The official FIFA World Cup 2018 thread

[Zakalwe]

The most popular, most watched and indeed greatest sporting event in the world is almost upon us. The 21st iteration of the global tournament of the beautiful game is being held in Russia and commences on the 14th June with the final held on 15th July. It is a genuine World event being contested by teams from more than 1 or 2 countries ( ) - 32 in fact. It’s hard to look past reigning champions Germany, perennial winners Brazil, tika-taka masters Spain and hugely talented France but there’s likely to be a few surprises along the way. Who knows, even England might win it

As this is a global forum, I wondered if there might be some interest in shooting the breeze about this event. I think it’ll be sodding brilliant and I look forward to trying to skive as much time off work as possible to watch as many games as is humanly feasible.

Oh, and COME ON ENGLAND!!!