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#godons

[dec @declan_macd18]

Hail hail 🍀

[Dr Taylor Marshall™️ @TaylorRMarshall]

Imagine saving money for 5 years to finally see Rome, and when you get to the Trevi Fountain, you have to watch this....

Europe has no idea what they have done to themselves:

[T.W @RedsTheBest23]

The UK is starting to feel like a holiday abroad. It's boiling hot, and no one speaks English.

[Kirk @kirkkinsey]

One of the reasons that so many people ignore the women’s game is because of this sort of tedious commentary that begs you to pay attention and pretends there is no difference between the men’s and women’s games.

[OL @oliibrs]

Not looking forward to when it’s my turn to either be Prime Minister, manage Watford or marry Katie Price

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

Two World Cup games.

Four World Cup goals.

First World Cup ever.

Norway’s best goalscorer.

Erling Haaland. 🤖🇳🇴

[tomhwilliams23 @tomhwilliams23]

Cape Verde would have qualified for the World Cup if there had been 32 teams instead of 48

They topped a qualifying group with Cameroon

This is a proper, proper team

[Vicent Chilet 🗺️ @vicentchilet]

La multipropiedad llega a la Copa del Mundo. 🇳🇱🇨🇼

[Chris Sutton @chris_sutton73]

I’d prefer the Groups to be decided on goal difference at the World Cup… the head to head results mean already Mexico and USA will finish top of their groups regardless of their final games… poorly thought out…

["...It's all fine now." @RespectElves]

Leftists like "uhh white people getting drunk is bad so we need to mass import 10000 more indian rapists and sudanese stabby men"

[Scotland National Team @ScotlandNT]

There will be a moment’s applause in the 76th minute of tonight’s match to honour Donny Strathie.

Donny sadly passed away this week in Boston, having travelled to fulfil a life-long dream of supporting Scotland at a World Cup 💙

Our thoughts are with his family and friends.

[Benjamin 🇬🇧🇺🇸 @UKFREEDOMUNITE]

London is a shithole.
Birmingham is a shithole.
Manchester is a shithole.

Not because of British people.

Muslims leave their own countries in a shit state. It’s their way of life.

[Kevin Bass @kevinnbass]

If white Christian men had systematically raped 250,000 brown children for a decade, it would be the biggest scandal of half a century.

But because brown Muslim men did it to white children, the authorities continue covering it up, and media continues refusing to talk about it.

[Doc @DrBitcoinMD]

between Henry Nowak, the beheading attempt in Northern Ireland, the rape gang report, and the 3 year old boy thrown into the crocodile pit, I genuinely don't understand how the entirety of the UK is not engulfed in flames right now

[¿ @esotericpawg]

A lot of people are woke because they're really ugly

[Paddy Raff @paddyraffcomedy]

Describing a Toblerone to someone who’s never had one before

[CentreGoals. @centregoals]

🚨🚨| Thomas Tuchel with a Dig to FIFA regarding the national anthem:

“I’m begging FIFA to change the position of the photographers in the national anthem… I could not see my team.”

“I was waiting for this moment, it was very special, and I was standing in front of a wall of 50 photographers… I could not see one single player and it ruined my experience a little bit.” 🇬🇧⚽

[Lancevideos @lancevideos]

Muslims make up 6% of the UK yet commit 95% of the child rape.

We are far too nice to Muslims.

[FIFA World Cup @FIFAWorldCup]

Tim Cahill on this day in 2014 🎯

#FIFAWorldCup

[The Touchline | 𝐓 @TouchlineX]

🚨🤍 𝗡𝗘𝗪: Yan Diomande emotional letter to his late sister:

"Dear Roxane,

Remember when somebody bought me a fake United jersey, and I wrote Ronaldo 7 on the back with the black marker?"

"We didn’t know rich or poor. We just knew happiness."

"Remember 25 people sleeping in one house back in Abidjan? Mum wanted to watch her soap operas. Everyone else wanted to watch movies. Remember how I always used to fake like I was asleep and then go into the TV room after midnight? I’d put the TV on real low. Just like 2 volume bars. I’d watch football in the dark and dream."

"Remember when the adults saw me playing football in the dirt and nicknamed me “Roberto Carlos” because of how hard I would shoot? And remember how I was secretly so mad about it, because CR7 was my idol?"

"Remember when I went to play so far from home? I was 9 years old. Inter Foot Sud Comoé, all the way near the Ghana border. Just a little boy on his own. I don’t know if I ever told you this story, but me and the other kids used to go into the village and steal potatoes because we were so hungry. We did a “bank heist.” Two kids distracting the shop owner, and 18 other kids running out with two potatoes. They weren’t even good. But they tasted amazing. Hahahah. It’s still my favorite thing to eat. Boiled potatoes with some oil. It reminds me of those times."

"Remember when I got my first real football boots, and I used to sleep with them? Growing up, I always played in those white plastic sandals. Even when I go back home now, I still play in them. It’s our tradition."

"Remember when I would come back home, and you would tell my friends from the neighborhood, “Why did you stop training? Yan is not going to buy you cars. You have to keep working."

"You were 10 years old, and already my agent."

"Remember how we used to sit and dream about moving to France? How we were going to go shopping and get our own apartment and I was going to be a rich footballer with cars and a big house, and you wouldn’t have to worry about nothing. You were the one who always believed that I could be the next Cristiano, when everybody else laughed."

"Remember when I moved to America for high school at 15, and I was so homesick? I didn’t know what anybody was saying for months. They sat me next to a French kid, and he tried to translate everything the teacher was saying. Remember when I called you, saying, “You won’t believe it, the kids here argue with teachers."

"Back home, you know we wouldn’t even dare to blink at our elders."

"Remember when I couldn’t believe the kids were smoking after school? You used to say it sounded like I was in an American TV show."

"Remember when they took me on trial at Bournemouth? At Chelsea, Rangers, Olympiacos, Crystal Palace? Eze and Olise even came up to me after one training and said, “Yo kid, you’re really good.”"

"But they still didn’t sign me."

"Even the B teams in the MLS didn’t want me. I didn’t even know why. They never gave me a reason. The adults handled everything. They just kept taking me all around Europe, and everybody kept saying no."

"My visa was up. My dream was over. They sent me back to Africa, and we cried together."

"You were the one who never stopped believing. A few weeks later, I signed for Leganés and we cried different tears."

"That was back when I used to have emotions. Now, I don’t feel anything. It’s like I’m not even human. Since you died, I’m just blank."

"I don’t even think I shed a tear the day they told me that you were gone. I was just in shock."

"It was a few weeks after I made my debut for Leganés. Who makes their debut at 18 against Real Madrid? It was too crazy. It was a dream."

"And then it was a nightmare. Someone kept calling me from back home. I was annoyed. I didn’t understand why they kept calling me."

"I picked up, and they didn’t even soften it. You know how it is back home. No emotions. Just……..

“Your sister is gone.”
“What?”
“She died.”
“What are you talking about?”
“Somebody put something in her drink at a party, and she never woke up. She is gone.”

"You were 15."

"15."

"I never got any answers. I don’t know if I want to know why. Maybe it was jealousy. Maybe it’s just something that happens in our country. Maybe I could have protected you. I don’t know."

"I try to trust God’s plan. It’s all I can do. I don’t try to forget, because I know I won’t forget. All I can do is use the pain to work harder, and to do everything we dreamed about."

"I wrote this because I can’t speak about it. I wrote this because I want you to know that I will make sure that you live on. I will make sure that everybody knows your name. The whole world."

"Everything I do on a football pitch, it’s for you."

"So much has happened since I last saw you…… You would not even believe it. I don’t know if I believe it."

"You know what’s crazy? After my debut against Madrid, I actually swapped shirts with Mbappé. Remember when we used to watch him on TV, and you’d say, “Mbappé? Yeah, he’s good. But my brother is better.”

"I was wrong about one thing. I don’t want to be rich. I see what it does to people, even to family. When I was at Leganés, everything I was earning, I was sending home. It got to the point where I didn’t even want money anymore. It was just a burden. They never stopped asking. I guess they thought I was a millionaire already. I didn’t even have an apartment. I was living at the training ground in a room with no TV. Just football and sleep, football and sleep."

"I didn’t want a big house. I didn’t want cars. I just wanted to put everything into football. Everything to show the world that my sister was right……."

"Ha…. you will think this is funny. When I moved to play at RB Leipzig, I was always late. Well, not late. But I was on time, which in Germany means you’re very late."

"So you already know what I did next. I started arriving 90 minutes early to everything. I was so early all the time that the guys started calling me “The German.”"

"I always have to overdo everything. I have zero chill. You always said that."

"The pitch is the only place that I feel at home anymore. It’s the place where I feel calm, and I can speak to you. I just wish you were still here so I could tell you….. We did it."

"Everything you said came true."

"We’re leaving for the World Cup tomorrow. For real. Your brother is going to play for Côte d'Ivoire, like Drogba, like Yaya, like Gervinho."

"I don’t even look at it like a game. I look at it like a stage. This is my chance to show the whole world what you saw in me. Every time I score, I’ll make sure everybody knows your name. I’ll make sure they don’t forget you."

"You always said that I could be better than Cristiano. If I see him there, I’ll tell him hello for you."

"I’m going to do what you predicted, I swear. Before I even had real boots, you were telling everybody, “My brother is going to be the greatest in the world.”

"I will prove that you were right, or I will die trying... Your brother, Yan."

— @PlayersTribune