Another round-up from the World Cup where Russia and Uruguay advance to the knockout stages maintaining their 100% win rate in Group A.

Burger King needn’t have placed the ad offering Russian women £36,000 and Whoppers for life if they could convince World Cup players to fill their bellies with babies. The Russian footballing gene pool is doing quite well, thank you.

The lowest ranked side in the competition made it through to the knockout stages after a stunning second-half display against a Mohamed Salah inspired Egypt in St Petersburg.

After the 5-0 win against Saudi Arabia, Russian coach, Stanislav Cherchesov, received a personal call from President Putin during the post-match press conference. I have a vision of him taking his bloodied rubber gloves off, the CEO of Burger King in Russia hanging from a meat hook, while someone passes him a mobile phone.