World Cup 2022: TikTok brings football fever to millions of fans
10 Dec 2022
BBC
The #FifaWorldCup hashtag is bringing in billions of views as football fever hits social media.
I identified and tracked down several of the people in those videos. Those "fake" England fans I was able to speak to were people from India and Sri Lanka who live and work in Qatar. They told me they were committed fans and were delighted to be able to watch their favourite teams play. Their social media profiles, which have posted about these football teams for years, support this.