We've all posted stuff we've regretted the next day, but can anyone say they've screwed up this bad?
Ballsy sporting predictions and international trash talk between countries are nothing new — just take a look at what English cricket fans were doing after Australia's ball tampering scandal. But the playful tension between nations tends to rise to boiling point during the FIFA World Cup.
The tournament presents a golden opportunity for plucky underdogs to flex their muscles in front of footballing heavyweights on the game's largest stage. With this year's global audience tipped to reach 3.4 billion (minus thousands in Australia suffering through Optus's streaming fiasco), the weight has piled on players to avoid an international embarrassment.
But for German newspaper Welt am Sonntag, the confidence in their national team and defending FIFA World Cup champions was too strong to shy away from ribbing Mexico ahead of their Group F opener on Monday morning.
The publication took a cheeky jab at the Central Americans on its front page, parodying US President Donald Trump's "build the wall" slogan with a brick wall in front of their goal under bold text reading: "Sorry, Mexico. Today WE build the wall."
