Yesterday, England fell in the World Cup semifinal. Argentina made a late push, and now the FIFA World Cup final is between Argentina and Spain. While I’m sure that Prince William watched the semifinal from one of his eleventy billion forever homes as he pulled out his baby-hair tufts from anxiety, it’s still remarkable to me that the whole-ass patron of England Football did not bother attending one single World Cup match. And England made it all the way to the semis!! Part of me wonders if this is part of the Donald Trump curse as well – as soon as he supports a team or an athlete, that team or athlete is going to fail, flop or get arrested. Harry Kane recently admitted that he golfed with Trump, and William is clearly BFFs with Trump. It was never coming home.
Meanwhile, I also have to believe that the World Cup semifinal was “the reason” why William didn’t attend the funeral of Qatar’s former emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani. Buckingham Palace sent Prince Edward to attend the Wednesday funeral, even though someone a lot higher up clearly should have been sent. Once again, when King Charles was the Prince of Wales, he *constantly* represented his mother for these kinds of state funerals and state events. The two royal houses have historic ties and Charles is quite close to many Qatari royals. William should have been sent to Qatar. Or, failing that, William should have been at the World Cup semifinal in person, surely? Instead, he was just sitting at home and tweeting.
Gutted. England, you gave it everything and we are all so proud of you.
Thank you to everyone on and off the pitch, for an incredible tournament. The fight and belief you have shown has inspired us all. The most complete England team in a tournament. Hold your heads high 🏴
— The Prince and Princess of Wales (@KensingtonRoyal) July 15, 2026
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- The Prince of Wales takes part in a community football event, with community leaders and local young people who run and participate in football programmes across the city and the state, at Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, on day one of his visit to Brazil for the annual Earthshot Prize Awards Featuring: Prince William Where: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil When: 03 Nov 2025 Credit: Aaron Chown/PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
Nah, he’s just relieved he doesn’t have to go to the final.
For some reason, the Trump curse doesn’t work with Messi, who is also a racist twat. That whole Argentina squad is. I’m surprised William didn’t go see a match, actually. Beckham was there – you’d think he would have loved hanging out with him and Posh.
Huh? Just because you don’t like Argentina doesn’t mean you can say with any authority that they are racist. How can a whole football team be deemed such? Nonsense!
Yeah sorry not sorry but as the captain of the team he should be at least a little bit loud when his teammates are repeatedly singing racist songs about the French team. Being silent is agreeing about what is happening, he’s just as bad as his friends.
Also both the team and some of the supporters are know to make monkey imitations at black players they are facing, absolutely disgusting. There is a whole video of IShowSpeed being racially abused by Argentinians supporters after one of the games. Not a word is being said about any of this from the team of Messi.
Both teams were super aggressive in the first half, but England ran out of gas in the second.
Actually not really, it started with the Argentinian fans during the national anthem and the first foul of an Argentinian player after 4 seconds. . I’m not usually pro England but the English team more or less just reacted to the aggressive behavior of the Argentinians. Very clearly team Argentina (and some players in particular like no 17) were simply out of line and should’ve received the first card after a few minutes. It was actually pretty gross to look at, their whole behavior also after the game was over. The ref was clearly NOT neutral.
The ref absolutely should have gotten it under control fairly early on. The yellow cards that eventually got handed out helped a bit but he should have stopped the aggressiveness from both teams. And yes, it absolutely was both teams.
I mean aggressive in how they played, not in their attitude toward each other personally. In the first half, both teams were pretty much even in time of possession. In the second half, England was on the defensive practically the whole time – you can’t win like that, especially against Argentina.
When multiple representatives of the Dutch and Norwegian royal families could haul ass to games and meet the players in the dressing rooms afterwards, there really is no excuse for Scooter. Other than, y’know, the usual.
That is so true.. it was such great pr also what fun countries that are now added in my trip to Europe next year.
The Dutch and Norwegian royals weren’t FIFA patrons, either.
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Members of both the Dutch and Norwegian royal families are highly educated individuals who have completed multiple courses of study at top global universities and speak several languages; they engage not only in genuine humanitarian work but also in professional careers. Victoria worked in parliament for two years, participating in the legislative process as part of her preparation for her future role as queen. This was real, day-to-day work—unlike William’s sham stint as an “air ambulance ,” where he was on the roster but never actually showed up for duty, thereby disrupting the team’s operations. His only recorded presence was limited to posing for photos. These are articulate, intelligent people; by comparison, William and his wife (who once asked if you “recognize a smell with your nose”) are uneducated simpletons (discounting their purchased degrees) who struggle to string a single sentence together. What would William even talk to them about—the fact that there are no wars in Europe?
European royal families maintain close ties and are often seen together at various family celebrations, whereas the British royals are nowhere to be found. How many embarrassing blunders has William already committed during state visits? Now, he prefers to stay away.
Kaz: Victoria is from the Swedish royal family.
The Norwegians have Hakkon, who married an Epstein suck up who tried to destroy evidence and intimidated witnesses in her violent son’s court case involving sex crimes… and his sister Martha, who claims to see angels and fell for a new age scammer.
They still have a match against France on Saturday. Not prestigious enough I guess for William to attend.
The match for third place? Yeah, he’s not going.
I was rooting for England mostly bc of Jude. Oh well. And William doesn’t deal with losses well so it’s probably for the best that he wasn’t there. But still, it’s a lazy look. Now that Harry’s gone, he’s back to his regularly scheduled program, which is showing his face around once a week. Are they officially on their 2 month summer break yet?
William should’ve gone to the game yesterday.
It’s not that he would have been on the same coast as his brother and run the risk of running into him, unless Harry had tickets. The game was played here in Atlanta, and Harry lives over 2000+ miles away in an entirely different time zone. Maybe he was thinking about the ovation he got when he was last in the US in Boston.
Billy sticks to the anonymity of the footie forums because Billy is afraid of the narcissistic injury of being booed (again).
I was hoping they would lose , just to upset the Beckhams and Willie ,
As our Scottish tour guide said, it’t not that we hate England, but if your country is playing England, we are your country that day.
There is absolutely no reason he couldn’t have attended. This game was a big deal for the England team – and while they lost, they almost pulled off the win and how bad would have that looked, for the FA president and future king to be too busy vacationing to celebrate with them? Honestly you have to wonder if William is relieved they lost because now there’s no question of him going to the finals. I’m sure he won’t deign to attend the third place game.
It was an exciting game, both teams played rough but it was fun to watch. My son and I were watching it at a bar/restaurant a mile from our house, we left around the 82 minute mark to drive home. again, its a mile. Got home, Argentina had scored during the drive, and then scored again minutes later. That’s kind of been their thing for this tournament – big goals late in the game. I think they can just outlast the teams their opponents.
Also England completely let off the gas after their goal. My son said – “they’re parking the bus but its not going to work for 40 minutes against Agentina.” And he was right. I think England could have won if they had played the second half the way they played in the first half.
Do you know what William meant by the “most England team in a tournament”? Plus that sentence just sounds off, shouldn’t it be “the most English….”?
The “most complete England team” means that it was a strong team with no real weaknesses, and he’s pretty right about that. So it was “complete” as in there were no holes. At least I think that’s what he meant by that.
Yes, I replied the same as your son in my comment further up. I watched the game with some friends at a large food hall here in town. It was packed, evenly between England and Argentina fans, and everybody very good natured about the outcome.
What’s a large food hall, Eurydice? Is it what we call a restaurant? Or more like a club with members? Is it the locaI bar? I have never heard this phrase.
The food hall near my son’s house (USA) is a bit like a free-standing mall food court – food vendors around the perimeter and tables in the center – but with better restaurants and atmosphere. It’s in a spacious, historic downtown building. There are many different cuisines featured and a bar next to the seating area. It’s handy if everyone wants something different to eat.
I agree completely – England parked the bus and eased off the pressure against an Argentinian team that has come back last minute multiple times this World Cup – foolish foolish foolish. One point was never going to be enough to win.
On the upside, we decided to have dinner based on who won and so last night we had grilled steak with chimichurri so yum.
A lot of English fans are furious about the bus-parking tactics in the second half.
Oh, way better than a beans on toast dinner would have been! 😉
One of the sports movies comes to mind…the conditioning Coach gave those boys so they could run up and down the court (or was it a field, I forget) w/o being winded. Being in better shape is what was the difference.
We all know Will is lazy but this was a World Cup semifinal and he loves football so we couldn’t understand why he wasn’t there? We also know he can dish it out to others eg assaulting brother but he hates being booed and maybe anticipated the Falklands related aggro as the e match unfolded. He definitely wouldn’t want to be booked or anything rude shouted or chanted at him.
I thought maybe he wasn’t there because 4 countries make up the UK and his appearance there might have offended the Irish, Scottish and Welsh.
Supporting the England team does come in if for criticism even if you’re just a regular person (unless you’re David Beckham). I’m not even sure how the royals would be perceived in this situation. I think Scotland actually played this time. If I were to say something positive about the English team, I know I’m coming in for a long lecture about colonialism and empire so, uh yeah, might as well not mention I might be watching to see how they’ll do in the World Cup.
Noel Gallagher’s Wonderwall has been sung by English fans, and even he admits he cheers for the Ireland team since he’s Irish by descent.
It’s a curious thing to be a fan of the England team, I would think.
Cassie, same. And it’s another English lie that they invented the game. I read that it was China which did that. The English lie and cheat for clout. They might as well be American. I know they’ll hate that comparison.
It was never coming home but England played very well in the first half marking the first goal. But Argentina played the long game and out maneuvered them in the second.
Still a great game capping off what was a great run. He really had no business NOT being there
Oh well, now that England are out, lazy Willie won’t have to interrupt his never-ending holiday to attend the final. He’ll be relieved.
We’ll soon hear that “George is gutted that they lost!”
George did actually lose pretty gutted (maybe slightly awkward phrasing there) when England lost in one of the Euro games. A lot of funny memes were made from it.
Jude Bellingham said he was gutted (which, yeah, obviously he would be…way more so than everyone else…yikes…he scored more than anyone else, probably even historically). It’s clearly an oft-used phrase…
I just saw a delightful video of the Spanish Royal Family watching the match and celebrating. All four members wore team shirts with their names on the back. How hard would it have been for William & Kate, plus the kids, to have their staff film them sending a message to the team before the match?
That video is super cute. I wonder who from the family will attend the final. I thought for sure one of them would be at the semi final game this week but someone pointed out they had the Princess of Girona awards in Barcelona (it looks like they’re watching this from a hotel after the awards?) But I expect to see one of them on Sunday (if not the whole family.) Felipe did attend the Spain-Uruguay game in Mexico.
The whole family will be attending 😀 I bet at least Felipe and Sofia were annoyed they couldn’t attend the semi final
Too much effort.
Givent he family connections between Spain and England that are literally historical, I’m still disappointed that William or even Kate didn’t go to the Lionesses match. It would have been great PR for both countries, both royal families. Cheap as. suspect William is, he could have hitched a ride.
I wonder if part of his reluctance is fear of flying.
He isn’t scared of flying when he’s using his helicopter as a personal taxi, or jet-setting on holiday every month of the year. Willy didn’t go stateside because A) he’s lazy and B) he’s absolutely petrified of Harry.
Ok. Bigger picture. We’re at war with Iran. Whether the UK wants to admit it or not. They were extremely active and effective in the negotiations with the Iranian regime that were taking place in Oman up until the very day that Trump and Hesgeth started bombing Iran. The British relationship with Oman is pretty much what a sensible pragmatic relationship with an allied country in a volatile region looks like, on an ideal plane. And Qatar is a huge part of any potential solution to the war that is ongoing. But Qatar’s former emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, was not worth a plane ride for William? ….what on *earth* is the point of the BRF if they will not seize these moments to network the heck out of the one occasion on which members of all the Gulf countries will be in the same place, at the same time? …..???????????? JFC.
He should have showed face – this game was a BFD for the English team and game. They did well to get this far but that manager has made poor decisions the whole time – England could have won that game if they had the right players on the pitch and had kept the pressure up, esp after that first goal.
Argentina played a dirty game and have done so the whole tournament – their behaviour on the pitch last night was appalling and they got away with it as they usually do. As another poster said above the Argentinian team is racist AF and the was an incident at the end where Bellingham slapped Bacra (apparently there was a heated convo between them and other Argentine players).
I hope Spain win – they deserve it better than Argentina.
There was a typo – the player Bellingham slapped was Valentin Barco. Christian Romero was also seen goading him
Valentin Barco said something wildly racist, not realizing Jude Bellingham, who plays for Real Madrid, is fluent in Spanish. He had that smack coming.
Plus, after the match, a bunch of Argentina players were carting around a big banner that said “Las Malvinas son Argentinas” and FIFA might actually throw the book at them for it.
A Brazilian told me a joke once: a Mexican, a Brazilian, and an Argentine are all arguing about a vision that the Mexican has had. He claim’s he’s seen the Messiah. The Brazilian says you just smoked too much ayahuasca, if the Messiah were coming, don’t you think he’d aim further south? And the Argentine scoffs, I don’t know what you’re arguing about, I didn’t send anyone.
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Oh my! 🤣
I’m amused two Spanish speaking teams will be in the final.
I’m not surprised England lost. This is what they always do. I feel like everyone’s pretending they thought England might have make it to the final. Or maybe everyone was hoping for an excuse to collectively sing Wonderwall or It’s Coming Home (the latter of which clearly mocks the team). Historically, they psychologically undo themselves. It would have been worse if they had lost on penalty kicks. This was a better way to go out (which I feel everyone secretly knows was going to happen).
Soccer fans can be cruel so in that case I feel bad for the English team. But. given their history, I didn’t think they were going to make it the whole way through.
To add, I should I say I think making it to a final might have been a possibility if they weren’t facing Argentina and Messi.
But even if they had made it to the final, I think they would have lost the whole thing.
This is a way less devastating way to go out.
I think they would have lost to Spain or France as well (meaning, if the brackets had worked out differently, I think any team they faced in the semis would have beaten them.)
BUT we shall see on Saturday! I am rooting for Spain but I was surprised they beat France, to me France has been the strongest team this entire tournament. So a matchup between England and France will be interesting to watch.
I was surprised by France’s loss.
I think I’m cheering for Spain because of Lamine Yamal’s little brother who has accidentally created the best memes for Instagram. I’m dying to see his reaction.
Yeah esp given Spain’s colonial history in the region – the Spanish team have been playing very well and have so far only conceded 1 goal; their match against France was just class. Argentina will need all the referee’s ‘help’ they can get against the Spanish.
I haven’t liked Argentina this whole tournament, they’ve been receiving some of the most blatant referee favoritism I can remember. Egypt was literally robbed, and Norway for that matter, and Cape Verde was a game I could watch every week because of how just amazing Cape Verde was. That said, their second goal was so perfect it gave me chills.
England took out Mexico and Norway, both of whom I was rooting for, I was not a fan. And the number of older fans in Crusader outfits in the stands pissed me off, old white men in the 60++ age range. England’s players are so huge, I thought they were going to be able to do what they did against Mexico and just be so big that they got physically crowded out. Big guys get tired before little ones, in general.
Anyway, good game. I don’t care a ton who wins between Spain and Argentina, but will probably watch.
Argentina did not play Norway in this tournament.
BUT this is an interesting experiment in AI. Since both Argentina and Norway played on July 11, AI picks it up as them playing each other, but when you look at the whole response, it makes no sense.
Norway and Argentina did play each other in the FIFA World Cup 2026. They faced off in the quarterfinal stage on July 11, 2026, in Kansas City, Missouri
Match summary
Result: Norway 1–2 England (extra time)
Argentina’s result: Argentina 3–1 Switzerland (extra time)
I know Norway played England not Argentina, I was just remembering teams that got robbed by referees, pre coffee 😂. I played soccer from the time I was a little kid until almost 30 years old, and watching the crazy calling back of goals because of small fouls that happen outside of the actual scoring play is completely wild to me.
oh gotcha! I was wondering if I was just completely confused myself lol.
The Egypt thing was crazy. I don’t think the goal should have been called back, but it was, so okay – but when something similar happened to Salah and Argentina, there was no foul. And honestly maybe it shouldn’t have been a foul but the ref did not seem inclined to even review it, like they had when it was the other way around.
I think Argentina does historically play dirty. One of the channels showed a preview of the teams’ history with each other where one, in one older clip, Miradonna is touching the soccer ball as it goes in (the “Hand of God” moment). I don’t know if he was actually touching it, but, um, it sure looked like it. And then there was that red card incident noted in the David Beckham documentary where the Argentinian guy admitted he was just being theatrical (and I just about died laughing….even though I shouldn’t have). And I went and read more about the incident, and it seemed like they are taught to win any way they can (which maybe goes against the North American and possibly British mentality).
I feel if you’re playing a team like that you need to come in with some psychological warfare to make sure you can take it to the end.
They always do. FIFA doesn’t want a country of 5.5 million winning even of they are white as snow. They want the country with 45.5 mill.
Hard to believe there is an organization that is more corrupt than the IOC, but here it is.
FIFA doesn’t care about Argentina. Literally nobody thinks FIFA cares about Argentina.
FIFA cares about Messi, who has a global fanbase of considerably more than 45.5m.
Check out the NHL for racism and corruption. Or one Gary Bettman.
I’m not sure of the reason why they’d want Argentina to win (it seems only a handful of teams have actually won the World Cup), but FIFA does have a lot of corruption. When political leaders are calling in to get red card suspensions dismissed, that’s really not good haha.
That loss was particularly painful for England fans (my husband among them) because England led for nearly the entire match, with Argentina only scoring in the final minutes. Brutal.
I loathe the Argentina team of racist a-holes.
Bellingham’s tears after the match made me so sad.
And William absolutely should have been there. What a loser he is.
Yankeedoodles, great joke!
VARgentina, Messi this and Messi that… you are shooting your own feet with those comments. England scored early and but switched tactics and forgot that the Argentine team thrives in DRAMA, it’s like an entire team with ADHD player racing against a deadline, and they become lethal. Messi is 39 and doesn’t run as she used to and still gave the passes that assisted the goals.It’s a team not as brilliant as in the Qatar WC, but just as warm hearted, united and gritty. And that’s why we made it to the final, again. Quiero ver la cuarta estrella brillar en la camiseta..
“Part of me wonders if this is part of the Donald Trump curse as well – as soon as he supports a team or an athlete, that team or athlete is going to fail, flop or get arrested. ”
In this case, I think it was part of the regular English curse. They haven’t won since 1966 and, even though they’ve gotten stronger, I don’t believe they make it to finals often. I
This wasn’t the fist time they’ve lost in a big game, and er, it likely won’t be the last.
I didn’t think they had a chance of winning the whole thing, but it would have been funny if they had won the World Cup on US soil.
Argentinian cuisine is to die for and Argentinian men can be soo easy on the eyes. But their racism is LEGENDARY. I learned this first hand when I was a young tourist and an Argentinian man, trying to pick me up, told me (when I refused) that Black women are ugly and only good for sex. So yeah, I hope Spain runs ram shod over them lol.
They’re so racist at some point the government brought in white Europeans to make the overall population whiter. That fact made my jaw drop. Also I believe their current president is kin to Bibi in Israel, a cousin?
ll the fun teams had gone home already.
I’m just going to keep the look on Messi’s face as Cape Verde stood hard against them and made them fight for that win. The Argentinans barely celebrated that victory.
That Cape Verde game was incredible. Just stunning playing, truly beautiful and gutsy. I want to watch it over and over now that I know the outcome and am not too nervous for them.
Poor guy…. Gutted? Really…..
So did nobody from the royal family or the government go to support the England team? William can fly to support Aston Villa but not the national team? Shouldn’t the king send messages of support for a national team?
I think Charles drank a consolation pint.
I feel if you’re the King you’re going to get in trouble either way if you show support or don’t show support.
Show support, and the other three countries in the UK are bewildered. Don’t show support, and uh, yeah, that looks kind of weird too.
Supporting England means coming in for a lot of long lectures about their ….colonial history. People urge separating politics from sports, but that doesn’t happen….when someone wants to pick a fight with you, either online or in a pub.
Keir Starmer also said he was gutted. Maybe they all have the same communications manual…
I’m starting to think the Prince of Wales has a medical problem that makes him an inconsistent person. I say that as a person with a medical problem that makes me an inconsistent person. It could be anything from IBS to migraines (my issue) or is could be something like addiction. I agree the news articles make him out to be a jerk, but are they trying to hide an issue that prevents him from consistently showing up?
Anna, good point, but you are far too kind. He may have many issues (and probably does), but his main issue is supreme entitlement, based on the fact that he really can’t be fired for whatever he does or does not do. Of course, Willy always chooses the “does not do” option. And here we are.
William looks like Mr. Burns from The Simpsons in that photo with him clasping hands with the player (I think that’s Harry Kane right?)
Anyway, there’s something about his posture, facial expression and balding head in this photo – I feel a little bad since Mr. Burns is such a weasel but….🤷♀️