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Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Can you think of better World Cup slogans for the 32 teams?  open thread

The England team are not 'the heartbeat of millions', real men do not 'wear orange' and since when did 'heroes play like Greeks'? The World Cup slogans need a rewrite. Can your wit help?

The World Cup slogans are a mess. Argentina's claim to be "not just a team, we are a country" is a mere statement of fact; Belgium's rallying cry of "expect the impossible" has scant regard for logic or good sense; and England's abomination "The dream of one team, the heartbeat of millions!!" manages to squeeze two extraneous exclamation marks into a sentence that means nothing.

A few of them are nearly there. "No one can catch us" sums up Russian foreign policy with some accuracy and the deceptively simple Cameroon slogan "a lion remains a lion" will at least give the opposition something to ponder. But most of these are dire. Can you do any better?

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