Match Day 19
What England is this? Jamie Vardy sprinting around in extra time, poppin’ his bubble gum? Confidence.
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Match Day 18
I’ve been watching this World Cup in chunks. It’s been a mix of late lunch break treadmill jogs, hijacking my brother in-law’s DVR and refreshing ESPN on my phone until the data plan exploded.
I long for summer days, free from responsibility where my mornings and late afternoons were planned around watching matches live.
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Match Day 17
We’ve spoken about podcasts before here at F&G. But since then the football podcast universe has expanded like Thanos‘ greed.
The perennial players – The Football Ramble, The Totally Football Show, and others remain. But the Rabona podcast, hosted by Musa Okwonga and Michael Da Silva is like a poetry reading and a pub chat fell in love.
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Match Day 16
Óscar Tabárez, chess master.
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Match Day 15
Today we updated our office World Cup bracket. It’s fascinating to hear people’s reasons for selecting their teams. You hear things like:
“Well my great great great great great great Grandpa on my step mother’s side was from Belgium. So yeah I’m going for Belgium.”
“The internet says Croatia is the best team in the tournament.”
“Sergio Ramos is my boyfriend. It’s serious. Like really serious.”
Hey, as long as your watching football, we’re good.
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Match Day 14.
Two clean sheets in a row. Steady Brazzzzil. Steady.
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Match Day 13.
I should be a football hipster and write a poem on Denmark or something. But damn, Messi’s back.
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Match Day 12.
Quaresma is worth every dollar, euro and yen. A trivela goal in a World Cup match? Come on…
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Match Day 11.
World Cup’s are at their best when strikers are baggin’ goals. How can you not score with a name like Radamel Falcao?
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Match Day 10.
Toni Kroos scored an exquisite stoppage time winner, but Timo Verner‘s dribbling, speed, cutbacks, and tracking back, pumped the Mannschaft back to life.
Floodlights and Goalposts 