Max

King in the first week — France imperious, Sweden striking a 5–1 destruction — Lord Max wore the crown early and descended slowly, as first-week kings are fated to. He adopted Cape Verde's Blue Sharks with a love no share could measure, defended their honour against all slander, and closed the war with the realm's grandest gesture: the four-nation banquet — kimchi and gimbap, Swedish meatballs in cream, a peasant cachupa, and a croissant beside the second-least-expensive French white the LCBO would surrender — staged at a cost of one hundred fifty dollars in service of a single share, with a food-bank donation besides. Molly got a meatball. History got a legend.