Switzerland's penalty against Qatar: Offside, incompetence, or just VAR being VAR?
The ball wasn't even in play. Not really. Remo Freuler, all 6ft of him, was standing where he had no right to...
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Japan's World Cup ambition: being Asia's best is now table stakes, not the final prize
The 2002 World Cup ended with a peculiar sort of disappointment for Japan, and not just because they lost 1-0...
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Manuel Neuer is back for Germany. The question is whether the legend still fits the jersey.
Manuel Neuer stands in the tunnel at the Allianz Arena, 38 years old, a titanium plate in his leg, and the wei...
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Fox Sports Has Turned the World Cup Into a 5-Week Commercial and Alexi Lalas Is Its Prophet
Alexi Lalas was screaming about America before the stadium had even filled up.“This is going to be filled with...
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West Ham's ownership farce takes another turn: Kretinsky buys in, Sullivan faces questions
David Sullivan has been accused of inappropriate behaviour by multiple women in a BBC investigation. His co-ch...
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The night the USA stopped grinding and started playing football — a 96-year-old ghost finally laid to rest
It took 96 years, a Great Depression, and a leather ball held together by seam and laces for the United States...
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Curaçao's World Cup dream runs on propeller planes and pure chaos
Picture this: it's September 2023, you're a professional footballer representing your country, and you're watc...
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USA finally look like they know what they’re doing; Canada snatch a point from the jaws of defeat
Christian Pulisic, we owe you a massive apology. Actually, a full grovel. On a night when the USA finally deci...
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Mexico's win was fine, but the USMNT roster is where the real talking starts
The ball hadn't even stopped rolling from Mexico's opening goal — a scrappy, scuffed affair in the 38th minute...
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Haiti’s 51-year World Cup exile ends — and the club that kept the dream alive from a prison cell
The 74th minute of a CONCACAF qualifier in March 2023. Haiti are 2-1 down to Mexico. The ball breaks to Melchi...
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Neymar's Brazil recall: Ancelotti's gamble on a ghost in the machine
The last time Neymar played a competitive match that mattered, he hobbled off the pitch in Doha with a torn AC...
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Katy Perry, a TikToker and the magic of the ball: LA delivers the World Cup show Fifa ordered
There was a moment before kick-off that captured the sheer, unhinged spectacle of the entire Fifa multiverse....
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The Socceroos have found their home away from home in Vancouver — and it’s basically Melbourne with mountains
The first thing you notice in Vancouver this week isn’t the mountains. It’s the accent.A matey, nasally, disti...
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Declan Rice: The man Chelsea let slip through their fingers who now leads England's charge
Three years ago, Declan Rice stood in front of a room full of marketing directors and CEOs at Soho House, wond...
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Mateus Fernandes to Manchester United: The £80m escape plan for a sinking West Ham
The fax machine at Old Trafford hasn't even warmed up, and already the whispers are deafening: Manchester Unit...
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Tara Warren recused from Sullivan inquiry: The small world problem at the heart of football's new watchdog
The Independent Football Regulator hasn't even published its first big report, and it's already tripping over...
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Mexico's President Skips World Cup Opener Because Tickets Are 'Very Expensive' — And She's Got a Point
The moment that decided this story wasn't a goal, a tackle, or a VAR review. It was a morning press conference...
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Micah Richards has a problem with Thomas Tuchel's England squad — and he's not alone
Micah Richards sat in the BBC studio, looked down the camera lens, and did what every England fan has done sin...
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Thomas Partey denied entry to Canada for Ghana’s World Cup opener — the visa that broke a nation’s dream
Thomas Partey stood in a Boston hotel lobby on Tuesday morning, passport in hand, waiting for a call that neve...
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Ancelotti has a problem bigger than Neymar's absence: 24 years of Brazilian trauma
Marcio Santos remembers the feeling. It was 1994, Brazil hadn't won a World Cup in 24 years, and the defender...
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