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The Guardian·about 18 hours ago

Football Daily | Canada see off South Africa but fail to quench our endless World Cup thirst

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Following the bumper end to the record-breaking group stage in which a whopping 16 Geopolitics World Cup matches were completed over 54 hours, Football Daily has now gone – at the time of writing – nearly 36 hours with just one single GWC match for company and is now experiencing acute withdrawal symptoms; a miserable glimpse into our post-GWC future in which “colleagues”, “families” and “the growing pile of crockery in the sink” will eventually have to be acknowledged and addressed with all the gusto of Steve Bruce at a press conference.

Steve Clarke away

I have this dread
That we will not
Get to

Anything for ten
Years; you have
Done it

At least Steve Clarke walked willingly through the door marked Do One, unlike Marcelo Bielsa, who hasn’t resigned and is waiting for the Uruguayan federation to oust him via the catapult marked Haz Uno” – JJ Zucal.

So, England face the Democratic Republic of Congo in Atlanta on Wednesday.

Are the locals going to be confused by not knowing if the Congolese team are Democrats or Republicans?” – George Paterson.

While I appreciate Football Daily’s desire to crowbar puns into everything, I’d like to point out that Christian Fuchs ushered himself through the door marked Do One [in the Steve Clarke style?

The fans and board were happy with him, so I can’t imagine why he opted to leave the beautiful surroundings of Newport” – Dave Lloyd.

In defence of football, I rebuked a chatbot for stating ‘soccer’ was used widely in the UK from 1883.

It then admitted it was the public schools and upper class who used the term.

A minority with big mouths.

A bit like Infantino or Trump!” – Alex Cameron.

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