Random: England's Dele Alli Performs Fortnite Emote At The World Cup, Gets Wrecked Online

New rule: if you ever live to score a goal at the World Cup, you’re allowed to do a Fortnite celebration

First time in a semi final since 1966? Somebody needs to do their homework a little better.

Italy 1990 says hello.

DELETE

If these people recognise that it is a fortnite emote in the first place then why are they complaining like they are much better! (I have nothing against fortnite players!)

As Robzilla said, the moaners can do whatever celebration they want when they score a goal in the World Cup!

@Damo I remember those dark days too

I wish my life were so easy going and put together that the most frustrating news I receive in the day is about a sports player doing a dance from a video game.

Dele Alli plays Fortnite on the PS4.

But I guess NintendoLife needs a new bandwagon now that the Nintendo Labo hypetrain crashed.

Oh ok. At least he didn't pull out one of his three shotguns and hop around, likely shooting at his teammates crawling to be revived.

Hopefully one day he’ll grace us with the Waluigi crotch chop https://youtu.be/P6CLfZl0m88

Vot eez zees Fartnight pleeze??????

I`d bet Belgium or France will win the World Cup, but England is doing a decent job with very good but young players.

I think a celebration funny dance is always nice, as long as it`s not offensive..

Jesse Lingard also did a Fortnite celebration in the Panama game - so Dele loses points for originality! (..luckily, he gained a heck of a lot of points for scoring a goal that saw England through to their first World Cup semi-final since 1990 - so he's still #winning! )

Just another one to add to my list of “Examples of why society is crumbling”.

I haven’t played Fortnight yet (I know, right?). Not a big fan of online multilayer.
But obviously Fortnight is huge if this kind of stuff is happening. I’d say if you win, you can do pretty much whatever you want, and dat’s dat.

Who cares what celebratory dance move he does, and why moan about it? What the hell is the difference of being inspired by a movie,
a recording artist or a game, to make a funny dance or pose?

Let them make whatever the hell kinda move they feel like making,
it's their celebration after all, not yours, for cryin' out loud.

Something new is certainly better than all the usual moves,
like somersaulting and knee-sliding...

And to all you Brits UK residents lovely English people: congratulations on the progress of your team so far. I've watched all of the matches of this world cup so far, and the matches of the English certainly were some of the more exciting ones.

Don't know if they have it in them to also take the prize, but I do wish them the best of luck. Either way, I think I'll enjoy the rest of the matches just fine, since I'm the proverbial neutral viewer, seeing as both teams that I could have personally rooted for (USA and the Dutch, due to my heritage and current country of residence) never even managed to enter.

So, I just want the best team to win, and I hope it will be an interesting match, preferably without penalties, because I truly HATE those. Bad for the heart rate and simply not a good representation of the match, so even the team that played the worst, could win based on penalties, and that just doesn't feel right to me.

The second video is a dance called the Floss. First seen by someone called "Backpack Kid" on Saturday Night Live. Not a Fortnite emote. https://youtu.be/6X6b19ukfTA

Also...can we talk about ANYTHING else, because this has nothing to do with Nintendo.

Almost enough to make me withdraw my decision to support the Brits in the semis and finals... almost.

I have Played Fornite didn't really get into it myself if I was in their position I'd probably do some celebration from my favourite game he's not harming anyone so I don't get the backlash I believe it's people who follow an annoying trend of hating things Because they believe it's cool to do so.

Brits? This is England we are discussing. Not Britain.

@frodouk Beat me to it. Britain isn't the one country, it's a union of 4 individual nations with their own national identities and cultures.

This is a pretty funnily written article since I've come to calling this website "Fortnite Life" of late. Not a day goes by...

Ha!
Well, so long as the dab is gone.
This is the next new thing along with T-posing.

@ThanosReXXX "preferably without penalties, because I truly HATE those. Bad for the heart rate and simply not a good representation of the match, so even the team that played the worst, could win based on penalties, and that just doesn't feel right to me."

I haven't watched a single minute of a single match but reading about games ending this way is kind of off putting. Why spend 90 minutes watching an entire game when I could just tune in at the end and watch penalty kicks? Or just watch the PKs later?

I may watch the semi's since it's getting close to the end, if I can figure out how w/o a cable tv package.

@rjejr Yeah, it is disappointing, especially if it's the lesser team that wins in this way, but unfortunately, it happens, and has also happened in this world cup.

Sometimes, it's just teams being too equally matched at the specific moment of the game, and so, even with 90 minutes of playing AND two halves of 15 minutes overtime, they will still not have achieved victory over one another, so penalties it is, then.

Which is ultimately a game of who has the best goal keeper, or the worst penalty takers...

But it's not just penalties: sometimes, unfortunately, it's a strategic move to play an even match on purpose. Mostly happens in the group rounds, before the quarter finals start. Sort of a gentlemen's agreement based on points. It can happen that when the two highest scoring teams of the group play against each other, that they decide to keep the status quo, so that they both go through to the next round.

It certainly is another way in which to create an ultimately quite boring spectacle for the viewer, but I guess from their point of view it's simply a matter of doing everything possible to win, even shenanigans like that...

But be that as it may, tuning in after 90 minutes is something that would obviously not work really well in real life, seeing as you'll never know beforehand how a match will go, so I just watch them anyway. Sometimes, I just have the TV on in the background, while doing something else like commenting on websites, and if something exciting happens, then all I have to do is turn my head towards the TV...

As for watching the semi's: they start tomorrow. Only four teams left, and none of them are bad or teams that will settle for penalties, so I can easily recommend watching them. I know I will, but then again: haven't missed a match so far, so I'm not about to miss the last few either...

And there's always online options to watch games live for free. Just Google something like "watch Fifa world cup online free" or something like that, and you'll find plenty of websites that offer a range of channels.

@frodouk Well, EX-CUSE me...

No offense, I didn't know you people were so sensitive about that. I actually meant well, so why focus on me making a tiny mistake instead of accepting the congratulations and good wishes for the upcoming match?

But I'll correct it, so we can prevent any other English people potentially being offended by it...

I don't care about sports at all, but this is hilarious!

@ThanosReXXX Not sensitive, just stating a fact fella.

England, Wales, Scotland = Great Britain
England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland = United Kingdom

Class over.

@ThanosReXXX I've spent the last 30 minutes trying to figure out how to watch the last 4 games and it isn't looking good. Here in the US FOX has it locked down pretty tight. W/o either cable or a paid subscription to an online service I'm really not sure how to watch. I've already used up my free trails of Sling and Fubo. I could try Direct TV Now but I'm waiting for the fall when my normal shows, and Dr. Who, start airing again.

Also, I'll be out on vacation next weekend hiking and stuff, so when the games are on Sat and Sun mornings at 10AM and 11AM I won't be home. It is possible the people I'm staying with will be watching the game Sunday morning as it's the championship. I doubt they'll have much interest in playing for 3rd and 4th on Saturday. We'll see I guess.

@rjejr The first game is up on Tuesday, and the next will be on Wednesday, so not in the weekend. The final will be in the weekend, but other than that, the matches are during this week, unless you're talking about recorded broadcasts, instead of live.

@frodouk No need for a class, thank you. Otherwise, I would have to teach you all about the American states, and the Dutch provinces, seeing as you will more than likely also not know enough about those, making you potentially run the risk of making some mistakes of your own...

And besides, I did correct it, after all...
But I'll keep in mind next time, that apparently, it's still a default setting for people to solely focus on the negatives, rather than on the positive things mentioned in a post.

Guess that's on me for trying to say something nice to the people supporting the English soccer team, and hoping it would be appreciated. What WAS I thinking?

@ThanosReXXX I don't need teaching my good man, I wasn't the one making the mistakes here, besides I'm well versed in the US/Dutch history.

You're making assumptions that I'm English, aren't you?

I love that his whole article is written in a way that suggests not many readers have a big knowledge of soccerball.

Just let the man dance

@frodouk No, not really. I've seen you're Irish. All I assumed, and assumed correctly, is that like so many others, you seem to focus on the negatives.

Now, you may not feel addressed by me wishing the English good luck, so that could be a thing, but other than that, I don't quite get people cherry picking one single mistake that I made, in an otherwise completely positive and well-meant comment.

In my opinion, that's just not a very nice thing to do. As is continuing on about it, even after I've corrected my apparently capital mistake...

I've watched every single game of the World Cup and its been fantastic. I can't wait for the final four games!

If theyre winning games then I don't care what celebration the England players do.

@ThanosReXXX Thanks. I found the schedule here, but still looking for how to watch. I'll find some way if I'm really in the mood, I always do.

http://www.espn.com/soccer/bracket

@ThanosReXXX you corrected “Brits” to “UK residents” which is still wrong.

England is a country. The UK and Great Britain aren’t.

There’s also little comparison in comparing states and provinces to the same gaff as mis identifying a country.

United States of America, Denmark, Netherlands, England are all countries.

UK, Great Britain, and states of America are not countries. Waffling in about provinces of Denmark would be like you being tested on the counties within England.

@Damo ditto mate. I remember the 86 vaguely but not actively watching it. 90 I vividly remember watching - platt scoring against Belgium and the semi final...

I stay “up late” was 11 - that set me up for 28 years of disappointment since - but each time i get sucked in - like a Liverpool fan - “this is our year” maybe this year is our year!

I had the big sticker binder by orbis - still have it dug it out other day.... isn’t completed - decided to complete- went on to eBay - wow - decided not to complete. Ha

@KingSandyRavage Alrighty, then...
Corrected it once more, although I'm all but sure that someone else will want to nag on about the current label I've put in, instead of all the "wrong" ones.

For the time being, this really is the last time that I'll ever think of congratulating and wishing well upon a country. Thanks, negatively-focused people...

P.S.

Provinces of Denmark? Never mentioned that...

@rjejr Don't mention it, my pleasure. At least SOMEONE here is happy about (and reacts normally to) a well-meant comment...

Probably was paid a fair few quid for doing that.

@rjejr I found this page:
https://www.livesoccertv.com/competitions/international/world-cup/
Might be a solution for your cable issues. Besides USA channels, it also has British and Irish channels, and if you're feeling REALLY adventurous, you could also watch the Dutch channels. And seeing as the primary Dutch sports broadcasters are part of the public broadcasting services, these are legally free to watch anywhere.

@ThanosReXXX you said Dutch provinces.

And English people aren’t lovely.

I know nobody really cares as this is about video games, but it's crazy how the media are reacting to this England run. If they win it, nobody in the future will care who they beat on the way, but until they win it, they've not actually beaten anyone of note. Alan Shearer did a big piece about how England have earned so much respect that had been lost in the last 10 years, but have they really? For beating Tunisia, Panama and Sweden? Hardly a heroic run.

@KingSandyRavage So you think Denmark is a Dutch province? I hope you're joking, because if you're not, then it's most certainly not me who needs some lessons...

And as expected, more criticism on my comment, even after I've taken the trouble to correct it two times, something that I didn't even have to do, considering all the unnecessary negativity that gets thrown my way.

And the "lovely" part was a bit of a play on how that's always used in video items on NLife.

@ThanosReXXX ????

There will be provinces/counties/localities within Denmark. This is what I presume you meant when you said Dutch provinces.

@KingSandyRavage Haha, no. For clarity's sake: I'm originally American, but I live in the Netherlands, which is why I mentioned both those countries in my original comment and the Netherlands has provinces, so that's all I meant with that. You really had me scratching my head there, with the Denmark thing...
EDIT:
Obviously, I do know that the Netherlands also has provinces/properties outside of it's own borders, but I only meant the ones in the Netherlands themselves.

@Damo I still remember blubbering when we lost and I was a very lot older than 10, This time I'm so old my wife is concerned I'll have a heart attack before the games even start!!

@ricklongo ENGLAND are in the world cup cup,not Britain. Some tend to forget Britain is made up of multiple separate countries 😉

We've got a whole geography class in the comments 😂

I'm from Croatia, but I wish England good luck. May we have a great game!

@PlayedNSlayed Sure, but English people are British anyway, so that's no different than saying I cheered for the South Americans in the France-Uruguay semifinals.

@KingSandyRavage Danish are folk from Denmark while Dutch are folk from the Netherlands. Sorry but that's worse than @ThanosReXXX error as they're completely unrelated

@OorWullie don’t really see how it is worse. To assume a Dane is from Denmark isn’t a giant leap. Whereas the explaination of a Dane being from the Netherlands would take an explanation.

I was also assuming. It was either Netherlands or Denmark, hence putting both in my original post. I just forgot to add it in the reply.

Who said anything about worse anyway? At no point was I being derogative, condescending or insulting. It was pointing something out in a total general sense.

Seems to be you that’s looking to make arguments..... TROLL!!!!

The amount of bros and sports stars who play Fortnite is astounding.

Its not even originally from Fortnite: Psy did it already. And even he may not have invented it.

Big part of the Fortnite hate simply comes from the free-to-play aspect. I personally was thinking in the beginning: What a cool looking and original tower defense game. That was when there where still zombies and it was a game you had to pay for.

But now it seems to be a free to play affair. From that day I also felt negative about the game, more and more. That's not to say I won't try it someday. We'll see what happens...

@ThanosReXXX So after watching the 2 semifinal games we were out of town visiting relatives who didn't have any tv so I didn't watch any agmes this past weekend. Finally sounded exciting, and had Croatia won 4-2 I would have been annoyed I missed it, but I really didn't need to see France win 4-2. We had a good family weekend, worth missing it.

@rjejr Yep, most definitely the better option. I haven't missed a single match, so much to my regret, I also saw THAT happening live...

It did result in something of a headache and a sore throat from shouting at the screen, but luckily, I've been de-Americanized enough to not want to smash my TV in, when I don't get the game results that I want...

@ThanosReXXX "I've been de-Americanized enough to not want to smash my TV in, when I don't get the game results that I want..."

Well then what's the point in watching?

Oh yeah, beating on your significant others. My twitter feed was full of links to those articles the past week. I didn't read any, but it makes sense.

@rjejr Well, unlike the average American, appearing on Funniest Home Videos, Ridiculousness or any other similar home video program, I don't have the luxury of being able to destroy my TV at a whim, seeing as I haven't got the extra cash to replace it with a new one...

Business is also all but non-existent currently, so I'm kinda on a non-voluntary, non-paid vacation, and coupled with all the crap that happened at the Fifa WC, there's also more than enough personal stuff happening that makes sure that my stress level is rising to a nice, unhealthy point again...

@ThanosReXXX Sorry about the lack of work, gotta be tough. Are you also suffering through a heat wave over there? Heat seems to be a big topic this summer. As it has been the past 15 years or so, but no worries.

https://weather.com/news/news/2018-07-15-greenland-massive-iceberg-innaarsuit

@rjejr It is tough, but I somehow always manage to keep my head above water, if only barely at times. And yeah, it IS warm, and it's also warmer than normal over here (around 86°F), so in between bouts of stress and despair, I'm trying to keep calm and hydrated.

Wouldn't want to have to add heat stroke to the list of troubles...

@ThanosReXXX "Wouldn't want to have to add heat stroke to the list of troubles.."

Yeah, while I am super forgetful these days, I do recall you telling me about the fans and open windows and stuff in your apartment trying to keep cool. It was 84" in our house today. I picked a bad night to pan fry fish. It was a good dinner but I'm soaked now. I'll take a shower before bed to cool me down, even though the bedroom AC will be on tonight no doubt. I can sweat all day and function, but I can't sleep while I'm sweating.

@rjejr Good memory. It is indeed not just the outside heat. The thing is, I'm living on the fourth flour of a rather well-insulated six storey building, with large windows on the street side, and large double-pane glass sliding doors on the balcony side on the other side of the apartment, which is also hanging over the canal.

Because of being exactly in the middle of all the floors, and there being so much glass surfaces and good insulation, heat gets trapped rather easily, and hangs around for days after the outside temperature has already lowered again. I can have those sliding doors open all day, and it'll be relatively cool, but at some point, I'll have to close them, not having any screen doors, and the temperature will be back to its original height again in next to no time.

Ultimately, that means that when it's 86°F outside, it can easily go up to 91 inside. And right now, we're not even in the hottest week of the month, according to the weather report, and because the Dutch climate can't handle all that heat, we're going to have rain and thunder tomorrow, but it'll still be hot, and the rest of the week is going to be similar temperatures again, and possibly higher next week.

I'm REALLY not looking forward to that. I'm more of a mild temperature person, or a Winter person, actually. I'm more cold-resistant than heat resistant...

I do still cook and fry even in these temperatures, but I do usually adapt my menus to the season and/or climate. So, right now, that means regularly exchanging the standard hot meals for cold dishes such as salads, bread, and so on, with only little baked/fried/grilled food on the side.

Overall, it's just a bit more varied than usual, and if it's very hot, it happens that I just don't want to cook a full meal, so it's also kind of a convenience thing...

As for sleeping in these temperatures: bought myself a special summer blanket, made from some kind of artificial fiber. It's quite thin and cool, and it's a material that "breathes", so it processes excess heat much faster than other materials. Slept like a baby so far, so apparently, it's working perfectly...

@ThanosReXXX Nice find on the blanket, every little bit helps.

I thought my weather.com forecast was broken this morning, it had 6 days in a row of 60% thunderstorms. That's normal for Florida, but I'm in NY. Oh look now it's 8 days, that's not even funny, w/ rain the 2 days before that. Oh wait, day 7 i o nly 40%, my mistake.

SAT JUL 21 Showers 79°69° 40% SE 13 mph 67%
SUN JUL 22 Thunderstorms 80°71° 80% SE 15 mph 76%
MON JUL 23 Scattered Thunderstorms 80°71° 60% S 14 mph 79%
TUE JUL 24 Scattered Thunderstorms 80°71° 60% S 13 mph 78%
WED JUL 25 Scattered Thunderstorms 79°70° 60% SW 12mph75%
THU JUL 26 Scattered Thunderstorms 81°68° 60% SW 13mph70%
FRI JUL 27 Scattered Thunderstorms 81°68° 60% S 9 mph 67%
SAT JUL 28 Scattered Thunderstorms 81°68° 60% SE8 mph68%
SUN JUL 29 Scattered Thunderstorms 81°70°40% SE 9 mph 68%
MON JUL 30 Scattered Thunderstorms 82°70°60%SE10 mph71%

@rjejr Well, the weather over here is still the same as yesterday. It was supposed to rain and thunder today, so either that was early in the morning (got up kinda late, so I could have missed that), or it was simply a wrong prediction by the weather man/woman, as happens so often, especially with long term predictions.

"Oh, look: that storm that was headed towards us yesterday, has suddenly taken a sharp left turn and will completely miss our shoreline.. "

whaddaya know...

@ThanosReXXX We finally got an hour of pouring rain. The sun is back out now, it's still 93% humidity and 85', but tomorrow and the next few days, while we'll be visiting the beach house for a couple of days, is scheduled to be nicer.

@rjejr Still the same temperatures over here, except it's bone dry. Warnings have gone out for holiday- and tourist sites in the country, to watch out with open fires, barbecues, cigarettes and any other source of fire, because the grass has turned to hey, and in certain regions, the water company has lowered the water pressure in the pipes, so people will have to make do with less water for the time being.

Luckily, no such shenanigans over here. Probably one of the benefits of living in a city like Amsterdam. The restricted areas are mostly inland.

Anyway, apparently, it's been ages since it's been so hot for such a long, successive period. Last one measured was near the end of WW2, if records from back then are to be believed/trusted.

Next week is also going to be fun, with more of the same, or even slightly hotter. I'll be damn glad when it's over, because it sucks the energy right out of me. I'll celebrate the day when I'll finally be able to say that "winter is coming" again...

@ThanosReXXX Hang in there.

"winter is coming"..

That's funny, I currently have the season 1-7 box set in my Amazon cart for $75. Need to discuss it with my wife later. I think we'll put it off, but we will rewatch season 1-7 once we finally get a date for season 8. Maybe at comic-con in San Diego, they do stuff like that there.

@rjejr Oh, don't worry: I'll live. I always do, somehow. I've been in quite a few accidents and stuff over the years, and I probably have cat genes, because by all rights, I should have been dead already, quite a while ago.

You won't even believe some of these stories, unless you look me straight in the face and see that I'm dead serious.

This Saturday, we're going to have a waft of rain, drop on a hot plate, so that's not going to do anything to cool the country down, but only one more month to go, so I'll keep on muttering complaints and curses to myself, and keep taking cold showers, and I'll see it through...

Good price on Game of Thrones. Is that the standard bundle, or the box with all the extra goods?

Haven't even watched past season 4 myself: but I guess I have more than enough time currently, so I might as well dive back in. Although there's also gaming, looking for jobs, and my cable set top box'es recording list (cloud-based storage) is already over 54% full, so I still have more than enough to watch stored on there as well...

It's almost like my gaming backlog, although that is SERIOUSLY worse than anything else in my life. I don't even think I have enough years left on this planet, to play all these games, much less finish them. And more keep coming, because I'll still buy them regardless.

You never know if they're going to become rare and are going to cost me a fortune, so better buy 'em now and have 'em, than having missed them and not being able to buy them anymore because of rarity or astronomically high prices...