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Football Beckham's Visit and a Broken Wrist: What's Going on in the Three Lions' Camp Before Norway?
"At this stage, if you lose it is a disaster," Harry Kane admitted, and his words sum up the pressure bearing down on England ahead of their quarter-final against Norway. In Miami, where the Three L
Football Merino's Decisive Strike Sees Off Belgium as Spain Set Up Semi-final with France
Mikel Merino has become the first player in World Cup history to score a winning goal off the bench in two separate knockout ties. The 70,492 crowd inside Los Angeles's SoFi Stadium watched a genuine
Football France's Semi-final Run Guarantees a €25.8 Million Payday France's 2-0 win over Morocco did more than carry Les Bleus into the World Cup semi-finals — it locked in a sizeable reward for the country's football federation. According to L'Équipe, reaching the l
Football 2026 World Cup Quarter-finals: Eight Left Standing, and How the Ties Shape Up
Eight teams remain at the quarter-final stage of the 2026 World Cup. Here is how the ties, and the sides' chances, break down according to the early reading.
France v Morocco: France arrive in peak
Football Miroslav Klose Reveals Details of Phone Call with Messi
"Messi called me and we talked." That is how Miroslav Klose describes the historic moment when Lionel Messi broke his record to become the all-time leading scorer in World Cup history. This was no m
Football Top 10 Players of the World Cup The best XI... or rather, the best ten of the current World Cup, according to The Athletic, shapes up as follows:
Football "Mbappé Helped Me More Than Anyone" — the Truth You Never Knew
"After I joined Paris Saint-Germain, I felt like a stranger. Everything was new — the language, the surroundings, nobody in the squad knew me. Mbappé became my anchor and my friend, the one who made
Football The Premier League's Updated Top Ten Most Expensive Transfers of All Time Alexander Isak has become the most expensive footballer in Premier League history after Liverpool paid a staggering 145 million euros for him. The record fee sets an entirely new benchmark for the tra
Football Alvaro Arbeloa Appointed Fulham Head Coach
Shown the door by Real Madrid, Alvaro Arbeloa has not waited long for his next chance: the Spaniard has been named head coach of Fulham, signing a contract with the London club that runs until the su
Football Mind-bending Numbers: Haaland's Killer Record for Norway
Sixty-two goals in 54 appearances for Norway — Erling Haaland is tearing statistical logic to pieces and outstripping every expectation. The striker is already his country's all-time leading scorer,
Football "Ugly Cameroonian Who Can't Even Write" — Paraguay Apologises After Senator Amarilla's Attack on Mbappe
"Ugly Cameroonian who hasn't even learned to write" — that was how Paraguayan senator Celeste Amarilla addressed Kylian Mbappe after France beat Paraguay 1-0 in the World Cup last 16. In a social me
Football A Record £100 Million: the Tottenham Transfer That Has the Premier League Talking
Tottenham have completed the signing of Newcastle midfielder Sandro Tonali for a club-record fee that could rise to £100 million. The deal is all the more striking given that the London club finishe
Football Who Is the Egyptian Hero Who Joined the World Cup's Elite Goalkeeping Club?
Mostafa Shobeir has written his name into World Cup history, becoming only the fourth goalkeeper ever to save two penalties from open play at a single tournament. The 26-year-old Al Ahly stopper, who
Football The Quote That Split Football in Two — Ronaldo Is Gone, but Is His Conscience Really Clear?
Six World Cups. Six attempts. But it wasn't meant to be for Cristiano Ronaldo.
That bitter reality caught up with the Portuguese legend in Dallas, where a 1-0 defeat to Spain finally shattered his
Football Collapse on Home Soil: All Three Hosts Out of the Tournament
"For the first time ever, all three host countries were eliminated before the quarterfinals."
The 2026 World Cup was already a tournament for the history books, with its expanded 48-team format and t
Football England's Success Under the Microscope as Leading Duo's Numbers Tell the Story
Harry Kane and Jude Bellingham have scored 10 of England's 11 goals at the World Cup. That means Kane, with six, and Bellingham, with four, account for a remarkable 90.9% of the team's attacking out
Football Statistical Review: from Messi to Fontaine — the Evolution of World Cup Goals
Lionel Messi sits at the summit of the game with 21 World Cup goals, his share of the 3,000 scored across the tournament's history. Yet on a per-match basis the picture looks very different: Poland'
Football Messi's Record Goal and a Historic Miracle: Argentina Survive World Cup Scare
Never before in World Cup history had a team trailed by two goals in the 75th minute of a knockout tie and won it inside 90. At Atlanta's Mercedes-Benz Stadium, that changed — and the defending champ
Football Fraud or Adrenaline? the Scandalous Scenes from the World Cup The miracle of Colombia. That is the name social media gave the moment when, at the 2026 World Cup inside the iconic Azteca stadium, fans seated in the wheelchair section rose to their feet to celebra
Football Lula's Cheap Shot and the Storm Around an Injured Neymar
"Neymar isn't even playing. Neymar is the first home-office call-up in the world." With that one barb, delivered during an appearance in Belo Horizonte, Brazilian President Lula summed up the standin
