Perhaps the funniest footnote in Wahoos! run occurred during the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. Organizers ordered 584 cases of chips for the Olympic Village, but a paperwork error resulted in 27,146 cases being delivered instead!
- 🇸🇳 journalists confined to the US and can't cover Canada match
- Many African fans denied visas to support their teams
- Matches have all started late as far as I know
Discontinued Foods!
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This led to a near-endless cavalcade of General Mills delivery trucks being driven in an out, causing massive logistical and operational headaches for organizes, athletes, and the media apparatus. of the Olympic Village, which found itself inundated with 1.3 million bags of Wahoos!
Day 6 of #FIFA2026, so many stories that have little to do with football.
Off the top of my head:
- 🇰🇷 beefing with their own national press
- 🇮🇷 team being sidelined to 🇲🇽
- Bielsa and 🇺🇾 vs FIFA
- 🇨🇦 banning 🇬🇠player charged of multiple SAs
- That damn ad break (let's call a spade a spade)
More football directly:
- 🇹🇳 scrambling to find a new coach
- 🇦🇺 VAR ref's white supremacist symbol
- 🇨🇻 and their keeper's major victory
- Curaçao's first ever goal and it's against Neuer
- Terrible officiating (missed penalties for 🇨🇦 and 🇪🇬 and question from ðŸ‡ðŸ‡¹)
Where in Norway are you going? There’s a good article about how the Norwegians used humor during the occuapation I can try to dig up.
- Post-match, an 🇮🇷 player's visa has already expired because he was only given a single entry into the US
