FIFA World Cup. Qatar 2022. A Pictorial Record.

Fatchecker
The Haven
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4 min readDec 19, 2022
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NASA Artemis. NASA, “Putting ass into space. NASA tweet saying, “NASA can confirm that a future Artemis mission will seek to extract Harry Kane’s penalty kick football from the dark side of The Moon.”
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Saudi Arabia

“Finally we got to drive to a World Cup!”

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Germany

Oh my days.

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England vs USA

1st Leftie: An old imperialist power versus a current imperialist power.

2nd Leftie: Like watching two bald men you hate fighting over a comb.

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Wales.

Their official World Cup song was, ‘Yma o Hyd’ (English: “Still Here”). Still here, in Wales, knocked out early.

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Qatar

The team finished with the same amount of points the country has for its human rights record. Zero.

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Belgium

Going into the tournament FIFA ranked them the second best team in the world. They are second best. They’ve won fuck all ever.

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Cameroon

Me: The Cameroons took the biscuit.

1st Person: Macaroons!

Me: Bless you.

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Uruguay

The campaign lacked bite.

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Ghana

The best I can do is an obscure reference to the classic telly show The Rockford Files.

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Australia

Knocked out by Brazil. You can’t say their campaign Dingo well.

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Poland

Well the good news is thanks to Brexit we’re short of plumbers.

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Japan

Me: Beaten by a Nip in the air.

1st Person: That’s a racial slur.

Me: Sorry. Beaten by a Japanese header.

1st Person: Now it’s not even funny. You deserve to be cancelled.

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Switzerland

Cheesed off when knocked out.

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The Netherlands

Netherlands manager Louis van Gaal said in his final press conference, “Weed a good game plan. We faced up to our Chronic failures in previous campaigns. This was a Blow to all the pundits who wrote us off. Although to be fair, we made a right Hash of the penalties.”

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Brazil

Knocked out by penalties. Nuts!

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Portugal

The last time Ronaldo cried this hard he were in court for tax evasion. “Eu sou bonita demais para a prisão.”

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England.

Knocked out by France. Brexit. Merry fucking Christmas.

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Morocco

Fez up. It were a great campaign.

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Croatia

Me: They give opponents the itch. Modrić, Perišić, Kovačić, Brozović….

1st Person: Lovren.

Me: Don’t spoil it.

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France

They lose in the final. EU corruption. Joyeux fucking Noël

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Argentina

Messi is called GOAT. Guaranteed Often Avoids Taxes. Well done you for winning the World Cup. Now, be a good boy, and like the rest of us, get used to paying fucking taxes.

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1st Person: Where’s the next World Cup being held?

2nd Person: Some of it’s in the USA.

1st Person: Great, another country with a dodgy human rights record.

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Fatchecker
The Haven

Culturally diverse blue collar ageing b-boy and incessant moaner. Midlander. yUK. Pronoun: Amateur hour.