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“Discount Glen Powell” is such a delicious insult

“Football fandom, like nature, abhors a vacuum.”

Love the description of the WC as a “Star Wars cantina of global football”

"A World Cup's been compared to a solar eclipse that engulfs the entire planet simultaneously for its duration - not in darkness, but in football."

"Who'd have thought you could fight crime with costume design?"

"It always means something, when someone says your name. It feels special."

"My mum is doing a PhD, which means she hasn't left school even though she's very old."

omg this book coming in hot right from page one

“I leaned back on the counter, realized I was somehow holding a spatula.”

I just love unhinged lines from male leads in romance novels. 🙃

“This wasn’t even sexual. This was yoga with farm animals.”

What a line 😅

“The World Cup is a vision of an alternative international hierarchy in which the US is an also-ran and China doesn’t even figure.”

“The World Cup is the one competition where most players are also fans.”

“The emotional locus of any World Cup is more in the world’s living rooms than in the host country.”

“Perhaps the point of World Cups is the construction of memories.”

“Brazil seemed to have decided, in the end, that all you needed to host a World Cup was stadiums. Even signs to the stadiums were optional.” 💀

“The best moments at World Cups often happen away from the football.”

Awww Panini sticker album shout out

“Watching your team play at the World Cup is like watching your child sit a test that you are sure they will fail.”

“The World Cup is an unending story that accompanies us through our lives.”

Obsessed with this guy using a whole chapter to hate on the vuvuzela

“Fans were replacing players as the World Cup’s main characters.”

Umm, hello Freddy 🇩🇪

💀💀💀 at this author asserting that World Cups result in more deaths than goals

“A World Cup without Germany would be like Star Wars without Darth Vader.” 😆

“Each World Cup reminds you of past World Cups and the people you watched them with.”

“World Cups don’t change the world but they do illuminate it.”

“They decided that if we were Oxford students we probably weren’t hooligans.” 😆

“We knew our mother would kill us if we died.” 😆

“I had become my mother in so many ways that it was hard to think of myself as a person distinct from her.”

“Some people make it out of their stories unscathed, thriving. Other people don’t.”

“I had become a master of thinking about working without actually doing it.”

Ouch, called out. 🫠😆

"How many days do you experience something for the first time?"