Nine years of watching these tournaments tells me matchday two is where the pretenders get found out. The 20–21 June…
I’ll be honest — writing this on a Thursday morning AEST, three days after the final, the 2026 World Cup…
Four fixtures on this slate, and a warning from someone who’s seen it before: nights with short-priced favourites are where…
The tournament’s done, the last decimal price has settled, and as a column this is the day I write the…
Nine years of writing these columns and I have never seen a final settle the way this one did. Spain…
Let me be straight with you after nine years of doing this: the 2-0 loss to the USA stung, but…
I watched the shootout in a sports bar in Sydney at 7am AEST on a Saturday and I think every…
I’ll be honest — I marked Mbappé for the Golden Boot at the start of the tournament and I never…
Group I plays both its matchday-two fixtures on 22 June, which makes it a tidy one to dissect in a…
Some matches you bet; some you watch for history. Argentina v Austria (3:00am AEST, Tuesday) is both. Lionel Messi, at…
