There is no neutrality quite like the Irish neutrality reserved for England at a World Cup. We tell ourselves we…
There are upsets that shift the way a tournament is remembered. Then there are the ones that quietly drain outright…
The story of Mbappé at the 2026 World Cup is going to be told two ways. One version is the…
The image that will travel furthest from this World Cup is not the one of Ferran Torres wheeling away at…
Some records feel like they were left ajar on purpose, waiting for the right man to walk through. Miroslav Klose…
In the second week of June, a column of men in kilts marched through Boston to the gates of Fenway…
It is the sort of goal that feels smaller than the moment it ends — a half-volley from six yards,…
Monday is a marathon, not a sprint. Four Group I and Group J fixtures stretch from teatime in Ireland deep…
There is a particular kind of Sunday that only a World Cup can produce. You wake on Monday morning in…
If you took the trouble to watch the 2026 World Cup — and, given the time-zone arithmetic between Dublin and…
