Football fever is upon us with the World Cup starting this Thursday when Russia take on Saudi Arabia in the opening game.
Englands first match is Monday 18 June, when they are up against Tunisia with a 7pm kickoff.
With just a few days to go, its time to nail your colours to the mast.
We have teamed up with our football mad designer friends at TurnStyle, who have been busy leading up to the World Cup making a set of posters you can download for free and put up wherever you want to send out some love to the England boys.
Inspired by the Russian propaganda posters of the past, they come in printer-friendly black and white, as well as red and white or blue and red if youre feeling fancy (or youre using the office printer – we wont tell if you dont).
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Just click the links below to launch the high quality pdf that will print off at any size, including standard printer A4 and A3 and much larger, if you have the printer to handle it.
If you like what you see, you can also head over to the TurnstyleFC store at etsy.com/uk/shop/TurnStyleFC, where they have more World Cup posters and T-shirts as well as lots of designs for domestic teams.
Come on England!
Metro.co.uk World Cup Poster in colour – DOWNLOAD THE PDF HERE
Metro.co.uk World Cup Poster in red – DOWNLOAD THE PDF HERE
Metro.co.uk World Cup Poster in black and white – DOWNLOAD THE FULL-SIZE PDF HERE
Metro.co.uk World Cup Poster in blue – DOWNLOAD THE FULL SIZE PDF HERE
WORLD CUP IN NUMBERS
23 players in each World Cup squad
32 teams in world cup
211 teams eligible to enter for qualification
Qualifying stages take place across the 3 years between World Cups, held every 4 years
Each country plays 3 games in group stage before final 16, quarter finals, semi-finals and final
There will be 64 games in total, including third place play-off
Reigning champions Germany have won the World Cup 4 times
The World Cup is the most viewed sporting event in the world – watched by even more people than the Olympic Games
In 2006 an estimated 715.1 million people waatched the final match – thats a 9th of the entire planets population
Audience size across all games was 26.29 billion people
Brazil have won 8 World Cups
Germany and Italy have won 4 times each
Argentina and Uruguay have won 2 times
England, France and Spain each have 1 World Cup title
England have odds of 16/1 to win at Moscow 2018
Brazil and German are joint favourites with odds of 9/2
Brazil lost to Germany 7-1 at the World Cup 2014 with Germany going on to take the title
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Football fever is upon us with the World Cup starting this Thursday when Russia take on Saudi Arabia in the opening game.
Englands first match is Monday 18 June, when they are up against Tunisia with a 7pm kickoff.
With just a few days to go, its time to nail your colours to the mast.
We have teamed up with our football mad designer friends at TurnStyle, who have been busy leading up to the World Cup making a set of posters you can download for free and put up wherever you want to send out some love to the England boys.
Inspired by the Russian propaganda posters of the past, they come in printer-friendly black and white, as well as red and white or blue and red if youre feeling fancy (or youre using the office printer – we wont tell if you dont).
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Just click the links below to launch the high quality pdf that will print off at any size, including standard printer A4 and A3 and much larger, if you have the printer to handle it.
If you like what you see, you can also head over to the TurnstyleFC store at etsy.com/uk/shop/TurnStyleFC, where they have more World Cup posters and T-shirts as well as lots of designs for domestic teams.
Come on England!
Metro.co.uk World Cup Poster in colour – DOWNLOAD THE PDF HERE
Metro.co.uk World Cup Poster in red – DOWNLOAD THE PDF HERE
Metro.co.uk World Cup Poster in black and white – DOWNLOAD THE FULL-SIZE PDF HERE
Metro.co.uk World Cup Poster in blue – DOWNLOAD THE FULL SIZE PDF HERE
WORLD CUP IN NUMBERS
23 players in each World Cup squad
32 teams in world cup
211 teams eligible to enter for qualification
Qualifying stages take place across the 3 years between World Cups, held every 4 years
Each country plays 3 games in group stage before final 16, quarter finals, semi-finals and final
There will be 64 games in total, including third place play-off
Reigning champions Germany have won the World Cup 4 times
The World Cup is the most viewed sporting event in the world – watched by even more people than the Olympic Games
In 2006 an estimated 715.1 million people waatched the final match – thats a 9th of the entire planets population
Audience size across all games was 26.29 billion people
Brazil have won 8 World Cups
Germany and Italy have won 4 times each
Argentina and Uruguay have won 2 times
England, France and Spain each have 1 World Cup title
England have odds of 16/1 to win at Moscow 2018
Brazil and German are joint favourites with odds of 9/2
Brazil lost to Germany 7-1 at the World Cup 2014 with Germany going on to take the title
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