Every World Cup player whose birth city’s altitude matches their squad number:
#3 🏴 Robertson, 3 m
#4 🇨🇦 De Fougerolles, 4 m
#6 🇩🇿 Zerrouki, 6 m
#7 🇧🇪 De Bruyne, 7 m
#9 🇧🇷 Cunha, 9 m
#10 🇨🇻 Monteiro, 10 m
#10 🇪🇨 Paez, 10 m
#14 🇨🇩 Sadiki, 14 m
#14 🇸🇦 Kadish, 14 m
#16 🇸🇪 Karlström, 16 m
#17 🇨🇻 Semedo, 17 m
#20 🇰🇷 Hyunjun, 20 m
#21 🇭🇹 Casimir, 21 m
#23 🇵🇦 A. Murillo, 23 m
#23 🏴 Mclean, 23 m
#25 🇨🇻 Kelvin, 25 m
Now presumably Josh Simons, who sacrificed his Makerfield seat for Andy Burnham, will be given a peerage - as Lord Simons of Makerdeal perhaps. What one might call the road to Wigan peer?
@SebMilbank For most of its history prior to Likud, Israel was run by left-wing governments and genuinely fought for its right to exist. That has switched since the peace process started.
@kevin_ahern Traditionis Custodes exacerbated this problem: these people were unlikely to attend parish TLMs. It fed into their victimhood mentality and the a la carte Catholicism long espoused by the anti -TLM 'spirit of Vatican II' generation
@ZeldaZealot It's actually the reverse: if you can destroy the fertility rate through abortion, contraception and sterile relationships, you need to import labour to replace the people who will no longer be brought into existence
@ruimoney The most interesting ones are the women on there who apparently agree with the church teaching on contraception but not 'sex before marriage' - have they actually thought that through?
Qatar v Switzerland is the World Cup’s only group-stage match where one country’s highest point is lower than the other country’s lowest point.
Qatar tops out at just 103m. Switzerland bottoms out at Lake Maggiore, ~193m.
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