What's The Best Way For Me To (Binge) Watch The World Cup?

July 27, 2018 1:04 PM

I missed this year's World Cup entirely - how can I watch highlights of all the games, preferably in the order they were played, and without having the results exposed?
posted by 7 Minutes of Madness to Sports, Hobbies, & Recreation (3 answers total)

Fox Sports's 90 in 90 series is a good recap of each game (essentially, the full 90 minute game in 90 seconds, though I think many of them are longer videos to get all the highlights). They're all on YouTube I believe. The videos don't expose the results up front. However, keeping yourself entirely unspoiled could be tricky... if you search "Fox Sports" and "90 in 90" on YouTube the most recent videos will pop up first, which will spoil who is in the final matches.

Maybe have a friend navigate to the first game (Russia v. Saudia Arabia) and then scroll from there one by one.
posted by lewedswiver at 2:32 PM on July 27, 2018

I do not know of a way to avoid seeing the final result of the World Cup.

In the USA, FoxSports has/had the rights to the 2018 World Cup. You can watch "90 in 90" summaries of each game here. Be warned that these appear in chronological order, so the presence of teams in the quarter finals, semi finals, and finals imply their success in the preliminary round.

There is a "highlights of 2018" show which is 9:38 in length. There are also complete match replays. But I do not know how you would navigate these from the beginning of the tournament.

There are also full match replays, again in chronological order.
posted by blob at 2:34 PM on July 27, 2018

Start here for Russia/Saudi Arabia and work "backward" from there
posted by blob at 2:35 PM on July 27, 2018 [1 favorite]