No Irish, No Yanks, No Clogs - FIFA World Cup 2018

Mbappé high-fives Pussy Riot. World Cup highlight. pic.twitter.com/CKnsRngZXg

— Adelle Stripe (@adellestripe) July 15, 2018

Even his political decisions are right.

Felt a bit cheated there was no montage at the end of the BBC coverage.

ahhhhh so happy for les bleus

all the players instagram stories are hilarious rn but pogba trying to get macron to dab though

crying

The trophy presentation has been a shambolic melee for some time now. Infantino letting the various Presidents kiss it before walking over to the where the squad were and having to pass it Lloris from behind them just seemed really badly though it. Having it all take place inside a snowglobe would've at least kept the rain off.

Yerac, surely you mean ‘Allez les Bleus’?

I.e. go the blue ones, aka the French team.

I dunno maybe "yo led pedants"

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Ugh, nevermind. I just heard it everywhere today and it may be obvious to most people.

Le rond point de la gare de #Vichy investi par les supporters des Bleus. La nuit promet d'être belle ! #FRABEL pic.twitter.com/C8b0Q8m6a9

— Olivier Rezel (@OlivierRezel) July 10, 2018

"On est en finale"?

frabel = that was after the match against Belgium

That song was similar but not quite it. Maybe it was "allez suppo" something.

Talking of French songs - I had this one in my head all yesterday. Its catchy!

The worst thing about England not getting to the final = no repeat of my fave-ever football chant https://t.co/XMNQwCEHQv

— Michael Cox (@Zonal_Marking) July 13, 2018

I’m on another planet, France championne du monde, crazy parties by the french community in Montreal, and skyping the family back home, and drinking it’s all a lot but loving every minute of it.

Luka award was generous imo

No way, he deserved it 100%.

just reading back yesterday after being too in the pub to participate fully and i'm assuming youse France-haters were as HIGH.AS.FUCK.

Paris is the least worst place to be hungover right now.

I'm in Paris. I am pretty hungry. I see there were riots. I only saw one fist fight while getting thai food. We moved the cutlery away from the window.

Overall, last night was remarkably well-behaved in the 18ème. Lovely atmosphere, genuinely multicultural.

I'm in the 18ème too, cars honking etc until the morning but that's great. Not gonna go to the défilé today.

the only thing that's still in my head from yesterday is the bbc commentator saying rly unctuously 'we won't give these idiots the oxygen of publicity' but it was pussy riot

yeah that whole thing was pretty fucking disgusting/depressing tbh

I just assumed they thought it was a standard dumb pitch invasion but who knows.

p obv that the commentator doesnt know in advance lads

i mean its desperation for an angle to even consider otherwise isnt it

*shines that harsh light back on performative ilxors*

as an unreformed hispanophile i want to point out that in their allegedly terrible display against russia spain managed more shots (overall and on target) than france did in any game this wc

this is not to say france didn't deserve to win - their defence was consistently excellent, they had some lethal counters - but rather just to point out that ppl find unproductive play more acceptable if you don't have the ball

it's also hard to square this wc with the idea that the manager's importance is overstated

OTM (xp)

it would be daft to expect a commentator to see a pitch invasion in Russia and think it might have any political protest attached, of course

not suggesting they turned a broadcast of the World Cup final into Any Questions, just saying maybe they cd've shut the fuck up altogether in the moment, then maybe not tried to pretend nothing happened after the game was finished.

The press will give it more than enough coverage. I am not sure I want to hear Lee Dixon’s thoughts on the matter.

Lads, it's conpletely standard for the commentator to mildly tut at the pitch invader and for the camera to cut away

which is fine when it's some borderline mental health case who needs the world to see his arse

asking a lot for a commentator to see that in real time without benefit of VAR tbf

Also fine here imo.

The politics around Pussy Riot are so complex and divisive at this stage idk what proportion of Russian activists would necessarily be thrilled about them getting much more.

sv nextlevving the shit out of the commentary commentariat

it's not like i care as such it's just jarring to be reminded of yr own complicity in the circus

we are all co-commenspirators

2022 is gonna be a laugh innit

Honestly, I think it will probably be fine from a fan perspective.

Russia was

the move to nov/dec has rescued it, but that'll be an unbearable circus itself when the time comes

Never want to see a head of government on the pitch again.

a literal head maybe

It'll be fine until European clubs/leagues suddenly clock what it means for them and then there will probably be a few hissy fits.

predict it will be the best World Cup ever until the 2034 one on the moon

call me a stick in the mud but world cup shd stay on the world imo

sick of this small earth mentality

if football is ever going to expand its popularity the World Cup needs to be staged in exciting new markets like Qatar and the Moon

British Virgin Islands 2038 should be a corker too

wcexit