Ah the World Cup 2018.
It’s hardly like the tournament is surrounded in well, just about anything positive at all, with FIFA and Sepp Blatter even more unpopular than usual, which is really saying something, and hosts Russia embroiled in another racism scandal.
After the Russian FA flat out denied hearing any evidence of racism when Mr Dench himself, Emmanuel Frimpong, was the victim of monkey chanting and reacted like most sane people would, calls to boycott the tournament in protest were made.
Quite if that will happen – or if Russia should even be hosting the tournament is another thing altogether – but after the draw for the tournament was made, Twitter reacted in standard fashion, and there were some crackers.
Obviously this sums the situation up in a nutshell really…
Sepp Blatter and Vladimir Putin on stage together. Just need Lord Voldemort to come out now to complete the axis of evil.
— Paddy Power (@paddypower) July 25, 2015
Look at them, there. Aren't they great? Putin and Blatter. A great bunch of lads. pic.twitter.com/cNl972YQQ2
— Daily Record Sport (@Record_Sport) July 25, 2015
The League of Evil together at last. #WorldCup2018 #Putin #Blatter pic.twitter.com/uyH5mqKOm5
— Top Corner (@HITCtopcorner) July 25, 2015
https://twitter.com/by433/status/624969329432494080
If you look carefully, you can see that during this speech, Sepp Blatter is stomping a puppy to death behind the podium.
— Paddy Power (@paddypower) July 25, 2015
As if Putin and Blatter don’t provide enough to talk about, there was also some ‘entertainment’…
They’ve just played a “song all the world knows” at the #WorldCup draw.
Its name?
Ehh…. pic.twitter.com/gAVtYjRLmN
— B/R Football (@brfootball) July 25, 2015
After Igor Butman & Jazz Stars do their thing it's the Europe #PrelimDraw
Watch http://t.co/E1CZV2JnXk #WorldCup2018 pic.twitter.com/cI9cDew8dL
— BBC Sport (@BBCSport) July 25, 2015
And you thought UEFA liked to drag things out…
How long do we think the World Cup draw is going to take? 6 hours? 8?
— betway (@betway) July 25, 2015
This FIFA preliminary World Cup draw seems like incredibly long trailer for a James Bond movie.
— Buc Nasty (@_Hamachek) July 25, 2015
There may be hunger in the world, but not for the real Ronaldo judging by the size of him…
Ronaldo: "My dream is to see a world free of violence, hunger and poverty." #WorldCup2018 pic.twitter.com/QGliRXO1Sv
— B/R Football (@brfootball) July 25, 2015
But no one cared about any of that after the draw paired England and Scotland together…
England v Scotland at Wembley on a Friday night in the summer. What could possibly go wrong with that?
— Charles Watts (@charles_watts) July 26, 2015
England’s #WorldCup2018 group
-Slovakia
-SCOTLAND
-Slovenia
-Lithuania
-Malta pic.twitter.com/n1FUcr04kG— Eurosport UK (@Eurosport_UK) July 25, 2015
England v Scotland will be at Wembley on Armistice Day.
More on the #WorldCup2018 qualifiers http://t.co/XlJmkjhIaB pic.twitter.com/kd1QBQ1yyW
— BBC Sport (@BBCSport) July 26, 2015
Last time Scotland went down to play England trafalgar square got filled with fairy liquid pic.twitter.com/SUKVFu2pWF
— Lewis (@Anime_Everyday) July 25, 2015