Henry Winter’s World Cup Diary, Day 22 Subscribe to World Soccer Random chat 1Colombia fan heading to Arrowhead Stadium for ...

I watched Portugal’s narrow, dramatic, controversial defeat of Croatia in a bar with Colombia fans gathered en masse for tonight’s game with Ghana here. They celebrated Portugal’s win but there were ...

“They’re all sharks.” I’d asked Thomas Tuchel whether these goalscoring greats, Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappe, Erling Haaland and Harry Kane, shared a quality. All are different, make different runs, ...

When it became clear yesterday that England have brought a psychologist to the World Cup to help end 60 years of hurt, one fan observed, “can he play right-back?” It would be useful given Thomas ...

This is a public service announcement: penalties are not a lottery. The great Zlatan Ibrahimovic claimed they were when watching Germany lose their shootout to Paraguay. They were not a lottery when ...

Henry Winter’s World Cup Diary, Day 17 New York/New JerseyHappy 23rd Birthday, Jude Bellingham. It’s a day for reflection and ...