How we picked Love Island over World Cup

YOU probably won’t be surprised that one of things that World Cup footballers do in their spare time during a World Cup is… watch the World Cup on TV. That might be because we tend to like football and enjoy it like everyone else does. Or want to watch friends or teammates as they perform for other countries. Or tune in because you might end up playing against a certain team in the tournament and want to see how they’re doing.

Typically you might watch a game on TV while you’re getting a massage, or in the treatment room, as a distraction. Or just in your room. That was the case at the last World Cup, certainly in the daytime in Russia. But that World Cup was played in the same weeks that Love Island was on telly. So most evenings, most of us would gather in a room to watch Love Island instead of the football!