Parental phone calls, bank adverts and one-note chants: The alternative guide to Brazil at the World Cup

Ahead of the greatest show on earth, it makes sense that fans want to get the lowdown on all of the teams.

Key players, tactics, strengths, weaknesses: this is all important stuff. But it's also good, where possible, to dig a little deeper.

Did the Brazil bits in the @WSC_magazine World Cup guide. All good newsagents or online here https://t.co/0WXJu4wltq pic.twitter.com/T68QFIRBB9

— Jack Lang (@jacklang) May 18, 2018

The When Saturday Comes World Cup guide does just that, asking vital questions like "Which players have done really crap adverts recently?" and "Why is that guy doing that weird celebration?"

I've provided the responses for the Brazil section of the issue, which you can get at all good newsagents, or online here.