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The Liverpool and Germany great talks about making RTÉ home, maintaining your distance from players, picking up tips from Dunphy and dealing with online abuse

World champions made to look distinctly mortal in Miami

Socceroos crumble on penalties after surviving relentless late Egyptian press

Thomas Tuchel says the Azteca owes England one, Germany’s Round of 32 exit leaves a sting

Thomas Tuchel needs to slow game down so his side can handle altitude challenge – it is time for the low block

This has been a tournament of late starts and even later finishes and not all of us have been up to the challenge

Jason McAteer and John Aldridge look back on the game that was more of a science experiment than a sporting contest

The Blue Sharks will become the smallest-ever nation to play a World Cup knockout match when they face Argentina on Friday

Demands and style of the Premier League have left England unsuited to winning the World Cup

My son’s World Cup sticker book offers an unmissable opportunity for me to deliver the first ever broadsheet book review of this most vaunted form of literature

World Cup record set as four goals disallowed

Lamine Yamal stars in LA as Spanish side win their first World Cup knockout game since they won the trophy in 2010

Altitude acclimatisation plan is blocked, with Mexico used to conditions at home stadium

Argentina have a more generous draw, while Spain may have to overcome some difficult opponents

Mauricio Pochettino has to plan for game against Belgium without talisman Folarin Balogun after controversial sending off

‘Why has every game we’ve done together been enjoyable – then we get England, and it’s borderline unbearable’

Deaths occurred near the Angel of Independence landmark where thousands of fans had gathered to celebrate Mexico’s win over Ecuador

‘It was just about pounding the rock, keep pounding the rock, and our moments will come’

England captain turned the game in his side’s favour late on after African side led through Brian Cipenga’s seventh-minute strike

Continents may divide us, but his greatness is an enduring sporting bond, bridging oceans, obliterating time zones

Co-hosts secure 2-0 win over ‌Ecuador amid euphoric scenes at a rocking Azteca Stadium

Michael Olise provides a challenge to Kylian Mbappé’s status as France’s superstar

‘We need to get our expectations right, that we are not frustrated’

Game in Dallas looked set for extra time after Amad Diallo’s 74th-minute equaliser

Joe Barriskill performed a variety of roles, from fundraiser to team manager - and even dipped into his own pocket

Julian Nagelsmann vows to stay on in role after his side went out to Paraguay on penalties

‘If I had to do it again I’d do it all the same way’ says head coach of defensive set-up in Round of 32 match

Morocco win 3-2 on penalties, Dutch scorer Cody Gakpo is engulfed by teammates in wake of loss of unborn son

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Fifa says they’re for player welfare but advertisers have been the big winners

Paraguay defy odds and set up last-16 meeting with France or Sweden

Brazilians through to last 16 after entertaining first knockout game

Fifty representatives sign letter describing US president’s award as ‘the most troubling development’ of 2026 World Cup

‘I don’t know the first thing about Bosnia and I don’t want to know,’ said Abigail Velez

Canadians avoid extra-time with late goal to knock African side out of World Cup

Bielsa’s man-management style is akin that of Stanley Kubrick – the players are subordinate to the auteur’s vision

Their final appearance illuminated the complex and sometimes contradictory impulses of sport and politics and national identity

Cape Verde’s Pico Lopes will have the chance for one of the greatest giant-killings of all time when his side play Lionel Messi’s Argentina

62-year-old departs job just weeks after signing new four-year contract

As the group stages draw to a close, 16 teams will be cut ahead of the knockout stages