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The Guardian·about 17 hours ago

Football Daily | Mbappé and France are on the march. Who’s going to stop them?

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Marchons, marchons.

Fans of France’s remaining rivals at the Geopolitics World Cup – and lovers of business-end big tournament jeopardy – were left sorely disappointed as the favourites steamrolled Morocco.

Didier Deschamps’ cohort of strutting roosters had their feathers ruffled by Paraguay’s spectacular heel turn in the last 16, but were largely back in cruise control for their 2-0 quarter-final victory in (a venue near) Boston on Thursday.

With the wealth of signings (Cerci, Stanway, Reuteler) already this summer, I wasn’t expecting any more.

But then Arsenal follow in Hollywood’s footsteps and get Ona Batlle after another!” – James Vortkamp-Tong.

Please don’t refer to the USA USA USA as ‘Trump’s boys’ (yesterday’s Football Daily).

From what I understand, they are sane, good sportsmen, well-liked, and a team to be proud of, quite unlike the person in question” – James Driskell.

A fellow reader of the France v Morocco MBM commented on how inevitable France look at the moment.

This made me wonder, could this team go down in history as Les Inévitables?” – Peter Oh.

That was a rather touching last line reference to Bonnie Tyler (yesterday’s Football Daily, full email edition).

One would like to read a story about the England team – average year of birth around 1998 – playing her classic tune in the locker room and singing along.

Until they got to the hooky lyric, ‘Every now and then, I fall apart’.

Good luck on Saturday, lads!’ – Mike Wilner.

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