Ispent a mad day in Washington DC, with the most complicated World Cup draw in the game’s history overshadowed for weirdness by everything that came before it. Did you hear that Donald Trump had brought peace to the world?

Here are my takeaways from an extraordinary afternoon at the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in the snow…

1. I think we all had a vision of how that would go. We presumed that there would be moments of cringe, moments of emotion, moments of televised administration and moments when we frowned as someone told us that the official World Cup song would get stuck in our heads. These things are always mad, they’re always over-the-top and we always watch them while asking ourselves why we are watching them.

But can I just say: it managed to surpass all of those expecta

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