lack of people pairing up into couples and getting married reduces social cohesion in unexpected ways. we got new neighbors. saw the guy outside, said hi. turns out his sister died the day he moved in. obviously, him and i never discussed this. but his wife told my wife - only the two women would communicate that.
so my wife got them flowers - and gave them to his wife. now, we’re basically friends overnight. but there’s no way the two men in the situation (him and i) would have done this absent the women. i wouldn’t get a guy flowers (bizarre, to me) and he wouldn’t (from his perspective) dump this information on some random guy he doesn’t know. you begin to understand the complex formalities present in cultures like victorian england or feudal japan that carved clear avenues and back channels for things like this.
This Argentina is the most disgraceful team that has ever gotten to a World Cup final. They only got so far by cheating, fraud and refereeing favours in multiple games they played before the final.
Beautiful football won tonight.
Spain was magnificent, excellent and the overall best team in the tournament.
Viva Espana 🇪🇸
All the records Spain broke during the World Cup:
Most clean sheets - 7
Least goals conceded - 1
Oldest Manager to win the World Cup - Luis de la Fuente
Longest unbeaten run in competitive Men’s matches - 38
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Argentina play with such a level of thuggery that their baseline for a yellow is higher than nearly every team in the tournament. almost every tackle they're jumping onto the other man lmfao
Quite possibly the worst, most boring World Cup final I've watched in my life time.
Argentina quite obviously not good enough to be there. That is what makes The Tuchel collapse 200x more unforgiveable.