World Cup: Are politicians trying too hard?

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L & D England is at the World Cup playoff stages Despite a 1-0 defeat against Belgium, politicians are eager to participate in action, with varying results.

Before Thursday's clash between England and Belgium in Kaliningrad, Prime Minister Theresa May was ambushed by Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel. This is a red Belgian soccer shirt that bore the word "Hazard".

Eden Hazard of Chelsea is one of the 12 players of the Belgian team to play in the Premier League alongside Vincent Kompany of Manchester City and Manchester. Romelu Lukaku from United.

Ms. May says that she wants a positive business relationship with the EU after Brexit, and that she keeps the door open to highly skilled European migrants. Maybe this will include Belgian footballers.

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A few hours later, while the teams were leaving, Theresa May gave a L & # 39; s England has never shown much interest in football, but she certainly knows her cricket, as she He showed in an interview with BBC Test Match Special last year.

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Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar For Russia after losing to Denmark in the shoot-off, he told the BBC that he wanted the Red Devils to win, not the Three Lions, on Thursday.

Nigel Farage never misses the opportunity to fly the flag or to go to the pub so it was not a surprise to see pictures of him while watching The Game of England at A bar in Brussels

But when it was draped in an English flag, handed over by a friend, the Beer Factory bar, next to the European Parliament, exploded into boos, according to The Daily Mirror. and the staff of the European Parliament on a nearby table waved an EU flag

Then comes the generic "come on England" seems pretty simple, unless individual players are integrated in the message.

The official Twitter account of the Conservative Party posted this just before Belgium's match:

The two men represented are Jesse Lingard from Manchester United and the Manchester City Raheem Sterling.

Jesse Lingard's political views are unknown. But three years ago, Raheem Sterling recorded a video promising his support for Dawn Butler of Labor.

Butler, a close ally of Jeremy Corbyn, was running for re-election as a deputy in the northwestern part of London where Sterling grew up.

The Labor leader is a football fan – he even introduced the Brexit of the EU. Negotiator Michel Barnier with an Arsenal shirt last year

But he was accused of making his own blunder in World Cup, sharing a quote from former Liverpool manager Bill Shankly before the match of England against Tunisia.

As many quickly pointed out on Twitter, Shankly may not have been the ideal person to provide pre-match inspiration to the English football team

. Scottish legend once said of playing for his country: "It's fantastic." You look at your dark blue shirt, and the little lion looks to you and says, "Go out after the English …"!

Some of the World Cup's political mistakes are a bit more subtle: Although the basic rules of football are familiar to everyone, using the wrong football expression can make the game forget.

Conservative MP Nick Boles supported Sun's campaign plan to float the St George flag

But as any football fan knows, the World Cup play-offs are a series of games to determine which teams qualify for the World Cup first place – and not for the current tournament. 19659004] The knockout stage in Russia – a series of matches between teams that finished first or second in their groups, culminating in the World Cup final in Moscow on July 15 – is never qualified as "playoffs." To be fair to Boles, he said his campaign was aimed at recovering the flag and building a modern English identity rather than being aware of what's happening on the ground.

Football is not his specialty, as he freely admitted in a tweet of 2014:

The Sun's campaign was successful and the departments agreed to beat the flag of St George during the matches. To draw attention to this fact, not only did they tweet about it, but they also emailed reporters to tell them that they had tweeted about it.

The Labor Party also made a subtle linguistic mistake.

Jumping on the running train of the World Cup to criticize Theresa May and her ministers, Labor tweeted that May's "squad" should be "calibrated".

This might be something that people would say in the American sports commentary, but it's not a phrase commonly heard in discussions about English football.

But even if the 2018 tweets of politicians are sometimes a little awkward, they do not do it. reach the heights of David Cameron's gaffe in 2015.

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