1 Dec 2010 It's good day to bribe a FIFA committee member | 2 Dec 2010
✉ 2022 QATAR wtf!!! | 3 Dec 2010 Qatar promise to build some football stadia | 4 Dec 2010 Qatar don't promise to safeguard stadium workers | FRI 18 Fools who went to Qatar hit by ban on alcohol at matches | SAT 19 Pre-tournament hysteria still nowhere near fever pitch | SUN 20 Opening match even duller than opening ceremony |
MON 21 Millions 'working from home' so they can watch England v Iran at 1pm | TUE 22 Where did Bargain Hunt, Garden Rescue, Tipping Point and Pointless go? | WED 23 People who promised they wouldn't watch it are already watching it | THU 24 Entire crowd at Uruguay v South Korea match revealed to be fake fans | FRI 25 Pubs empty during England v USA because have you seen the price of a pint? | SAT 26 Qatar attempt to cancel rest of tournament now they've been eliminated | SUN 27 Spain v Germany expected to be a better match than the actual final |
MON 28 Nine days in and hurrah, half the matches have already been played | TUE 29 England and Wales face off in awkward table-deciding grudge match | WED 30 David Beckham describes this tournament as better than the one he was in | THU 1 David Beckham finds the keys to a new luxury yacht outside his hotel room | FRI 2 Match halted due to excessively liberal slogan written on armband | SAT 3 England v Netherlands in unfortunate clash with Hartlepool Utd v Stockport County | SUN 4 We're halfway through! (but over 80% of the matches have already been played) |
MON 5 Gary Lineker kisses Peter Tatchell to test Qatar's so-called LGBT tolerance | TUE 6 Half time entertainment to include stoning of immoral miscreants | WED 7 (oh thank God, two days off) | THU 8 First time the Double Issue Radio Times has included World Cup matches | FRI 9 Either England made the quarter finals or the whole country's lost interest | SAT 10 Twitter permanently collapses after VAR handball penalty incident | SUN 11 Turns out Qatar have paid £200bn to trash their global reputation |
MON 12 Onset of proper Christmas delayed by interminable football overload | TUE 13 Technically England could be in today's semifinal and Wales in tomorrow's | WED 14 Aircon fails in Al Bayt stadium and 100s suffer heatstroke due to lack of beer | THU 15 With 32 teams, nobody has yet completed their Panini sticker album | FRI 16 'Best World Cup ever' title still very much up for grabs | SAT 17 All this winter kerfuffle because a dozen corrupt men were too easily bribed | SUN 18 Some team wins. Less than 3½ years to the next farrago. |