Allez France! Allez Paul Pogba! France won their second World Cup in a Moscow final which contained some of the chaos, some of the VAR craziness and a little of the madness which has made the tournament so special. Croatia will feel they were unlucky but why couldn’t that sense of grievance help them as […]

8 years ago

It’s a massive weekend of football-England take on Belgium in the 3rd place play-off. There’s also a World Cup final taking place and it’s time to figure out how Croatia did it and why England failed. Roy Keane had the answers and now England must wrestle with the same problem that has troubled Ireland for […]

8 years ago

Allez les bleus! France are heading to the World Cup final after a mind-numbingly impressive performance against Belgium. Roberto Martinez’s side couldn’t find a way through the French defence and now England or Croatia will have to work out a way to break them down. Ahead of the biggest England game in 28 years, Paddy […]

8 years ago

No, maybe it really is coming home. England might have been in the better half of the draw, but nobody imagined them reaching the semi-final of the World Cup with such ease. But that’s where this World Cup is now and as England rejoices in the unlikely dull victory against a brutal Sweden team, it’s […]

8 years ago

A tactical masterpiece. Not Roberto Martinez’s words, but the words of a TV interviewer after Belgium’s stunning victory against Brazil on Friday. But Martinez will be hailed as a tactical genius for the way in which the favourites were undone in Kazan. Neymar is in danger of ruining his legacy with his commitment to diving […]

8 years ago

After two horrible rest days, the World Cup is back. Can Uruguay survive without Edinson Cavani? What is Kylian Mbpappé capable of and are Sunderland the real winners of the 2018 World Cup? Brazil look like the strongest team in the competition but can Belgium’s golden generation do better than other golden generations or are […]

8 years ago