The 2026 FIFA World Cup may only be a week old, but between
Messi’s hat-trick against Algeria, Tunisia conceding five goals while half the region was asleep, and Erling Haaland treating the Iraq match like a training session, it has already felt like a month’s worth of emotional damage for
Arab football fans. Still, if there is one thing we know how to do, it is suffer creatively. Because when your national team is getting cooked on the world’s biggest stage, you really only have two options: cry or laugh. Unsurprisingly, most people chose the latter.
As always, the internet has risen to the occasion. Here, the funniest memes from the tournament (so far).
TBF they all have one goal in common
Divine intervention needed tbh
Lowkey, I went to sleep after the first goal… I saw enough.
Because I sure didn’t!
Every World Cup begins with England fans singing “Football’s Coming Home” and ends with them discovering suffering in previously unimaginable forms
Maybe if we ate like that we could have too been 6’5 vikings..
These better not carry on into the next World Cup!
They were probably sleeping as well…
*Starts to cry*
You know what? Hell yeah
Petition to ban hydration breaks!
Are you forget what happened at 11 September???
Typical Algerian dad TBH
At least we’re all in this together?
Then it’s just the players walking out of the tunnel…
Yesterday must have felt like Eid for Moroccan fans
French people should lowkey be glad Algeria had zero shots on target
Goodnight, I guess.
The most important thing is that we’re united!
Arab hospitality has gone too far
Mom is a Ronaldo fan