This is the column I write once a tournament, after the dust has settled and the trading screens have stopped…
Some matches you bet. Some matches you just watch, because you might be watching history. Argentina against Austria on 22…
The last game of the 2026 World Cup — Saturday 18 July, 21:00 ET — turned out to be the…
Let me get the Irish bit out of the way first, because you are thinking it and so am I.…
There is a proper way to read the awards table at the end of a World Cup and there is…
This is the one. For all the British-Irish complications around England, there is no complication here — when Scotland walk…
Twenty-nine days, 104 matches, one trophy. Spain are the 2026 World Cup champions after a 1-0 win over Argentina in…
This is the column I have been meaning to write since the early days of July, when the World Cup’s…
Four games today, and a Monday card that ranges from "fill your boots" short to "leave it well alone". I…
I write the closing column of every World Cup tournament the same way: not as a recap — there are…
Three group games in, and the 2026 World Cup has stopped being polite. The opening round was all handshakes and…
