Monday night didn’t just knock two giants out of the World Cup — it took a red pen to every…
After Monday’s bedlam, the Round of 32 rolls on with three more sudden-death ties on Tuesday — and for once…
Monday is a four-match day, and for the Irish punter it is a tale of two halves of the clock.…
There are nights at a World Cup that you remember exactly where you were watching, and for the Irish neutral…
If you set an alarm or simply refused to go to bed, Sunday night was the kind of World Cup…
For years the line in every pub quiz was that Just Fontaine, Miroslav Klose and then Lionel Messi topped the…
Three knockout ties on the Thursday card, and only one of them looks a formality. Spain should stroll, Portugal and…
Friday night brings the tie the tacticians will love. Spain v Belgium (8:00pm IST, SoFi Stadium, Los Angeles) pits the…
There are quarter-finals, and then there is unfinished business. Tonight in Foxborough, France v Morocco (9:00pm IST, Gillette Stadium) reopens…
Some of you were asleep. The rest of you are still arguing about it. Belgium’s win over Senegal on Tuesday…
Set the coffee on. Just before midnight our time, two of the greatest footballers most of us have ever watched…
There is a photograph doing the rounds this week: a baby held up beside a young Lionel Messi, nearly two…
We’re down to the business end. The Round of 16 opens on Saturday 4 July, and with ten of the…
We are down to the last four, and it is a heavyweight card. France, Spain, England and Argentina — reported…
Nobody circles the third-place play-off in the calendar — it is the game footballers famously do not want to play…
Spain go into their Round of 32 tie with Austria as overwhelming favourites — but with a fraying right wing…
It comes down to two. Spain v Argentina (8:00pm IST, Sunday, MetLife Stadium, New Jersey) is the World Cup final…
One game left, one last card to fill in. Whether you are having your one big punt of the summer…
We may not have a team of our own at this World Cup, but we have the next best thing:…
The last of the quarter-finals is one for the night owls. Argentina v Switzerland (2:00am IST Sunday, Arrowhead Stadium, Kansas…
For once, the timing is kind to us. Argentina v Austria kicks off at 6pm Irish time on Monday —…
For most of this tournament the Golden Boot looked like Kylian Mbappé’s to lose. Not any more. Lionel Messi’s hat-trick…
If you turned in early on Tuesday night, you missed the maddest finish of the tournament so far. Three Round…
Of all the ties in the last eight, this is the one Irish sitting rooms will circle. Norway v England…
Two of the last four are the two form sides of European football, and they meet a round early. France…
With the quarter-finals done, the outright market has been torn up and reset around four teams. France are still the…
If you stayed up on the Irish couch on Saturday night, you got your money’s worth. The last two World…
There is no fixture the Irish neutral watches with quite the same complicated affection as England at a major tournament.…
We’ve no horse of our own in this race, but the auld neighbour across the water is one of the…
Of the two semi-finals, this is the one that will empty the taps in every pub from Dublin to Donegal.…
