Some more World Cup Songs
Its getting a bit confusing now. Several different songs are claiming to be the “official” World Cup 2026 song....
Category: World Cup 2026
Will Congo make it to the World Cup ?
Its been a 52 year wait for them. Its been that long since they last made it to the...
New Rules for the World Cup 2026
Refs are going to get more VAR support. Time wasters and chaps rolling on the ground in Neymaresque agony...
FIFA trashes historic mural
As Dallas prepares to welcome the 2026 FIFA World Cup, one of the city’s most iconic public artworks has...
A fun lego World Cup 2026 ad
Something a bit cheerful amid the doom and gloom.
Game on ..
The 48 teams that have qualified for World Cup 2026., Cape Verde, Curaçao, Jordan, and Uzbekistan have qualified for their first World Cup...
Italy will be missing from World Cup 2026
Italy has won the FIFA World Cup four times (1934, 1938, 1982, 2006) and have now missed three consecutive instalments of...
The World Cup 2026 anthem is a dud
Going back a bit and making some (odious) comparisions World Cup 2010 – Waka Waka (This time for Africa)...
Brazil in blue fall short
The colours were all wrong. France wore white and Brazil wore blue. Brazil might have done better in their...
England’s forgotten Hat Trick Hero
(Sir) Geoff Hurst – the only England player to score a hat-trick in a World Cup final, achieving this...
World Cup 2026 ads ..
Adidas … Coca Cola…
Mexico – a hat trick of World Cups
Mexico is teetering on the verge of making history.It will become the first country in the world to have...
Iran are out of World Cup 2026
World Cup 2026 will be poorer for the absence of the Iranian squad.Since we are in the throes of...
Remembering Mario Kempes
One standout memory from the sepia-tinted memories of the 1978 FIFA World Cup is of the man with the...
Remembering Baggio – the man who died standing up
Can one missed penalty kick erase a legacy ? His world cup records includes playing in 3 tournaments in...
Remembering the Cruyff turn
First seen for the first time ever in the 1974 FIFA World Cup when Cruyff used it to leave...
Iran’s presence at World Cup 2026?
Iran are in Group G at the World Cup and are scheduled to play in Los Angeles.They are to...
FIFA proposes the 60 second rule
When Infantino was an infant a bit younger he saw this movie called “Gone in 60 seconds” So deeply...
The mystery of the vanished trophy
The original Jules Rimet World Cup Trophy. It slipped through the grasp of the Nazis, was famously sniffed out...
More World Cup 2026 worries
We talked about the boycott and we talked about the carbon footprint. Now Infantino has another headache. The new...
Can Football be big and green ?
FIFA Men’s World Cup 2026 is set to become the most polluting in tournament’s history. A recent study, FIFA’s...
Should we talk about the Boycott?
There’s a growing movement around the world which says the US is not fit to host the Word Cup....
World Cup 2026 :Group of death
The draw for World Cup took place at a glittering ceremony marred only by the presence of Donald Trump....
Kane overtakes Pele
Harry Kane scored his 77th and 78th goals for England when they beat Albania 2-0. And thus he broke...
Haaland and Co book their World Cup Spot
Norway have qualified for their first World Cup this century.The last time they featured was in 1998 . Sterling...
Ronaldo has scored the most World Cup goals ever
Ronaldo scored two goals against Hungary and took his tally of world cup goals to 41.The previous highest number...
18 places are booked for World Cup 2026
Messi and Argentina are already there. Ronaldo and Portugal are on the way.Argentina lost to Ecuador and Brazil lost...
Messi and Ronaldo score two goals each
Lionel Messi playing his last ever home qualifier for Argentina’s national team scored two goals against Venezuela to mark...
FIFA have an official anthem for 2026
The Official World Cup 2026 anthem. And its better than many that have gone before it.
A lovely World Cup 2026 Song
As we countdown the days..
Argentina are not missing Messi
The defending champions are looking really good. The 4-1 minus Messi win against Brazil means that they have booked...
Argentina (almost) qualify for World Cup 2026
They,without Messi, beat Uruguay 1-0 .Now all they need is a home draw against Brazil next tuesday to be...
Antonio Sanabria scissor kick
Even as Cristiano Ronaldo was amazing everyone by scoring off a scissor kick even in his declining years another...
Brazil’s World Cup hopes improve
After losing four out of five qualifiers Brazil have posted back to back wins over Chile and Peru.So things...
Brazil barely manage to beat Chile
Brazil have always been at the World cup. They have contested every single one of the competition’s 22 editions...
Brazil have lost their mojo
World Cup 2026 qualifiers are on and Brazil have lost 4 out of the 5 games played so far.The...
Countdown to World Cup 2026
905 days to to.The live countdown is counting down here.. The venues ..
The Unthinkable
Brazil,who been present at every World Cup since the dawn of time,and have won it more times than any...
Darwin Nunez heads the goal scoring charts
Nunez became the only the seventh player to reach five goals in the first six round of South American...
Crowd violence mars Brazil Argentina game
Brazil are not doing so well in the qualification to World Cup 2026. It’s usually taken for granted that...
Luis Diaz scores two against Brazil
Luis Diaz celebrated the release of his kidnapped dad by scoring two goals against Brazil.(His dad was held for...
Uruguay beat Argentina 2-0
For the first time in history, Uruguay beat Argentina 2- 0 and Argentina lost a game after being undefeated...
Messi a mountain too high to climb for Peru
Peru went down 2-0 to Argentina in their World Cup 2026 qualifying game- both goals were scored by Messi.
Uruguay beat Brazil after 22 years
Great merriment and rejoicing in Montevideo as Uruguay defeated Brazil 2-0 in a fourth qualifier for World Cup 2026...
Emiliano sets an Argentina goalkeeping record
Argentina goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez has kept 7 clean sheets in a row for Argentina and that puts him into...
Argentina make Messi assistant coach
There’s a loophole in the laws that allows a player,when he is not in a position to play, to...
Another glorious Messi freekick
A moment of Messi magic in a recent FIFA world cup 2026 qualifier between Argentina and Ecuador. The goalkeeper...
FIFA unveil the 2026 world cup logo
…to mixed reviews.
More thoughts on: Save Soccer, Quit FIFA
Class acts: MBS, Infantino, and Vlad Putin go out on a limb The great Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano said...
Lifetime Bans for Racist Fans
It’s simple. If you’re a bigot and you want to express your racist views, do it at home with...
Trump’s World Cup Push for the USA
UPDATE: (Trump breaks FIFA’s ethics rules?) FIFA’s corrupt World Cup committee got a signal from US Boss >> The...