{"id":31558,"date":"2018-07-09T13:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/random_englands_dele_alli_performs_fortnite_emote_at_the_world_cup_gets_wrecked_online"},"modified":"2018-07-09T13:15:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T13:15:00","slug":"random-englands-dele-alli-performs-fortnite-emote-at-the-world-cup-gets-wrecked-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/07\/09\/random-englands-dele-alli-performs-fortnite-emote-at-the-world-cup-gets-wrecked-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: England&#8217;s Dele Alli Performs Fortnite Emote At The World Cup, Gets Wrecked Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/random_englands_dele_alli_performs_fortnite_emote_at_the_world_cup_gets_wrecked_online\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/random_englands_dele_alli_performs_fortnite_emote_at_the_world_cup_gets_wrecked_online\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Dance magic dance\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/random_englands_deli_alli_performs_a_fortnite_emote_at_the_world_cup_gets_wrecked_online\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/random_englands_deli_alli_performs_a_fortnite_emote_at_the_world_cup_gets_wrecked_online\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"Dance magic dance\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>If you follow football (or &#8216;soccer&#8217; as it&#8217;s known in North America) then you&#8217;ll no doubt be tuned into the 2018 FIFA World Cup, which is currently taking place in Russia. You may also be aware that perennial under-achievers\u00a0England have somehow managed to secure a spot in the semi-finals &#8211; for the first time since 1990, when England lost to West Germany.<\/p>\n<p>You may well have switched on your TV set at the weekend expecting an exciting game of footy between England and Sweden &#8211; which indeed it was. England gained a thumping two-goal victory which puts them in a good position to make it all the way to the final.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While watching this titanic struggle between two European footballing superpowers you may also have thought to yourself: <em>&#8220;Praise the heavens, I&#8217;m finally able to enjoy a piece of entertainment which isn&#8217;t infected by that accursed <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/fortnite\">Fortnite<\/a><\/strong> video game that every fool and their auntie is chattering on about. I do so hate it.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Then this happens:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">IT&#8217;S HAPPENING <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ENG?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ENG<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WorldCup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WorldCup<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/e0rhlPWpRz\">pic.twitter.com\/e0rhlPWpRz<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Marcus Gilmer (@marcusgilmer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marcusgilmer\/status\/1015616304307494912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 7, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>When Dele Alli scored England&#8217;s second goal, he performed the &#8216;Ride the Pony&#8217; emote from &#8211; you guessed it &#8211; Fortnite. Alli is clearly something of a fan because he&#8217;s reproduced other emotes when playing for his club side, Tottenham Hotspur, in the English Premier League:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>He&#8217;s even played it online with fellow England team members\u00a0Kieran Trippier and Harry Kane &#8211; and some little-known Twitch streamer called Ninja:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>This goes to show how far the game has entered the world&#8217;s collective consciousness, but for some, it was simply an emote too far:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Me after seeing Dele Alli&#8217;s celebration <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uqgGBSUdwA\">pic.twitter.com\/uqgGBSUdwA<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Messi-Esque (@Barcelona_esque) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Barcelona_esque\/status\/1015615632442904582?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 7, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">DELE ALLI JUST DID THE FORTNITE DANCE AFTER HE SCORED I WANT ENGLAND OUT OF THIS TOURNAMENT IMMEDIATELY<\/span>\u2014 ali\u2019s LSAT fraud blog (@aliabouesh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aliabouesh\/status\/1015615554999193601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 7, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">England win 2-0, but instead of qualifying for the semis, they are thrown out of the competition because Dele Alli did a Fortnite celebration.<\/span>\u2014 Jason (@MrJayMobbs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrJayMobbs\/status\/1015630876640768000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 7, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wtf was Deli Alli\u2019s celebration tho \ud83d\ude02\ud83e\udd14<\/span>\u2014 Kit Sabesan (@SabesanKit) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SabesanKit\/status\/1015616365636485120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 7, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Alli isn&#8217;t the first player to bust out a Fortnite dance during the World Cup &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0France&#8217;s Antoine Griezmann and Alli&#8217;s England teammate Jesse Lingard have also inflicted\u00a0similar emotes on <em>millions<\/em>\u00a0watching all over the world.<\/p>\n<p>Has Fortnite reached its peak, or can the game keep drawing people in with its silly dances? Let us know your thoughts &#8211; and if you threw the remote at the TV during Alli&#8217;s celebrations &#8211; by posting a comment below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you follow football (or &#8216;soccer&#8217; as it&#8217;s known in North America) then you&#8217;ll no doubt be tuned into the 2018 FIFA World Cup, which is currently taking place in Russia. You may also be aware that perennial under-achievers\u00a0England have somehow managed to secure a spot in the semi-finals &#8211; for the first time since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}