If you went to bed early on Friday night thinking Groups C and D would tidy themselves up nicely, you…
Monday is the day Groups I and J finally get a second look at themselves. Argentina open the card with…
Saturday at this World Cup was the day Group H stopped being a poll and started being a result, the…
The tournament is over, the trophies are handed out, and every market that has been open for weeks has finally…
There was no press conference for it, no breaking-news graphic, but somewhere between France’s opening win and Saturday morning the…
When a side lifts the World Cup, the record book gets a routine edit. When Spain lifted it on 19…
Every World Cup final leaves a scoreline the headlines chew on and a truth underneath it that most viewers walk…
There is a particular kind of Irish football summer where the Boys in Green are watching from home and half…
Three Group E and F fixtures on Saturday, two of them genuinely bettable, and one stadium quirk that the headline…
Team trophies are decided on the pitch; individual awards are decided in a room, and that is exactly why they…
If you are still up at 1:00 AM IST on a Tuesday morning watching this one, you are watching the…
While the group tables grind on, two of the game’s greatest forwards have spent the opening week rewriting the record…
There are nights at a World Cup where the match itself does most of the work of telling you not…
Every group stage produces one fixture you sit down for, and Monday teatime is it for Irish viewers. Argentina, eight…
