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Interesting note: despite the widespread use of “Enhanced Football Intelligence” — every player in the tournament was GPS tracked and data exists for number, location and success rate of passes, tackles and touch rates — not one of the media ratings made reference to it. | Interesting note: despite the widespread use of “Enhanced Football Intelligence” — every player in the tournament was GPS tracked and data exists for number, location and success rate of passes, tackles and touch rates — not one of the media ratings made reference to it. | ||
If you aren’t on the park, you can’t stick the ball in the net — but you can still get booked, as the hapless Giroud found out later. | If you aren’t on the park, you can’t stick the ball in the net — but you can still get booked, as the hapless Giroud found out later. | ||
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The business of ''preventing'' Mbappé’s immortality requires a ninety minute shift and consistent but unglamorous execution and no-one is likely to remember you, either. Unless you fuck up. And then you may be assured Michael Lewis will be optioning books about you to Hollywood. | The business of ''preventing'' Mbappé’s immortality requires a ninety minute shift and consistent but unglamorous execution and no-one is likely to remember you, either. Unless you fuck up. And then you may be assured Michael Lewis will be optioning books about you to Hollywood. | ||
Post script: spare a thought for poor old Olivier Giroud, substituted off after 40 minutes.<ref>“Seethed after humiliating early substitution but in truth the game had completely passed him by. 5” said the Guardian. “Slightly lucky at one point not to give away a penalty and so ineffective up front he did not make it to half-time. 5” opined the Express. “A miserable final for the former Arsenal man as he was subbed before half-time,” said the Express, before awarding the poor chap 3. ''L’Équipe'' was so outraged that it refused to rate him at all.</ref> | |||
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*[[Roll of honour]] | *[[Roll of honour]] | ||
===Those media ratings in full=== | ===Those media ratings in full=== | ||
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