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⚽ All the latest news from day 22 of the tournament ⚽ Bracketology | Knockout stage draw | And email us And I appreciate all this has been forgotten because England won but Harry Kane should have been awarded a first-half penalty. When a goalkeeper slides and does not get the ball, of course the forward is going to take the contact. Kane is just being punished for being as clever as the officials…

Trent Bridge was not just the end of Ben Stokes’ international career, it was further confirmation that the Bazball project stood for nothing By the very end, Trent Bridge was practically empty. This felt bleakly appropriate. If the age of Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum lived by re-engaging a sceptical public, winning big series, doing the unprecedented and elevating Test cricket above its three…

Two of international football’s 200 club have had parallel careers with their countries, but will this be their last meeting? Can you remember what you were doing on 1 March 2006? Perhaps you were at Anfield, watching England beat Uruguay 2-1. You might have seen Switzerland put three goals past Scotland at Hampden Park. Or you might have watched Luka Modric make his debut for Croatia. They beat …

It was an almost Iceland in Atlanta but Thomas Tuchel will have to get it right from the start in the cauldron of Azteca It was looking bleak out there. Ten years on, it was looking like Iceland all over again. The clock was ticking and the panic was rising. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), so impressive during that early surge at a disbelieving Atlanta Stadium, were starting to dream …

Fullback has been in good form ahead of Nations Championship James Slipper out of retirement as replacement loosehead prop Jock Campbell will start at fullback in his first Test since late ⁠2022 when Australia take on Ireland in their first Nations Championship Test on Saturday. Campbell ⁠played the last ⁠of his ​four Tests in Australia’s first ever loss to Italy in Florence in 2022, but had an ⁠…

Germany’s third early World Cup exit in a row is not down to a lack of talent or the name of the coach, but not knowing how they want to play I am stunned. Germany have been eliminated early from a World Cup for the third time in a row. I need time to recover from this. The key word that needs to be discussed is continuity – something the national team have lacked for a decade. German football ha…

The US had their hands on their heads. Weston McKennie’s face betrayed a look of total disbelief. Mauricio Pochettino waved his hands towards the sky, incredulous. Folarin Balogun had been sent off after a seemingly innocent collision with Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Tarik Muharemović that saw the US striker land a foot on his opponent’s ankle. Just like that, the United States’ high-flying World Cu…

Celtics to get Paul George and draft picks in deal Brown had been unhappy with treatment by Celtics The Boston Celtics are trading 2024 NBA finals MVP Jaylen Brown to the Philadelphia 76ers for Paul George and a slew of draft capital in yet another blockbuster offseason move in the league. Boston will also receive two first-round picks and two second-rounders as part of the deal. Continue reading…

A seesawing classic of a contest had just ticked into the 122nd ­minute, penalties all but a formality, when the referee, Saíd Martínez, wandered back towards the centre circle to award Belgium a stoppage-time penalty. The VAR, Guillermo Pacheco Larios, had highlighted Lamine Kamara swiping away Youri Tielemans’s left ankle in the seconds before Dodi Lukébakio had skimmed the crossbar. For Belgiu…

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now! We can all agree the Geopolitics World Cup has gone on far too long, so Football Daily is pleased to announce it is over. It monopolises everyone’s time, changes sleeping, eating and drinking patterns, leaving everyone tired and poorer. No one wants to stay up for further 2am BST kick-offs or attempt to watch a couple of games a day. Frankly, th…

No 7 seed wins 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 to reach third round Djokovic faces 25th seed Arthur Rinderknech next There was once a time, not so long ago, when matches between Novak Djokovic and Stefanos Tsitsipas occurred on the most significant occasions this sport has to offer. Djokovic was Tsitsipas’s opponent in both of the Greek player’s grand slam finals at the 2021 French Open and then the 2023 Australia…

Francesca Carr says move to full-time status felt ‘rushed’ Cusack was found dead at her home in September 2023 Sheffield United did not have sufficient resources in place during the summer of 2023 to look after their women’s team players, their former physio has told an inquest into the death of Maddy Cusack. Cusack was found dead at her family’s home in Derbyshire on 20 September 2023, at the ag…

Captain played in deep horror of Iceland defeat and he rescued an England team who were sliding towards disaster Well maybe, you’re gonna be the one that saves me. On a wild, boisterous, often agonising afternoon under the giant Victorian railway dome of the Atlanta Stadium, the Democratic Republic of Harry Kane progressed to the last 16 of the World Cup. With England playing like a team terrifie…

Figures spell out the highs and lows of a force of personality who could swing games in his team’s favour He swept Nathan Smith for six on an acid-trip of an afternoon, his last on the field as a Test cricketer. He nearly shredded Will O’Rourke’s fingers with a straight drive and swung his way to 30 as an agent of chaos. But was it ever going to last much longer? In his finest moments, Ben Stokes…

The experience inside the grounds of SW19 is as far removed from outside world as ever, which is no bad thing There was a group of 10 demonstrators outside the main gates of the All England Club on Monday morning, protesting against Barclays’ sponsorship of the championship on the grounds that as well as providing its customers here with deckchairs and free strawberries and cream, as well as the …