Two giants fell on penalties this week, and every punter watching learned the same lesson twice: in the knockouts, the…
The safety net is gone. From today there are no more dropped points to absorb, no more "we’ll get them…
Every World Cup has its rhythm, and by the second matchday you start to feel it. The shocks of the…
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A week ago the map of this tournament looked orderly — the big names seeded neatly toward the latter stages,…
Every World Cup has a hinge, a moment when the sprawling group stage folds shut and the tournament narrows to…
There are matchdays at a World Cup that simply tidy up the table, and there are matchdays that tear it…
There is a particular kind of Sunday that only a World Cup can give you. The kind where you wander…
There is a particular silence that falls over a stadium when a heavyweight is knocked out on penalties — a…
There is a quiet menace to this Spain side that the scorelines only half capture. Two games, not a single…
Picture the scene in a Dublin pub late on Wednesday night. The clock has crept past eleven, the last bus…
Ten years ago, in a Paris night thick with tension, Portugal beat France to win Euro 2016 — and somewhere…
Some group games are formalities. This is not one of them. When France and Norway walk out at Gillette Stadium…
When a manager talks down his own team before a knockout match, it is worth leaning in. Ronald Koeman did…
The photograph that will define this World Cup may not have been taken yet. It is waiting somewhere in the…
There is a moment, somewhere in the second week of a World Cup, when one team stops looking like a…
There is a version of England that the rest of these islands has watched for decades with one eyebrow permanently…
For the Irish neutral, this World Cup has quietly narrowed to a single familiar shirt. Scotland’s brave group-stage run ended…
It is October 2025, a friendly in Tokyo, and Brazil are coasting. Two goals up with twenty minutes to play,…
Somewhere on a chain of ten volcanic islands off the coast of West Africa, half a million people are about…
