MOSCOW (AFP) – Football fans across the globe reacted with humor and anger at the “worst World Cup game ever” as Denmark and France played out the first 0-0 of the tournament on Tuesday.
France got the point they needed to clinch top spot in Group C and Denmark also qualified for the last 16 in a soporific affair.
But that did not stop the French fans watching in Moscow jeering their own team’s lack of ambition, while on social media the reaction was more rabid.
Gary Lineker, the former England striker and now a BBC television presenter, stuck to the facts, tweeting: “The 37/38th game of the World Cup between France and Denmark is the first goalless draw of the tournament.
‘‘A record that surely will never be beaten.’’
Most others were far less charitable.
‘‘Wow! This Denmark-France game is officially the worst match of this World Cup!! Feel bad for the people who actually took time off work and paid to watch this nonsense,’’ one outraged observer, in India, wrote on Twitter.
From England, another Twitter user agreed: ‘‘Feel sorry for the fans that have gone to watch the DENFRA game, pathetic from both sides (especially France). It’s not even a friendly, it’s just a kickabout.’’
