We’re allowed be a little greedy, right? It’s been a brilliant World Cup, but now we expect – in fact, we demand – that at least 2 of this weekend’s quarter-finals will be classics.

 

Ken is in Nizhny Novgorod for the first of today’s games, between Uruguay and France, and if Brazil v Belgium might be the sexier tie, this is pure unadulterated World Cup football, with a little bit of nasty thrown in.

Antoine Griezmann says he feels half-Uruguayan, loves his Uruguayan club-mates, and loves Uruguay… Luis Suarez tells him he is French, and he will never know what it is to be Uruguayan. Ken investigates Griezmann’s prior history with cultural appropriation.

Jonathan Wilson looks ahead to England v Sweden, and why Sunderland is once again the epicentre of world football.

Plus there’s why Tite should run for Brazilian president, the death of Tiki-Taka, Putin’s dilemma, and the epidemic of shithousery at this tournament.

 

 

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