It’s been a World Cup build-up of serious off-field issues; visas, ticket prices, water bottles, etc.Thankfully, there have still been a plethora of silly incidents, some of which you may have missed, so allow us to momentarily brighten up your day before you can go back to spluttering about the cost of parking at the AT&T Stadium.It’s the lighter side of the World Cup.Gianni Infantino can’t take corners. That’s it, that’s the tweet.
FIFA president Gianni Infantino grabs the captain's armband and steps up to take the corner…
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— ESPN FC (@ESPNFC) June 8, 2019This is an old clip which has started doing the rounds again in recent days but is always worth revisiting.A few things to point out. Of course he’s wearing the captain’s armband, given his inspiring leadership and ability to unite everyone for one common cause.Also note the silent dismay of his team-mates. They’re not angry, they’re disappointed (and don’t seem particularly surprised); that’s much worse.Some nations have a different relationship with the Mexican Wave (or The Wave) than others and it’s fair to say England sit towards the unappreciative end of the scale.While people in the United States and certainly in Mexico enjoy the thrill of partaking in a mass horizontal wave, seeing it as a form of happy excitement, England fans tend only to do it when they’re very, very bored.England matches at Wembley tend to be quite dull affairs where the most thrilling thing that happens is a paper aeroplane making it all the way onto the pitch.
