Football Daily | Desiré and Guéla Doué lead way at World Cup bursting with brotherly love

<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/info/2022/nov/14/football-daily-email-sign-up"><strong>Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!</strong></a></p><p>In case you missed it last week, there was a brilliant bit of camerawork in France’s warm-up match against the Côte d’Ivoire in Nantes. After the African side drew level through Guéla Doué, the camera <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DZLYb4ZgHfV/">immediately panned to his younger brother</a> on the opposition bench, Desiré, as the unusued French substitute wore a wry smile as he watched the Côte d’Ivoire celebrations.</p><p>If I’m still here today, it’s because the French team has won a lot of games. Otherwise, it could have ended before, whether I decided it or it was decided for me” – Didier Deschamps <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jun/09/didier-deschamps-france-world-cup-kylian-mbappe">gets his chat on</a> with Luke Entwistle as he heads for a swansong with <em>Les Bleus</em> at the GWC, discussing a legacy that no one – bar, perhaps, himself – would dare dispute.</p><p>Re <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jun/09/two-sleeps-world-cup-geopolitics-shining-bright-football-daily">yesterday’s Football Daily</a>: you are invited for lunch. The host does not allow your son to come, treats your wife with scorn, and asks your daughter to leave midway through. When you are ready to leave, he detains your wife and presents you with a hefty bill. Does it sound strange? Welcome to GWC 2026!” – Krishna Moorthy.</p><p>Please pass on my thanks to David Squires, once again, for giving me the spine to metaphorically crumple up and toss into the waste bin this entire GWC spectacle. It was a bit shy of four years ago when a Squires cartoon depicting the deplorable working conditions of immigrants in Qatar gave me th