Football

Mayo’s All-Ireland win has the world jealous

Or is this just macho fetishisation at work?

The World Cup is over. Now for the real awards

I’ll be 94 in 2030 – and still wearing my Scotland football shirt

1999: Kevin Keegan becomes England manager

Inside Tucker Carlson’s homespun HQ

Also: Havana’s fight against sanctions, and the classroom I can’t forget

Labour’s iron discipline

Also: interviewing Binface, and why I prefer Shostakovich to the World Cup

Watching England is agony. Why do we do it?

Should we get past Argentina, and even win the final, expect Andy Burnham to take full credit

The transcendence of Thomas Tuchel

Hooliganism was the thesis, Southgatism was the antithesis – have we reached a glorious maturity?

This is the best I’ve seen England play since 1966

Football brings the world together

Football is a losing game

At World Cups, we celebrate and mourn

The taming of the Wag

The wives of the World Cup have seized the means of production

The World Cup needs fewer hydration breaks and more elderly violinists

The pains and pleasures of the 2026 tournament

The bard of world football

James Richardson explains how he became the game’s great translator

Cristiano Ronaldo is old, but not as old as me

Let’s hear it for the World Cup oldies

English football is being Yankified

American fans, and American money, are taking over the game

The insignificance of Harry Kane

America 2026 is his chance at immortality

Staying up for Scotland

And for England, so long as they’re not playing Scotland!

This might be my last World Cup

I dread hearing the words “England friendly”

The MAGA World Cup

Could football be a symbolic riposte to Trump’s xenophobia?

In 1966, I left Wembley convinced England would win again

Some people count their life in spoons; I count my life in World Cups

Gareth Southgate couldn’t fix England

Dear England is a parade of patriotic fantasies