Sporting pictures of the Week :- 13 July, World Cup Special
Ah England, and what they offered to the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Rainham in Kent, during the It’s Coming Home phase. Even Ben Stokes was practicing penalties. “If Harry Maguire[…]
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England VAR
England’s World Cup history could have been VAR-y different Why do the Three Lions always come up short at major tournaments? Any sensible fan will tell you that it’s because[…]
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A Wholly Appropriate Catch-cry
By The Spotter ‘It’s coming home’. It’s what they’ll tell you about the World Cup trophy in old Blighty. Not withstanding the unlikelihood of that actually happening when one considers who else is left; it will be[…]
World Cup Diary 7
By Euan McCabe As the winter rain and howling wind lashed against my windows on early Sunday morning as England led Sweden 2-0, I found my mind drifting back to[…]
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Sporting pictures of the Week :- 8 July, World Cup Special
Kylian Mbeppe has been one of the stars of the World Cup so far. A couple of years ago he knew how to decorate his bedroom. We’ll miss the Russian[…]
A Longer World Cup Chat
In the studio with Euan McCabe (giving away a copy of his book) and Matt Buck looking back at the Quarter-finals, pondering the Brazilian demise, and can England do it?[…]
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World Cup chat
The first two quarter finals are behind us, and it’s all Europe from here on in. A chat with Matt Buck on Radio Sport.
The Great Show rolls on
By The Spotter The World Cup often brings a fair share of the brilliant and the ludicrous. No sooner will one stop gagging on the tripe of Christiano Ronaldo being anointed by stupid sections of[…]
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Your Quarter Finals Guide
France v Uruguay With Neymar owning the Tournament Villain award in 2018 it’s been almost overlooked that the bad boy of the two previous World Cups seems to have grown[…]
World Cup Diary 6
The knock-out stages of the Fifa World Cup are like one of those Russian Banya massages. What appears at the outset to be something that should be quite pleasurable and[…]
