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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Michael Butler

A paean to those heady days of four back-to-back World Cup matches

Ghana fan
Four games back-to-back, Jeremy? That’s insane. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian

[AUDIBLE SIGH]

Will we ever see the likes of the Human Rights World Cup (2022) group stage again? Eleven hours of four essential back-to-back association football matches, every day, for two weeks. In the UK, the kick-off times were 10am, 1pm, 4pm and 7pm, scheduling that would neatly block out the working day, bring the already faltering British economy to a grinding halt and send the daytime sales of Tin rocketing. But if productivity was down, happiness was at an all-time high as supporters feasted on such delights as Argentina 1-2 Saudi Arabia, Qatar 1-3 Senegal and South Korea 2-3 Ghana.

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