Who Will Win World Cup 2018? Who Cares?

The World Cup is a process of elimination.

Each round sees winners, and sometimes runners up, going through to the next round of the competition.

Each team has to play a match against the other three teams in their group.

The first and second placed football team in each group go through to the second round which has eight matches.

Each of these matches has the winning team from one group playing the runner-up from another group.

From these sixteen teams eight go through to the quarter finals.

Four teams go through from the quarter-finals to the semi-finals.

Another match for third and fourth place as well as the final play out completing another World Cup.

In four years time it all happens again with a different country acting as host nation.

As the above clearly shows there is one hell of a lot of football played for each World Cup Competition!

Showing tonight on our TV is the England versus Belgium Group Stage World Cup football match.

It is the latest in a long line of seemingly endless matches.

You make like, love, loathe or have little interest in football but if you are in England right now you will find it hard to ignore.

Pop into any pub or bar and the latest live football match will be playing out on TV.

Wander around a city centre during an England match and you can almost here the tumbleweed billowing down the deserted streets.

Schedule your shopping trips around the Wold Cup schedule and it’s a breeze.

But what if your partner, male or female is a football fan?

On Jun 14, 2018, the latest FIFA World CUP Football competition got underway and here we are two-weeks later, halfway through this event, almost seeing men kicking footballs in our sleep.

It has been a gruelling two-weeks for partners of football fans.

Take My Man

My man is not the sort of supporter who watches an odd match or even just those that involve his national team; instead he watches every game that is aired given the opportunity.

Russia World Cup 2018 has allowed him to indulge his football fanaticism to the extreme

This time around my husband is retired. Add to that the time difference in this World Cup between the host nation Russia and the United Kingdom and he is on a roll.

Three 90 minute plus extra time matches a day were the norm last week. Thankfully as Group Stages draw to a close and Round of 16 are due to start thenumber of matches left to play is decreasing.

But how many couples have argued during this World Cup already? I imagine quite a few as football takes precedence over all else at times.

Television programmers in the U.K. have not helped.

Regular shows have been swapped to other channels or in some cases been abandoned, put on hold until the World Cup is over for another four years.

If tonight’s England v Belgium match is anything to go by football will not be coming home in 2018.

The crowd may have sang a variety of English songs, including the National Anthem, to spur our boys on but to no avail.

To be fair England and Belgium are both through to the next round of the Cup but at stake tonight is who wins the group, England or Belgium, and who they will play next.

The lacklustre performance may be tactical but that is a dangerous game.

Opting to lose for a softer option in the next match could potentially lead to more losses.

There is however all still to play for.

Could England still win the World Cup?

Who knows and who cares?