Friday Fun Link – A Few Links About The World Cup of Soccer

* Jon Oliver on the mixed emotions football fans feel towards a game that’s more like a religion for most of them and the corrupt body that oversees the quadrennial tournament…

* Twitter has enabled graphic hashtags of national flags for the World Cup.

* Brazil’s inequality summed up in one stark football-related – although not 2014 World Cup – image.

* The World Cup of Everything Else – how various countries stack up in a range of different measures and categories

* The World Cup By The Numbers

* 50 Insane World Cup Facts

* Betting Sites Can Often Give Good Insight Into Who Will Ultimately Win Sports (and Political) Events

* Who to cheer for in the World Cup flowchart.  (England’s not my home country but the England/the UK is where all my ancestors came from so that’s why I cheer for England – even though I also answer “Yes” to the second question on the flow chart which says that having traveled abroad to England is a reason I *shouldn’t* cheer for them.  But yeah, Go England!)

…many of the links above plus lots more interesting stuff can be found by searching Reddit’s r/infographics for “World Cup”

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