.
"The taxpayer here has been left with about an €11.4M bill for the World Cup. About a quarter of that is in stadiums which can't really pay for themselves," said Ewan, who explained how politics played a major role in causing the situation.
Ewan gave us the example of the £490M stadium in Brazil's federal capital Brasilia which has staged very few games as the city is not a football hotbed.
But he also highlighted how clubs elsewhere cannot afford to rent out the expensive new stadiums.
"Across all the World Cup stadiums, there have been three sell-outs in total," he said.
Ewan also explained that protests have died down since the World Cup.
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