Thomas Partey will not be on the plane to Qatar. The Arsenal midfielder has lost his final appeal against a visa refusal from Canadian authorities, an...
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Look, we have all seen this sort of off pitch drama cast a long shadow over a nation's build up to a major tournament. For Ghana, that shadow just got...
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The French supporters packed into the Paris fan zone did not care about the performance. They only cared about the result, and the two goals from thei...
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Football has a strange habit of producing moments so bewildering that they leave even the most seasoned officials scratching their heads. Wednesday ni...
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There is a peculiar breed of footballer who defies the modern obsession with statistics. Lyndon Dykes is one such anomaly. He does not score often. In...
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So here we are. Barely hours before Ghana's opening World Cup fixture, and Thomas Partey is sat in a hotel room, not a kit bag in sight. The Arsenal m...
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For a fleeting moment, as the dust settled on that sensational France versus Senegal affair, you may have forgotten there was other business to attend...
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Forget the desert heat of the Middle East for a moment. The real heat in this Group D opener comes straight from the Italian peninsula. Norway have la...
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At twenty seven, most forwards are still searching for their peak. Kylian Mbappe has already scaled the summit and planted a tricolore flag into the v...
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There is a peculiar kind of tension that grips a nation when its football team steps onto the biggest stage for the first time in a generation. As Nor...
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When GoalZaza put the question to its readers earlier this week, the answer was far from a ringing endorsement. Ruben Amorim, the Sporting Lisbon mast...
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The World Cup is a theatre of the unexpected, and before a ball is even kicked in this clash between France and Senegal, the talking point has already...
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