Four teams left, and they are the four you would have named a month ago. France, Spain, England and Argentina…
Every so often a tournament refuses to give you a Cinderella and hands you the heavyweight card instead. That is…
Saturday was the day the Group H and G stories properly resolved themselves, and the day my group chat —…
Thursday was a one-match night, but it was the match. France beat Morocco 2–0 at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough on…
Saturday delivered a proper double-header, and by the end of it the semi-final bracket was locked in. England beat Norway…
I stayed up for all of it, and I suspect a good chunk of the country did too — the…
The 24-hour window into Sunday morning produced the cleanest outright-market reshuffle the tournament has had. Argentina shortened from +1000 to…
There’s a personal edge to this one, and a Canadian one. Switzerland vs Algeria, Round of 32, BC Place, 11…
You could not have written a QF2 more neatly for the tactics section of the Saturday sports pages. Spain have…
Three Round-of-32 ties fill the Thursday card, and for Canadian fans the timing is close to perfect: an afternoon opener…
After a month and 63 matches, World Cup 2026 comes down to 90 minutes — maybe more — at MetLife…
Of all the fixtures the draw could have sent to Toronto, it gave us this one. Portugal vs Croatia, Round…
I have watched four World Cups in Montréal pubs and one in a Calgary basement. None of them had a…
Ståle Solbakken’s Norway sit one win away from a semi-final that would have sounded absurd a month ago. This is…
Monday is one of those World Cup days that earns the rotating-TV treatment in any Canadian household. Argentina-Austria opens at…
There are sporting moments you know you’ll remember while they’re happening. Sunday afternoon is one of them. Lionel Messi plays,…
The World Cup 2026 Golden Boot went from a one-man race to a proper duel in the space of an…
In the space of two goals in a third-place match, the whole story flipped. Kylian Mbappé is now the all-time…
Of all the ties this tournament could have thrown up in the last four, this is the one the neutrals…
The other semi comes loaded with history. England meet Argentina at a World Cup for the first time since 2002…
The third-place play-off was billed as a dead rubber. Instead it became ten goals, a hat-trick, and a slice of…
I have been waiting for this fixture since the draw came out of the Kennedy Centre. CanMNT — Les Rouges…
Let me put this plainly, because I don’t want to bury it under betting jargon: on Saturday 4 July, Canada…
Two teams playing the wrong side of history against each other. Argentina are chasing something no side has done since…
