Four matches on the 21 June card, and only one of them produced the result the NZ-facing coupons had as…
The outright board is where a tournament tells you what it really thinks, and right now it is telling you…
Some ties are about who wins. This one is about what it means that it is being played at all.…
The Round of 16 opens on Saturday 4 July with two ties that could not be more different in shape:…
Every big knockout tie comes with a subplot, but the one hanging over today’s France v Morocco quarter-final is louder…
Eight teams, four ties, three days. The World Cup 2026 quarter-finals run from Thursday 9 July to Saturday 11 July…
With eight teams left, the outright board has settled into a clear shape — and it is worth reading carefully…
At 120 minutes and five seconds — an official clock reading of 124:44 — Youri Tielemans stepped up and scored…
The Round of 16 is done, the bracket has firmed up, and eight teams are still standing with a World…
TOP PICK Set the alarm. After a month and 63 matches, the World Cup comes down to 90 minutes —…
There are sporting moments you know you’ll remember while they’re happening. Monday morning is one of them. Lionel Messi plays,…
Lionel Messi is 38 years old, he scored a hat-trick against Algeria, and he is now sitting on 16 World…
The Golden Boot market has flipped. Going into the quarter-finals, Lionel Messi is the outright top scorer on eight goals…
In the space of two goals in a bronze match, the whole story flipped. Kylian Mbappé is now the all-time…
TOP PICK The World Cup quarter-finals open tonight your time — 8:00 AM NZST Friday 10 July — with the…
The outright market moved four times in 36 hours. France overtook Spain at the top of some boards after Mbappé’s…
Sometimes the wildest game hides inside the one nobody thought mattered. The third-place play-off was meant to be a dead…
I watched the All Whites lose 3–1 to Egypt from a Vancouver feed at 7am NZST this morning, and the…
Four matches on the 22 June card, all of which clear the dateline into the early hours of 23 June…
Three Round-of-32 ties on the 2 July card, all of which land across Friday morning and early afternoon NZST. One…
Three Round-of-32 ties landed in the small hours of Thursday NZST, and one of them re-wrote the record book at…
