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# World Cup Thighlights: We're Down to Eight and One Of Them is ENGLAND
- URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/world-cup-thighlights-were-down-to-eight-and-one-of-them-is-england-07-2018/
- Published: 2018-07-05T16:00:40.000Z
- Updated: 2018-07-05T02:15:24.000Z
- Description: Even Wills tweeted about it.
- Author: Heather
- Tags: Featured, athletes, World Cup, #wp, #wp-post, #hasslideshow, #Import 2026-10-07 07:58

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Every time I watch soccer, I hear the voice-over from an episode of *The Simpsons*: "Fast kicking. Low scoring. And ties? YOU BETCHA." But the games have been so sincerely good and full of drama. Russia upset Spain in penalty kicks! Japan gave up a 2-0 lead to Belgium and lost in stoppage time! Croatia and Denmark went to PKs and their goalies actually saved a bunch of them! Sweden beat Switzerland in a game I kind of forgot happened but which also was fine! France booted Argentina! Uruguay knocked out Portugal! And ENGLAND FINALLY WON A SHOOTOUT OH MY GOD IT'S REAL!

I remember so keenly all the examples of England failures that they showed leading up to the first strike, and I did NOT think Pickford was going to save any, but I think the goalpost that knocked one of them aside gave him some courage for the big one. I don't know. AAAH. There was a LOT of running and screaming in my house. Even Prince William took to Twitter, in what I believe is a first:

> I couldn’t be prouder of [@england](https://twitter.com/England?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) \- a victory in a penalty shootout! You have well and truly earned your place in the final eight of the [#worldcup](https://twitter.com/hashtag/worldcup?src=hash&ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) and you should know the whole country is right behind you for Saturday! Come on England! W
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> — Kensington Palace (@KensingtonRoyal) [July 3, 2018](https://twitter.com/KensingtonRoyal/status/1014255683527741442?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io)

You know the sportsfaces in Apartment 1A were AMAZING. Teach little Louis well, y'all.

###### \[Photos via Rex/Shutterstock: Matthias Schrader, Alastair Grant, Andrew Medichini, Martin Meissner, Francisco Seco, Darko Vojinovic, Natacha Pisarenko, Frank Augstein, Hassan Ammar, Sergei Grits, David Vincent, Antonio Calanni/AP; Ronald Wittek, Tolga Bozoglu, Felipe Trueba, Laurent Gillieron, Tatyana Zenkovich, Facundo Arrizabalaga, Ritchie B. Tongo, Friedemann Vogel/EPA-EFE; Michael Zemanek, Kieran McManus, Dave Shopland/BPI; Celso Bayo/ISI; Kommersant Photo Agency; Eddie Keogh for The FA; William Volcov\]