There are afternoons in this game when the tactical chalkboard gets thrown out the window and sheer, bloody minded refusal to lose takes over. This wa...
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Brazil's World Cup campaign has ended in the cruellest fashion, a 2. 1 round of sixteen defeat to Norway that will be picked over for years. Yet the i...
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There is something about international football that strips a man down to his bare bones. You watch Harry Kane, usually the coolest head in the room,...
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There are nights at the Estadio Azteca that define careers, and then there are nights that define a generation. Sunday evening in Mexico City was the...
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There are nights when the noise from the stands is just background static because the performance on the pitch drowns everything else out. England's l...
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Let's be perfectly honest about what we are witnessing. Erling Haaland is not just a striker; he is a force of nature currently rewriting the record b...
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So the Three Lions have done it. They have navigated the first major hurdle, grinding their way into the quarter finals of this tournament. But as any...
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The Estadio Azteca is a cauldron that has swallowed many a visiting side. But for England, the story of this chaotic, breathtaking encounter with Mexi...
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Football has a habit of throwing cold water over even the most pragmatic of preparations, and England's latest friendly against Mexico was no exceptio...
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The Azteca Stadium is a cauldron. It swallows lesser players whole, spits them out into the forgettable annals of footballing history. But Jude Bellin...
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The World Cup knockout stages have a habit of throwing up the unexpected, but even the most seasoned football observer could not have predicted this....
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In the cauldron of the Mexico City Stadium, where altitude saps the lungs and the din of 80,000 voices can rattle the unsteady, England proved they po...
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