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Seven goals, one raccoon, no trophy — photo: Foot Mercato
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Seven goals, one raccoon, no trophy

Deschamps: France vs Spain will be spectacular — photo: ESPN FC
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Deschamps: France vs Spain will be spectacular

Cole's Messi comments ignite Argentina — photo: Foot Mercato
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Cole's Messi comments ignite Argentina

The World Cup semi the whole world wants — photo: The Athletic — Football
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The World Cup semi the whole world wants

Twelve yards from the World Cup final — photo: The Athletic — Football
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Twelve yards from the World Cup final

Baena: Spain fear nobody — not even France — photo: Foot Mercato
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Baena: Spain fear nobody — not even France

The Keane-Haaland feud never really ended — photo: Foot Mercato
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The Keane-Haaland feud never really ended

Laporte on choosing Spain — before facing France — photo: Foot Mercato
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Laporte on choosing Spain — before facing France

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    Seven goals, one raccoon, no trophy

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    Cole's Messi comments ignite Argentina

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    The World Cup semi the whole world wants

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    Twelve yards from the World Cup final

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    Baena: Spain fear nobody — not even France

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    The Keane-Haaland feud never really ended

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    Laporte on choosing Spain — before facing France

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Lautaro speaks after Argentina's World Cup Final defeat

Lautaro Martínez has broken his silence after Argentina's defeat to Spain in the 2026 World Cup Final — and the Inter forward's words are direct: he wished he could have helped more on the pitch. Acco

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Storm delays Mexico vs Ecuador at the World Cup

The 2026 World Cup has already thrown up its share of talking points — but nobody had 'thunderstorm delay' on their bingo card for Mexico vs Ecuador. A storm rolled in before kick-off, triggering FIFA

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The World Cup day Paraguay lost the signal

Six nations, one knockout stage, and somewhere in Asunción a television engineer is having the worst day of their professional life. The 2026 FIFA World Cup Round of 32 delivered a full matchday of hi

SERIE A·

Serie A's weekend scheduling headache

Italian football and Italian tennis have found themselves in the same weekend, and apparently that's a problem. According to Football Italia, Serie A is weighing up a proposal to shift matches to Sund

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FIFA's 2.7 billion-person broadcast problem

One month from the opening kick-off of the biggest World Cup in history, FIFA has not finalised broadcast deals in China or India — the two most populous countries on the planet. According to The Guar

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Kinsky bails Spurs out against Leeds

There are saves that tidy up loose ends, and then there are saves that change the story of a match entirely. Kinsky's intervention against Leeds United was the second kind — the moment that turned wha

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Brighton Women: a first cup final

Brighton & Hove Albion Women are in a Women's FA Cup final for the first time ever — and for a club that has spent the better part of a decade building something real on the south coast, this is the m

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Three weeks to Budapest.

Three weeks. That's all that stands between Arsenal, PSG, and the most expensive night out in Hungarian history.

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