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The Brit tabloid snark I’m all for.

They tried to Americanize it with trotting out Kevin Harts and Shaq but their draw is their personality and none of it shone through or impressed a concert hall full of non Americans.
Hart seemed completely phony.
So, even though they loaded it with recognizable American people, it wasn’t an American type production, so Fifa still had its hands all over this.

Bocelli was good but this isn’t Italia 90.
Infantio was as awkward as could be. Fan chants , and obviously pandering to Trump.

What a bad WC song. They are all pretty generic and required for the 10 second clips before the game and going in and out of halftime on the television coverage, but sounded pretty dark. Robbie Williams and partner were just as awkward trying to hype it up.
Lauren Hill. Yikes.

Random alumni, most of them speaking Spanish, provided nothing. Only hardcore soccer fans would recognize them in the first place and then no interpreter until one at the end.
I don’t think Carney knew that his “draw” was rigged given his reaction.

The Village People got Trump off his feet but they looked and sounded real rough. Totally bizarre and would be hard pressed to make the Coke Stage at Stampede.

As far as Canada, the CSA got their desired Italy matchup, probably. But will take some of the pure excitement off the home opening WC game the country has waited its entire history for with a bunch of Italian Canadians in the crowd.

Is 4 points enough to get out of the group? Maybe if the goal differential is there. Opening game is key. Draw win draw would be great. Swiss game will mean it all and will full know what they have to do going into it.