#FIFAWWC2019 Game-By-Game (Heather Owens’ Twitter thread)

She Kicks hands four pages to Heather Owens, who kept a Twitter thread running through the whole of France 2019 and reacted to every one of the 52 matches. The result is a complete, unfiltered fan’s record of the tournament as it happened, printed game by game and unedited. She is generous about the football and merciless about the officiating, returning again and again to VAR and to inconsistency between similar incidents in different matches. Along the way she picks out goalkeeping displays from Christiane Endler and Erin Nayler, Vivianne Miedema passing the Dutch scoring record, Marta making history again, and Leah Williamson finally getting minutes. The magazine prints a disclaimer distancing itself from her verdicts while admitting the right team won.