This week’s reporting on England and Kylian Mbappe is enough to make us want a France thrashing in the quarter-final. But Gareth Southgate is going all out.
Kylian me softly
Following incredibly hot in the footsteps of ‘we have put an England flag and scarf around a waxwork of Kylian Mbappe lol’ and ‘haha this kid from Leicester has the same name as a French footballer!’, The Sun complete their hat-trick of groundbreaking, phenomenal journalistic build-up to the World Cup quarter-final with aplomb.
As Mediawatch wrote earlier this week:
‘We are genuinely giddy to discover what is exclusively coming on Friday. That England fan who looks like Steve McClaren exclusively posing with a brolly? Hanson exclusively pledging to change the lyrics of 90s seminal classic MMMBop to MMMSaka if England win?
‘At this point, Mbappesolutely nothing would surprise us. Except perhaps The Sun realising that France have more than one player.’
That second bit was, of course, always fanciful. The Sun have now ‘produced jeans emblazoned with three lions and the name Kyle Walker Jeans Co.’, which feature Kylian Mbappe peering out of the back pocket. Do you get it? DO YOU? DO YOU GET IT?!
Ha and, indeed, ha.
This stunning piece of ‘jean-ius’ – the words of Nick Parker and Robin Perrie, for this majestic prose obviously requires the minds of two writers – includes the following lines:
‘A sure sign the French will be legging it from the tournament after an England stitch-up.’
‘While Kyle and his team-mates ironed out their plans…’
‘…and hopefully a march to the final.’
Because trousers and legs.
But hey, at least they aren’t pretending a 16-year-old boy told them that, “I’d pick a sausage roll over a croque monsieur any day”. Nope, now we are being expected to believe that 50-year-old building contractor Paul Elliott said: “I’d love a pair of these.”
It really is enough to make you want Mbappe to score every goal in a 5-0 France win on Saturday.
We woz Robb’d
Mediawatch has never highlighted an error in football reporting more egregious and offensive than this.
The Sun have produced a Robbie Williams World Cup XI, which features such classics as Morocco DJ, Judebox and Jack For Good. All harmless nonsense. Absolutely fine.
But ‘Rule The World Cup’ at right-back is a f**king joke. For starters, it’s against the spirit of a pun-laden XI. But most importantly, Robbie Williams left Take That 12 years before the…
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