Something to read while I scrawl the teams onto some paper: what makes the perfect World Cup, and what’s our responsibility when enjoying this one?

Wondering about Argentina as potential winners, I wonder if they’ll have the midfield control in the biggest games, and if the better sides might exploit the space behind their full-backs. But here’s one reason to hope they make it, from RDP on his tatts:

A lot of them have a specific meaning: the names of my daughter, wife and mother … I think I’m going to stop. Unless I become world champion, in which case I’ll get a tattoo of the World Cup on my chest.”

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