Some records you note in passing. This one you stop and watch. Lionel Messi walks out against Austria tonight one…
Twenty-eight years ago I watched John Collins roll a penalty past Taffarel and dared, for ninety seconds, to believe Scotland…
We throw the word "great" around too easily in football, so let me be careful with it here. What Spain…
The medals and the individual gongs are where a tournament tells its real stories, and this one told three at…
Now that the dust has settled and the slips are torn up or cashed, let me do the job this…
Four matches tonight, and one of them carries the weight of history. I have gone through every line on the…
I set two alarms on Saturday night and still nearly missed Lamine Yamal’s opener. That is the rhythm of this…
I stayed up for this one in a way I did not for the group stage, and for the first…
